Argh! Traveller Book or Mongoose 2E

[Silverhawk]

Did you do this to the other players? How many rounds of ammunition did they bring? How many extractors and firing pins did they break?

The simple answer is no. But that would ignore the fact that the rest of the party were not thinking of shooting their way out of trouble. Most didn't even think about starting with owning weapons. In fact, several of the PCs didn't have any combat skills.

The trouble was that this player was attempting to set himself up to run roughshod over not only the other players but my control of the game. We also played games such as Fire in the East and a couple of miniatures games. If he didn't like the set up or the way it was going then he would quit. Definitely what I would call a 'deckstacker' and I wasn't going to have it for this game where there were several first timers playing.

Having said that, would I do it again that way, probably not but I was trying not to be a dictator about what is his character. I was trying to make sure that everyone could be involved and have a good time without being forced to go along with one players way. That was based on a previous GM session (not a Traveller game) where that had occurred and nobody had fun.

It is really a delicate thing to handle and I think 30 years has left me better able to deal with that :CoW:

 

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@atpollard / infojunky
Thank you for those information. I finally stumbled upon Traveller last year and got myself the core rules for MgT 2e and now wanted to look into the older and different versions. As printed versions are a bit costly I wasn't sure if getting the digital versions was advisable at all - for the older editions.

Glad I could be of some help. And to be clear I am a huge fan of Digital Game books, in that it reduces my physical overhead.