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Best instance of Roleplaying in a Trav adventure

Liam Devlin

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Okay, the theme machine rolls on...This time, I'd like you to share the best instance of Role-Playing you have experienced in a Traveller game. (any version CT, MT, TNE, T4, GT, homebrewed in between). Why? This is an RPG, and as both a GM and player, I expect a certain amount of this in my games & ones I participate in. So...let us begin, shall we?
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PS: Thats Role playing, not Rule-playing, 'kay?
 
Cross posting this from Best Use of Romance in Trav, why? Cuz it was damn good. -Liam

Bryan Gibson posted-"A PC named Ritter, encounters early in his career a PC named Svetlana Nesteraovaya, a Lt in the navy of Novaya Rhodina, an ethnically russian region of space. They both IP become great friends and the PCs are all on it for over a year in the realtime.
The Group does some heroic deeds, avert a war, fight terrorists and all ( the campaign at that time was very militarized, all players being ex or active military)and in due course, the pair must go their seperate ways...although they were lovers, the military comes first. Svetlana's pet trick was to make fun of her Hero's Star ( the Novaya Rhodina equivilent of the CMH)saying that " its only one star, is that enough for a constellation?" and she left it with Ritter when she left.....( i had some GREAT players)

we go forward 5 years realtime, the play has jumped forward two decades and the old group is getting together at a reunion one convention, so all the old crew and some new ones are alltogether. Great Time, 25 people here! a mass game with 3 GMS all bringing everyone together to avert one last epic crisis, took me and my partner six months to write up the scenario to be played out.....

and in the big fight, Ritter is fighting with a NR Midshipman against the enemy, who is one of the officers of their rescue ship. Unbeknownst to Ritter, Svetlanan had carrid his son, and due to their mutual careers had kept him unaware he had a kid.In a meeting between battles, he recognizes Ritter ( now a major in the elite ODR)and hand s him a package... Svetlana had had a heroic career, winning the Hero's Star in battle twice more, alas the final one being posthumous.

In a speech that honestly choked up everyone at the table, the PC son, in a lull in battle, hands Ritter the other two medals and an old picture, and tells him " Here is my mother's constellation, i should think you should be having them, Father!"

Like I said, GREAT players...'
 
Okay, time to prime the well... MR BG's above example is a hard one to live up to, ebven I admit. Talked with him close to three hours last night. The entire episode and lines was done by Players...no GM fill in. Exceptional, dontchya think?

My own roleplaying experience was reading the "letters" I made the Tsk Force commander (PC) for TF 'Guiollitine' write back to the Coalition to their parents of three of his skippers lost in a crucial space battle with Solee.
Frankly, I wept, having done this before in RL.

I expect a lot from my players.
SFC Adrian Dillon/ AKA CDRE Saffron "Old Ghost" Ghulz,RCN (Oriflamme) was no exception. He was the norm. Great players are are as rare as Great GM's. One can make a difference. I was blessed with four sharp players, and four who followed them.
 
Hmmmmmmmmm. You mean to tell me out of (now) 1334 members on this list, only two of us had a memorable roleplaying experience to share? (btw, I did get permission DR Skull from Bryan to cross post, I'm funny that way). I frankly find that hard to believe...especially with all the CT players out there (yes I tossed a gauntlet down guys, gals. IN SCA terms, its called a challenge), where there wasn't much paper, or dice, and you had to ROLEPLAY your way through it.

If you've posted on one of the previous topics, and you want to cross post (copy-cut-paste) here, go ahead.

This the Lonestar Lounge guys, gals. Lets roll!
 
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