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Awesome thread over at rpgsite!!!!

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http://www.therpgsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3016

Basically...Traveller...modern-day setting...PC's are ex-military working on board tramp steamers.

Check out the mock-ups of the LBB's for "Mariner".

There's a cool youtube clip at the end of the thread. A clip from a French movie that looks like Die Hard...on a French merchant marine ship. Pirates attack and the ship's captain runs to...the ship's weapons locker!!!!
 
I am proud to have come up with the idea for this ;)

I just finished another campaign, maybe I'll impose this one on my players :p
 
Kyle, was that really you who started the thread over there?

That'd make a great Traveller variant!

RE: The movie clip - I could picture what sort of background each of the guys in the ship's crew had. The captain prolly had a naval background. The guy in black who poo-poo's the captain's offer of his pistol and goes out and kicks ass hand-to-hand against the pirate I pictured as some kind of guy who was in one of the French army or marine paratrooper units. The American cook I pictured as a guy who was in "OTHER" and who picked up enough street smarts to turn the tables on the pirate in the ship's galley.
 
Yes, that's me alright. I have an OSRICed (ie, original rules with the serial numbers filed off, legally right but probably morally wrong) Traveller to use with it and everything. Ian's taken the project and... well, he isn't running with it, but is staggering along.

The only problem would be for that as a gamebook or campaign the immense research involved. If it's a port on an imaginary world, roll some dice and there you go. If it's a port on the real world Earth, you might have well-travelled, well-read, or nitpicking players - and even without them might feel obliged to make things real.
 
Kyle Aaron said:
If it's a port on the real world Earth, you might have well-travelled, well-read, or nitpicking players - and even without them might feel obliged to make things real.
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Weren't most of the ports in the imagined MARINER variant going to be in rather unsavoury/dangerous parts of the world?
 
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