OTU Only: Third Imperium Inspiration

[whartung]

Or Bright, and you think ShadowRun.

Bright is "ShadowRun-ny"?

I haven't seen it yet, but I'll queue it up next knowing that.

I read a bunch of the SR books, thought they were pretty good.

 

[creativehum]

A referee could easily run a Dumarest like series on the fringes of the original Spinward Marches. It was only later when we learned the SM had been settled for a thousand years and that the Imperial Navy fleet is effectively omnipotent that this type of adventure stops making sense. The SM lost its frontier feel IMHO.

Back in the proto-Imperium Spinward Marches Earl Dumarest would have been right at home.

All of this is true. (I said as much in one of my earlier posts about the Dumarest books: "You will also find the rougher tone found in the earliest Supplements and Adventures of the Classic Traveller line. It's really all right there.")

And it is also what is complicated about talking about The Third Imperium and the OTU and inspirational material. The OTU changed over time. I don't mean time in the fictional setting. I mean over the years and decades of its development. Without doubt, from '77 to '80 or so the space lanes located a "remote" distance from the Imperial influence fit the style of adventure and play built in the Dumarest books much more closely. But as I've noted on several posts over on my blog, what the OTU is and what the Third Imperium is changed over time as different people made it closer to the vision they wanted and different inspirational fiction was applied.

As always I want to point out I'm not saying one kind of setting is better or worse than another. I want people playing in whatever setting they want.

 

[whartung]

Bright is "ShadowRun-ny"?

Well, I watched this last night -- and, yea, wow, it was pretty good. Not sure why the low ratings, but then not sure why it was $90M either. But, yea, impressed. Good time.

Very ShadowRun-ny.

 

[Supplement Four]

Well, I watched this last night -- and, yea, wow, it was pretty good. Not sure why the low ratings, but then not sure why it was $90M either. But, yea, impressed. Good time.

Very ShadowRun-ny.

I felt sorry for the faery.

 

[GypsyComet]

If, as I suspect, a "Dumarest Filter" is applied (and it is de facto when the "CT compatible" filter is applied), then Dumarest is linked to the TI, although the "Quest for Terra" make no sense in the OTU and making a copycat adventure impossible.

Not impossible, just not Terra.