Shadowdancer
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I had the pleasure this weekend to attend Overload-a-Con gaming convention in Austin. A friend and I played in two T20 sessions run by our very own Flynn. What a blast we had!
In the first session, there were only three players. The adventure involved us being invited to go an a big game hunt on a lush, jungle-filled planet. There were lots of large, dinosaur-ish reptiles about. The hunt got cut a little short when on the first day, the ship's pilot and our host were both almost killed by a charging rhino-esque creature. The pilot -- a PC -- was gored and ripped in two.
But we all had a good time, and Flynn did a wonderfully consistant, and passably good, Sean Connery imitation for one of the NPC's voices. And his descriptions -- very evocative -- of the planet's socio-economic setting reminded me of the movie "White Mischief," for anyone who has seen it.
For the second session, we had the same three players plus two more. We got to go shopping for fun new toys in a lawless pirate haven, followed by a night of carousing. Then we had to go find a new jump governor for our far trader. To save time, we charted a fast interplanetary shuttle to go pick up the needed part at manufacturing and repair facility located elsewhere in the system. But of course, the place gets hit by Vargr corsairs while we're there, and we have to fight our way into the warehouse to get the part, and fight our way back out and off planet.
Our most severe casualty was our doctor -- naturally -- whose vacc suit was punctured by a laser carbine blast, and he was unable to patch it. Two other characters attempted to help him, but for several rounds we all kept failing our rolls (I think the Syndite's hands were getting in everyone else's way). It was like the Three Stooges there for awhile; my character was Larry. We finally saved the Doc's life -- barely -- by getting him into an airlock. At least this time we weren't having to carry him in parts.
If you ever have the opportunity, at GenCon or another convention where Flynn is running a T20 adventure, I would advise you to sign up. He runs a great game.
I was just thankful to finally -- after 19 years involvement with Traveller -- to get to be a player in a face-to-face setting. For our gaming group, I've always been the Ref. I've been a player for more than a year in a PBEM campaign, but this was my first experience as a player sitting around a table with other people. Great fun!
In the first session, there were only three players. The adventure involved us being invited to go an a big game hunt on a lush, jungle-filled planet. There were lots of large, dinosaur-ish reptiles about. The hunt got cut a little short when on the first day, the ship's pilot and our host were both almost killed by a charging rhino-esque creature. The pilot -- a PC -- was gored and ripped in two.
But we all had a good time, and Flynn did a wonderfully consistant, and passably good, Sean Connery imitation for one of the NPC's voices. And his descriptions -- very evocative -- of the planet's socio-economic setting reminded me of the movie "White Mischief," for anyone who has seen it.
For the second session, we had the same three players plus two more. We got to go shopping for fun new toys in a lawless pirate haven, followed by a night of carousing. Then we had to go find a new jump governor for our far trader. To save time, we charted a fast interplanetary shuttle to go pick up the needed part at manufacturing and repair facility located elsewhere in the system. But of course, the place gets hit by Vargr corsairs while we're there, and we have to fight our way into the warehouse to get the part, and fight our way back out and off planet.
Our most severe casualty was our doctor -- naturally
-- whose vacc suit was punctured by a laser carbine blast, and he was unable to patch it. Two other characters attempted to help him, but for several rounds we all kept failing our rolls (I think the Syndite's hands were getting in everyone else's way). It was like the Three Stooges there for awhile; my character was Larry. We finally saved the Doc's life -- barely -- by getting him into an airlock. At least this time we weren't having to carry him in parts.
If you ever have the opportunity, at GenCon or another convention where Flynn is running a T20 adventure, I would advise you to sign up. He runs a great game.
I was just thankful to finally -- after 19 years involvement with Traveller -- to get to be a player in a face-to-face setting. For our gaming group, I've always been the Ref. I've been a player for more than a year in a PBEM campaign, but this was my first experience as a player sitting around a table with other people. Great fun!
