Enough is way beyound enough!
Hello all,
With the new hybrid rules now upon us, how do most fellow Travellers feel about Alien sex and genetic manipulation to create the new hybrid races?
Could this be a strange spicing up of the game. Adventurers walk in on
scenes not meant for public viewing etc?
Do you think this will create some rifts between the different races? Will some hybrid species be looked down upon? Or will it
usher in a new age of inter species cross breading throughout the Imperium?
Myself, I think I'll stick to genetic experiments and breading within those new hybrid species. I've been curious how other fellow Travellers will handle this controversial issue.
I've also thought
it could make for a very interesting bit of gaming in the new Cirque campaign due out in a few months or so. (The circus that genetically splices together, ecstatically entertains together or something like that. ).
On that note, could it perhaps result in some new Race books coming out to cover the hybrid possibilities or should they be covered with the major alien books in a cross breeding chapter?...
One more thing while I think of it. OK, not exactly Traveller related but perhaps could cause more women to get interested in Traveller.
The number of women I have met who absolutely love 'Spock' for reasons I would never post on this thread(even I was scared and I'm pretty open minded). Some women, really dig the qualities of alien characters.
The point here is that a lot of alien characters have extremely different qualities and social structure to human characters. This could have a dramatic effect on the characters in certain situations at space ports and frontier worlds etc. For example: I had an upstuck annoying character who was good at everything he knew. But he was ultimately a bit of a dork. Well he ended up falling in love with a strange furry yellow alien he met on a lab ship he was adventuring on. While there was attraction and it created some extremely funny gaming moments, there was never anything lewd or unsavoury. ...
You don't "fall in love" with a NPC during a RPG...other than consciously or unconsciously expressing unfulfilled desires that you can't achieve in real life.
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Oh and please, I beg you all, no one generate a table for calculating attraction between alien characters.
Excellent advice, but, someone went and did it anyway.
To late.
I did this about a year ago before T5 came out. The reason, an
all female crew and species mix. :devil:
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There's
nothing wrong with a Solomani falling in love with a Hiver(or perhaps being seriously manipulated who could say?). Well on some planets right? World dependent perhaps.
Obviously it's a part of Traveller your not going to game a 13 year old through for example. Far simpler to to just have the straight races and that's that. (Avoid 30+ years of Traveller evolution explanations)
However for more
advanced players who have been playing Traveller for a long time and
approach the subject with maturity and perhaps even a little tongue in cheek humor, is that really a big deal?
Personally
I think it adds a nice spice to the game and is a welcome feature. After all the ancients where genetically manipulating races since the Traveller universe began. Who knows what else.
"or perhaps being seriously manipulated"
Coerced or Raped?
"a part of Traveller your not going to game a 13 year old through"
There are 13 year-olds reading this site. Some are younger and the children of CotI members.
"for more advanced players who have been playing Traveller for a long time and approach the subject with maturity"
If we start discussing relative maturity one or both of us will possibly be banned.
As for "advanced players” who have been "playing Traveller for a long time" ... Get real. 1977 was the same year for everyone.
It's difficult to envision a K'Kree and a human engaging in intimate relations...
Apparently not for you?
... without gene splicing. I guess for characters that may have had an attraction for horses, K'Kree could be a natural attraction for them??
Disagree Jeff, I think Darians and humans for one would work.
Then there are humans that like.... animals(not saying anything more) but those people and Vargr could work out, then of course the Aslan but hey, let's stick to genetic manipulation(aka artificial engineeringation if you will) to assist those individuals in achieving there children for the strict purposes of maintaining a PG thread.
About time for PG!
Urban Dictionary: beastiality also referred to as "inter-species erotica". The art of performing a sexual act with a member of another species.
I'm personally finding this continual avocation to what amounts to bestiality pretty offensive. To the best of my knowledge it is illegal ALMOST anywhere on planet Earth. Those few places where it is legal it is still not the norm and is held repugnant by the majority of society.
I have no problem with the genetics issues, nor genetic manipulation, though I can't see to many PCs with the stats to be able, or rich enough, to actually do anything with it.
This discussion has little to do with plot, which is one thing, but goes heavily to gaming a scenario which is quite another.
I recall aramis stating that the thread alone was borderline. I see nothing here, or in the last several posts, that discuses this topic in terms of T5 rules, or any other Traveller rules set, just avocation for what amounts to inter species sex, better defined as bestiality.
Again:
Urban Dictionary: beastiality also referred to as "inter-species erotica". The art of performing a sexual act with a member of another species.
To Spaceresearcher;441384 IMO it appears the only thing you wish to do here is discuss abhorrent and deviate sex practices. I’d be happy for you to prove me wrong by your ceasing and desisting the continuing thereof. If this paragraph, or observation and request, gets me censured, or banned, then it’s become a site worth getting banned from.
I don't think I'm alone in thinking this thread has gone way to far:
[m;]Marc does impose a PG rating decency standards equivalent standard.[/m;]
The topic itself is right on the very very edge of that.
Lets shuffle back towards what the new genetics rules mean for populations and how they interact and draw a veil over the um mechanics...
I'd just like to remind everyone that the probability of interspecies breeding outside of the human related branches will be about the same chance as any one of us coming down with a case of Dutch Elm Blight.
And I second Aramis's decency reminder.
I frankly think this is a weird topic, and I am not quite sure what the fascination with it is.
The genetics rules in T5 are clearly intended (I think) to detail the mechanics of geneering, not inter-species "affairs".