Traveller : Blakes 7

[Vile]

A B7 game would have to put these aspects front and centre, with mechanics that encourage or compel the PCs to exhibit their vices as well as their virtues. You would have to make some significant changes to the Traveller rules in order to capture the feel of B7

Isn't PC interaction called "role playing"?

Beat me to the click. Game mechanics only exist as neutral arbiters for resolution of events which cannot fairly be handled by role-playing - "I shot you!" "No, you missed!" scenarios. Atmosphere is entirely down to the players and referee, especially with minimal rules like Traveller. The last thing I want in a game is rules for character interaction. Traveller works perfectly well for Blakes 7, as do any number of other systems which don't rely on a lot of mechanics for characterisation.

 

[GamerDude]

I have to agree with Vile...

Players are going to interact in character or not. In a game system that has rules guiding that interaction, or having XP driven rewards the best you will tend to get is forced XP-Whoring (to quote Brian in KoDT).

Thankfully Traveller is a XP/EP advancement lacking system.

Character interaction is ROLEplaying. If your players welcome that part of the game then they will interact, they will come up with backgrounds for their characters, define a personality that is not their own, and have a good time doing it.

Now I wish some of the gamers in my area would get this idea in their heads. Typically everything they play has their personality, and all they create is a character thats made choices based solely on the system mechanics benefits and not on what their characters will do.

Want to see a great example of roleplaying (and of the darkness waiting to oppose it?) Watch "The Gamersorkness Rising" It is actually good enough that my non-gaming wife came into the living room and watched it with me straight through. (and without asking 20 thousand questions).

 

[EDG]

One big difference in setting is B7's use of FTL communications, although requiring big infrastructure (strangely reminiscent of 1970s industrial chemical plants, IIRC)

Don't forget the quarries. And the very english beaches .

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

That quarry gets a lot of use on television.

It has appeared in all sorts of things like the 'Sweeny' and 'Z-cars' too.

 

[celmive]

Well, I am glad I started this thread off...

I may try my hand at a Fan Supplement based on B7 and see how it works out.

Must watch all the seasons again first though.... Oh the things I go through

 

[TravellerArt]

Don't forget the quarries.

I grew up near one of the quarries they used, it was always in the local paper when they were filming there. (That and It Ain't Half Hot Mum!)

BTW why hasn't this thread descended into the usual Servalan love-fest yet, you guys are slipping.

 

[Charakan]

I thought the blonde gun fighter chick (Soo-Linn? Excuse me if my Geek Fu is not up to scratch!) was hotter than Servalan.

Servalan was hot but in a scary dominatrix way!

Now I've brought it down to the lowest common denominator you can go back to your discussion!

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

You're evil!

Now I can't get the idea of a Servalan 'My Little Pony' out of my head....

(In case you are wondering about the ponies, there are a couple of reprobates here who find them hilarious).

 

[celmive]

Don't forget the quarries.

I grew up near one of the quarries they used, it was always in the local paper when they were filming there. (That and It Ain't Half Hot Mum!)

BTW why hasn't this thread descended into the usual Servalan love-fest yet, you guys are slipping.

More of a Jenna fan here

 

[Charakan]

OK now we've had the hottest female character discussion, what about the coolest male character or hottest if there are any females or anyone else that goes that way reading.

Got to be Avon, but I've also got a soft spot for Villa.

 

[TravellerArt]

My wife admits she was pretty keen on the first Travis - must have been that eye patch, (although she was only 12 at the time!).

 

[Klaus Kipling]

My wife admits she was pretty keen on the first Travis - must have been that eye patch, (although she was only 12 at the time!).

Ah, Good Travis. He were a proper villain, unlike S2 Bad Travis, who was just a meany.

 

[Charakan]

My wife admits she was pretty keen on the first Travis - must have been that eye patch, (although she was only 12 at the time!).

My sister used to fancy Travis, she also had a thing for Snake Plissken in Escape from New York, looks like the eye patches do have some effect.

 

[EDG]

Got to be Avon, but I've also got a soft spot for Villa.

Avon totally pioneered the role of "Magnificent Bastard". He's very much a solid anti-hero.

 

[AdrianH]

You're evil!

Now I can't get the idea of a Servalan 'My Little Pony' out of my head....

(In case you are wondering about the ponies, there are a couple of reprobates here who find them hilarious).

In the hope of increasing the number beyond just a couple:
My Little Pony - Buttercup Sprinkles

"We have ridden on their backs, we have bought them for our daughters, but now... we must re-assert Mankind's authority, and strike down... these... little... PONIES!"

Back to B7:
Coolest male character: Avon
Hottest female character: Soolin
Best ship: Liberator
Best attempt at a next generation Liberator: Drazi Sunhawk from Babylon 5 (which, according to Ron Thornton, really was inspired by the Liberator, with influences from "Thunderbirds").

 

[andrew boulton]

You're evil!

Now I can't get the idea of a Servalan 'My Little Pony' out of my head....

(In case you are wondering about the ponies, there are a couple of reprobates here who find them hilarious).

In the hope of increasing the number beyond just a couple:
My Little Pony - Buttercup Sprinkles

Oh, that is so wrong...

 

[Vile]

Best attempt at a next generation Liberator: Drazi Sunhawk from Babylon 5 (which, according to Ron Thornton, really was inspired by the Liberator, with influences from "Thunderbirds").

Hey, you're right! I never noticed that. 8)

http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints-depot/sciencefiction/startrek/drazi-sunhawk.JPG

 

[dreamingbadger]

You're evil!

Now I can't get the idea of a Servalan 'My Little Pony' out of my head....

(In case you are wondering about the ponies, there are a couple of reprobates here who find them hilarious).

In the hope of increasing the number beyond just a couple:
My Little Pony - Buttercup Sprinkles

<chokes on breakfast>

 

[Alan Hume]

It would be great if a new B7 tv show appeared but I have to admit
to having my doubts seeing as how that remake has pretty much missed its self imposed time frame :x

Still, fingers crossed

A B7 supplement would be pretty darn great