Are there no online groups?

[Scarlett]

Some of us are kinda stuck in the boonies. I think the internet could facilitate the game quite well. Chat programs abound. Maps and characters posted on a common website. A random generator program simulating the dice. New friends from every corner of the globe.

And the occasional meeting of two or more groups in large scale scenarios.

Maybe this already exists and I missed it.

 

[RabidVargr]

There's a play by e-mail game going on using t20 that I know of.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Travellogue/?yguid=1352326

I wouldn't mind getting involved in a chat game 1-2x a week 2-4 hours a session... either 2 2 hours or 1 4 hour.

RV

 

[Scarlett]

Yeah ... chat's more to my liking (even though supplementing it with email's not a bad idea). I don't have T20 yet (hehe - don't even have my old classic anymore but I have a character gen proggie and online access to maps ... and some six sided dice).

Maybe ... someday ... I'll aquire more game material.

 

[themink]

Frank - another way to approach the same problem is to say "I've put together an adventure set in a universe whose background is available at X. If anyone wished to play using internet chat, post on this thread"

But that makes you ref - is that something you would be happy with?

One nice thing about that is that, because you don;t have the rules, you can make it a "heavily variant" rule set - and make them up.

 

[Scarlett]

LOL I like that. No, I no longer have my bookset. Been over a decade. I'm pretty sure I can remember how to play the classic version (I have a program on the pc to create characters):

My charcters ... or some characters .. plus links to maps and stuff

Plus I have plenty of .. ummm ... six sided dice.

I did run the game quite a bit and still have the desire to do so, but would feel a little lost without some of the references to make sure the players and I were "on the same page" so to speak.

It's far easier to be a player without the book than a ref.

Also .. seems everyone is starting to lean to T20. But that's a bit pricey (granted, rpg materials were a bit pricey when I was collecting them .. but there's been a bit of a price hike since then ... but I'm ...[embarrassed look] ... just as poor). In other words ... it may take me a bit to get the required materials again.

Maybe I'll start working on the background until then.

Thanks, Mink ...

 

[themink]

We've all been poor.

Well that's almost true.

Everyone who isn't a "spoilt rotten little rick kid who will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes" has been poor.

Nothing to be ashamed of.

PS the Trav Lite rules are available. "basic" t20 - probably enough to play with - I agree it's hard to reff though

 

[Liam Devlin]

Frank there's tons of stuff ye can mine off the web sites on Traveller, pick n choose, print off what ye need, build up yer "library" of data. From sectors to small adventures, and ship ideas.

e-mail one of us, we can run off our bookmarked best sites, and cruise em a while. Live gaming online? I've run a campaign via e-mail twice, but in a chat room style, not yet. Log into the Lonestar Monday 1900 CST just like you did today.. several of us are bantering the idea about..

 

[Scarlett]

Sounds good, LD. I've bookmarked alot of good stuff I've seen posted here. Hehe ... the thought of "Travelin" again has me sorta buzzed. I'll be there!

 

[Shadowdancer]

FLS: Where in Texas are you located? I'm in Temple (central part of the state, between Waco and Austin).

 

[Ben W Bell]

As I've said on these boards before, I run my game exclusively on-line (sorry but it's full) usinG GRIP which is basically a glorified chat program with the ability to integrate rules into a character sheet for skill rolls etc. Works quite well though the pace of a game is slower due to people having to type everything.

Though I'm moving to Canada at some point in the next 2 years and once there I will be 5 time zones away from my current players and will be starting a new campaign then.

 

[BigBadRon]

Alternately, there are some game-devoted message boards out there. Things run a little slower, but you don't have to worry so much about Time Zones.
I run a couple of (non-Traveller) games at RPoL and have players in the US, Canada, UK, Israel, and Australia. The boards have built in dice-rollers, a facility for private messages, and players can be split into groups within a single game which can be set up in such a way that one group cannot see what the other is up to.
I know for a fact that there is at least one CT game on there.

 

[Scarlett]

Up Lubbock ways. We had a small group here but most my Traveller buddies migrated to Big D.

Originally posted by Paraquat Johnson:
FLS: Where in Texas are you located? I'm in Temple (central part of the state, between Waco and Austin).

 

[Flynn]

Hey, Paraquat,

I'm in Round Rock, about an hour south of you, and I'm going to start running a Traveller game once a month with the new year. Are you interested?

-Flynn