Traveller Generations

[snrdg121408]

Evening kafka,

Somewhere between late 1980 or early 1981 during my first shore duty tour with the USN at San Diego. I picked up the first 3 books in a palstic bag from Game Town in Old Town as my 24th or 25th birthday present. Now I've gotten at least the basic books of everything from CT to Mongoose. Yes, I've even got Traveller 2300 AD.

From Traveller I've branched out to BattleTech, Star Trek, Star Wars, Albedo, Metamorphis Alpha, Space Master. Living Steel, Heavy Gear, Jovian Chronicles, and a few others I can't remember. Guess I need to pull them out and get put together a list.

 

[Alan Hume]

probably jumped aboard just at the tail end of the Golden age going into the electrum age, we were all playing D&D/AD&D at the tail end of primary school going into High school and my brother brought home this really kewl looking Black box (delux Traveller)

been gaming on and off ever since, I am tied between my love of classic Trav and MegaTrav

be 40 this year by the way :x

 

[Infojunky]

Evening kafka,

Somewhere between late 1980 or early 1981 during my first shore duty tour with the USN at San Diego. I picked up the first 3 books in a palstic bag from Game Town in Old Town as my 24th or 25th birthday present.

Gee that sounds like me with MT (I picked up just before going on a cruise, was spitting about the typos for six months) in 87.... I loved Game Towne's mini-cons.

 

[DCAnsell]

I'd guess I'm late Golden Age, in 1980 a friend picked up the LBBs, and we played around with them for the next year or so. Then came the Traveller Book, and MT, which I loved with great passion. I ran TNE, and GURPS Traveller, before trying T20, which was okay, now MGT, which I like except that the gearhead and military historian wannabe in me grumbles hard at the weapons and vehicles sections.

 

[whtknght]

I started with the LBBs in 1981. Played through High School but could not find a group in college to continue. Started playing again with the advent of T20 and now back to the original system with Mongoose Traveller.

 

[ShadowDragon8685]

I'm 23 years old, and I just started playing (Mongoose) Traveller last month. I've been into RPGs since I was about 18 or so, but have held out on Traveller because the extremely random char-gen was offputting.

 

[Merxiless]

43, started refereeing in 1977, at age 11, after just having seen Star Wars that summer.

Traveller was my first RPG, before I met Gamma World in 1978, and THEN AD&D in 1979.

 

[Terrible Tim]

I am also 43. I started playing D&D and Traveller in 1980. Played Traveller through the 80's, but I have not played since (about 20 years). I have plans to buy B5 Traveller in the next few months, so I may play it once again.

p.s. I have played lots of RPGs and wargames over the last 30 years.

TT.

 

[old gamer geek]

The old gamer geek is prehistoric in fact the guy at the hobby shop had me sit in on his game and I was hooked played about every version .

 

[rust]

51 years, early Golden Age.

 

[The Chef]

30, watched my brother and his friends crack open the original DnD then moved on the ADD and 2300. i started playing at 9. This is my second crack of traveller and it's going better than last time

Chef

 

[Fireflame]

I’m 37 and started playing traveller in the Golden Age circa 1981 when a friend bought the rules and ran me through it. We played just one on one for a couple of years sporadically as my family moved to another city.

At the Beginning of the Silver Age I bought MT and it was game on. After playing the first traveller computer game, I created a similar campaign and ran some of my friends through it in my early 20s.

There was a lull of activity for a few years until the Bronze Age and I bought T4 just prior to Imperium Games died.

A couple of short lived start up campaigns occurred until The Atomic Age began and have been running Traveller using the Mongoose rules for about 9 months now and still going strong! Over the years, I have tried to acquire as many of the traveller books for many of the iterations, including the board games – ebay is a wonderful yet expensive place!

 

[Donkeykong]

44 years old.
Played Traveller from 1978 - 84.
Played T20 from 2005-7
Bought mongoose Traveller 2008.

Have Fun.

 

[BP]

Golden Age.

[And, hey, I liked STTMP! Though we didn't learn that Kirk was a programer till the sequel <grin>!]

 

[alex_greene]

I was in Fan Boy 3 yesterday, in Manchester, and I believe I may have brought a complete roleplaying virgin into the fold, by convincing him to buy GURPS, Shadowrun ... and most especially Traveller.

He promised to bring in some of his friends soon, too.

I think I've helped procreate the Traveller meme to a new generation.

 

[Infojunky]

I was in Fan Boy 3 yesterday, in Manchester, and I believe I may have brought a complete roleplaying virgin into the fold, by convincing him to buy GURPS, Shadowrun ... and most especially Traveller.

He promised to bring in some of his friends soon, too.

I think I've helped procreate the Traveller meme to a new generation.

Good Man!.....

 

[lordmalachdrim]

Mixed Bag: First played traveller using classic traveller in 92, and over the years I've toyed with McMillers, New Age, Mega, T20, GURPS, and Mongooose and though it all I find I like aspects of most and dislike parts of each.

And none has succeeded in taking the top SciFi slot for me (which is still held by Alternity) Mongoose Traveller does have room at my table.

 

[Ian Blagden]

Atomic Age. I am 19 and just purchased the Mongoose Traveller corebook as part of a long running search for a set of good space opera rules. I haven't played yet, but I spoke to some friends and they seem interested...

 

[Donkeykong]

44 years by the calender.
1978 Classic black box - 1984
Rejoined in 2006 with T20.
Now very impressed with Mongoose Traveller but I HATE THE NAME.

I PLAY MONGOOSE TRAVELLER!!!!!!!!!

Why not call it T4.5?

Hmmmm, I feel my self respect returning.

Well, Hi there (dusts fluff off dinner jacket), Want a game of T4.5.

 

[alex_greene]

Give Mongoose the respect it deserves.

"I play Traveller, as published by Mongoose."

Or even just

"I play Traveller."

If, by now, everyone starts assuming it's Mongoose Traveller you're playing rather than CT or MGT, Mongoose will have made its name twice over - not only will people know it by name, they'll know it's Mongoose even when it's implicit.

And you really can't get better word of mouth than that.