Who are we?

[Original_Carl]

Name: Carl
Age: 41
Country: USA
Favorite version of Traveller: Gee...do I have to pick? I like T5 a lot! I like MGT, too, and Classic Traveller.
Military Service: Very little. It's complicated.
Favorite supplement : From CT, High Guard. From MGT...I like the Pocket Edition rule book. T5 has no supplements to speak of.
Favorite Sector: The last one my Subsector Generator spit out.
Favorite Race: I liked the space-fairing dolphins. I always play humans, though.
Favorite Ship: Corsair. I love designing my own more, but you wouldn't recognize them.
Started Playing Traveller: 1980. I found a set of used LBBs in the box in a hole-in-the-wall book store while looking for the Basic D&D set. The clerk told me that it was just like D&D and cost a lot less. My grandmother bought them for me. I was hooked within seconds of reading the, "This is Free Trader Beowulf..." on the box.

 

[DeltaX15]

Name: Mike C
Age: (sneaking up on mid life) 49
Country: UK - Wet Yorkshire
Favorite version: CT
"Military" Service: Scouts - 9 years rising through the ranks + 13 years leadership and admin
Favorite Supplement: The Alien Modules (loads of background)
Favorite Sector: The Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: Aslan
Favorite Ship: Type S
Favorite Empire: 3I
Started Playing Traveller: 80ish

 

[Dr. Canaris]

Name: Dr. Canaris
Age: 33
Country: U.S.A.
Favorite version of Traveller: CT
Military Service: -
Favorite Supplement: -
Favorite Sector: -
Favorite Race: -
Favorite Ship: -
Started Playing Traveller: 2012

Well met, all. Glad to be here!

 

[Murphy]

Woohoo, I missed this topic, didn't I...

Name: Dmitriy
Age: 25
Country: Russia - Siberia
Favorite version of Traveller: Only use the setting, not the rules
Military service: none
Favorite supplement: Traveller wiki
Favorite sector: Spinward Marches
Favorite world: Mora
Favorite race: Droyne
Favorite ship: Kinunir

 

[Duke Craig]

Who Are We?????

Name: Craige Cook

Role: Gearhead, GM and sometimes player. Still trying to get my wife to play Trav...

Age: 43

Residence: Brisbane, Australia.

Firstly, to Marc Miller, Dave Nilsen, Frank Chadwick, the Keith brothers, and many others, a big hearty WHOOOOPP! and Thanks.

Started obsession with Traveller in late 1980 with four LBB in Deluxe Traveller then Book 4,5,6,7 etc etc etc...

Visions of Traveller: T4, TNE, CT, MT, Trav 2300, Twilight 2000 Ver 1 and 2, Twilight 2013, AHL, Asteroid, Striker and ummm MgT. (Not in any particular order). NOT T20 or GURPS.

Fav Traveller Versions: TNE and CT
Fav Supplement: Fire, Fusion and Steel!!!!!!!!!!!!

Favourite Sector: The Spinward Marches. It really is poetic prose!

Favourite Planet: Garda Vilis, its the spark off the flint.

Fav Empire: Third Imperium, Regina Pocket Empire/Chronor Pocket Empire/ Sword World Pocket Empire.

Fav Career: Difficult to choose between IISS and Imperial Army.

Favourite Ship: 300 dton Explorer Scout

Obsession includes: writing house rules incorporating (stealing) ideas and concepts from all of the Trav greats and the fabulous online
community to create a comprehensive set of house rules to codify things such as career resolution, character backgrounds,
improvements in fuel tech, drives tech, sensors tech, weapons and armor tech and others.

Favourite Sci Fi Authors: Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchet, Issac Asimov, Iain Banks, Arthur C Clarke and a host of Traveller greats.

Quote: Space is big, really big... You might think that ...(Zaphod Beeblebrox)

 

[jpster]

Name: JP
Age: 45
Country: USA
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic and Mongoose Traveller. I'm looking forward to T5 and do support the kickstart program.
Military Service: Lots--Active Duty, Reserves. Pilot by trade; fixed-and rotary-wing.
Favorite supplement: CT: "76 Patrons" Mongoose: "Starports"
Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches.
Favorite World: Glisten
Favorite Race: Vargr. I still have my Draft Card from the Frontier War!
Favorite Ship: 400-ton subsidized merchant.
Started Playing Traveller: 1980

 

[Barsanuphius]

Oh Heck, It truly cannot be 3 years sence some one new came here?

So, Here we go...figured I'd answer this too.

Name: Joseph Knopick aka Barsanuphius
Age: 38 (not quite cheese yet)
Country: USA, Binghamton, NY
Favorite version of Traveller:TNE, T4, GURPS Traveller
Military Service: USArmy -31 S- Signal Corps
Favorite Supplement: Let's see...hmmm... I may have a non-favorite...ah not yet.
Favorite Sector: Trojan Reaches
Favorite Race: Solomani
Favorite Empire: Unity of Promise...TNE
Favorite World: Metractor

 

[Dhalgren]

Name: Nick
Age: 46
Country: UK
Favourite version of Traveller: Classic Traveller with Mercenary, High Guard, Scouts, etc.
Favourite Supplement: Mercenary or Scouts or High Guard... er...
Favourite Sector: Spinward Marches
Favourite Race: Vargr
Favourite Empire: None
Favourite Ship: Leviathan
Started Playing Traveller: 1979

 

[saundby]

Name: Craige Cook

Role: Gearhead, GM and sometimes player. Still trying to get my wife to play Trav...

Age: 43

Don't give up hope. I didn't get my wife to play Traveller until age 45, now she loves it. She just couldn't sit still for RPGs before, too many "important things" to do, now she spends time each week working on character background and roleplay, etc. We play about 4-5 hours a week (she enjoys baking something for the game), then she puts another 2-3 hours or so each week into character stuff. Now that she "gets" roleplaying, she really enjoys it a lot.

 

[Jame]

Don't give up hope. I didn't get my wife to play Traveller until age 45, now she loves it. She just couldn't sit still for RPGs before, too many "important things" to do, now she spends time each week working on character background and roleplay, etc. We play about 4-5 hours a week (she enjoys baking something for the game), then she puts another 2-3 hours or so each week into character stuff. Now that she "gets" roleplaying, she really enjoys it a lot.

Similar to with my fiancee; she loves Pathfinder/D&D, though (I will admit that I made the transition for her). She'll play Traveller but she does it more to play in my games.

 

[saundby]

My wife had a harder time getting into fantasy games. Though she's read a lot of fantasy the fantasy RPGs just felt too wide open for her to get a feel of what she should do with her character. With SF, she felt much surer of her footing and got into it immediately.

She's just had her "Aha" moment with fantasy this year and really enjoys it now, after playing RPGs for about 5 years, but still doesn't care for the complexifications of d20 (even under PFRPG). She is looking forward to getting back into Traveller after we wrap up our present PF campaign at the end of August, though I think she'd migrate her current PF character if she could.

 

[Barsanuphius]

Similar to with my fiancee; she loves Pathfinder/D&D, though (I will admit that I made the transition for her). She'll play Traveller but she does it more to play in my games.

My wife loves fantasy RPGs especially D&D. However she likes Sci-Fi and loves Traveller. So I guess I'm fortunate that she'll play in either genre. Now if I could get her to run as Dm/Gm...this is another story.

Joseph

 

[saundby]

My wife loves fantasy RPGs especially D&D. However she likes Sci-Fi and loves Traveller. So I guess I'm fortunate that she'll play in either genre. Now if I could get her to run as Dm/Gm...this is another story.

Joseph

My wife's at the point where I think she could do the story side of reffing, but I don't think she'd ever be willing to do the numbers work.

Though with Traveller's simple mechanics it might happen someday. Pathfinder or any d20 or BRP based game...never.

 

[VargrCorsair]

Name: Liam
Age: Younger than most.
Country: The magical land of Canada!
Favorite version of Traveller: The only true one, Classic Traveller.
Military Service: I can't exactly enlist at this point in time.
Favorite supplement : Citizens of the Imperium, the only way to Barbarians with Laser skill. Hehehe.
Favorite Sector: Trojan Reach.
Favorite Race: Go Team Chirper!
Favorite Ship: Tie between Scout/Courier and the 'Fat Trader'.
Started Playing Traveller: '09 I do believe. Paldo the marine. Only if he could use ship's gunnery. Tsk Tsk..

 

[jappel]

Poking around, I suddenly realized that after 9 years off-and-on participation here, I've never posted in this thread.

Name: John Appel (duh)
Age: 48. Traveller & I share our birthday (July 22nd - I was 13 when it came out).
Country: USA
Favorite version of Traveller: These days, Mongoose, with MT & CT right behind.
Military service: US Army, 1982-88. Cavalry Scout. Regular Army: 82nd Airborne, 2nd Armored Division. Reserves: 11th SFG(A). MD National Guard: 29th Infantry.
Favorite Supplement: The Spinward Marches. I still remember walking to the hobby store to buy it.
Favorite Sector: These days, Far Frontiers.
Favorite race: Virushi.
Favorite ship: The Type S. "50 thousand of these things in the air..."
Started playing Traveller: Fall of 1979.

 

[Aleem Vren]

Name: Chris
Age: 51
Country: USA
Favorite version of Traveller: CT with MT a close 2nd.
Military Service: Being an amputee as a child meant I was not eligible for military service.
Favorite Supplement: AM3 - The Vargr; special mention for Adventure 3 Twilight's Peak - it was the very first Traveller adventure I ran for my gaming group.
Favorite Sector: The Spinward Marches
Favorite System: Djinni/Lanth - If you're familiar with Twilight's Peak you'll know why...
Favorite Race: Vargr
Favorite Ship: the Annic Nova
Started Playing Traveller: 1978

 

[sayatmenace]

Name: Kim
Age: 40 or 42, depending on choice of birth certificate
Country: Cthulhu's Nursery, the Pacific Northwest
Favorite version of Traveller: MegaTraveller, at least abstractly.
Military Service: Nope.
Favorite Supplement: Survival Margin, maybe.
Favorite Sector: Vland? Dark Nebula?
Favorite Species: The Droyne, I think. Vargr nothing to sneeze at, either.
Favorite Empire: The Hive Federation
Started Playing Traveller: 1982-3ish

I just bailed out on the TML today, after fifteen years aboard. Maybe I'll hang out here more often, to get my Trav fix.

 

[Hyphen]

I just bailed out on the TML today, after fifteen years aboard. Maybe I'll hang out here more often, to get my Trav fix.

NOOOOOOO! We need you there to keep the rest of us sane(*)!

(*) i.e. we use you as a baseline comparison...

;-) ;-) ;-)

 

[Timerover51]

Since I just discovered this site, it appears that filling this out might be a good idea.

Name: Dale
Age: 60
Country: USA
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic Traveller/Traveller Book
Military Service: US Army, retired
Favorite Suppliment: Merchant Prince and Scouts
Favorite Sector: Probably Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: Human and Droyne
Favorite Empire: The Imperium
Started Playing Traveller: 1978

Additional info: Military and Naval historian, interested in logistics, Andre Norton/H. Beam Piper/James Schmitz/Heinlein fan, game designer, and a few other things.

 

[mpoles]

Name: Mark Poles
Age: 40
Country: UK, Cornwall to be precise
Favorite version of Traveller: My own version of Classic Traveller, which basically goes "Roll 2D and try to beat the number I arbitrarily just thought of"
Military Service: Cub Scouts
Favorite Supplement: Survival Margin; honourable mentions - 101 Vehicles, Modular Cutter
Favourite Adventure: Urugyad'n of the Seven Pillars; honourable mentions - Twilight's Peak, The Traveller Adventure, Murder on Arcturus Station, One Crowded Hour
Favorite Sector: Aramis subsector of the Spinward Marches plus surrounding worlds (so parts of Deneb and Gvurrdon as well as Regina, Lanth and Rhylanor subsectors); honourable mention - Sol subsector of the Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: Solomani, Hivers
Favorite Empire: The New Earth Union (the New Era pocket empire based on Earth in MTU)
Started Playing Traveller: 1984
Noble titles: Baron Hiroshi, the Marquis of Yeremyh