Beltstrike

Beltstrike
Riches and Danger in the Bowman Belt
Author		J. Andrew Keith
Publisher		Game Designers Workshop
Version		Classic Traveller
Edition		2nd
Format		Game (Box Set)
Language		English
Pages		TBD
Year Published		1984
Canonical		Yes
Available from		RPGNow
Product #253
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Beltstrike is an early Classic Traveller boxed game.

• It is possible to forget that any star system can easily provide the setting for more than one adventure. No world is just an ice-world, or a swamp-world, or a rain-world. This boxed set shows that, even in as apparently simple a location as an asteroid belt, the possibilities for adventure are wide ranging.

Description (Specifications)

There are fortunes to be made prospecting the asteroids. You've heard the rumors: hundred-ton chunks of platinum, uranium ore so pure it melts your cargo hold, derelict ships filled with forgotten Darrian technology. They're all free for the taking. All you need is a ship, a sharp eye on the sensors, and luck.

Sure, it's dangerous. Zero gravity and hard vacuum won't forgive your mistakes, and rescue is millions of kilometers away. Sure, you know that other belters have searched all their lives and never made that big strike.

But you know it's there. You can feel it. Maybe it's the next rock.

The Bowman system is one of the most extensive asteroid belts in the Spinward Marches, 360 million kilometers from rim to rim, its planetoids ranging from sandgrains to the 1200-kilometer bulk of Larson's Rock. Composition shades from the nickel-iron alloy on the inner edge to carbonaceous chondrites on the cold rim. Population: a few thousand belters makinga precarious living on the fringes of civilization.

When a game takes in the entire universe it's easy to forget how large and complex even a single system can be. Beltstrike is a demonstration of how much scope for adventure a single asteroid belt, described in detail, can provide. Beltstrike includes detailed information on the Bowman Belt and system, and extensive rules for prospecting and mining the asteroids. It also contains adventures for players to undertake, but these by no means exhaust the possibilities of the background.

This module contains:

• Map of Koenig's Rock
• Twelve Character Cards
• Bowman System Reference Book (12 pages)
• Belter's Handbook (12 pages)
• Referee Scenario Sheets (4 x 3 pages)

Table of Contents

Belter's Handbook

Introduction	2
Belter Characters	2
Mining the Asteroids	2
Zero Gravity	6
Low Gravity	7
Ships	8
Equipment	8
Tables	10

Bowman System Reference Book

Introduction	2
The Bowman System	3
The Belt and Its Environs	4
Koenig's Rock	5
System History	7
Library data	9
Bowman System maps and tables	11

Scenario Sheets

1. Lodes of Adventure
2. On the Rock
3. Claimjumpers
4. Archeology

Meta-history & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

Credits (Primary Sources)

Design

J. Andrew Keith

Development

John Harshman

Box Illustration

David Deitrick

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