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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darklight" data-source="post: 2817006" data-attributes="member: 2450">Ah yes, MegaTraveller...only played it briefly, but it brings back some fond memories of a few great and/or hilarious sessions...Disclaimer: we knew we wouldn't be playing more than a few adventures in MegaTraveller, and certainly nothing resembling a full campaign (and we were young <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ), so we took it a lot less serious than we would normally do, and we were not above the occasional PvP playing. In one game the PCs were sent to investigate a research facility on a remote planet that hadn't been heard from in a while. When they got there they found no people, only a few remains and some strange signs that something was completely wrong... the atmosphere was so thick you could cut it with a knife, and suddenly there was a big roar outside the open window. Man did we jump! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> It turned out to be my dad <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> That was some of my best GM'ing and it was 98% improvized!Another time one of the PCs threatened another PC (with a rocket launcher!) to use the ships computer to hack into the starports computersystem and transfer some funds to their account... The authorities found out and tracked them down and charged both of them with the crime. We chose to roleplay the interrogations and the trial. The hacker obviously said he had been threatened into doing it, but the other guy denied it, saying that it was ridiculous that he should have threatened him with a rocket launcher inside the ship (which was his own personal property) since he would most likely have destroyed the ship and at least have wounded himself if he ever fired. The guy playing the PC who threatened the hacker was extremely convincing and the hackers story had some holes, so it was hanging in the balance. I asked a mutual friend, who came over, to play the part of the jury. He found it highly unlikely that the hackers story was true, so the jury decided that since it was proven beyond a doubt that the hacker had indeed comitted the crime, he should be found guilty and the other guy was acquitted! The hacker was sentenced to "Space Probe" meaning that he was strapped into a space probe, had an I.V. with nutrition and anti-aging drugs, and a huge oxygen supply, so that he would spend decades or even centuries flying through space, completely alone, contemplating his crime <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Yes I know this was more than a little cruel... but since it was a one-off, I didn't mind and after passing the sentence to the hacker, I just had to leave the room and laugh out loud <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Ahh...the memories... Hmm...I really ought to go and dig out my old MegaTraveller boxed set from the storage... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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