Greetings, all!
I should've done this a few weeks ago. Initially I joined the forums so that I could read stuff. Lots of great ideas here! After lurking around for a little while, I jumped into a thread that touched on something I was working on. Then another. Now I'm hooked.
Anyway, here's the stats:
Name: Chris
Age: 38
Country: USA
Favorite version of Traveller: CT (GT stuff is useful, just got T20)
Military Service: None
Favorite Supplement(s):
Book 6:Scouts/
Tarsus
Favorite Sector(s): Back in the day it was the Marches, but lately I'm looking at Trojan Reach/Beyond/Far Frontiers
Favorite Race: No favorite
Favorite Empire: No favorite
I'm just getting back into RPGs after a long hiatus. Started collecting
Traveller stuff in '84, but at the time my friends preferred to play
D&D. Played a little
Call of Cthulhu with a different group, along with some grognardy homebrew WWII armour action.
Still have the
Starter Edition rules, but I've since lost most everything else. I have a faint hope that it's all in a box somewhere in the garage. (Oh well, the CT CD-ROM is in the mail. Hooray!!!) Also from that time period, I used to have
Ogre and a short stack of Steve Jackson's
Space Gamer magazine. Trying to dig those up too. Oh, and
2300,
Invasion: Earth, I'm sure i'm forgetting others.
In the '90s I was interested in
Shadowrun, but my gaming friends were running Palladium (see a pattern here?). Played a little supers action with them too, before they got into the White Wolf stuff. Another group I played with ran post-apocalyptic games with a homebrew system. That was a blast!
More recently, I played some non-RPG with some friends (
Zombies!!!, Cheapass Games
Kill Doctor Lucky and
Enemy Chocolatier ). And I've been taking programming classes through the local tech school and community college. Some of the guys there are gamers, mostly
D&D and White Wolf stuff, but I'm more interested in getting back to
Traveller (the pattern continues). I might play a little
Mutants and Masterminds with them, but honestly I think their play-style is going to be a little too munchkin for me. :nonono: I'm not taking it
too seriously, just as an opportunity to get up to speed with a
d20 system in action.
Over the last year or so, I've been picking up some
Traveller stuff:
GT:Sword Worlds and planetary surveys
Denuli and
Glisten, ComStar's
Cluster Book 1: Bowman Arm and the system guides
Datrillian and
Flexos, DGP's
Travellers' Digest #20.
Today, I'm ready to get back into the fold. I just ordered the CT CD-ROM, and I got the T20
Traveller's Handbook PDF. I also picked up a copy of the
Spycraft 2.0 Pocket Edition, ostensibly to run a
CoC: Delta Green type game, but also because of the decent things I read about the system's flexibility for modern games. I'm thinking of mining it for stuff to houserule into T20 games, like the Dramatic Conflict system. Of course, I'm not averse to running CT either. But with so many
d20 players around these days, I figured it could only help my chances of getting a game together if I have the T20 rules.
That is all, goodnight
