direction of traveller

[trader jim]

this question is for the Ancients, idont know if any one has recently asked you this formaly. here it is - if the Market is good - if you have the recorces - if all the ifs are in place - if the company is solid. if if if on and on....where are you taking us in the next 5 years or so?? after these projects are compleated whats next? IS there a long term plan?? what REALY are you thinking?? just courious, because i plan to be right here and was wondering if i couldget you to give up a real jucy secret -

 

[vegascat]

Do you mean will there be another virus plague in 5 years?
Will a frontier war break out between the Aslan and Kkree?
Will a race that planted evidence of the ancients come around to suck the brains dry of all the intellegent races in known space?

Opps, I was going to save that one for the players.

 

[Smiling DM]

Originally posted by trader jim:
this question is for the Ancients, [snip] ....where are you taking us in the next 5 years or so??

In short - will there be a meta-plot? Perhaps something that happens in M:1000 that will impact MJD's work on M:1248?

just courious, because i plan to be right here and was wondering if i couldget you to give up a real jucy secret -

Even if you can't divulge any secrets, just the fact that you guys are considering a meta-plot would be VERY intriguing. And possibly a feature to add to the marketing campaign.

 

[vegascat]

Of course they have a mega plot in secret that they will be letting us know of in each supplement sold over the next few years. Call it job security, or call it business savvy. If they arn't getting some good ideas from this forum, then how the heck did they produce a game we will enjoy so much. Or am I getting off into X-files conspiracie type stuff here.

 

[vegascat]

How is ISU? Been about 20 years since I went there. Many good 4 day games.

Back to the thread, I would hope they do have an overall future history preplanned.

 

[Smiling DM]

Originally posted by vegascat:
How is ISU? Been about 20 years since I went there. Many good 4 day games.

ISU is well - actually live in Des Moines, but work in Ames. Most of my players have been or are students (including self).

As to 4 day games - get to do that on the Xmas holiday - learning that it was fun 15 years ago, and much harder on the body now 15 years later.

Back to the thread - my concern about the products QLI has planned over the next few years is that they will just be an amplification of what we all know to be 'prior history'.

Where's the fun in that? Obviously the frontier aspect of the Gateway domain will present some rough and tumble storylines, but if it is just a back drop of the Solomani-war, and nothing really changes from established canon, well, er, I guess that'd be OK for a sourcebook, or a group of small adventures. But I doubt it could be an engaging product line with multiple products.

I'd like to see QLI take the opportunity to foreshadow some of the future events we DON'T already know, such as events after Hard Times but before TNE. Or some cryptic threads that aren't revealed until M:1248.

I know this is harder to do, especially with so many hard-core fans who will pounce on the first break with canon. But a continuing storyline in the setting was one of the things I liked about Shadowrun. (( ducks the incoming flames from CT fans ))

Regardless of how you feel about the genre, you have to appreciate the FANTASTIC job FASA did of steadily moving the official timeline forward, keeping the setting fresh, and generating opportunities for FASA to sell more product.

Some insight from the Ancients would be helpful - where do you guys stand on this??

 

[MichaelL65]

Originally posted by Smiling DM:
- actually live in Des Moines, but work in Ames.

Funny, I live in Des Moines and work in Des Moines. But I did live in Ames some 20 years ago when I bought my first Traveller set...

It's a small world after all,...

 

[MJD]

There is more than one metaplot.

One plot thread runs though the four Grand Adventures of the Gateway 1000 story arc, and something in there affects the region in 1248 too.

There is another, wider, plot too.

But I'm not saying any more about that.

 

[trader jim]

I KNEW IT!!! I JUST KNEW IT!!! ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE!!!! we all have been granted a small "peek" into the future, by MJD!!! good stuff coming our way!! BUT "ol" MJD is sneaky!!
wont tell about the BIG ONE. MJD is going to TORTURE us all for the 3 years befor anything else is said!!!! MJD is probably at home laughing - saying that ought hold em for a few more years. MJD will have everybody talking and guessing-- cruel cruel cruel!!!! i want to know
now, now, now!!!!! cry, cry, cry, snival, snival, snival, wine, wine, wine!!!!

 

[vegascat]

Plots inside of plots? A larger history to be a part of. Thank you for expanding the tiny world of us gamers.

 

[Smiling DM]

Originally posted by MJD:
There is more than one metaplot.

One plot thread runs though the four Grand Adventures of the Gateway 1000 story arc, and something in there affects the region in 1248 too.

There is another, wider, plot too.

But I'm not saying any more about that.

Excellent. Nothing more needs to be said (regardless of the whining of others). Glad that you guys are taking the 'long' view of things.

 

[Smiling DM]

Originally posted by MichaelL65:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Smiling DM:
- actually live in Des Moines, but work in Ames.

Funny, I live in Des Moines and work in Des Moines. But I did live in Ames some 20 years ago when I bought my first Traveller set...

It's a small world after all,... </font>[/QUOTE]I don't suppose that you are actually running a Traveller game now, are you?

I am running a T20 lite game on Mondays for some new-to-Traveller players (hate to call my friends newbies)

BTW - Ancients - I know this is off topic, but how about a section on Game-Seeking-Gamer - this was mentioned on another thread, but I don't think it got picked up. I mean, you gave RV and TJ their own little playpen . . .

 

[MichaelL65]

Originally posted by Smiling DM:
I don't suppose that you are actually running a Traveller game now, are you?

I am running a T20 lite game on Mondays for some new-to-Traveller players (hate to call my friends newbies)

I'm not running one or involved in one at present . I want to ask the new game shop (Clive area - can't remember the name - Regal Hobbies or something like that?) if they have any Traveller games going (they have both CT reprints and G:T on the shelves - Haven't seen anything Traveller in DSM in years so that was encouraging.) I think just about every gamer in the DSM area was there the day I stopped by, so I didn't get a chance to ask. Wanted to ask if they were going to carry T20 too...

Is the game you're running in Ames or Des Moines? If it's in Des Moines, I might be able to stop by if you are looking for new players - Ames would be a bit too far though (I have a wife who keeps close tabs on me ).

 

[Smiling DM]

Originally posted by MichaelL65:
Is the game you're running in Ames or Des Moines? If it's in Des Moines, I might be able to stop by if you are looking for new players - Ames would be a bit too far though (I have a wife who keeps close tabs on me ).[/QB]

Game is in DSM.

E-mail me at jon.snodgrass@etrema-usa.com and we can chat about the possibility