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SAFCOcast - Traveller RPG and Cepheus Engine podcast

Robert Loftin

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Frequency: 1 episode/57d. Total Eps: 45

A podcast the Traveller RPG and the Cepheus Engine, produced by Super Adventure Friends Co. Send your praise, questions, and comments to SafcoMailbag@gmail.com

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https://www.freelancetraveller.com/magazine/index.html
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https://cepheusjournal.com/downloads/
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SAFCOcast 36: MayDay 2024 and other stuff with CyborgPrime

Season 1 · Episode 36

Monday, April 15, 2024 • Duration 01:24:04

We're back again! It's that time of the year. Mayday is near, and thus it is time to talk about it. Joining us is the organizer of the online Traveller celebration, Frank Succardi, also known as CyborgPrime.

We talk about Mayday, and we talk about some of Frank's other projects, including some work he's doing with AI.

All the information about this year's Mayday Mayday can be found on Frank's website, here.

And of course, Franks product can be found as well on CyborgPrime Games.

You can find Che Webster's Roleplay Rescue blog/podcast here.

This episode's theme music is Crystal Math, by the Speculative Machines podcast.

Send us a voicemail on Speakpipe! https://www.speakpipe.com/SAFCOcast

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SAFCOcast 35: the Scoundrels of Brixton

Season 1 · Episode 35

Saturday, February 17, 2024 • Duration 01:04:27

In this episode Bob interviews the creators of the Scoundrels of Brixton Cepheus Engine/Traveller setting and books, Jeffrey Jones of the RPG Ramblings podcast and writer Adam Kovac.

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SAFCOcast 26: Inspiration!

Season 1 · Episode 26

Sunday, September 19, 2021 • Duration 01:19:53

Our main topic in this episode is sources of inspiration for your Traveller or Cepheus Engine campaign! Where do you get your ideas? How best to use those ideas?

Of course, we cover more than that in this episode too, with X-boat Transmissions, Internet Finds, and Imperial News.

Here are the relevant links mentioned in the show:

Thought Eater Podcast. The blog is still going, but the podcast is not
Ice Planet Horror - our campaign session review
Hugh O’Donnell's Masters Thesis
Other links from Hugh:
http://thetroubles.uk

https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/news/digital-education-informed-games-making
https://mesadeguerra.com/entrevista-hugh-odonnell-the-troubles/
Traveller RPG Character Barracks
Bridge of Spies
Cepheus Light: Upgraded
Cepheus Deluxe
Info on Cepheus Light: Upgraded on Omer's blog
Long video review of Cepheus Deluxe by Graham Spearing
Cepheus Deluxe short written review by Andy Slack

SAFCOcast 25: "Useless" Skills and Scurrying for Cover!

Season 1 · Episode 25

Sunday, May 16, 2021 • Duration 01:26:43

In this episode, we discuss the "boring, useless" skills that as teenagers we cringed if we got when we rolled up Traveller characters, and explore the possibilities of these skills with a little creativity.

We also do a quick recap of the online Mayday! even run by Cyborg Prime, Greg Caires and Ken Patterson, and Patrick Kanouse, as well as internet and rules finds.

We also found ourselves in the midst of a tornado warning! We're OK. North Texas is like that.

Relevant links for this episode:

Cyborg Prime’s Youtube channel
Patrick Kanouse's Two Brothers Gaming
Robert Pearce's Hammer class 100 ton merchant
Michael Brown's Angle of Incidence
Felbrigg Herriot's Vacc Suit: the New Spaceman
The Carcinoid Cancer Foundation
Classic Traveller - One Shot Saturdays
Wayne Peters - Deviant Art Page
Interview with Christopher Rice, a GURPS guru, on the Roleplay Rescue podcast.
A Random Subsector Generator for Cepheus Engine and a Subsector Editor
Getting started in Classic Traveller blog post - Alegis Downport

SAFCOcast 24: Interview with Ken Patterson and Greg Caires about the 2021 MayDay! online Traveller event!

Season 1 · Episode 24

Thursday, March 4, 2021 • Duration 37:26

In this episode we interview Ken Patterson and Greg Caires about the upcoming Mayday! event.

The first day of May – May Day – has special meaning to Traveller players due to the infamous Mayday call from the Free Trader Beowulf that has appeared on box and book covers of various variants of the game since its earliest years.

In 2021, May Day will be a Saturday – an ideal time to play Traveller.

To help the global Traveller community celebrate May Day, three groups of players have teamed up to create a unique day of Traveller-related programming.

Operating from its home base on Facebook, the Virtual Traveller group – the same people who organized the weekend-long online “non-convention” last October – will organize “MayDay! a Celebration of Traveller through online roleplaying.” GMs from across the globe will be invited to run Traveller games online using whatever communications tools they prefer and during any suitable time period based on their locale. The only requests are:

All games must begin and be run during May 1st in the GM’s local time-zone;
All games must conclude by 7 pm Saturday night Central US Time on May 1st to “clear the decks” for a charity game that will be broadcast live on Twitch (more about this below).

Based on lessons-learned from the Virtual Traveller weekend, MayDay! will be organized using Tabletop Events for simplicity game submission, player registration and communication. To cover the expense of using Tabletop, a nominal fee (likely $3) will be charged. That fee buys players their convention badges, and they can then join and play as many games as their schedules will allow.

More about MayDay!:

Tabletop Events: https://tabletop.events/conventions/mayday-celebration Facebook Virtual Traveller Group: Discord Virtual Traveller server:

SAFCOcast 23: To Violence Or To Not Violence

Season 1 · Episode 23

Monday, February 15, 2021 • Duration 01:16:10

First, thanks to all our listeners for sticking with us! It has been two months since the last episode, which of course is not our goal, but life got in the way!

In this episode, besides the usual sections, our main topic deals with non-violent/non-combat Traveller (and other RPGs) sessions. Not arguing against a good shoot-em-up, but just using other kinds of challenges to create a good game.

We also mention Jeff's table of 2d6 outcome probabilities, so here it is!

Relevant Links

Amber Zone Contest https://amber.zone/2021/02/14/amber-zone-contest-2021/
Greg Caires’s Classic Traveller One Shot Saturdays is still going strong!
SciFiAtmospheres on Intagram. https://www.instagram.com/scifiatmospheres/
Vintage Sci-Fi Art. https://www.instagram.com/vintage_scifiart/
Vintage_scifi. https://www.instagram.com/vintage_scifi/
Alegis Downport has a nice review of the Traveller Book, if you would like to see what it looks like before purchasing.
Gamicon Zinc: https://tabletop.events/conventions/gamicon-zinc
Cepheus Journal 4 is available for download - https://cepheusjournal.com/downloads/
Jan/Feb 2021 Freelance Traveller: https://www.freelancetraveller.com/magazine/index.html

SAFCOcast 22: Interview with Greg Caires about Virtual Traveller

Season 1 · Episode 22

Saturday, November 14, 2020 • Duration 52:28

In this episode we talk to Greg Caires about the October 2020 Virtual Traveller non-con that he and Ken Patterson organized. Always fun to talk to Greg!

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SAFCOcast 21: Xboat Transmission, Game Recap, and So Forth

Season 1 · Episode 21

Sunday, October 25, 2020 • Duration 01:24:24

In this episode we read some great email's from listeners! Lots to think about! We also cover Internet Finds and Rules Finds, and discuss the latest session of our Into the Void Classic Traveller campaign! Relevant links:

Writeup of our last Into the Void Classic Traveller sesion
http://www.gaming.concretelunch.info/itv-session-19-the-alien-complex/
Cepheus Journal #2
https://cepheusjournal.com/downloads/
Take on Rules - writeup of Traveller Core Rulebook
https://takeonrules.com/series/lets-read-traveller-core-rulebook/
The OK Grognard show on Twitch.tv
https://www.twitch.tv/mark_cmg
GURPSland article on using Robert Pearce's Traveller Geomorphs
http://gurpsland.no-ip.org/geomorphs/
GURPSland homepage, because it's a great GURPS resource
http://gurpsland.no-ip.org/
Ron Stepp's Andromeda LN2 blog
https://andromedaln2.space/
Our theme music for this episode is called Event Listener, from the Speculative Machines Podcast, by Trent Straughan.
https://soundcloud.com/speculative-machines/event-listener

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SAFCOcast 20: What are the basic elements of a Traveller game?

Season 1 · Episode 20

Saturday, September 12, 2020 • Duration 01:24:33

In this episode Jeff and Bob discuss the basic elements of a Traveller game, as detailed by Marc Miller in the Traveller Book.

Before that Bob does a short correction from the previous episode, we do Internet Finds, and some fun Rules Finds, as well as present the last of the planets submitted in our Random Planet Generation Smackdown! (that system appears below, under the relevant links).

Relevant links:

Freelance Traveller 'zine
Reaver's Deep: https://www.reaversdeep.com/
Cepheus Journal is now online: https://cepheusjournal.com/
Independence Games has released the Opportunity-class Light Trader, with art by Ian Stead.
https://independencerpgs.com/collections/new/products/opportunity-class-light-trader?fbclid=IwAR0Lc5QzV-UnhF5zZuqIfOumMuPkZZ6tViODkr6sr74XveUKWQtYwdt39LM
Albacon, a UK-organized online con, has 3 Traveller session, including one by Greg Caires (who alerted us to this con). https://albacon.co.uk/ Oct 3-4
Of course, the Virtual Traveller non-con is coming up in October as well. Here’s the link again: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1205944649744350
For anyone wanting to do some Swords & Sorcery with a Traveller/CE style system, Omer Golan-Joel’s Sword of Cepheus is now available in print from DrivethruRPG. I was looking through my PDF last night, and it is really good. I ordered the printed version. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/304840/The-Sword-of-Cepheus
In his FB group, Traveller Gaming in the Future, Ron Stepp has posted a spreadsheet tool called Adventure Class Ship Designer. I have not tried it yet, as I hate turning on my PC, but knowing Ron’s work I’m sure it is good.

SAFCOcast 19: More Random Planets!

Season 1 · Episode 19

Saturday, August 22, 2020 • Duration 01:13:01

In this episode we are focusing on two more of the random planets submitted during our Random Planet event a few months ago, this time from Dwayne "Hiverlord" Walstrom and Jonathan Daylett (check out his Desert World RPG - a great adaptation of a Mad Max style setting).

Before that we dig into a couple of items from X-Boat Transmissions, and end with a recap or our own last gaming session from our Into the Void campaign.

Here are the planet/system writeups...

From Hiverlord
Planet/System: Not Assigned
Rolled with T5 rules.
FV main star (no companions). Standard orbit. Temperate climate.

B735BDG-9 Hi In

GG=0 PB=3 No bases.
Importance (Ix)=2 Ranks worlds within a region
Economics (Ex)=BA9(-2)
Culture (Cx)=6D68
Population= 102 Billion
Hi=Hi population
In=industrial

With an extremely high population level and poor atmosphere, this overwhelmed planet is run by an accepting, yet overbearing and stern, Religious Dictatorship. The religion itself promotes, perhaps even encourages, Free Love, and has strict rules against contraceptives and most forms of abortion. Birth (and survival) rates are high, given the planet's TL of 9. Combined with longer lifespans associated with higher technology, the world quickly reached and exceeded its purported capacity.

Several nearby Agricultural worlds have a ready-made market with this extremely overpopulated system.

This world is located in a 'Dumarest'-style setting, with no significant interstellar powers. The reasons why this world hadn't begun expanding (aggressively or otherwise) is simple to deduce: with over 100 Billion citizens to support, it doesn't have any resources to spare for expansionist activities.

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