On 22 January 2018 at 22:21, David Jaques-Watson <xxxxxx@pcug.org.au> wrote:

Dear Folks –

Timothy wrote:
> what about a sled and dragging?” I’d not thought of that (shame on me), but I knew there was no Mongoose Traveller rule

MongTrav is more reasonable than MT, by allowing STR + END (MT only allows for Strength...) and then overlaying it with Athletics if you really want to push your carrying ability. But yeah, there seems to be no explicit “dragging” rule.

Anyway, 5x is a pretty good ruling. Here's the MT version:

Dragging or Carrying:
[...]
A heavy object is any object whose mass exceeds the character's Strength x 2 (Strength x 3 if in the military). If the object's mass is less than the character's Strength x 5, then it is being carried; otherwise, it must be dragged. In all cases, a character cannot drag anything with a mass greater than his Strength x 15.
(MegaTraveller Players' Manual, p 88)

Aha! That show how only basically familiar with the MT rules (which I don't believe I ever actually played under - only created characters) and didn't know/recall that they had dragging rules.

Change "Strength x 5" to "(STR + END) x 5" and I reckon you've got the MongTrav version. ;-) ;-)

Brilliant! It almost feels official. And what we did in the end so even better.

(Although stupid, stupid ref that I am, I got so tied up with how much gear they were carrying (and what it was) that I completely forgot they had Bannerji on a stretcher. I've used the Spica Career Book 3 subsequently to determine he's 70kg, so really they should have left quite a lot of stuff behind! Maybe starting with the prosthetic leg one of them grabbed... We'll deal with that next time.)

(And is it just me, or should The Traveller Adventure really have had some stats, like weight and UPP, for Bannerji? I mean, I don't think there should necessarily be UPPs etc for every NPC in the book, but he seems kind of critical - and if I've understood correctly likely to be in combat in a third part of Wolf at the Door (which I hope will be the end of it and we can move on.)

(Great set of write-ups, BTW – I’m really enjoying them!)

Thank you. Glad of that or I won't bother if no one cares. If I don't do them immediately there's no hope of remembering what happened. But I appreciate they're probably a bit long for most people to bother with.