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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9336855" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Alien has better rules. At least for my needs.The key horror element of Alien as a setting is the eponymous Alien species. The stress rule is not, in and of itself, a horror mechanic. It's perfectly suited to a type of Drama that Traveller just cannot provide, that of the Vorkosiverse style push to the breaking point. Alien severely reduced my attachment to Traveller. (my avvie is a colorization of the MT shattered starburst... which is a map of the MegaTraveller era Rebellion's factions... still my avvie more out of laziness than anything else.) Last year, I ran MegaTraveller again. It was... suboptimal. Cleared a lot of nostalgia out of my head. I also ran two mini-campaigns of ALIEN in cinematic mode. I also reread MgT2 before deciding on MT. Nothing in it made it stand out.After my one post-playtest run of MgT 1e, It fell into &quot;never again&quot;... at least not unless heavily modded. And it's just not worth the effort, when Rogue Trader and ALIEN fill the same general niches as Traveller. What they don't hit, Coriolis: The Third Horizon should, tho' that I've not run.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 9336855, member: 6779310"] Alien has better rules. At least for my needs. The key horror element of Alien as a setting is the eponymous Alien species. The stress rule is not, in and of itself, a horror mechanic. It's perfectly suited to a type of Drama that Traveller just cannot provide, that of the Vorkosiverse style push to the breaking point. Alien severely reduced my attachment to Traveller. (my avvie is a colorization of the MT shattered starburst... which is a map of the MegaTraveller era Rebellion's factions... still my avvie more out of laziness than anything else.) Last year, I ran MegaTraveller again. It was... suboptimal. Cleared a lot of nostalgia out of my head. I also ran two mini-campaigns of ALIEN in cinematic mode. I also reread MgT2 before deciding on MT. Nothing in it made it stand out. After my one post-playtest run of MgT 1e, It fell into "never again"... at least not unless heavily modded. And it's just not worth the effort, when [I][U]Rogue Trader[/U][/I] and [I][U]ALIEN[/U][/I] fill the same general niches as Traveller. What they don't hit, [I][U]Coriolis: The Third Horizon[/U][/I] should, tho' that I've not run. [/QUOTE]

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