TV Shows You DON'T Want To See Made Over For Traveller ...

[BP]

Sienfield!

(Who would want to play an RPG about nothing?)

 

[cbrunish]

Cop Rock

The pc's and GM would have to sing everything. Not bad if you're playing Ozzy (about the only way to understand him if for him to sing), David Lee Roth, DIO & James Hetfield! :lol:

 

[PrinceYyrkoon]

Its easy to assume in the far future, that people will live twice as long. Aging effects will take place later in life.

 

[PrinceYyrkoon]

And, actually, in the far future, it will be possible to recreate foodstuffs and transfer the data over distance, so there will be no need for trade, or money. Its possible, too, that the genetic switch for aging can be turned off entirely, so no death.

Or, I guess, we could all be blown up by someone who believes in invisible friends.

I dont suppose the future, if any, will look at all like Traveller and Ive realised Im entirely off topic!

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

Bugs Bunny
Duck Dodgers
Smurfs
Desperate Housewives (yes it is campy enough to be a cartoon)

 

[Deniable]

I would argue that once you become immortal, your ability to learn new skills goes WAY down. Instead of 1-2 skills per term it becomes 1-2 skills per century or something like that.

Your age freezes at the age you became immortal.

As I said, NPCs only...

You could stretch the length of the terms. Make each term a career, not just four years. The skills would be what's retained, not what was learned at the time.

 

[alex_greene]

Regardless, your Survival and J-o-T skills would have a natural tendency to go way up (despite the assertion in the Core book that one cannot gain J-o-T through game play) ...

 

[Jeff Hopper]

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Space:1999 yet...

 

[BP]

Ah - this is the thread about 'TV Shows You DON'T Want To See Made Over For Traveller ...'

 

[Jame Rowe]

You could stretch the length of the terms. Make each term a career, not just four years. The skills would be what's retained, not what was learned at the time.

This is what I do anyways, so it's not different.

Yes. I am aware that this makes more skilled characters. That's the point. (I've never liked the INT+EDU cap on skill possession anyways.)

 

[Baron Sidur Haski]

VR- 5.
Earth: Final Conflict
Planet of the Apes, the TV series.
Space Precinct

Wasn't there some show about a Space Hospital that was on for about a week?

 

[alex_greene]

Yes. I am aware that this makes more skilled characters. That's the point. (I've never liked the INT+EDU cap on skill possession anyways.)

SF TV shows mostly never really get the sheer range of skills which immortals could accumulate over decades and centuries.

Consider the character of Mr Flint in that Star Trek TOS episode "Requiem for Methuselah," for instance. He'd acquired mastery of so many skills that he was capable of producing masterpieces in every art, he was the equivalent of a Nobel Prize winner in every science and to cap it all, he was a master roboticist.

Heinlein's immortal character Lazarus Long held down basically what amounted to every kind of career and sub-career path available to Travellers, and many which weren't.

And let's not forget Master Yoda's prowess with The Force from Star Wars (in the second prequel he fought like Barry Ween, Boy Genius!) and, of course, The Doctor ("I'm brilliant!" "Well can you stop Time exploding and save your own skin this time?" "Erm, no.")

There really need to be special Traveller rules for hyperannuated characters.