Favorite Sector
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The original - Spinward Marches.
Vladika
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Seconded! There is all the playability one could ever want right there.
I personally like the entire Spinward Frontier:
Spinward Marches/Trojan Reach and 1-2 sectors to spinward of these.
I am also partial to Dark Nebula & Reavers Deep.
Spinward Marches/Trojan Reach and 1-2 sectors to spinward of these.
I am also partial to Dark Nebula & Reavers Deep.
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My favorite sector in Traveller has to be Storr. Just look at all the names of the sub-sectors
Of course, Vance Subsector would be a great place to locate Tschai ...
My favorite sector in Traveller has to be Storr. Just look at all the names of the sub-sectors
Oh, wow.
Now if they had just been alphabetized!
Supplement Four
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Yep, Spinward Marches. I just know too much about the place (which ain't a tenth of all there is to know).
I've always wanted to set a game close to Terra, but I've never taken the time to read up on that sector.
I've always wanted to set a game close to Terra, but I've never taken the time to read up on that sector.
I must admit that I am surprised, not just at how many people favour the same sector, but that for most it's for the same reason. Having details laid out for you definitely makes a GM's job a lot easier, but I've always found great reward in creating my own worlds and detailing my own histories and timelines. I have pages and pages of nothing but history of the Tracerie sector stemming from Ancient times all the way up to TNE. I guess I've always assumed that most other GM's share this common desire to create.
Am......I odd?
Am......I odd?
Not at all. I also like to create. It's just that even in the most detailed sector of the Third Imperium setting, the Spinward Marches, there are great huge gobs of empty gaps to fill in and I like to fill in cracks better than making everything up out of whole cloth. Of all the worlds in the Spinward Marches, I doubt you're going to be able to collate more than five thousand words of canon about any of them, and that only for about 15% of them (Mostly in the Sword Worlds subsector). I do have some 25,000 words about Regina (mostly the history and that based on a non-canon writeup of Regina's history by Glenn Goffin that he kindly allowed me to develop), but very little of that is canon. No doubt others have big writeups of other worlds, but little of it is canon.
Also, if I did decide to make something up out of whole cloth, I'd make up my very own universe instead of working in an almost totally nondescript sector of the OTU.
Hans
Oh, I didn't say the sector I created was my favorite. No, I think, apart from names of subsectors, it would have to be Reaver's Deep for me. In 1105 it's bordered on 3 sides by Imperium, Solomani, and Aslan, as well as being filled with pocket empires...there's just sooooo much potential there. And because there's some, but not too much, info on it, that means I can make most of it up to suite my needs.
I do, too, and I have two of my own subsectors, out in the boonies, that I started back when I started playing Traveller. But I don't have the time to develop it, or rather, many other things have taken priority and I just don't put in the time required.
Timerover51
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No, but you might have more time to devote to developing a detailed sector than most people. I like the Spinward Marches because it gives me a starting base to work from, but I also modify the worlds. The Solomani Rim is interesting, but the worlds are much more crowded, which I view as less interesting. I lean more to frontier type areas.
I am working on my own sector, combining planets from the works of both H. Beam Piper and Andre Norton, but that is taking a lot of time. Time tends to be the one thing that everyone is short of.
I agree. I may eventually run the Kursis Charter campaign for my various groups. Of course, I may get a job that takes me out of Retail Hell and allows me to DO that.
Had more time, yes, not have. Having just had my first child (7 months old today) I am starting to realize just how much of a commodity time really is.
Yes, I did used to spend days on end sitting at a coffee shop working out the details of my 'pet sector.' Then I got married and days turned to hours - still a lot of time. Slowly that turned into the occasional weekend and now...
So I guess I do understand why so many people would favour a fully developed sector after all.
Spinward Marches, for the same reason as Supplement Four and Hans.
Every campaign I've ever played in or run for Traveller has been in the Marches.
There's enough that there that as a GM I have a starting point, but tons of room to move things around, customize worlds, and be as creative as I want to.
With my current group of players, this is the 3rd time I've tried to organize a campaign.
The previous two failed because I didn't get just how much they did not want to follow the rules and work in the crowded Imperium.
This third game they're still in the Marches but have operated mostly in District 268, outside of the Imperium.
And yet they still have access to all the resources and contacts they've developed within the Imperium.
The combination works with this group, but would be hard for me to replicate almost anywhere else in the OTU.
Every campaign I've ever played in or run for Traveller has been in the Marches.
There's enough that there that as a GM I have a starting point, but tons of room to move things around, customize worlds, and be as creative as I want to.
With my current group of players, this is the 3rd time I've tried to organize a campaign.
The previous two failed because I didn't get just how much they did not want to follow the rules and work in the crowded Imperium.
This third game they're still in the Marches but have operated mostly in District 268, outside of the Imperium.
And yet they still have access to all the resources and contacts they've developed within the Imperium.
The combination works with this group, but would be hard for me to replicate almost anywhere else in the OTU.
