OK. Sell Mongoose Traveller to me...

[Jamus]

OK. Sell Mongoose Traveller to me...

All the cool kids are doing it.
Chicks totally dig guys who play Mongoose Traveller.
Playing Mongoose Traveller will cure baldness and impotency.
The government gives tax breaks to people who play Mongoose traveller.
I will be your best friend if you play Mongoose traveller.
Only dorks wouldnt want to play Mongoose traveller.
Mongoose traveller is as cool as ninjas.
You can play a ninja in Mongoose traveller.
playing Mongoose traveller will totally get you laid!

 

[far-trader]

(snippage of sales pitch)

:rofl:

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[captainjack]

All the cool kids are doing it.
Chicks totally dig guys who play Mongoose Traveller.
Playing Mongoose Traveller will cure baldness and impotency.
The government gives tax breaks to people who play Mongoose traveller.
I will be your best friend if you play Mongoose traveller.
Only dorks wouldnt want to play Mongoose traveller.
Mongoose traveller is as cool as ninjas.
You can play a ninja in Mongoose traveller.
playing Mongoose traveller will totally get you laid!

Plus, you're a chicken if you don't.

 

[MongooseMatt]

playing Mongoose traveller will totally get you laid!

Might use that in our next Traveller marketing piece. . .

 

[aramis]

All the cool kids are doing it.
Chicks totally dig guys who play Mongoose Traveller.
Playing Mongoose Traveller will cure baldness and impotency.
The government gives tax breaks to people who play Mongoose traveller.
I will be your best friend if you play Mongoose traveller.
Only dorks wouldnt want to play Mongoose traveller.
Mongoose traveller is as cool as ninjas.
You can play a ninja in Mongoose traveller.
playing Mongoose traveller will totally get you laid!

Oh, great... get the pimply nerd crowds hopes up artificially... Oh, wait, RPG's did just that for me... but it was WFRP and StreetFighter....

 

[anders lager]

Eheh...heheh...coool....heh (said in a Beavis & Buttheady way....)

 

[ThunderChilde]

Hey, Mongtrav is the bee's knees. Its full of goodness, milk for your weary soul. Spinward Marches is the reason I bought the rest of the books I have (Core, HG).


OT spoiler

On a seperate note, Streetfighter was the only world of darkness product aside from Mage worth playing, and I had a blast playing it.

Why mage?, Sons of Ether my friend is the worlds answer to the Vampire threat. They have no life, they are matter. Period Stop End. I had a very nice set of lawn furniture after a Vampire attack on my House of Mad Science. hehehehehe GM never saw it coming.

 

[Gruffty]

Playing Mongoose Traveller will cure baldness and impotency.

w00t!! How long does it take?! :rofl:

Playing Mongoose traveller will totally get you laid!

...I think my wife might have something to say about that :rofl:

 

[infojunky]

w00t!! How long does it take?! :rofl:...I think my wife might have something to say about that :rofl:

Don't know, haven't met the lady....

And if I have, I apologize, I was either drunk or extremely unprincipled that season.

 

[dmccoy1693]

w00t!! How long does it take?!

Hair is for wimps. Baldness shows that you are confident in who you are. (plus if you give the spot a good shine, you can signal the sexy tenticled aliens, like the ones in galaxy quest) (earth girls are easy)

 

[tbeard1999]

Might use that in our next Traveller marketing piece. . .

Might want to run that by legal counsel first

Representing that playing MGT would get you laid would have to be a "deceptive trade practice..."

 

[tbeard1999]

I've kept MongTrav at an arms length now for a while, but after reading omn these forums I'm getting a little interested (it's Traveller after all :-D). So, please tell me why I should buy this game and why you'd recommend it....

Because you and your players actually can buy this game. Every other edition of Traveller is out of print, not exactly filling the shelves of the local game store, or available only in relatively inconvenient forms (like CD-ROMs).

 

[captainjack]

Might want to run that by legal counsel first

Representing that playing MGT would get you laid would have to be a "deceptive trade practice..."

Although possibly it would be sheltered under the "no reasonable person could possibly believe it" concept.....nah. Gamers will belive anything....so, Matt, you may want to consider this slight rephrasing:
"Mongoose Traveller will get you laid up to twice a day , with up to any number of highly desirable partners (understanding, of course that the phrase "up to" is an upper limit only, and clearly includes the number ZERO, and potentially negative integers, as well....)"*

That work better Ty ?

* concept and original text gleefully stolen from, I think, Eric Idle's advert for "Lllap Goch, the secret and deadly ancient Welsh martial art".

 

[The Hinterworlds Rambler]

Or up to four times with one Redhead

 

[nats]

So far the best thing about MGT is the getting rid of all the different die throws required for the different Traveller weapons. Now you just have one throw to make (8) plus quite a few DMs to reflect cover, weapon type, range, skill etc etc. That one thing removes loads of the inherently overly complex rules in the original Traveller.

The other ting is they seem to have reworked many of the concepts to streamline them whilst explaining properly the workings of the more complex issues. It just all seems to be so much more coherent, less of a faff, and more fun to play. I think Mongoose have saved Traveller from disappearing up its own backside.

 

[infojunky]

So far the best thing about MGT is the getting rid of all the different die throws required for the different Traveller weapons. Now you just have one throw to make (8) plus quite a few DMs to reflect cover, weapon type, range, skill etc etc. That one thing removes loads of the inherently overly complex rules in the original Traveller.

Er? CT had one throw to hit.

 

[Supplement Four]

So far the best thing about MGT is the getting rid of all the different die throws required for the different Traveller weapons. Now you just have one throw to make (8) plus quite a few DMs to reflect cover, weapon type, range, skill etc etc. That one thing removes loads of the inherently overly complex rules in the original Traveller.

CT uses just one throw, which is 8+, with DMs for cover, range, skill, weapon type vs. armor, etc.

So...what are you talking about?

 

[far-trader]

Easy gents, I suspect this is nats' first exposure to pure Traveller

He probably came to the game late, through MT, GT, TNE, T4, or maybe even T20. I'm thrilled he's discovering pure Traveller even if not aware of it's roots

btw...

Welcome aboard nats!

 

[spinwardpirate]

Agreed... while I prefer CT (and now MGT) anyone who is a friend of Traveller is a friend of mine!
Welcome!
And while you are here, try the tranya, I hope you relish it as much as I.

 

[Allensh]

Agreed... while I prefer CT (and now MGT) anyone who is a friend of Traveller is a friend of mine!
Welcome!
And while you are here, try the tranya, I hope you relish it as much as I.

you mean the grapefruit juice? <g>. You may relish it but Clint Howard sure didn't

Allen