Which Edition? Trying to not confuse Traveller5 with Traveller 5E
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I had cut my teeth on DnD 1e. Enjoyed 2e, briefly touched 3/3.5, did 4e for a while it lasted. Very video gamey. Tried 5e and hated it with a passion. It felt lost to me, all the powers felt the same, just renamed and available at different times for different classes. Boring...
5e Traveller is a hard no for me. The mechanics just come off as what you feed shock therapy patients. Gruel vs a nice juicy steak of 2d6 Taveller.
5e Traveller is a hard no for me. The mechanics just come off as what you feed shock therapy patients. Gruel vs a nice juicy steak of 2d6 Taveller.
In T20, you Could start play with a level 1 Character, but normally, you get x amount of experience every Term, with bonus experience from certain events (injury or ranking up in a service for example), so 2 to 4 Terms lets you start with a level 3 to 7ish Character.
Experience is time & event/adventure based with multipliers for recovering from an injury to 'OMG, what's happening?". Even a little bonus experience for great roleplaying is possible.
The way experience scales per level, it could take many game years to reach level 12ish, and lot's of adventuring for experience to get higher. (I did the math one time, and unless you are a long lived race or using anagathics or adventuring like crazy, level 20 isn't that easy to reach.)
Well, I guess I don't quite get it then.
If you can "roll up" a L5 character, which as I recall from D&D is "OK" powerful, I mean, what's the game then?
The dark truth is that while character have skills in Traveller, they don't really have "power". They have gear (more powerful guns, better armor, a starship in their pocket), but a Gun Combat - 1 player vs a Gun Combat -3 player, there's a difference, but not a great difference. And with the lethality of the environment, not necessarily an impactful difference.
Guess we'll just have to wait and see how it all comes out.
If you can "roll up" a L5 character, which as I recall from D&D is "OK" powerful, I mean, what's the game then?
The dark truth is that while character have skills in Traveller, they don't really have "power". They have gear (more powerful guns, better armor, a starship in their pocket), but a Gun Combat - 1 player vs a Gun Combat -3 player, there's a difference, but not a great difference. And with the lethality of the environment, not necessarily an impactful difference.
Guess we'll just have to wait and see how it all comes out.
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