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Jeffzilla reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Traveller: the iconic science fiction roleplaying game with
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IDK. My first Traveller PC back in the 70s was indeed a “casualty” of the ChaGen process. I thought it was a cool mechanic, and that... -
Jeffzilla reacted to payn's post in the thread Traveller: the iconic science fiction roleplaying game with Like.
It had the opposite effect in my early games. Folks just wanted to find the best trade route as adventuring was too dangerous! I think...
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Jeffzilla reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Traveller: the iconic science fiction roleplaying game with Like.
I don't know any of the Mongoose versions. But Classic Traveller has lots of tools to support low-prep play: random world generation...
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Jeffzilla reacted to MGibster's post in the thread Traveller: the iconic science fiction roleplaying game with Like.
I think that might be it. I've never played Traveller in my life, I only just purchased it from Mongoose during COVID, and once I...
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Jeffzilla reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Traveller: the iconic science fiction roleplaying game with Like.
Genre alone is a major part: Fantasy in general is way more popular than science fiction, particularly the gritty Hard approach...
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Jeffzilla reacted to payn's post in the thread Traveller: the iconic science fiction roleplaying game with Like.
Yeap, I knew a few that loved that granular aspect. I just felt it was too distracting from what I wanted to do which was adventure...
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Jeffzilla replied to the thread Traveller: the iconic science fiction roleplaying game.This is 100% valid and I remember it being a slog in some of my Traveller campaigns. But then I had other groups of players who seized...
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Jeffzilla reacted to pemerton's post in the thread Traveller: the iconic science fiction roleplaying game with Like.
I think Classic Traveller remains a brilliant, very playable RPG. (See eg this thread.) In terms of popularity, though, I think it is...
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Jeffzilla reacted to payn's post in the thread Traveller: the iconic science fiction roleplaying game with Like.
If I had to guess it was more about relating the RPG to media being consumed by folks. There was a fantasy explosion in the 70's that...
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Jeffzilla replied to the thread Traveller: the iconic science fiction roleplaying game.I spent many, many hours playing Traveller with friends in the late 80s and early 90s. It's hard to understand why Traveller's...
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You know, I gotta agree. Great points on why we enjoyed it. I wonder newer generations of gamers would view Stormbringer. I...
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Jeffzilla replied to the thread White Dwarf Reflections #29.I think the lack of balance was actually part of what made Stormbringer so much fun. Characters were just playthings of the gods in an...
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Jeffzilla replied to the thread White Dwarf Reflections #29.I ran the 'Weed War' Traveller scenario! I actually used it as an introductory scenario leading into 'The Traveller Adventure,' which...
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Jeffzilla replied to the thread Sci-Fi TTRPGS for September.Very cool! I played a lot of Traveller in the FASA days but hate to admit I never updated and didn't keep up with the game past about 1990.
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It was not confirmed at the time of posting this article. But pleased to share we'll be chatting Traveller on Not DnD on 29th September!