Traveller actual play

[moriantumr]

Having never played or read Traveler I really enjoyed this. Sounds like a game I would enjoy playing.
Perhaps rolling up some traveling companions with varying skill sets that she can use as surrogates could make things a bit more exciting while allowing her character to remain focused on political intrigue? Even just a single bodyguard could let her, and you, move along with events she feels her character is unable to deal with.

 

[pemerton]

Having never played or read Traveler I really enjoyed this. Sounds like a game I would enjoy playing.

Thanks!

Perhaps rolling up some traveling companions with varying skill sets that she can use as surrogates could make things a bit more exciting while allowing her character to remain focused on political intrigue? Even just a single bodyguard could let her, and you, move along with events she feels her character is unable to deal with.

Maybe. At least at this point, I think the issue is developing a sense of how to make creative decisions in a RPG context. Intellectually I have no trouble appreciating that that's a real skill - but having it manifested in this actual play certainly drove the point home.

 

[MGibster]

It's great that you're able to share this with your daughter! Back when I was her age, I couldn't imagine a parent playing an RPG.

 

[aramis erak]

The UPP is the Universal Personality Profile. The rules are a bit ambiguous whether this is purely a meta- or also an in-fiction thing, but I treat it as meta.

In the OTU, UWPs (world profiles) are in-fiction.
In CT Supp 12, and in the Traveller Book, the character sheet is given a TAS form number; thus it's indicative that they are in-fiction ratings.