What appeals the most to you about Traveller?

[punkrabbitt]

Familiarity and fond memories. We played Classic Traveller (Traveller/Megatraveller way back then) from about 1984 to 1989 and did a lot of things with it. If I weren't tinkering with Traveller, I'd be tinkering with Swords & Wizardry.

 

[whulorigan]

Loved that JTAS cartoon with the naval programmer discovering the hexadecimal digit Q.

Because when your Borg-designation is "7-of-5", you know you have a messed-up File Allocation Table . . .

 

[Quint]

That's an answer that has changed over the years, at this point I think that I love the inspiring backdrop of the canon setting even if my own campaign is "inspired by" it rather than bound by it. The mechanics are fine in large part, but I use Full Thrust instead of Traveller shipbuilding and combat - and if Traveller was unavailable I expect I'd use the Cyberpunk 2020/RED rules instead (which I did for many years, The RTG engine with the GDW setting). Currently I use a heavily modified Cephesus Engine.

D.

 

[Black Vulmea]

Ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.

 

[Condottiere]

Figuring out incongruencies and dichotomies.

 

[Lautenschlaeger]

There are lots of aspects that appeal to me, but the one that stands out is the background's accessibility: whatever SciFi narrative I'd like to run, it fits somewhere into Charted Space, and there is already a wealth of material (worlds, ships, scoieties) I can use to cristallise ideas on.

 

[infojunky]

I use Full Thrust instead of Traveller shipbuilding and combat

On of my on going projects is a rework of CT for the Tuffley-verse.