Foreven = Dune

[jatay3]

^ There is only one Dune and Frank Herbert is it's author!

I really think the only way to get the feel of Dune is to have the PC's be nobles fighting for their piece, but this is sort of anti-Traveller where most PC's are commoners trying to just get by.

The freedom of snaking your way across a sector is entirely eliminated by the advent of the Guild, that controls all space travel.

Commoners are little more than minions, even when they're in the immediate employ of a great house. Not much freedom there.

Again, I find it hard to shoe horn one universe into the other.

Well, in Traveller most of the highest nobles probably would think of individual commoners as less then a chess piece unless they were Old Family Retainers or some such. Not necessarily a matter of callousness but simply a matter of how much information about other people's lives a given person could process.

Commoners in Dune often acted on their own. The Fremen certainly did.

The Guild's did have a monopoly over intersteller travel. However what about the smugglers? Did they have some way of defying the monopoly? Or were they just an on-planet phenomenon at Arrakis? I couldn't figure that one out.

It is perfectly possible to have the PC's be nobles fighting for their piece, all the while knowing that commoners were fighting for theirs.

 

[mike wightman]

Smugglers make money - drug smugglers even more. The spacing guild didn't ask questions, they just wanted their fees paid.

On the subject of character types, when I read the book for the first time the characters that interested me and I would have based a character on where Duncan and Gurney - both commoners.

 

[Sanjuro]

I can also only remember the names of a very few systems in the Dune novels- however, I have a dim memory of a reference in Dune to the Butlerian Jihad sweeping across thousands of worlds. It's something like 30 years since I read the book though...

 

[aramis]

I can also only remember the names of a very few systems in the Dune novels- however, I have a dim memory of a reference in Dune to the Butlerian Jihad sweeping across thousands of worlds. It's something like 30 years since I read the book though...

The systems are seldom named, just the worlds... Starting the list... and checked against the Dune RPG...

• Arrakis/Rakis/Dune (Harkonen, Atreides)
• Caladan (Atreidies)
• Ekaz (Vidal)
• Geidi Prime (Harkonen)
• Grumman (Moritani)
• Ix (Vernius) Alkaurops IX
• Khitain (Corrino)
• Richesse (Richesse)
• Salusa Secondus (Corrino)
• Sikun (Tseidi)
• Theta Shaowei II/Hagal (O'Garee)
• Thalim __ /Tleilax (Bene Tleilax)
• Wallach VII, Wallach IX (Bene Gesserit) Wallach

I know there are several more named in the prequels and sequels.