why we love ct

[kaladorn]

Originally posted by Mark G.:
Classic Traveller and other forms of the game is THE most versitile and imaginative SFRPG that's ever been published. It is second to none with D&D. No one expected it to last over 25 years and the ideas and adventuring are endless and it is The most widely used game in the world.

SF Game, maybe. D&D has it beat in the category 'all RPGs'.

Now, is it the most imaginative? I dunno. SkyRealms of Jorune and a few others have advanced really interesting settings, to be fair. Some SciFi games have actually had really interesting premises and done a good job with their aliens and their technology and cultural interactions. But Traveller does rank in the top few, for certain, and is (I'd guess) the most widely read/played of the sci-fi RPGs, if you count all the variants together.

 

[kaladorn]

Originally posted by Mark G.:
Classic Traveller and other forms of the game is THE most versitile and imaginative SFRPG that's ever been published. It is second to none with D&D. No one expected it to last over 25 years and the ideas and adventuring are endless and it is The most widely used game in the world.

SF Game, maybe. D&D has it beat in the category 'all RPGs'.

Now, is it the most imaginative? I dunno. SkyRealms of Jorune and a few others have advanced really interesting settings, to be fair. Some SciFi games have actually had really interesting premises and done a good job with their aliens and their technology and cultural interactions. But Traveller does rank in the top few, for certain, and is (I'd guess) the most widely read/played of the sci-fi RPGs, if you count all the variants together.

 

[signless]

I remember being an overweight pimply-faced teenager, lugging around twenty pounds worth of Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master's Guide PLUS assorted miniatures over to my friends' houses to game.
Being Sci-Fi geeks, we bemoaned the fact there was no cool space gaming system out there like AD&D. That was in September of 1981. The following month, our pathetic little gang stopped into the local gameshop where the owner slapped a carboard carton on his checkout table and gave us a grin. He watched us through a blue cloud of unfiltered Pall Mall smoke as we gazed in wonder at the smartly-dressed black and red box.
Inside was the promise of an entire universe to be explored with nothing more needed than 2D6.
The words emblazoned on the front still send a chill down my spine today...

"Mayday...This is the Free Trader Beowolf..."

THAT, my friends is why I will ALWAYS love this game.

 

[signless]

I remember being an overweight pimply-faced teenager, lugging around twenty pounds worth of Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master's Guide PLUS assorted miniatures over to my friends' houses to game.
Being Sci-Fi geeks, we bemoaned the fact there was no cool space gaming system out there like AD&D. That was in September of 1981. The following month, our pathetic little gang stopped into the local gameshop where the owner slapped a carboard carton on his checkout table and gave us a grin. He watched us through a blue cloud of unfiltered Pall Mall smoke as we gazed in wonder at the smartly-dressed black and red box.
Inside was the promise of an entire universe to be explored with nothing more needed than 2D6.
The words emblazoned on the front still send a chill down my spine today...

"Mayday...This is the Free Trader Beowolf..."

THAT, my friends is why I will ALWAYS love this game.

 

[robject]

79. TAS
80. Deckplans
81. The parsec
82. The Octagon Society

Mmmmm, dunno if these all qualify... but ah well.

 

[robject]

79. TAS
80. Deckplans
81. The parsec
82. The Octagon Society

Mmmmm, dunno if these all qualify... but ah well.

 

[kaladorn]

Originally posted by robject:
79. TAS
80. Deckplans
81. The parsec
82. The Octagon Society

Mmmmm, dunno if these all qualify... but ah well.

Can CT lay claim to the parsec? I think it pre-dates CT

(Not that this necessarily doesn't mean it can be on the list....)

What, in the name of the thirty seven hairless holy ones of the great dark, is the Octagon Society?

 

[kaladorn]

Originally posted by robject:
79. TAS
80. Deckplans
81. The parsec
82. The Octagon Society

Mmmmm, dunno if these all qualify... but ah well.

Can CT lay claim to the parsec? I think it pre-dates CT

(Not that this necessarily doesn't mean it can be on the list....)

What, in the name of the thirty seven hairless holy ones of the great dark, is the Octagon Society?

 

[signless]

The Octagon Society is sort of the pre-cursor to the modern CT-era Traveller's Aid Society. The OS built shelters for stranded and distressed starfarers in the Spinward Marches prior to the Fourth Frontier War.
The history of the Octagon Society and the remains of its shelters factor heavily into the CT Adventure module "Twilight's Peak".

 

[signless]

The Octagon Society is sort of the pre-cursor to the modern CT-era Traveller's Aid Society. The OS built shelters for stranded and distressed starfarers in the Spinward Marches prior to the Fourth Frontier War.
The history of the Octagon Society and the remains of its shelters factor heavily into the CT Adventure module "Twilight's Peak".

 

[signless]

You're right about the parsec. It's a modern astronomical term.

 

[signless]

You're right about the parsec. It's a modern astronomical term.

 

[robject]

Originally posted by kaladorn:

Can CT lay claim to the parsec? I think it pre-dates CT

It didn't invent the parsec, but it made excellent use of it

or something like that sort of getting a little dilute there I guess...

 

[robject]

Originally posted by kaladorn:

Can CT lay claim to the parsec? I think it pre-dates CT

It didn't invent the parsec, but it made excellent use of it

or something like that sort of getting a little dilute there I guess...

 

[Gallowglass]

Originally posted by signless:
You're right about the parsec. It's a modern astronomical term.

But for a generation of young SF fans, misled by both Star Wars and Space:1999 (both of which use it incorrectly as a unit of velocity), it was Traveller that explained what a parsec (ish) was and how to use one (sorta)...

Cheers,

Nick Middleton

 

[Gallowglass]

Originally posted by signless:
You're right about the parsec. It's a modern astronomical term.

But for a generation of young SF fans, misled by both Star Wars and Space:1999 (both of which use it incorrectly as a unit of velocity), it was Traveller that explained what a parsec (ish) was and how to use one (sorta)...

Cheers,

Nick Middleton

 

[Lord Iron Wolf]

#83 Andre Norton, Jack Vance, Larry Niven, Issac Asimov, Edgar Rice Burroughs, et al; I can adventure in or steal from their universes as I please and Classic Traveller has the flexibility to adapt their visions to adventures!

 

[Lord Iron Wolf]

#83 Andre Norton, Jack Vance, Larry Niven, Issac Asimov, Edgar Rice Burroughs, et al; I can adventure in or steal from their universes as I please and Classic Traveller has the flexibility to adapt their visions to adventures!

 

[Antaine]

Originally posted by signless:

The history of the Octagon Society and the remains of its shelters factor heavily into the CT Adventure module "Twilight's Peak".

Ahhhh....Twilight's peak" or as I like to remember it...."how to torture three plyers over 6 consecutive weekends"

Someone mentioned the Keith Brother's artwork as one of the 77 reasons...how about "The Keith Brothers Full Stop!"

 

[Antaine]

Originally posted by signless:

The history of the Octagon Society and the remains of its shelters factor heavily into the CT Adventure module "Twilight's Peak".

Ahhhh....Twilight's peak" or as I like to remember it...."how to torture three plyers over 6 consecutive weekends"

Someone mentioned the Keith Brother's artwork as one of the 77 reasons...how about "The Keith Brothers Full Stop!"