Willie Dewitt
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I know most editions (if not all) of Traveller shows various sentient, space-faring Alien species existing in the Universe.
For the several recent sessions I ran of Classic Trav (and hope to do more in the future), I decided that I wanted to depict the Galaxy as having little to none in the way of sentient Aliens, at least any that are well known about, much like the cinematic Aliens universe. This was for a few reasons, not the least of which was to sort of distance it from Star Wars for my players. But mainly I just felt it gave a more "hard sci fi" feeling. If they are out there, they aren't widely encountered or reported. My Traveller would be a human campaign.
I sort of made up for it to a degree by thinking up genetic mods and "mutants." A sub-culture of extreme body modifiers to give some (willing or unwilling) humans sort of humanoid dog, cat, or other animal type features (fur, claws, etc). Mutants (perhaps the wrong term for them, but just what I use for my own purposes) would be humans on certain planets where conditions have caused some changes, such as a mining colony thousands of years old on a high grav planet where they have evolved to be a bit stunted, stocky, and stronger than a normal human.
Just wondering if anybody has gone "low or no aliens" and if they came up with anything that might substitute for the absence.
For the several recent sessions I ran of Classic Trav (and hope to do more in the future), I decided that I wanted to depict the Galaxy as having little to none in the way of sentient Aliens, at least any that are well known about, much like the cinematic Aliens universe. This was for a few reasons, not the least of which was to sort of distance it from Star Wars for my players. But mainly I just felt it gave a more "hard sci fi" feeling. If they are out there, they aren't widely encountered or reported. My Traveller would be a human campaign.
I sort of made up for it to a degree by thinking up genetic mods and "mutants." A sub-culture of extreme body modifiers to give some (willing or unwilling) humans sort of humanoid dog, cat, or other animal type features (fur, claws, etc). Mutants (perhaps the wrong term for them, but just what I use for my own purposes) would be humans on certain planets where conditions have caused some changes, such as a mining colony thousands of years old on a high grav planet where they have evolved to be a bit stunted, stocky, and stronger than a normal human.
Just wondering if anybody has gone "low or no aliens" and if they came up with anything that might substitute for the absence.