Leif's DISCONTINUED GURPS Traveller Game OOC01

[Leif]

Hi Leif,

I just rolled for engineering. After I get some
conversation from the others in the cockpit,
I'll go back & resolve the engine issues.

Conversation? Is that a hint??? I'm assuming your rolls are attached to a post of your in the IC, with the ENWorld die-roller? Found it!

Btw, have you ever though of doing a
GURPS Traveller podcast?

No, I'm sadly behind the times, tech-wise. Pod-cast? Does that involve peas?

 

[Leif]

Centisteed: 8 is a pretty darned respectable roll! Are you sure that's not good enough? Remember, in GURPS, the LOWER the better.

 

[Lou]

Hi Leif,

I just rolled for engineering. After I get some
conversation from the others in the cockpit,
I'll go back & resolve the engine issues.

Btw, have you ever though of doing a
GURPS Traveller podcast? I was looking
around on iTunes & some folks were
doing a live D&D podcast, thought it
was pretty funny. I bet something like
that could be done with Skype & a
conference call. The dice rolls will
need their own mic. lol.

The D&D podcast was called Critical Hit.
Seems very mechanical..haha. Entertaining
nonetheless.

I've seen gamers seeking gamers who play
on a Skype conference call using audio only.
It's like table-top play except you only hear
the other players. Rolls can be by DM only
or on IC or EnWorld.

 

[Centisteed]

Centisteed: 8 is a pretty darned respectable roll! Are you sure that's not good enough? Remember, in GURPS, the LOWER the better.

Oh yeah, it was a great roll. However, when you
mentioned some sort of worf rat or minoc in the
engine, I thought you were joking, so I played
along & went & banged the engine. I didn't think
you were serious about the engine problem claim.

As for Zoe's OOC mention of lower is better for
GURPS rolls, I do understand that much of the
game! I've got the PDF version of GURPS Basic
& have read everything but the Magic/Psionics.
Basically I wrote before the dice roll, so I'll go
back & add in a new thread for engineering &
we'll take it from there.

 

[Centisteed]

I've seen gamers seeking gamers who play
on a Skype conference call using audio only.
It's like table-top play except you only hear
the other players. Rolls can be by DM only
or on IC or EnWorld.

Yeah I watched one of those for Rifts on a different
forum. His requirement was 3-4 hours every Friday
evening. They have software tools that you can
get (some free, some not) so everyone can look at
a map, their figure for combat placement, etc. I
think some of that Traveller stuff out there would
look really good put in these tools, but I digress.

I completed listening to Critical Hits #93 & it was
crazy! For 2 hours they rolled dice & explained
actions for one encounter, I wasn't even sure what
the combat was about having not listened to the
previous. For awhile, I thought this was a Yahtzee
podcast there was so much dice rolling going on.
LOL! However, at the end of the podcast, they
asked a question to some of the players on whether
it was normal for one encounter to take 2 hours
of combat rolling from previous editions of D&D.
The answer was pretty sad. They said it was the
same! I couldn't imagine spending two hours in
combat for one encounter. I played D&D 1st ed
back when it was out, but I don't recall combat
taking that long. This must have happened back
when 3.0 came out & they increased the crap out
of the combat.

I hear GURPS combat can do this too, but haven't
heard of anyone wanting to mess with it. haha.
When I get around to buying Campaigns, I'll be
sure to read all about that (I did read a bit of it
back in GURPS 3rd back in the early 90s).

 

[Centisteed]

Status check

So what's going on with the other players? Haven't
seen anyone posting in quite some time, except for
the comedy relief post just now. The joke posts are
really destroying my suspension of disbelief, however.

I'd say the game is currently in a crashing & burning
state. Where is the seriousness & the role playing
with far less skirt-chasing & comic relief (which to
me indicates boredom, lack of interest, or efforts
to muck up the story, etc).

Other than that, been looking at getting the GURPS
Campaigns & Mythic Game Emulator (hearing all
sorts of great stuff about that) & perhaps GURPS
Space or Interstellar Wars. Love reading this stuff
& had to take a break from it due to all the events
that have happened to me lately, but now my time is
coming back for reading & getting up to date on all
the good reading out there.

 

[Leif]

I disagree about the humor. I think it's just tension-relief. The story is not "mucked-up" in my humble opinion. There has been some good role-play. The other players just have lots of real-world commitments that they must deal with. Sorry, but I hadn't noticed any crashing and/or burning.

 

[Insight]

So what's going on with the other players? Haven't
seen anyone posting in quite some time, except for
the comedy relief post just now. The joke posts are
really destroying my suspension of disbelief, however.

I'd say the game is currently in a crashing & burning
state. Where is the seriousness & the role playing
with far less skirt-chasing & comic relief (which to
me indicates boredom, lack of interest, or efforts
to muck up the story, etc).

Honestly, there hasn't been much for Kaira to do. When I felt the need to react to something or have her actually DO something, I did. You can blame it on lack of interest or a direction to the game, but we only have so much on which to act. I'm not blaming this on Leif, as he has other games going on as well and has stated many times that this is going to be a slower paced game. I'm happy with the pacing, although I do wish we would eventually get to a place where we could do stuff.

 

[Leif]

That will happen very soon, now that you are on Edenelt and ready to begin your assigned mission in earnest. Your next immediate task is to make contact with Simulgrab Power Processors and begin to root out the problem(s) there for your Corporate Masters at Zeering Conglomerate. Also, the lack of action so far is due to the nature of the game. Its called 'Traveller' for a reason, I guess. All of your time so far has been spent travelling to the place where your work is to be done.

 

[Shayuri]

Still pluggin' along.

Hoping things pick up now that we're 'on track' so to speak.