Favorite Traveller Game Moments...

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Dyrewulf

Mongoose
We had a large group of gamers that rotated in and out of our Saturday night game, but one thing always remained a constant...the wonderful moments that seemed to smack us while playing traveller. I would love to hear some of your stories as far as just down right fun/memorable moments from your traveller games.

Our group, in one of our GM's favorite convention 1 shot games, starts the players on a "resort" planet near a beach...just prior to a Zhodani invasion...
Well I guess that at some point in the past (just before I joined) there was a session where two of the players, playing Vargr, had a moment of playing "kick ball" with a Zhodani trouper using a breaching charge...That started our group's fascination with Vargr...later on, my GM was going to introduce 2 new players into our group and several of us decided we wanted to all play Vargr...so we created a squad called "The Roon Ratrol" (as said like Scooby-Doo) So in all actuality we were called "The Toon Patrol" because all four of us were named after famous cartoon dogs...and we all decided to speak like Scooby Doo.
Needless to say there wasn't a specific moment that can be quoted as being the defining funny moment for that session as it was just all funny...The game consisted of 4 humans (2 of the new gamers) and 4 vargr (traveller vets looking for some laughs)...I think one of the funniest moments was an OOC moment where our GM in a fit of exhaustion actually spoke to us in our "Scooby Doo" voices and realized he had had enough and permanently banned us from playing Vargr again. Just picturing our GM...a big burly biker with a long grizzled beard turning to us...and saying:
"Roh'K, rease roll rike to ree if you rit your rarget." will live with me forever. :)
 
Good one.

For me, it was the time I had my group exploring a base left behind by the Ancients. Having found the command center, one of the guys climbs to the top of the pedestal where the command chair is, sits down, and says in this wise-guy tone, "hey look everybody, I'm an Ancient!"
 
Part of that game was a moment where during the beginning of the scenario you are taken on a big game hunt...it's when you are coming back that the invasion starts...well while on the big game hunt we found ourselves in a thick fog with our quarry hunting us...well the vargr all decided to unpack the heavy ordinance...the law rockets and stand back to back...because we were prepared. It was at that point the one human in the party with military experience noticed what we were doing...
"Hey! What are you doing!?" Ex-Imperial Marine screams.
"Rotecting our racks! Can't sneak rup on us now!"
"You idiots! What about the back blast from those Laws, you'll kill eachother!"
"Rack-Rast?"
"Yeah! Rack-Rast!"

Ahhhh the good ol days :)
 
In a game long ago, the GM was leading us around by the noses with some supremely overpowered NPCs.

Out of sheer boredom on session myself playing the Ships Doctor and the fellow playing the ship's Captain started a in jump tradition of a Prank War.

This soon escalated. One of my favorites was "death" traps involving tranc gas. His was the color purple.

To this day all I have to do is look at the player an make the spray can noise and he busts up.....
 
My one and only Traveller game, the demo at Mongoose Hall, nick our GM is drawing the outline of the house we are assaulting on what seems to be an old gaming stat sheet with alternately shaded rows, sine he draws the house in the middle of this, it looks to me like a well mowed lawn.

"They've done their lawn nice!" I say.

:lol:

LBH
 
lastbesthope said:
"They've done their lawn nice!" I say.
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LOL! Another thing (before my time with my group) was the trading of canned peaches...
And my group had a detailed section of injuries so if you failed a survival role, you had a VERY detailed list of things that could have happened.
One of the players rolled a bounty hunter...in his 40's...he had a prosthetic left leg and arm, he had also contracted a flesh eating type disease...but instead of eating the flesh, it made it translucent...and he caught it on his head...so on a patch of his skull you could see his brain...fun times.
 
One of my favorite events occurred as we traveled in our uber (we thought) 2000 dton Q-ship from outside the Imperium and entered the Lanth subsector just as the Sword Worlders hit it at the beginning of the Fifth Frontier War.

Exiting Jumpspace into the middle of a hostile Swordy battle fleet of 40 ships and screaming "Helm, emergency evade! All batteries, fire at will! Engineering! Crash jump! Crash jump!" didn't seem a good thing at the time but I look back on it fondly now.

We played out the entire FFW as a privateer in that campaign and took only 80% casualties among the PCs. Twice. :shock:

Yep. Good times.
 
Gencon UK last year... first Traveller game I played was Graeme Mulliss running One Crowded Hour (which I wrote). My chargen produced a naerdowell noble with slimeball skills and not much else, so I sleazed about trying to save my own skin while the others (who didn't know me) were trying to be heroes.

So there's the doctor, up to his elbows in two people simultaneously trying to save their lives by heart massage.... he looks up and announces, totally deadpan, 'of course, I normally specialize in Venereal Disease'.

I almost died laughing.

That session ended with me delivering the line 'I straighten my cravat, finish my wine and heroically fly us to safety!', having spent most of the game sleazing my way into the only working lifeboat.
 
Second Traveller game at Gencon Uk 2007. Referee Graeme Mulliss was poisoned by the Glen Livet I brought to the game and couldn't speak properly. Shane McLean had to jump out of the window to spit his drink in a flowerbed because he was choking due to laughter.

The D&D players on the other tables kept glaring at us... they were 'proper' gamers with giant dragon minatures and everthing. We were noisy jerks having a good time.

So if you were in the ground floor gaming room at the same time as the private Avenger Enterprises traveller game on Saturday night... sorry guys! That was us.

I don't remember the details too well, other than that I managed to generate a second sleazeball noble with pretty much the same skills and spent the entire game sleazing around trying to save my own skin.

In fact, I spent most of Gencon 2007 being a sleazeball, and I played some games too.
 
Other quotes from various games include:

"Good idea... how big are your nukes?"

"Damage report..."
"Umm, I think a couple of the sheep have had it"


"Well, for us Traveller: The New Era is a lot like The Morrow Project only with more starships and pornography."
 
Us Avenger's know how to throw a professional playtest together.

*whisper to Martin* If they beleive this they will beleive anything :D
 
MJD said:
Other quotes from various games include:
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"Well, for us Traveller: The New Era is a lot like The Morrow Project only with more starships and pornography."
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That explains soo much, Martin. ;)

Actually, drop the porn, and you have my initial take on TNE... Morrow Project meets Traveller.

Didn't like playing Morrow Project, either.
 
I was always a big fan of Morrow Project, though the project as written needed altering to something to suit my tastes. As to the pr0n, that's a reference to the trading practices of certain free trader crews of my acquaintance....
 
Well we haven't played much yet but here's one from last session:

The stealthy-criminal-fellow has just infiltrated inside target building. He comes over door guarding main computer servers where even his stolen guard identity card couldn't get so he has to hack his way inside. "Piece of cake" he declares(character is "quite" good with computers) and rolls dices.

Double 1.

Ah the look on his face as alarm bells were triggered.
 
My favorite Traveller moment was playing from the original, digest-sized books (long, long ago). The characters were sneaking around an imperial space station and they heard a guard coming down the hallway. They quickly ducked into a small closet. "You hear the guard's steps pause outside the door," I warned them. As one, they all drew in a quick breath. "The resulting suction rips the guard under the door, and he now stands in front of you, shaking."
It was a departure from the otherwise serious campaign, but it was a great moment!
 
Getting a new player into the game:

Me: Okay, you are all returning from the events at the tavern, waiting for the bus back to the base....

New player.....and I meet them there ?

Me: no, hold on. The bus pulls up.

Players: we get on.

New player: And I'm on the bus ?

Me: Wait, hold on. There are some people on the bus...it's quite dark. (it was after midnight local time).

Players: we move back, casually making sure we take a look at the other passengers.

New Player (interrupting): Am I one of them ?

Me: Wait, hold on. You see some other scouts, perhaps three or four. The bus is pretty empty, and you don't recognize any of the passengers; about half of them look tired, and half look more or less drunk.

Players: Okay, so far so good. Anything else ?

New Player: (interrupting) Yeah, like me ?

Players: No, like the guys who tried to set us up....

Me: No.....

New Player: can we move on ?

Me: okay, you hear kind of a snore and or moan..

New Player:I'm asleep ? Am I sleeping ?

Me: Hang on dammit ! in the last seat, the bench one across the back, there is a vomit covered, passed-out figure, he reeks of booze...

New Player: Hey !

Me: hang on; the bus driver comments That he was carried on like a that few stops back and dumped....

New player: HEY !

Me: ...he's obviously been beaten up, and looks like he's been robbed and rolled....

New Player : Martin, You unspeakable asshole ! Screw You ! Thats not my character, is it ? you JERK !

Me: Well, okay, he was a pregenerated encounter, you were to be back at the base, but since youve been sooooo patient about waiting, and asked so nicely ....
 
LOL that was funny.

In a game I wasn't involved in, (they were playing in a hybridized version of Dune), my friends were on this planet and discovered these cute little critters, however they actually were quite deadly. Well somewhere towards the end of the session they asked the Doctor character (who was a good acquaintance of the Emporer) where their one specimen was...
"I mailed it to the Emperor...:" (the gm had him role a generic 2d6 to see if it would even succeed in reaching the Emperor...and rolled box cars.)
 
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