Traveller IW or Spaceships Rules?

[JMason]

Hm, I just found RPK's house rules on using Spaceships with Traveller. I'm going to dig into that some.

I'm not as concerned about designing ships... I'm probably going to go with the Hero-class ship... so I may need to "convert" it to Spaceships design.

I'm more concerned with if the combat and trading rules will be compatible with data in the Traveller IW book? Am I going to be creating too much work for myself if I don't use what's in IW? Will I some how lose the Traveller "feel"?

[thrash]

Originally Posted by JMason

I'm more concerned with if the combat and trading rules will be compatible with data in the Traveller IW book? Am I going to be creating too much work for myself if I don't use what's in IW? Will I some how lose the Traveller "feel"?

The IW trade system is pertty specialized for the details of the setting. You could achieve the same results with Spaceships 2 -- the underlying philosophy is the same -- but you'd have to do the tweaking yourself. On the other hand, you may have to do this if you wind up using the Spaceships design system: different assumptions lead to different results.

For the combat system, I think you're fine using Spaceships instead as long as you pay attention to what weapons systems are commonly used in IW.