I don't think my first traveller character died during creation, and he got to be a general or something - but he was about 70 when we'd finished character gen, so some nasty aging effects from memory... (mine - his was probably worse).
We may have misunderstood the purpose of the character...
Okay. looks interesting. Would have preferred Spelljammer / Mystara etc. etc. (Maybe next time...) but will probably get this.
Presumably Van Richten predates Van Helsing?
Interesting thread. never knew there was so much love for Heroquest. never played it, but did have Advanced Heroquest, which had a much more obvious Games Workshop / Warhammer Old World vibe - 20 plastic skaven for example - and a nice system for laying out random dungeons. as long as you had a...
In the spirit of rampant speculation I'd like to see:
Mystara - with a focus on the Known World (still one of the better implementations of nations with complex relations to one another more than 'us good, dem bad') and a reset to AC1000, but with the Hollow World properly implemented...