How do you enjoy Traveller ?

[domingojs23]

Dear Friends,

I pose my question in this way as I'm sure many of use here have bought the Traveller books, but don't necessarily play the game, as either players, referees or material designers. Not for want of trying, as finding players / refs is very difficult, and how many of us really get around to setting up a solo campaign or producing material. So "enjoyment" is a broader term, meaning that there are those who collect the books and supplements, peruse this forum and other venues, but don't play for one reason or another. For some, if not many, there is still a sense of satisfaction in this, a passive way of pursuing the "Traveller Hobby."

Yes, I've said that I would eventually get around to setting up a campaign, but this will be in the future.

Would like to hear from others similarly situated !

Cheers,

Gary

 

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[hdan]

Traveller for me is mostly relegated to "other ways to enjoy Traveller" - designing, generating, reading, imagining, writing software I'm not allowed to distribute, etc.

Having said that, it looks like I finally have the opportunity to run a Traveller game for some friends in the near future. Hopefully that will go well, and they'll want to run some more adventures.

 

[LimeyDragon]

I collect the books and have started running a game..

I love the books for there information. And it's impressive to have a shelf of all black books. I dabble in designing ships and other such gear for players to use. I reference lots of Traveller resources and Genre and merge them all together into one universe.

Example, I use the Third Imperium as my backdrop for the general universe. I prefer running space faring games as opposed to single planet ones. I allow all the Race specific source books, plus Hammers Slammers, Judge Dredd and 2300AD are thrown in as worlds that the player can visit or hail from...

Right now i've been working on a "what if" the Judge Dredd universe became space-faring and controlled a sector of there own. Or better yet the Imperium Ministry of Justice liked how the Judges did things and adopted the same ideals.

Well just my ramblings..

 

[Easterner]

I play online at RPoL. No shortage of games or players.

 

[CosmicGamer]

I play online at RPoL. No shortage of games or players.

ditto

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

If I'm not playing Traveller, I'm working on mini quests for when I do run a game.

I'm on the fence still in regards to Traveller: Prime Directive. It doesn't come with Traveller rules like GURPS Prime Directive comes with GURPS rules. So my players that don't have Mongoose Traveller would have to buy another book for it. But GURPS Prime Directive uses Star Fleet Battle rules for ship combat. So today I was thinking of using GURPS Traveller 3e rules for ship combat in GURPS Prime Directive because I like those ship combat rules better than any other Traveller rules.

But Traveller: Prime Directive also has Traveller ship combat rules... Hmmmm.... Thus the fence I'm on.

 

[Old timer]

I play online at RPoL. No shortage of games or players.

Same here, run traveller games on RPol, and a once a month game at club mongoose.

 

[nDervish]

Not for want of trying, as finding players / refs is very difficult, and how many of us really get around to setting up a solo campaign or producing material.

I got around to setting up a solo campaign. Then I started writing software to automate the trade rules (which really bogged me down with rolling up all the available speculative cargoes), incorporated the Mythic GM Emulator, automated that, tried out Heaven & Earth for detailed world generation, got sick of Heaven & Earth generating worlds with winter temperatures colder than absolute zero, and am now in the process of coding up an unholy hybrid of Mongoose's "Hard Science" world generation variant and the MegaTraveller Extended System Generation and World Builder's Handbook with an eye towards being able to slot in a more realistic detailed world generation method once I find one that I like.

While I do keep picking the solo campaign back up, it keeps falling back to the wayside as I stop to write more software to make the solo campaign easier to run.

I play online at RPoL. No shortage of games or players.

...provided the pacing and flow of PBP games works for you. Personally, I've tried PBP/PBEM about a half-dozen times and, no matter how hard I try, I just can't sustain interest in it for more than a month, maybe two. Which, at the pace of most PBP/PBEM games, gets me through about half of one scene.

 

[domingojs23]

Thanks guys for your responses ! If I could only have "The World's Most Interesting Man" as my GM ! Viva Dos XX !!!

 

[2330ADUSA1]

I buy Everything and add it to my growing libray. Then I set up a campaign and play/GM a group of (7) players every other week on wednesday night from 7-11pm from my home. The campaign runs from 3-5 yrs at a time.

Recently I changed jobs and have been designing a new Space 1999 based game theme style Traveller campaign that I will game/GM on the off weeks I am not with my normal gaming group. Currently my normal gaming group is playing in a In House Timeline of 2300 that is actually in 2332 and they have been playing that for 2.5 yrs now.

 

[Putraack]

I've been lurking around the fringes of Traveller since the '80s. I found it easier to scare up groups for Space:1889 and Twilight:2000, among GDW games, than Traveller. I bought reprints of the old books to have the rules around, while shadowing forums like this one.

Still, I bought the Mongoose rules when I heard about Prime Directive, or maybe before, as I thought it should work as a setting for the rules. I had dabbled in 2300AD when it was a GDW game, and liked the setting for use in minis battles back in the mid '90s. So, I bought that when it came out here.

Now, I've got a group of mostly kids and parents, and it came to my turn in the rotating GM chair. I've been reading and liking the "Pirates of Drinax" series, so I threw that out as an idea. They bit on it, so I will be running chargen tonight!

 

[andreav]

I used to play (or more precisely run) games fairly regularly up until about two years ago. Then along came a magnitude 7 earthquake which flattened the city and kind of broke up my gaming group At the moment I enjoy Traveller by using as a background for my fiction writing and the occassional article for JTAS, FT etc.

Would love to find a new gaming group either as victi... players or as a player myself

 

[Captain Brann]

Started playing Traveller with the Mongoose version, now on the second year of the campaign.
It has been alternated with a 14th century game as well.
One of the players also runs a CC game every so often.
Hoping to use Legend for the 14th century game in future.

Stories of my games can be found here
http://chrisbrann.wordpress.com/

 

[Nathan Brazil]

Finding groups to play is difficult but that is first choice
When I can't, I use it as my Rosetta Stone to do conversions between other games' Tech (ala FFS, Vehicle's Handbook and such) and cataloging various campaign items.


I still use DGP's World Builder's Handbook to describe worlds even though the astonomy is a bit old. (Please, oh please oh please Mongoose!! Won't you make a new book like that for a new generation)

I now have a nation profile system thanks to 2300's UNP. Thanks Mongoose! 8)

 

[AndrewW]

I still use DGP's World Builder's Handbook to describe worlds even though the astonomy is a bit old. (Please, oh please oh please Mongoose!! Won't you make a new book like that for a new generation)

There was one on the agenda once upon a time. Not sure if they are still going to do one or not.

 

[Dunia]

I was really interested when I started to buy books, but the more I GMed and the more I read the books, I found it to simple and not enough information in the books to help new players understand the games.
I don't understand why there are not a Players Guide to the Third Imperium, as you really have to had been playing for years to understand all of it. SO I went to my father and he gave me his Traveller: The New Era books, and that game rocks

Mongoose Traveller is nice, but it comes nowhere near the feeling of GMing and playing The New Era.

 

[nats]

I have played Classic Traveller with one group for a short time in the past when I was a student, but mostly I just designed stuff, did a few battles, etc. I tended to read the CT books but not do a lot with them really.

But lately I have been playing Traveller with my kids, a bit sporadically at the moment, but I am hopeful that as they get older they will play more often. We are presently working through the CT adventure Shadows and I am busy converting the game to Mongoose Traveller.

Now I have managed to regain my set of Mongoose books via Ebay on the cheap I will no doubt be setting up another session shortly.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

Mongoose Traveller is nice, but it comes nowhere near the feeling of GMing and playing The New Era.

I would hope so, because they are two completely different games.

 

[Vyrolakos]

Mongoose Traveller is nice, but it comes nowhere near the feeling of GMing and playing The New Era.

Possibly the best plug I've ever seen for Mongoose Traveller! :lol: