Traveller Gaming
Great news Hyphen,
Sometimes I bike over that bridge, it's a great ride around the water front in Redcliff. I'm not far from the North Boondall station.
What advenutres/campaigns have you wanted to play for a long time? I can relate to the feeling of 'all those years ago' it's very scary sometimes. Inside I don't feel old by any means but when I tell people things like: 'I remember when Galaga came out, that's a great game that one'. Suddenly I realise I'm a little bit out of date with the modern day multi player games etc. I guess I just find actually meeting with people and engaging in an adventure through playing characters etc, so much more rewarding than sitting down and clicking a mouse all day long like some gamers prefer to do. Don't get me wrong I love a good game (Elite and X are among my favourites), but they can never replace the great times to be had by playing with REAL players.
Myself I'd love to start going through all the classic adventures(if others wish to also) and always wanted to play the T4 adventures but could never find anyone who wanted to play(I couldn't understand why). Most gaming prior to a touch of Rifts and Cyberpunk, was predominantly restricted to fantasy games(of which I absolutely loath but it was better to be involved in some kind of game than non at all).
I wonder what player #3 is playing that's better than Traveller? (I can only hope it's not moan and groan confounded AD&D....). There have been some interesting games like Ashen Stars, Eclipse Phase, Diaspora, Stars Without Number and Thousand Suns, however I can't help thinking about just using the best bits of those and adding them to Traveller. At the end of the day, Traveller remains a constant whereas a lot of these new games come and go and become just another odditiy on the bookshelf. One particular game I'd love to play but despite dedicated fans and following just never seems to happen is 'Blakes 7 the RPG' for example.
Traveller has some great hinges which to me keep things sane. At the end of the day, any RPG can declare 'the only limits are your imagination', but only a select few present a system that dares to provide rules and constraints to keep the game playable and for me, Traveller seems to provide that perfect Science Fiction gaming medium. (Also it's just got some really cool Starships, artwork and possibly more adventures and campaigns than any other Sci-Fi game ever made).
Please do share your views on Sci-Fi gaming and your enjoyment of Traveller too.
What I might do to start is generate about 20 characters and put a list of adventures together I'd like to game through and we could meet at some point and discuss which way we'd like to go. Perhaps you might like to generate a pile as well. Hopefully we can find (or perhaps even convince player #3). However even if we couldn't I'd still love to play with just one player and one referee and we could just swap between adventures. The important thing is to have fun and enjoy the Science Fiction universe called Traveller at the end of the day.
I've just added a pledge to secure a copy of the first printings for Traveller 5 and have pulled out my T4 books(currently I've got: The main rule book, Starships, Aliens Archive, The game screen(with a groovy adventure called 'Memory Alpha' written by the main man himself Marc Miller), the first three adventures: Long Way Home, Gateway! and Annilik Run, plus a JTAS issue with articles designed for T4. I'd love to play all those adventures.
I've also got the classic game canon on CD-ROM, and would love to play all the adventures in there.
If your interested, the original CD-ROM even has the board games like 'Azhanti High Lightning' and I'd certainly be up for putting together some hard cardboard counters and printing out maps etc to play the games. They could make a nice addition to some adventuring.
I'm looking at completing the T4 collection by grabing the FFE CD-ROM collection of that and the complete JTAS and Challenge magazines too.
All up there's a lot of games to be played in this lot and I've wanted to play them for a very long time. How about yourself?
