Alas....I am alone...
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No players where you live? How about getting into an online game? Are there any PbP games currently using T5? I think Magnus is using T5 for his Permatic Imperium.
Do not fear!
Set up a convention game-- it's a great way to meet local gamers that you didn't know were there.
If you can't do that, then go run something by forum post or on Google+.
For some reason, if you just start playing-- even if it's solitaire-- the game sessions just start finding a way to happen.
You could play online if there is an online T5 game.
I too live far from other players, and even if I had people to play with ... Work and Wife and Daughter and Church place a higher demand on my time ... so I play online when I can (although I am between games at the moment).
On the other hand, if you want to run an on-line T5 game, I'll give it a shot [but you will need to explain the rules, since I don't have the beta or the book], but that has never stopped me from playing before. I'll handle what the character wants to do and you tell me what dice he needs to roll.
As another alternative, I have heard of people who play 'face to face' over skype (or some similar internet communications system). Blocking out specific times is hard for me, so I never pursued that option and can't offer you too much input on it.
I too live far from other players, and even if I had people to play with ... Work and Wife and Daughter and Church place a higher demand on my time ... so I play online when I can (although I am between games at the moment).
On the other hand, if you want to run an on-line T5 game, I'll give it a shot [but you will need to explain the rules, since I don't have the beta or the book], but that has never stopped me from playing before. I'll handle what the character wants to do and you tell me what dice he needs to roll.
As another alternative, I have heard of people who play 'face to face' over skype (or some similar internet communications system). Blocking out specific times is hard for me, so I never pursued that option and can't offer you too much input on it.
Advertise for players in local hobby stores and other such places that might attract the like. Also be willing to teach newbie players too.
Yeppers!
I sure am and now would be a good time to jump in too. If you are interested, if not know I still feel your pain. Travellers are hard to find here too.
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I feel your pain yamsi3467. It took just over 20 years for me to finally start playing some real games of Traveller, but I finally got there. The years of enduring crap games like AD&bloody D, Middle Earth RPG by ICE etc, but followed Traveller as it went. Don't worry your time will come.
Put up a message in the recruitment centre forum. Keep at it and pester your local gaming shops etc(even put up a flyer), there will be players out there.
Honestly D&D version 2.5 was the best roleplaying version, and D&D version 3.5 with the Pathfinder add on 3.75 are still pretty good but there is a rule for everything. Now D&D version 4.0 sucks big time and blows!!!:file_21::devil:
Now D&D version 4.0 sucks big time and blows!!!:file_21::devil:
I agree, though I do like their cosmology (the Axis Cosmology) infinitely better than the "Great Wheel" Cosmology of earlier versions (and some of the re-concepting of some of the creatures).
For me I will look at version 5 of D&D but it will really need to wow me for me to be interested at all.
the last draft I looked at has the potential for wizards to cast near constantly, as 4E, but is looking like a much streamlined 3.0E for much of the rest.
Won't be a T5/Pathfinder brick....
And hand-writing on a Mk1 Generic Sheet wont be an issue.
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Simply loathe fantasy games, I'm a SciFi person.
Lol, I can't believe fellow Travellers are even discussing them on a Traveller forum. (Is there no escape from the Tyranny of AD&boring Dragons!!!!).
Sounds grim. You dislike fantasy, but played fantasy RPGs for 'years'. I guess the rest of your group preferred fantasy?
I'm pretty broadchurch, Traveller is probably my favourite sci-fi RPG, but I'll play almost anything. given the chance.
I play both D&D (Fantasy type) and Traveller...have since the beginning some 37+ years now.
I can recommend for you roll20.net . This seems custom-made for sad, isolated players. It is a shared tabletop system for gamers to meet, teleconference and get chat, sound and even video for each player. The GM of course has more controlling power over this tabletop, can design maps and store handouts, and many varieties of dice can be rolled (by anyone). It is free to join, but GMs can pay an annual subscription to get extra features on their tabletop that their players can see.
I like the "token" system where you can create a token for a player, move it around the map, and link it to their character sheet numbers, and a pop-up menu on each token features numbers to count things like hit-points, status markers, etc. What is changed on the token is also changed on the sheet, which is a great convenience.
This is also compatible with Google+ Hangouts. It can be implemented to play boardgames and card games too, but imaging individual game components may take some time!
http://www.roll20.net
Since I joined in early summer, subscribers jumped from 155,000 to 220,000. It may not be a total substitute in-person RPGing, but it does seem to assemble all the elements in front of you and your players.
One problem is that the game-search feature needs work; I'm not sure I'm seeing all the possible campaigns going on. But if you pick your keyword by game system it should tell you everything for your interests. It is majority D&D and Pathfinder members so far, but we can change all of that, and spread the word about SF games, can't we?
