Signals from the Core - A Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition Podcast

In this episode of Signals from the Core, we open the mailbag for a round of CORE-espondence: listener questions, messages, and ideas that sent me down new routes for thinking about the Traveller roleplaying game and the Core Sector. We talk interstellar mail and communication lag, the darker side of the Imperial Core, Perpetual Traveller, useful JTAS articles for Core campaigns, and a possible ne...

In the Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition roleplaying game, news crawls across the stars at the speed of jump, and fame travels the same way.  In this episode of Signals from the Core, we look at how celebrity works in the Third Imperium, with a special focus on what happens when all of it gets amplified in the Core Sector.  As always, send your signals to coresignalsmail@gmail.com or find us wherever...

In this episode of Signals from the Core, we take our first deep dive into Capital , throne world of the Third Imperium . Twenty billion people. A Grand floating palace, Cleon, the Moot Spire … These are the things we always hear about Capital and learn from sourcebooks that tend to cover the whole planet in just a handful of pages. We dive into the Third Imperium Sourcebook by Christopher Griffen...

In the Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition roleplaying game, an established crew brings something a fresh group can't. Shared history. A ship. A reputation. Patrons, contacts, rivals, and a running storyline the players that should continue even with a new campaign on the table. In this episode of Signals from the Core, we look at how Referees can launch Christopher Griffen's Singularity campai...

In the Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition roleplaying game, character creation does half the work of building adventures before the first session even begins. The dice generate careers, mishaps, events, and connections, handing the player a person they didn't fully design and asking them to make sense of it. In this episode of Signals from the Core , we look at how Referees can extend that same lo...

In this episode of Signals from the Core, we take a deep dive into Mongoose Traveller’s massive Singularity campaign, written by Christopher Griffen, and explore why it may be one of the richest resources yet published for running adventures in the Core Sector. We look at how the Singularity Sourcebook and its Companion material can fuel a high-status Core sandbox full of intrigue, prestige, and e...

In the Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition roleplaying game, the Imperial Bureaucracy is the machine that holds eleven thousand worlds together through paperwork, procedure, and pencil pushers. In this episode of Signals from the Core , we explore how the ministries, jurisdictions, and civil servants of the Third Imperium create one of the richest and most overlooked sources of adventure in the setting...

In the Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition roleplaying game, the nobility of the Imperium shapes politics, precedent, and the flow of power. In this episode of Signals from the Core, we explore the hidden machinery of Imperial society. Inside the Moot Spire and beyond, influence moves through committee reports, whispered deals, and family rivalries that never fade. Referees and players alike will see h...

The Core is less about firepower and more about relationships. In this episode, we look at how referees can run Core-sector campaigns, how players can thrive within them, and why alliances are never simple. Then, we close with a high-stakes adventure seed for Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition, The Black Census , set in the very heart of Capital.

In this episode of Signals from the Core , we dive into what makes player characters in the Core Sector different from the usual Travellers on the fringes of space. From ambitious nobles and burned agents to psionic exiles, scholars, and streetwise fixers, we explore the backgrounds, skills, and archetypes best suited to survive in the Imperium’s most dangerous halls of power. You’ll also meet Bar...

Welcome to the debut episode of Signals from the Core, a podcast for Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition set deep within the tangled heart of the Third Imperium. We begin our exploration of the political, cultural, and bureaucratic intricacies of the Core Sector, a region shaped by protocol, ambition, and buried secrets. In addition to a sector overview we introduce an original adventure hook, “The Las...

Introducing Signals from the Core, a new podcast for referees and players of Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition , exploring the Core Sector of Charted Space. Each episode delivers original adventure seeds, story hooks, patrons, encounters, and more, ready for you to drop into your campaign. These aren’t your typical stories Behind the Claw . These are high-stakes adventures set in the heart of the Thi...