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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7900129" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>So much this! Especially if we're talking about GH, or Dragonlance, or the Known World/Mystara.</p><p></p><p>But why is this a problem?</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/classic-traveller-actual-play-annic-nova-meets-alien.669484/" target="_blank">When I wanted to run an Alien scenario in my Traveller game</a> I statted up an alien using the available system resources. It took me 10 to 15 minutes. Having done it once, I statted up a larval state alien at the table in less than five. What does it matter that, at another table, or even at my table at a different time if I were in a different mood, it would be done differently?</p><p></p><p>When I posted my thread, another poster informed me that there had been stats for the various life stages of an alien published in an early number of the Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society. Having subsequently looked at those ones, they're different from (more vicious than) mine. Once I'd acquired the PDF from DriveThru RPG it was interesting to make the comparison, but that has no effect on the (successful) play experience at my table.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7900129, member: 42582"] So much this! Especially if we're talking about GH, or Dragonlance, or the Known World/Mystara. But why is this a problem? [url=https://www.enworld.org/threads/classic-traveller-actual-play-annic-nova-meets-alien.669484/]When I wanted to run an Alien scenario in my Traveller game[/url] I statted up an alien using the available system resources. It took me 10 to 15 minutes. Having done it once, I statted up a larval state alien at the table in less than five. What does it matter that, at another table, or even at my table at a different time if I were in a different mood, it would be done differently? When I posted my thread, another poster informed me that there had been stats for the various life stages of an alien published in an early number of the Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society. Having subsequently looked at those ones, they're different from (more vicious than) mine. Once I'd acquired the PDF from DriveThru RPG it was interesting to make the comparison, but that has no effect on the (successful) play experience at my table. [/QUOTE]
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