*Sigh* No Traveller for a While...

[leo knight]

My regular gaming group has been playing a 1st ed. AD&D campaign. I thought it was winding down, we were nearing the Big Bad's lair, gonna find the Magic McGuffin, yadda, yadda, but...

The Magic McGuffin is a staff, which was broken. We found (wait for it...) the first foot of the staff! The other fragments are scattered around the world, and we have to go through some Stargate thingy to get to the next chunk.

So, unless the DM wants to take a break, we'll be playing AD&D for a long time.

*Sigh* Traveller!! *Sigh*

 

[ShapeShifter]

Sounds like the GM needs to come up with a better story. Or perhaps go back to the classic modules for inspiration. Traveller comes out ahead of D&D in that the former allows for solo-play (or, in the least, solo development), and, AFAIK, D&D isn't constructed that way.

 

[far-trader]

Ah, the classic (in)famous (no peeking if don't want to spoil the fun)

Spoiler:

Rod of Seven Parts

...or a similar idea. We did (or started anyway, not sure we finished) that quest ourselves ages ago.

Maybe the DM would be up for making one part of said quest for the parts a side story of sorts? A Traveller game where an archeologist hires the group to help track down a lost Ancient's device of unknown powers and then when it's found he promptly disappears with it...

...to be encountered in a following adventure of the D&D party with said Ancient's device, actually the next part of the staff. If that would interest your group.

 

[Agrikk]

That's funny. Then invoke a Boot Hill (yes, I date myself) campaign where a bunch of cowboys investigate the lost El Dorado mine where they find a large stick that is promptly grabbed up by an indian shaman who disappears...

 

[BlackBat242]

And a Gamma World adventure where...

And Top Secret adventure where...


:rofl:

 

[Finarvyn]

a Boot Hill (yes, I date myself) campaign where a bunch of cowboys investigate the lost El Dorado mine where they find a large stick that is promptly grabbed up by an indian shaman who disappears...

Great fun. I used to play BH a lot, and I still have a whole box of the stuff in my closet. (My current group isn't so much into westerns, althougth I've been thinking of trying out a Firefly campaign which could be a Traveller-BH blend!)