Challenge: Explain Our Planet (TR 3012)

[AbuDhabi]

I ended up using Epicenter's explanation.

I needn't have worried, however, since the players got distracted by a throwaway gag at the spaceport so much that I spun it into plot, and jumped away immediately after refueling without making the least attempt to investigate the world's geopolitics.

 

[FallingPhoenix]

In Traveller's long history, everyone knows the stupid results of randomly generated systems. It's part of what makes Traveller a joke among many RPG players. Grognards wave their rulebooks in their long grey beards and frock coats and claim we have to explain it away, but that just gets old after the 10th time of seeing these stupid results.

I get a kick out of explaining "interesting" results on the random tables, but sometimes change things to fit the surroundings better, too. I don't know that either way needs to be exclusive or "better" and we certainly don't need to vilify people just because they play the game differently.

 

[Tom Kalbfus]

In Traveller's long history, everyone knows the stupid results of randomly generated systems. It's part of what makes Traveller a joke among many RPG players. Grognards wave their rulebooks in their long grey beards and frock coats and claim we have to explain it away, but that just gets old after the 10th time of seeing these stupid results.

I get a kick out of explaining "interesting" results on the random tables, but sometimes change things to fit the surroundings better, too. I don't know that either way needs to be exclusive or "better" and we certainly don't need to vilify people just because they play the game differently.

What's wrong with Gilligan's Planet?

 

[Condottiere]

I'm going with it's located in the Great Rift; or ironically, in the middle of the Core Sector.