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GM background for a Traveller game I'm about to start play in: As he put it, any similarity to Firefly is strictly deliberate. I don't know if Joss Whedon ever played or read Traveller, but Firefly could be a synthesis of thousands of tramp freighter games played over the last 25 years.

I wondered when that was coming.

{my italics} in a rpg the difference is that one plays like fantasy and the other plays like science fiction. The Centauri Knights game (which I bought yesterday) is set on a world with clouds of abandoned microscopic robots. Anyone with suitable equipment and skills (a crystal recovered from...

Problem solving. Moral dilemmas. Inventing a personality and playing it through thick and thin. Discovering (and creating) the setting through play. Fear of dying. The absence of mystical claptrap. I would like to to have one game available off the shelf that's got: - no magic (psionics...

I had this idea that I'd leave it unsaid and let your imagination invent the really gruesome stuff for itself. Oh well. I'll get this writing thing worked out one day... I'll have a ponder, maybe revise it, maybe fill it in with later dialogue.

Fish has a TL14 tailored vacc suit, the best money can buy in the 56th century. It's a spacer's suit, different from the ground pounder hostile atmosphere suits that Maelcum's used to. Well, that's my story now. During the game Laurent (Fish's player) was acting sickly, so when we go to this...

Act IV: 069-526 - Well, Somebody Has To Date: 176-993 to 177-993 Imperial. Location: 069-526 system (0721), high above orbital plane. “F-ck” said Fish. “You could put it that way” said Sir David, something like bitterness or disgust creeping into his voice. “Wow” said Maelcum, “they blew...

I fear no good will come of this. Should be fun, though. For onlookers.

:) This is kind of weird... I play Traveller, a slightly-hard science fiction RPG with psionics which are built into the setting. I took psionics out of my game because, as I said to the players, "if I wanted magic I'd play D&D". Whenever I'm thinking of using a new bit of setting material I...

*waves to MJD (author of the adventure)* Skylinkdave: Thanks. It's a good adventure, with a bit of everything, and easy to run. Don't make the mistake I made and switch the Malfeasant signal GK to before planetfall (I wanted some action after hours of chargen). That could have scuppered me if...

*leans back on the rocker, cuts a wad of backy, and settles down to listen with a big smile*

Even when you're tyring to win friends an influence people amongst the navy. Or with the sort of publicity this could bring, especially when you're trying to win friends and influence people amongst the navy.

Act IV: 069-526 - Administrative Error Date: 176-993 Imperial. Location: 069-526 system (0721), high above orbital plane. They passed more doors on the way forward, but most were closed and unpowered. The only exception was the galley, where they found a tattooed man in an apron drifting...

It is damn good to see a TRoS story hour. And Midnight, too. :) Looking forward to more.

Act IV: 069-526 - Death Ship Date: 176-993 Imperial. Location: 069-526 system (0721), high above orbital plane. “No lighting. No atmosphere. No AG from the deck plates. And finally no spin. Thanks, missus.” Fish, Maelcum and Sir David were through the aft dorsal airlock which Silea had...

Act IV: 069-526 - Go Fish Date: 175-993 to 176-993 Imperial. Location: 069-526 system (0721), aboard the free trader Avarice Rewarded. “Lieutenant… Kharassiss is it? Hello, I’m David Shetland the owner aboard. How can we help you, lieutenant?” Sir David sat at his desk in his cabin. He’d been...

Colour me odd, but whilst I would be quite prepared to pay for a few of the story hours here I actually prefer to read things on a computer screen rather than in a book. Just thought I should provide the outlying data sample...

(contact), you are a bad, wicked, nasty, cruel man. If you weren't doing it to your own ex-PC, I'd come over the San Francisco and put whiskers and a tail on you. In other words, I love it. Nystul, eh? Your lot must be pretty serious powers in the land by now. The LGG has Nystul as level 17...

I think this may actually be worth its weight in rubies. To say I'm eager for more...

Act IV: 069-526 - Nice Little Runner, Needs Work Date: 174-993 to 174-993 Imperial. Location: 069-526 system (0721), Fonnein Orbital. Fish was busy. First he and Maelcum went to see honest Ab. Maelcum had forgotten more about weaponry than the Avaricious would ever know, and Fish went into...