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Saturday, November 25, 2023

Does your ship have a Pet? (revised)

Did you leave your cargo door open too long while unloading and now have a bat-equivalent predator flying around your ship?

Did an Opossum-like creature crawl into a hatchway while you were making repairs?

Did your ship's cat let you know that there was a 7 foot tall creature behind you?

Choose which Ship's Pets table you want to try and Roll 1d6

Typical Ship's Pets
1.) a Terran House Cat walks up the ramp one day
2.) Beaked Monkey is a pet throughout Charted Space
3.) a Tree Rat that's similar to a Terran Opossum - even with a prehensile tail
4.) an unidentified Alien Plant that eats bugs
5.) a Lowalaa vocal mimic kept by many Nobles
6.) a Seedspitter that definitely spits seeds... at you

Rare Ship's Pets
1.) a Tree Kraken from Knorbes
2.) a Robotic Critter
3.) a Zhodani Cat that somehow made its way into the Imperium
4.) An Anola that's too far from Pysadi
5.) a Llellewyloly stowaway you eventually figure out is a Sophont
6.) an Alien Iguana starting to make a chrysalis

Roll every time you open your boarding hatch... if you dare.

You can find most of these in the Traveller wiki. I'm sure there's a lot more. Use or re-write the tables to use in your game.

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