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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8804555" data-attributes="member: 42582">It's just occurred to me that Classic Traveller should be another fertile opportunity for social realist RPGing.Here's something I posted some years ago now:The social context implicit in Traveller is ripe for a social realist approach. And the spirit of Traveller - with simple yet far-reaching systems for handling world generation, law enforcement, trade and commerce, etc - seems highly conducive.It's the only system I know of which permits, from its game rules (namely, for starship mortgages and Travellers' Aid Society memberships), the derivation of the prevailing interest rate (in the neighbourhood of 5%).What would hold Traveller back, I think, is that it has no system for economic influence or economic development. This goes back to my observation, in the self-quote, that it relies D&D-style on actually keeping accounts of credits, rather than a more abstract wealth system such as is found in Burning Wheel and Torchbearer.Nevertheless, I will try and think more about this.</blockquote>