First Night Report! SUCCESS!

[Stilleon]

I ran my new group through Act I of "Cold Fuzion" from the Gateway sourcebook. I'd just like to say that it was a success. The whole group enjoyed the night and some of the scenes were very well recieved (not going to spoil anything in it). I applaud the authors for building adventures that have a very cinematic feel and a lot of open-endedness in the way that the players could stray yet I could keep them on track. The motivations of the NPCs were well done and helped me to presenta more realistic world rather than a D&D in space (one of the players only played DnD, so it was very good for him).

Only downside: All the rolls for bulk cargoes. What the hell... they are going to leave and I'm rolling like 20 minutes to get the answer. So I decided to write an Excel spreadsheet to to it automatically.

Keep up the good work KJD and HG.

 

[Stilleon]

Oh, I suggest if you are running a game to either have a night that everyone does char-gen at the same time, or do it ahead of time. It takes a good long while, with lots of page flipping.

 

[Thelor]

Any chance of making a link available for that cargospreadsheet of yours

 

[BetterThanLife]

Or use pregenerated characters. Or make sure everyone has a copy of the book. One of the all time problems with Traveller is the amount of time it takes new players to roll their characters. I have found a one off adventure, to whet their appetites then give them a chance to roll characters after that one off works better.

Originally posted by Stilleon:
Oh, I suggest if you are running a game to either have a night that everyone does char-gen at the same time, or do it ahead of time. It takes a good long while, with lots of page flipping.

 

[BetterThanLife]

Originally posted by Thelor:
Any chance of making a link available for that cargospreadsheet of yours

I thought there was one around here someplace.

 

[BrennanHawkwood]

Try this thread:

http://www.travellerrpg.com/cgi-bin/Trav/CotI/Discuss/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=51;t=000057

About half way down there is a link to Morte's T20 trade program (T20Trade.exe I beleive).

 

[BetterThanLife]

I knew I had seen it someplace.

I think the one in the FLibrary, though based on Book7 might work as well.