Tramp Freighter Life Wiki

# Tramp Freighter Life

An online GURPS game of inspired by Serenity/Firefly, about the travails of the crew of a small tramp freighter, taking difficult jobs to make ends meet.

## Concept

The crew of a small tramp freighter are at a space station and arrange for a load of freight and some passengers that need to be taken to another star system. They leave, and en route either the cargo or passengers turn out to be a complication, or the pay isn't sufficient to keep things running and the crew needs to do something shady to make ends meet. Shenanigans occur, and the crew resolves them as best they can. Eventually, they arrive at their destination, unload their passengers and cargo, and once again find themselves in need of cargo and passengers to pay the bills.

### Online Play

The group usually meets online on Tuesdays from 6 pm until 10 pm Central Time (USA, GMT -600). Lurkers and additional players are welcome and should contact Mark Langsdorf, the GM, at mark.langsdorf@gmail.com for information on how to get in on the game.

## Setting

The Fringe, 40 or so meaningful star systems, settled by humans and aliens, in a roughly 40 by 40 light year square in the vicity of the Usra Major Moving Group, divided into 5-7 nations with several independent star systems. Starships use Necklin Fields to transition into Hyperspace at Toshido-Kearny transition points. They travel through hyperspace at sublight speeds, but T-K transition points are only a few AU apart in hyperspace despite being separated by light years in Realspace and starships can travel those distances in day or weeks..

### Commerce

Economic considerations for freighters in the Fringe.

### Space Combat and Piracy

Discussions of how space combat and piracy work in the Fringe.

### Races

Varana

Vraz

Slugs

Quaddie

Kun

## Characters and Campaign

Crew
A listing of the crew of the Almighty Dollar.
~~ Character Creation ~~
Jobs
Ways to make money and drive the events of the campaign.
Session Logs
What happened and when
Notables
A collection of notable people who aren't on the crew of the Almighty Dollar.
Questions and Answers
Resolved and unresolved enigmas.
## Rules

Rules References
The official and optional rules that are in use.
Rules Clarifications
Clarifications of official rules that are unclear.
House Rules
Changes to official rules.
Earning Character Points
Ways to earn CP for advancement.
## Tools

Discord Server
Online Tools
GCA Support
## Campaign Wiki Editing

I'm going to post setting information here on the wiki, and players are welcome to add additional details or their own notes for the game. Feel free to contribute whatever you feel like.

To make it easier to create New Campaign pages, I made two templates:

* When linking to a page about quaddies, use {{TFL|Quaddie}}s instead of [[Quaddie]]s or [[TFL/Quaddie]]s.
* At the bottom of every page, put the {{TFLCat}} instead of [[Category:Tramp Freighter Life]]. (It's quicker to type, too.)

(Note that those templates use squiggly braces { } not square brackets [ ].)

Remember that it's easier to reorganize existing info than to organize non-existing info, so if any of this page-link-stuff confuses you, it would be a better use of your time to just start typing on some existing page and let someone else move stuff around later.