Demonstrations and Organized Play for MgT2

[Jeff Hopper]

Years earlier there were Traveller Demos as part of the Mongoose Infantry program. Years earlier there was also an effort to have an Organized Play program for Traveller. With MgT2 coming out, will there be a return of these programs with the appropriate revisions?

The Organized Play program should be seriously considered for restart due to the sales strength of the Pathfinder Society for Pathfinder RPG and the D&D Adventurer's League for D&D5. Organized play does seem to increase visibility and sales. Readily available campaigns such as Pirates of Drinax and Secret of the Ancients could be adapted for this task.

EDIT: Considering the success of Book 0: An Introduction to Traveller as a gateway for new players of the game, perhaps a revised edition of that to match the changes with MgT2 could be created. A logical followup to Book 0 would be some introductory adventures as well.

 

[Takei]

I ran the four organised play mods for some friends at a UK convention a few years back and they were very popular.

Not sure how suitable Secrets would be in organised play as potentially chopping between groups of pcs might be a bit jarring. I've not read Pirates but the premise of groups being given letters of marque could work well.

 

[GMGregF]

Any follow up on Traveller OP. I run OP for Paizo, and would love to add Traveller to our conventions.

 

[To Tha Moon!]

I'd love to see this, too!

 

[NOLATrav]

+1 for Trav OP. I have a nearby FLGS that I think would be interested…

 

[GMGregF]

Was looking at the Char Creation rules in the Companion Book. Point Buy is normal for OP games, so characters have an element of equity.
I'm looking at having the PCs be Agents (Rangers) of the TAS, doing Search and Rescue for the lost or missing members. Pay and rewards would be on a per mission basis.

 

[To Tha Moon!]

Cyborg Prime might have something like this. He seems to be great at demoing skill use. I bet he could put something together.

 

[Anstett]

I ran Traveller as a quick one shot in the summer of 2024 at the library. I did several events, introduced the game to a bunch of people.

Given the tight time frame of a demo session, I found it best to use pre-generated characters. Not enough time to do the full mini-game of generating characters.

Post in thread 'Travellers Needed! Traveller's 50th'

Aug 12, 2024

My final wrap up report for the games I ran over the summer.

We had one group of mixed teenagers and an adult with two young kids. When they got through the first part and we talked about impressions and how things were I mentioned they were the first group to not try to steal a car instead of just renting. The teens were like "we can do that?!?"

The same group fought off the hijackers, got to the system to deliver the respirators. The teens were ambivalent about how much they should sell them for, the adult was "wait is this a moral question now?"

One of the groups decided that during...

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