Jetrock
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I recently launched a Traveller campaign, originally intended as a one-shot fill-in for a weekly long-distance D&D campaign run by a friend using Discord for chat and RollD20 for gameplay. I used to run a lot of Traveller in the 1980s and 90s, with a short-lived attempt at a GURPS Traveller game in the mid 2000s, and never really stopped buying the books and reading up on the game universe. As a result, I am thus very rusty at being a GM, but apparently it was so well received they asked me to continue the game the following week (the D&D DM had to delay another week due to a class) and it may well turn into an "alternating" campaign between D&D when the regular DM can run a game, and a Traveller campaign that I run when he can't and I can. The players are all brand new to Traveller, and so far introducing them to the Third Imperium setting is a pleasure. I'm running Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition, as it suits my free-form "the rules are just there to propel the game narrative, move fast and keep it fun" GMing style, but the adventures I have run so far are old Keith Bros' scenarios from "Wanted: Adventurers!" and "Lee's Guide to Interstellar Adventure," which work very well for the standard Traveller "murderhobos in space" campaign assumption I'm used to from my days running LBB era and MegaTraveller.
And this leads to my question: Discord is good for verbal/video communication, but limited for "virtual tabletop" purposes other than showing people maps using the share-screen function, and RollD20 is very D&D specific. Does anyone have any hints for running virtual Traveller campaigns; online tools, preferred platforms, or other tips & advice?
And this leads to my question: Discord is good for verbal/video communication, but limited for "virtual tabletop" purposes other than showing people maps using the share-screen function, and RollD20 is very D&D specific. Does anyone have any hints for running virtual Traveller campaigns; online tools, preferred platforms, or other tips & advice?