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Who are we?

Name: Benjamin Tolputt
Age: 32
Country: Australia
Favorite version of Traveller: Mongoose Traveller, though only because that's the version I'm playing with my sons. Ten years ago it was Classic Traveller.
Military Service: None, bit of a pacifist myself.
Favorite Supplement: Central Supply Catalogue
Favourite Adventure: The Traveller Adventure
Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches without a doubt... mostly cos I've played no others!
Favorite Race: Solomani, Aslan
Favorite Empire: The Imperium, the sci-fi equivalence of playing with the
Started Playing Traveller: 1993
Noble titles: Officially - none ;)
 
Name: Jeremy

Age: 45

Country: England

Favorite version of Traveller: I have only ever played (or had materials for) CT

Military Service: English Civil War re-enactments only. At different times I have served as a pikeman, musketeer, on-field first aider, artillery gunner and cavalry trooper

Favorite supplement: Traders and Gunboats

Favorite Sector: Not really sure

Favorite Race: I'm quite fond of the Aslan; and of the opportunities they create for NPCs to start incidents with comments like "I don't take orders from no damned pussy cat ... even if they DO strut about on their hind legs!"

Favorite Ship: A2 Far Trader

Started Playing Traveller: 1980 or 1981
 
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Me

Name: Zack, although in Internet circles I go by Galador or Ares, depending.
Age: 23
Country: United States
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic Traveller w/ Mercenary, High Guard, Scouts, etc.
Military Service: None
Favorite Suppliment: Too new to determine and I know I haven't seen everything yet.
Favorite Sector: Solomani Rim. Home of Sol, what else can I say?
Favorite Race: Humaniti, although interest is high for both Aslan and Vargr
Favorite Interstellar power: Even though I'm new, I am very interested in the Solomani Canfederation and look to learn all about it; guess you can call it an early favorite
Favorite world: Too soon to tell, although Terra is an early favorite (It's home, what else can I say?).
Started playing Traveller: No actual play time on my belt yet; just started getting books (A lot of them to catch up on fast I see) starting with Mongosse's Traveller.

I know it's late for an introduction as I joined in September, but I'm so new it made me feel so insignificant as to post anything.
 
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I just noticed that I really never introduced myself here. That is an omission I should correct.

Name: T. A. Gardner
Location Phoenix AZ... well, most of the time.
Military service: Chief Electrician's Mate (nuclear field) (SW) USNR-R ret. (27 yrs 11 mos).
I won't bore you with "favorites" of Traveller. I am mostly a miniatures wargamer. Traveller is a 'distraction of some interest.' I find far more pleasure in using it these days to concoct wonderful novel length stories of the adventures of a party than actual play. I developed a set of WW 2 miniatures rules off the premise of Striker. While the result was nothing like the original it was an inspiration.

I have centered things on the Glimmerdrift and Hinterworlds and am waiting for my character art to return for my first novel based on Traveller. (I used CT / MT rules). A second is in progress but I don't want it to be any less interesting.

The first is about 200,000 words in length and I'm looking to do it as an E-book on Amazon or such for about $6 US. I don't need to get rich off it.

I have several worlds now that I've really developed great characters for: Ginshar is one, the Ral Rantha another. I even did a whole language for the Ral Rantha. Written it is cuneiform, spoken is a abrupt gutteral language punctuated with lots of threats of death. I made them out as a cross between Klingons / Mongols and the mafia. :oo:

In between I've done some neat stuff on lots of worlds in the Glimmerdrift. I put up stuff here on the Maskai for example. I have the Farreach Margravate and Loyal NineWorlds at war with the Margravate made out to be essentially expansionist facisist fanatics and everybody within 20 parsecs worried about their intentions.

As to age and such: I'm 55. I have original Traveller stuff from the GOD (Good Old Days) of gaming era. In fact, I think some of the GDW staff back in the day got an early copy of PanzerKriegsAkademie the game I developed from Striker at a Con in LA.
It was hard to miss given that we (me and friends) ran it in 1/35th or 54mm scale....

No, unlike (it seems) alot of people here I'm not some over-the-hill semi-cripple. I lay block in 40 C weather, own a back hoe and enough equipment to open a construction company, do crazy stuff like pro-rally, and actually can wrench on cars and machinery. Given I also like Trance and electronica music, anime (a bit of an Otaku) among other oddities, I think I must be easily the oddest and squarest peg on the planet sometimes.
 
SanDragon said:
Probably a stretch to assume you work at Pallo Verde? :)
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No, APS works you to death and has regular lay off hire cycles to keep costs down. I didn't feel like taking on 60 hour work weeks with a couple of hours on the road each day.. Did enough of that getting through Prototype in the Navy in Idaho.

Oh, timeover, I was not being disparaging rather tyring to be accurate and to describe my own state of health.
 
Name: Clem Carlos Schermann
Age: 36
Country: Germany
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic Traveller.
Military Service: None - civilian service.
Favorite Supplement: Fire, Fusion and Steel
Favourite Adventure: -
Favorite Sector: actually ... the whole universe
Favorite Race: -
Favorite Empire: -
Started Playing Traveller: 1993
Noble titles: -
 
timerover51 said:
Enoki said:
No, unlike (it seems) alot of people here I'm not some over-the-hill semi-cripple.
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Perhaps one of the moderators might take a look at this. I am one of those over the hill semi-cripple individuals, courtesy of service in the US Army.
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Enoki said:
Oh, timeover, I was not being disparaging rather tyring to be accurate and to describe my own state of health.
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I have noticed a certain... quick trigger in assuming insults... on tr51's part, one which us "over the hill semi-cripple individuals" (I turned 50 this summer past, and have 15% mobility loss in my right knee and a service-connected disability for bad arches courtesy of the USMC, and many mildly-arthritic joints) would appreciate be put on a delay timer.

I took no umbrage whatsoever at the characterization... the description fit me perfectly!
 
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BlackBat242 said:
I have noticed a certain... quick trigger in assuming insults... on tr51's part, one which us "over the hill semi-cripple individuals" (I turned 50 this summer past, and have 15% mobility loss in my right knee and a service-connected disability for bad arches courtesy of the USMC, and many mildly-arthritic joints) would appreciate be put on a delay timer.

I took no umbrage whatsoever at the characterization... the description fit me perfectly!
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Try being retired at the age of 26 from the army, after spending about a year in military hospitals while they try unsuccessfully to figure out what is going on with your system, with a 70% disability rating, severe heat sensitivity, and dealing since 1976 with initially constant pain, which is now intermittent. And medication that periodically drops your blood pressure sufficiently so that you pass out when you stand up. I am now 61.
 
timerover51 said:
Try being retired at the age of 26 from the army, after spending about a year in military hospitals while they try unsuccessfully to figure out what is going on with your system, with a 70% disability rating, severe heat sensitivity, and dealing since 1976 with initially constant pain, which is now intermittent. And medication that periodically drops your blood pressure sufficiently so that you pass out when you stand up. I am now 61.
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I have a friend who had a degenerative bone disease and was medically retired from the military, another friend from high school who got epilepisy from getting hit on the head by a hatch on a ship and medically discharged, another who was run over by an airplane on a carrier flight deck and made a paraplegic, another who had his hand destroyed in trying to drill a hole in an armored deck to install a part... etc., so don't tell me aboout such things.
I am lucky to be whole. I won't begrudge you that. In the end, it is much like Traveller itself: I survived relatively intact (maybe not psychologicaly) and others didn't.
Look at the rates of attrition in the various sets of rules. Are they really out of line with reality? I know if thrust into a Traveller-like setting tomorrow I'd manage. Can you really say your own life within the rules is so different that you couldn't fit in?
 
Bot or not?

Not, I think.

Like LiamKerrington, I also happened to join at the most inopportune time, it would seem. But, I've been approved and so here I am.

My name is Ken and I live in Denton, Texas. I turned 44 just over a couple of weeks ago.

Married, father of three, full-time school district employee, part-time college student.

I started playing role-playing games with the D&D Basic set in 1980, quickly graduating to the Expert set, then AD&D after that. I had a friend who told me about Traveller three or four years later. I was intrigued but it would be 1986 before I finally bought the Deluxe edition of what is now called Classic Traveller in its little black books, which I thought was a really cool way to present the material. I made some characters, played a session or two, but just couldn't wrap my head around the game for some reason. I think it's because Traveller was sort of an "anti-D&D." Where Gary Gygax had made rules and charts and tables for practically everything, Traveller had these things for practically nothing. It was completely different from what I had become comfortable with, from a game system standpoint, and as much as I wanted to embrace it, I couldn't.

In 1988 or 1989 I bought MegaTraveller, which felt a little more like what I was used to. By this time the AD&D Second Edition had been released, and I was becoming more used to different game systems. (I had also been exposed to I.C.E.'s Rolemaster system, as well as Middle Earth Role Playing.) Again, I made some characters and tried to embrace the game, and again I failed. This time it was because I really couldn't find anyone who was all that interested.

Over the years I've continued to pull out MegaTraveller, read through the books, make a character or two, and hope that one day I could actually play.

Not long ago I found my Classic Traveller books tucked away on my gaming shelf and started looking through them again. Now, over 20 years later, I can appreciate the simplicity of the rules and the bare-bones approach to the game, at least compared to other systems. I've heard that Mongoose Traveller is like the classic game, and would be interested in taking a closer look.

So, here I am, more mature and ready to embrace Traveller like I wanted to "back in the day." Interestingly, just this weekend I was cleaning out my storage shed in the back yard and found a bunch of stuff I forgot I had. Among the "found items" were 47 issues of Dragon Magazine from the early and mid 1980s and issues 16, 18, 19 and 20 of The Traveller's Digest.
 
Welcome, Ken.

Of the traveller editions, my favorites are MegaTraveller, then Classic, then T20, Then Mongoose...

Truth be told, tho', the best edition is usually "Home Hybridized to fit."
 
Hm, did I ever post in this thread? Don't think so. Here goes:

Name: Baron Eric Greystone (IC)
Age: Old Enough to know better
Country: USA (Los Angeles, CA)
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic Traveller w/ Mercenary, High Guard, Scouts, etc.
Military Service: No. That's fine for characters, though.
Favorite Supplement: Citizens of the Imperium
Favorite Sector: Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: Vargr (with Zhodani as NPC's)
Favorite Empire: The Imperium, no assassination, Virus or whatever. 5th Frontier War is fine though.
Favorite Adventure: The Traveller Adventure, I suppose, for the size of the thing. Although I love a lot of them. Kinunir, Leviathan, Annic Nova, Twilight's Peak and etc.
Started Playing Traveller: 83? Could it have been that late?

I'm married and have a ten year old daughter with whom I've run some role playing games (Faery's Tale and WEG Star Wars so far). I work in the Entertainment Industry, and started roleplaying back in '77 with Holmes D&D. I tend to like my rules systems on the simple side. I also like to run a thinking-man's game, rather than combat-heavy adventures.
 
Hi.

Long time lurker, finally registered.

Uk dweller, near Milton Keynes, hating roundabouts, more by the day. can tolerate Concrete cows.

Working in commercial bids & tenders for the UK rail industry, which if you are in that industry is probably enough to work out who I am, if so feel free to say hi, my work colleagues already know I'm a gamer.

Started playing many moons ago with MegaTraveller, later was given Classic and lots of supplements which I still have. Have got TNE around somewhere but will use it as rat bedding before reading it again.

Have Battle Rider about which I like but needs a few easy to make modifications (works very well if you adapt dystopian wars for the ranged combat system, and adapt the acceleration system, and design new ships etc. indeed the counters and concept are nice though)

Not actually played an RPG in about 20 years (if anyone runs a group near Wolverton say hi :-) ), but have always been more interested in the design mechanics indeed this game taught me how to push excel to the limits of iterative and recursive design stuff - who says gaming isn't educational.

Never been overly bothered by the "official" background, though the "Old Islands" set up I love, and would love to eventually actually play it.

Player of other games, the warhammer twins and its redheaded stepchild Lord of the Rings. more recently Dystopian Wars, Flames of War. Former player but still owner of Star Fleet Battles & Federation and Empire, will play most things though.

Fav RPG to actually play is GURPS, but never got round to getting GT - Traveller doesn't need that level of system, works well as it is, a set of rules to provide a background without getting in the way any more than you want them to.

My better half collects some warhammer stuff and tolerates the rest, ahh well I have to tolerate farcebook so its all good.

Oh yes, also have pet rats and a liking for custard creams
 
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