Who are we?

[Johan Honda]

Name:Russell
Age:38
Country:UK-Bristol
Favorite version of Traveller:Classic traveller
Military Service:Army cadets, but I don't think that really counts?
Favorite Suppliment:World Builders Handbook
Favorite Sector:Spinward Marches
Favorite Race:Vargr
Favorite Empire:Third Imperium

I've not played Traveller for about 20 years, recently got nostalgic for the 'good ol'days' and dusted off my little black books. Found one fellow player in my local area (old friend of mine).Presently looking for a couple more to maybe put my GMing skills to the test....:rofl:

 

[jatay3]

Name:Russell
Age:38
Country:UK-Bristol
Favorite version of Traveller:Classic traveller
Military Service:Army cadets, but I don't think that really counts?
Favorite Suppliment:World Builders Handbook
Favorite Sector:Spinward Marches
Favorite Race:Vargr
Favorite Empire:Third Imperium

I've not played Traveller for about 20 years, recently got nostalgic for the 'good ol'days' and dusted off my little black books. Found one fellow player in my local area (old friend of mine).Presently looking for a couple more to maybe put my GMing skills to the test....:rofl:

Jason Taylor
Age 39
Favorite Version: Gurps
Military Service: None
Favorite Supliment: Not sure
Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: Aslan
Favorite Empire: Sword Worlds Confederation.
**Terran Confederation as well.

 

[dmccoy1693]

I just realized that I never properly introduced myself. Oops.

Name: Dale McCoy, Jr.
Age: 32
Country: New Jersey, USA
Favorite version of Traveller: Mongoose Traveller
Military Service: Nope, I'm a Contractor
Favorite Suppliment: is "any I write" constitute an ok answer?
Favorite Sector: Foreven. Wait until it is finished.
Favorite Race: Solomani, maybe I'm just prejudice against non-earthlings.
Favorite Empire: Avalar Consulate. Wait until you see what I am gonna do with these bad boys.

And incase you are unaware, I run Jon Brazer Enterprises, a Mongoose Traveller Licensee.

 

[Seriayne]

Name: Bill
Age: 39
Country: California, US
Favorite version of Traveller: Megatraveller (+ CT/MT house rules)
Favorite Milleu: Third Imperium, early 1100's (DUD => Dulinor's Untimely Death)
Military Service: No
Role: Referee
Favorite Supplement: DGP's Worldbuilder's Handbook
Favorite Sector: Foreven.
Favorite Race: Vargr
Favorite Empire: Third
Favorite Antagonist: Third Empire of Gashikan

 

[jatay3]

That's two votes for the Vargr. I always thought they were rather distasteful fellows. At least non-uplifted doggies stick by their friends.

 

[pmbnss]

Name: Peter Brown
Age: 40
Country: USA
Occupation: Grant Writer
Military Service: None
Favourite Version: a heavily modified CT
Player or Gentleman?: Player and Referee
Style of play: Space Opera rather than rakish pirate. With fits of absolute silliness.
Favourite Sectors: Crucis Margin
Favourite 'Empire': Imperium
Favourite aliens: Only only good alien is a dead alien
Favourite adventure: Chamax Plague.
Favorite authors: Iain Banks

 

[HiverLord]

Name: Dwayne Walstrom aka "Dewey"
Age: Getting up there (45 in a few days...)
Country: US of A/Twin Cities
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic and MT/House Rules
Military Service: IISS
Role: Referee, occas. player
Favorite Suppliment: most of them...
Favorite Sector: The Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: Hivers
Favorite Empire: Zhodani
Favorite World: Regina/SW

 

[Solar Winds]

Name: Simon Thompson
Age: 45
Country: United Kingdom
Favorite Version: CT
Military Service: Royal Air Force (back when we had one)
Game Setting: Campaign (Scout), bespoke, post-Third Imperium
Style: Solo, Relaxed

 

[DAZ_HakDragon]

Name: Stephen
Age: 40
Country: Utah, US
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic & Mongoose
Favorite Milleu: Custom
Military Service: No
Role: Referee
Favorite Supplement: Snapshot
Favorite Sector: Solomani Rim
Favorite Race: Human
Favorite Empire: Zhodani
Favorite Antagonist: Hostile Environments

 

[mcgurk]

Name: Alan Hume
Age: 40 (41 in November)
Country: Scotland, UNITED KINGDOM
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic Traveller (followed closely by MegaTraveller)
Military Service: Not exactly, Sort of, pushing paper in the army for the best part of 5 years
Favorite Suppliment: Scouts (then Mercenary)
Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: Vargr
Favorite Empire: The Third Imperium (before the rebellion)

 

[aeon]

Name: Andrew
Age: 42
Country: Originally UK but I've adopted New Zealand
Favorite version: Classic
Favorite Milleu: 3I 1100's
Military Service: They wouldn't want me if I offered.
Role: Referee
Favorite Supplement: Twilights Peak
Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: Human
Favorite Empire: Third Imperium

Not played in a long time, but my son is reaching the age where it might give us something to do on a wet day.

 

[by_the_sword]

by_the_sword
A68898, Age:40, Ex-Other 2 Terms, ex Navy 2 terms, Merchant 1 1/2 terms.
Music-3, Foil-3, Cutlass-1, Dagger-1, Medic-1, Engineer-1.
Foil, Tardis.
Cr: Rags to riches.

Country: U.S.A.
Favorite Traveller Version: Classic Traveller but I enjoy many of the later versions particularly Megatraveller, T20 and Mongoose. I liked the 2300 milieu but have never played it.
Favorite Milieu: Hard times
Style of play: Deep-Immersion storytelling with lots of action. I usually ref.
Military Service: Yes
Favorite Supplement: 76 Patrons
Favorite Sector: It's a toss up between The Spinward Marches and Gateway (hard times era).
Favorite Race: I like them all.
Favorite Empire:
Favorite authors: Too many to name.

 

[Lategaming]

Name: Matt Johnston (or variously LateGaming or cimota online)
Age: In CE2020, I was 48.
Country: United Kingdom (more specifically, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Terra)
Favorite Traveller Version: CT but liking what Mongoose have done. Big fan of 2300AD
Style of play: Referee mostly. But not confident with Traveller.
Military Service: 1 Term British Territorial Army (equivalent of ROTC)
Favorite Supplement: Free Trader Beowulf
Favorite Sector: Not familiar enough with any
Favorite Race: Solomani
Favorite Empire: The Imperium
Favorite authors: Iain M Banks (The Culture series), Charles Stross

 

[ISOLATEDViRuS]

[FONT=arial,helvetica]Name: ISOLATEDViRuS
Age: 23
Country: US

I havent really played traveller, but id really love to learn. im extremely interested in these types of rpgs and the fact of the matter is i cant find anywhere to get the core material for the game, and i have no clue what material to even start considering!

i'd really appreciate some help, as this forum was a great find for me, but im absolutely lost in it.
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[far-trader]

Welcome aboard ISOLATEDViRuS

And welcome to Traveller. It is a bit daunting for new players. OK, a LOT daunting

Don't be afraid to jump in with questions though, that's the best way to answers. We really could use a Beginner's Guide to the Galaxy sort of thing. But who would write it? Actually, I wonder if Marc is working or considering such a thing for T5 or T6? There are a couple of earlier introductory bits that I'd have to dig around for.

Book 0 for CT should be available as a free download somewhere, maybe FarFuture.net? Hmm, didn't find it there, but check this link...

Starter Traveller

...is free until the end of the year! A Christmas present from Marc! WOOT! That is not only all the rules you need to start playing Classic Traveller, but I think it includes the introduction and maybe an adventure?

If you'd like to play pretty much the same game, but a bit updated and in current publication, with hardcopy printed titles available you should check out Mongoose Publishing and their current Traveller line. To get you started their forums are here:

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=89

 

[PDXWiz]

Name: Gordon
Age: 44
Country: Portland, Oregon, United States (when not actively head in the stars)
Occupation: Information Paraprofessional (read: library clerk)
Military Service: None
Favorite Version: Classic Traveller, Little Black Book version
Player or Gentleman?: Um, only been a solo player until recently trying to introduce my 11, now 12 year old son to CT
Style of play: Um...I like rolling up characters and worlds and star systems
Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches
Favorite Empire: Third Imperium
Favorite Major Race: Humans
Favorite Alien Major Race: Aslan
Favorite Ancient-Tampered Major Race: Vargr
Favorite Human Minor Race: Darrians
Favorite Alien Minor Race: The intelligent chip as it first appeared in S13
Favorite Book (LBB format): Book 0, An Introduction to Traveller
Favorite Adventure (LBB format): Adventure 1, The Kinunir (so much to do...)
Favorite Adventure (big format): The Traveller Adventure, Vol. 2
Favorite Supplement (LBB format): Supplements 8 & 9, Library Data A-M and N-Z
Favorite Supplement (big format): Alien Module 1, Aslan
Favorite Magazine: Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society Vol. 1
What I want to see: a Traveller gaming community that would dwarf D&D
Favorite non-Traveller Authors: Diane Duane, Peter David, Diane Carey, Robert Heinlein, Philip Jose Farmer, Win Eckert, George Lucas
Favorite Traveller Authors: Marc Miller, the Keith Brothers

 

[oldgamergeek]

Guess I should tell about myself

Name: oldgamergeek aka Forest
Age: 45
Country: USA, state of Michigan
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic Traveller T-4, Mongoose
Military Service: They wouldn't take me on a bet
Favorite Supplement: Spinward Marches
Favorite Sector: District 268
Favorite Race: Hiver
Favorite Empire: My version of the third Imperium
been playing Traveller since it came to my Local Hobby shop in winter of 1977-78. Yes I play other RPG's but I always come back to Traveller.

 

[Enoki]

Hi. I just registered. Thought I'd try doing a sort of adventure / novella with some of my old Traveller stuff. I'll be putting up the characters (4 of them... A rogue, an assassin (using the Paranoia Press version), a pilot / starship operator and, an engineer / technician).
Right now I'm working on a back story for each to make them more 3 dimensional....

 

[lolnoobzor]

Hello! I've spent the last few weeks lurking and collecting information in preparation for my first Traveller campaign, and I feel it's about I time I made a grand entrance! Or at least dropped a thank you note for all the help you guys have unwittingly provided me :rofl:

I'm 21, and hail from the distant planet of Paris/France.

I've been introduced to RPGs a couple years ago by a friend, had a lot of fun, but the group died out... Never heard of Traveller until about a month ago, when I got this feeling I just had to play in space! So I started looking up various SFRPGs, and something in the way Traveller was presented struck a chord.

My preferred system would have to be MgT, by virtue of being the one I chose because of the cool black cover and pocket-sized rulebook when I had to choose between CT (I think it was CT? All those versions get me confused) & MgT at Ye Local Game Shoppe, but thanks to far-trader above me I will be soon perusing the CT pdfs

My favorite race has to be us! Human beings are complex enough for me

The main influences on MTU would be CJ Cherryh's Alliance/Union series, Firefly, Asimov's Foundation, EVE Online's player-driven politics & hypercapitalism, as well as general cyberpunk elements and my irrational aversion to introducing alien sophonts. Haven't kept much, if anything really, of the OTU for my future players, but I hope to maybe sneak into a PbP of some sort to get to know it better - all the ressources on this site and many others have begun to make me quite fascinated with it.

 

[michaelpooley]

My Introduction

My name is Michael Pooley.
I am 49 and have been playing RPG's sine the late 70's. haved played a few systems including Ct, Mt, FASA star trek and Doctor Who, and WEG star wars.
Currently I am in China teaching English. I have a copy of Mgt so that I can play. I have posted already.