What was your 1st edition of Traveller?
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jonboywalton
Mongoose
Infojunky said:
I got into RPGs (via AD&D) just before I hit high school, about 1979, So I guess my first Traveller experience would have been the first half of 1980. I really enjoyed the role-playing experience but the guy with the books was a control-freak and budding rules-nazi who got every book and adventure as soon as it came out (I came from much humbler beginnings), so I was really looking for something I could that I could feel was mine.
There was a shop in Perth (Western Australia) at the time, down an alley behind a cinema complex, then up a double staircase and over a landing - the kind of place that you only found out about from your cooler (or nerdier) friends. I think on my second visit I saw a copy of the Little Black Box, second hand. It was a little ratty and I think it set me back the princely sum of $6.00. I think the following fortnight I bought Supplement 4. Pretty soon I was hooked.
When I left Perth in 1985 for a couple of years - which has since turned into permanent exile - I left all of my gear (including all my LBBs) in the care of a "friend" who managed to lose touch with me soon after. I bought the T4 core rules in a fit of nostalgia about three years ago, but it didn't bring back the same spark. Then I heard about the reprints and managed to track down all of them eventually, as well as some other bits and pieces in hardcopy or pdf.
Two days ago Amazon informed me they'd shipped my MGT rules, so the wait is nearly over. And I have to say, I'm kind of excited about the prospect of cracking open some fresh Traveller goodness.
Does 41 qualify for the old-as-dirt club?
Started 1986 or 87 - with the german edition a friend of mine bought 2nd hand of another friend ... still got this books, bought them from him when he moved to a small island to become a diving teacher (hi benni).
Played a lot since - classic, Megatraveller and a bit TNE - than switched to GURPS and made my own GURPS Traveller years before GT was produced - played GT since than - never liked T4 or T20 - though T20 is quite nice.
Of course I buy and bought everything Traveller I could get my fingers onto - its not complete, but nearly
Most of my games are in the classic times - 1105 to fifth frontier war. We are right now (last thursday) playing Annic Nova again
Played a lot since - classic, Megatraveller and a bit TNE - than switched to GURPS and made my own GURPS Traveller years before GT was produced - played GT since than - never liked T4 or T20 - though T20 is quite nice.
Of course I buy and bought everything Traveller I could get my fingers onto - its not complete, but nearly
Most of my games are in the classic times - 1105 to fifth frontier war. We are right now (last thursday) playing Annic Nova again
jonboywalton said:
Hey, I think I was in that store, twice. Man that takes me back years, I haven't been back down-under since the last trip, though I keep meaning to go. I got to Perth on the Navy plan, but I have a bunch of shirt-tail cousins in the area as well.
jonboywalton said:
Heh, I made this mistake also....
jonboywalton said:
Depend how you feel.
gamesmeister
Banded Mongoose
1979 LBBs, bought for me at Christmas by my older brother. Didn't have a clue what they were about, neither did he, all he knew was they looked cool!
He was right...
He was right...
jonboywalton
Mongoose
Infojunky said:
My birthday was in April. A couple of days later a friend emailed me to apologise for missing it, and asked how old I was. I told him 41, to which he replied "Well, your only as old as the woman you feel", to which I responded, "In that case I'm 34 (28 on Wednesdays)." :wink:
ObTrav: given a character is likely to be well into his thrities before he leaves the service and starts Travelling, and given the availability of anagathics (at least for those who can afford them), does ageism ever com into play people's Traveller games, beyond the odd "grandpa" reference to the 52 year old ex-Merchant Captain with the keys to the Far Trader?
Also, how do younger players feel about playing characters fifteen or twenty years older than they are?
jonboywalton said:
Traveller appealed more widely because of older characters, and still does.
In HS, I often had players chosing to stop ater terms 1-3 to have a clue how to play the character.
In college, most of my players were wanting to play 30-50 somethings, with the occasional 100+. (Yes, I had someone play a 121yo Vilani..., and another played a 101yo solomani...)
Infojunky said:Jame Rowe said:You guys make me glad I'm still less than thirty!Even if it is only two years and some months. :wink:
Enjoy it boy, your thirties will be gone before you know it.
Sure will, old man
, as soon as I'm done enjoying my twenties! :twisted: :lol: :wink: Up until recently I was uncertain how the TNE task system worked. Now ... now I just prefer the earlier versions (I still like the setting but I'm using another rules set).
Nickbergquist
Mongoose
Little Black Box set purchased circa 1983 at Wargames West in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Got Runequest 2nd edition, Tunnels & Trolls, Dragonquest, and Villains & Vigilantes at the same time!
My first Traveller rules were battered LBBs, plus MegaTraveller's Imperial Encyclopedia and Referee's Companion, bought secondhand at a bookstore.
Yes, but the twenties are the last thing you'll remember. The thirties passed in a blinding flash by comparison.
Jame Rowe said:Infojunky said:Jame Rowe said:You guys make me glad I'm still less than thirty!
Enjoy it boy, your thirties will be gone before you know it.
Sure will, old man
Yes, but the twenties are the last thing you'll remember. The thirties passed in a blinding flash by comparison.
