jeffreyab: (Traveller)
Jeff Beeler ([personal profile] jeffreyab) wrote2008-04-06 11:43 am

Traveller - Striker

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An example of how my favourite roleplaying game and mega novel Traveller is played. This is an example of a mercenary attack on a defended planet. For other players note that Happy Fun Ball makes a planetside landing at the end which is against High Guard rules. Ahh the fun of Traveller!

[identity profile] tlatoani.livejournal.com 2008-04-07 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm. Looks like it's got some good stuff -- Events and Mishaps for example. We use the MegaTraveller system, which does skills etc once per year in generation.

[identity profile] rbradakis.livejournal.com 2008-04-08 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I'll reply at this level.

Wow, there's been a lot of updates to Traveller since I played. I was playing in the 1985-1988 era. Which, of course, meant mostly Little Black Books. I don't think I ever played MegaTraveller, but I think we used the Mercenary rulebook towards the end.

The early character generation would result in character death too easily, after hours of creating a character, and before starting an adventure. So, since I was a hobby programmer, and so were my gaming friends to some extent, I wrote software to their (ever-changing) spec instead of generating characters one day. I wonder if I still have that. It was in Kaypro BASIC, IIRC.