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5-6 career terms (38-42 years old) seems to be the average for my games.

Yes, this. I feel like both 3E/PF1 and PF2 didnt find the Goldilocks zone for trained untrained, feat no feat. I think the 5E bounded accuracy is a better shot at it, but that game lacks anything beyond tools to interact with the skill system.

Its 30 years later so maybe not? Im more curious why 4 is the magic number?

For you or for everybody?

My players did have a very good time pimping out the Harrier ship. For Pirates of Drinax I made battle armour nearly impossible to get and no station was going to let you wear it anyways. The players never even tried to get it. Combat was like maybe every other session becasue there was so much...

Bautista lends a hand with the boat and looks at Desiree and says, "Tecnicamente, foi o tubarão que cometeu o assassinato."

Rough being a WR this year in the NFL.

As your appointed Comstar sideline reporter im pleased to announce playtest package 2 This time mobility rules! There is a lot going on here compared to last time so ill do it item by item. Water mobility changes. No longer a PSR for walking in water per hex, or at all. Can now run in water...

This was definitely true at the onset of diet sodas. Very much a for women product. Which is why it was so funny when my buddy and I asked why there wasn’t a diet beer? Though there has been a softening of this idea that beverages are famine or masculine. Seltzers for example caught on with...

Swap Ryan Reynolds for Sandler for me. So, while I enjoyed the film I can understand where you are coming from.

Yeah some folks just need an element to grab onto. They prefer to be reactive as opposed to proactive with the GM. Neither is right or wrong but you will struggle in a game that doesn’t cleave closely to a particular genre convention or has a power increase progression system. I’ve also seen...

Could certainly help with the “GM shortage”. What will be really interesting is if AI starts shaping GM behavior of actual humans. 🤔

Yes, you nailed it. The beats Traveller and it’s setting go for wouldn’t be popular dramas until decades later. Empire in B5, rag tag crew keeping a ship flying in Cowboy Bebop and Firefly. Mysterious missing species in Mass Effect. Etc… I was drawn to Traveller cause it left a lot of the...

I like the crunchy wargame bits and the role playing. I enjoy creating worlds, spinning up engaging plots, and acting out NPCs. I also really enjoy playing a character exploring a world and leaving their mark while building them mechanically. :cool:

haha this reminds me of a discussion with a buddy 20 years ago why low cal beer is "light" instead of diet.

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 folks often confuse career paths in Traveller with class in D&D. Honestly, Traveller careers are just skill delivery systems with events to flesh out how the...

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. Though, I see some silmilar lines forming like the old school survival sim vs modern adventure plot style of gaming. I think some of the rub here might be that...

Oh...yeah... I kinda blocked that freight part from my mind but I know exactly what you are talking about. Not only did some of my early groups abandon any adventure as "too dangerous to risk our mortgaged ship" but figuring out caro/goods/lots/planet markets ate so much game time...