Who are we?

[aramis]

What is there to like in Traveller: The New Era?

There are a few nifty ideas in the TNE Line...
Character's Contacts
Chem-lasers
Reasonable fusion fuel rates
integrated design system (Even if it is almost unplayable as presented)
alternate drive technologies
cybernetics

It was a well meaning but badly informed design. GDW was (as Dave N. aka Dreadnought keeps showing over the years) self-assured of the rightness of their path.

And TNE does have a fan-base. It has low overlap with the rest of the Traveller fan-base, but it exists, it's just as rabid as the CT and MT fanbases, and often don't get why we don't like it... Especially MT fans like me, who merely tolerated the design rules in MT.

 

[Timerover51]

There are a few nifty ideas in the TNE Line...
Character's Contacts
Chem-lasers
Reasonable fusion fuel rates
integrated design system (Even if it is almost unplayable as presented)
alternate drive technologies
cybernetics

It was a well meaning but badly informed design. GDW was (as Dave N. aka Dreadnought keeps showing over the years) self-assured of the rightness of their path.

And TNE does have a fan-base. It has low overlap with the rest of the Traveller fan-base, but it exists, it's just as rabid as the CT and MT fanbases, and often don't get why we don't like it... Especially MT fans like me, who merely tolerated the design rules in MT.

I am not going to get into a discussion with you, Aramis, on the merits and demerits of TNE.

 

[rich4421972]

Name: Merrifield
Age: beginning to lose ability points in Strength and Dexterity
Favorite version of GDW's Traveller: The New Era
Military Service: Army
Favorite Supplement: Survival Margin (IMO, Dave Nilsen's masterwork) and Star Vikings: Personalities of the Reformation Coalition

Favorite Race: Ithklur
Favorite Empire: Reformation Coalition/The Dawn League

 

[arslayer]

Name: Davin
Age: 30
Country: Largo, FL
Favorite Traveller Version: Don't know yet, but I am buying MgT and CT.
Military Service: None

I'm excited to get my books and start playing with my group soon!

 

[Dmcp]

Name: Duncan
Age: Just figuring it out (28)
Country: Japan (Canada)
Favorite version of Traveller: CT
Military Service: Nope
Favorite Suppliment: Merchant Prince
Favorite Sector: ?
Favorite Race: Humans!
Favorite Empire: ?
Started Playing Traveller: Next Week!

 

[JimMarn]

Name: Jim
Age: Geezer ( Some of my gray hair is due to relatives.)
Country: United States
Favorite version of Traveller: not sure yet
Military Service: Yes, US Navy
Favorite Suppliment: still reading them
Favorite Sector: ?
Favorite Race: Elves, wait Humans
Favorite Empire: ?
Started Playing Traveller: Soon(tm)

I have Mongoose 2008 Traveller books and when the CDs get here I'll have the 1980 version.

Still learning planetary nomenclature, I've map around 30 planetary maps. Hope to get some sector and sub-sector maps up soon. Sleep, ah yes, and work.

 

[Colin Tarsus]

Name: Colin
Age: Looking for anagathics (48)
Location: Pennsylvania
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic Traveller
Military Service: Appologies, and thanks for serving, but no
Favorite Suppliment: All
Favorite Sector: Spinward marches
Favorite Race: Human
Favorite Empire: The Imperium
Started Playing Traveller: 1978

Our group, a bunch of Trekkies (geeks) started playing blue book D&D in '77, and Traveller as soon as our GM found those 3 black books. Also played in college. Father of two adult children, one of whom is keen on D&D. Data Modeler/programmer which sadly gives me little time to commit to a group (plus a wife and a home needing work, giving me less time). Traveller remains one of my pet programming projects, and the first source of practice material for learning a new programming language. Played EVE Online for a while, and with Dust 514 I think they will be taking that environment closer to what I'd consider the closest to a Taveller environment of any particular game (but not the same as a table-top experience). Would some day love to come up with a virtual table top for Traveller, but can't dedicate enough time to the project.

 

[Deepfire]

Name: Christian
Age: 45 (thanks to Anagethics like 32)
Country: Germany
Favorite version of Traveller: Mongoose/13 Mann (german translation), Megatraveller
Military Service: Nope - civil services
Favorite Suppliment: Starship Operator's Manual
Favorite Sector: "Spinward it is!"
Favorite Race: Vargr
Favorite Empire: 3rd Imperium
Started Playing Traveller: 1986

Enthusiast since '86. Thanks to my first CT-DM Benni (Benji today)! Hope U R fine on ABC islands!
Product manager of the german Traveller. Keeping the flame.

 

[Gerry Miller]

Name: Gerry Miller
Age: 42
Country: Wisconsin, United States
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic Traveller w/Mongoose adaptations. My custom made binder of all the charts and tables cropped from my PDF purchases.
Favorite Services: Scouts, Merchants and Citizens of the Imperium
Favorite Suppliments: Library Data A-M & N-Z, Gurps Interstellar wars (reference material only), Gurps Rim of Fire (reference material only), Spinward Marches, The Outer Veil Setting by Spica Publishing, Orbital by Zozer games
Favorite Sectors: Solomani Rim/ Spinward Marches/ Outer Veil/ Orbital Solar system setting
Favorite Races: Humaniti Solomani and Vilani mutts / The Ancients
Favorite Ship: Classic 100 tn Scout Courier/ 400 Ton Firefly Class Trader/ Classic 200 tn Far Trader
Favorite Empires: The Third Imperium classic Emperor Strephon Era/ Terran Confederation Interstellar Wars Era / Federate Nations of Humaniti Outer Veil Setting
Started Playing Traveller: 1983 I was given the boxed Traveller Starter Edition from a middle school friend

 

[Frankymole]

Name: Frank Shailes.
Age: 7th Term (44). UPP 5A5BA7. Admin-2. Service: Bureaucrat.
Country: England.
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic Traveller (LBBs 0-8) through Digest task system and early MT; loved the early freewheeling feel and the early JTAS/Space Gamer/White Dwarf type articles and adventures.
Military Service: No: Army Cadet, then Defence Ministry bean counter for 25 years (Army/RN branches).
Favorite Supplement: Book 6 Scouts (and World Builder's Handbook).
Favorite Boardgame Rules: Imperium (2nd version).
Favorite Adventure: Safari Ship.
Favorite Sector: Reavers Deep.
Favorite Race: Droyne.
Favourite Career: Scouts.
Favorite Empire: Solomani Confederation, because of the Solomani Sphere.
Favorite Ship: Beowulf Class Free Trader (Type A).
Started Playing Traveller: 1983.

 

[Spartan159]

Name: Vince
Age: Not quite 50
Country: USA, Florida, just north of Gainesville
Favorite version of Traveller: Any I can find a game in... ^.^
Military Service: USMC 0331/8531
Favorite Service: Imp. Marines (Go figure), Scouts. Usually try to play a veteran of both
Favorite Adventure: Book 4 Leviathan (Backup drives and onboard repair? Hell yeah!), also Arrival Vengeance
Favorite Sector: Spinward March
Favorite Race: Darrians
Favorite Empire: The Imperium, Darrians
Started Playing Traveller: 1977-1978 ish
Most upsetting point in Canon: Assassination of Strephon and family. Dulinor was not even prepared for what he unleashed, how much blood is on his hands? The whole Virus thing was just overkill IMPO.

 

[Frankymole]

Most upsetting point in Canon: Assassination of Strephon and family. Dulinor was not even prepared for what he unleashed, how much blood is on his hands? The whole Virus thing was just overkill IMPO.

Too true. I did like the reference on another thread to K'Kree mowing their shipboard grassland with Dulinor-class combine harvesters though

I didn't mind the Rebellion as such but I wish there'd been better, more consistent development of the setting and adventures. It all kind of petered out, and I didn't enjoy TNE.

 

[tewhill]

Time flys

Name: Christopher Corbett
Age: 30
Country: USA, (Cambridge, MA)
Favorite Version: CT
Military Service: n/a
Favorite Supplement: Tarsus
Favorite Sector: Hinterworlds
Favorite Race: Hivers
Favorite Empire: 3I

This was my first post so very long ago. Here's the update:

Age: 42
Country: USA, (Arlington, MA)
Favorite Version: CT
Military Service: n/a
Favorite Supplement: Tarsus
Favorite Sector: Hinterworlds
Favorite Race: Hivers
Favorite Empire: 3I

 

[PsychicSkeleton]

Inaugural

Name: Michael

Age: 32

Country: Vancouver, Canada

Favorite version of Traveller: Just bought T5, my first Traveller book! C'mon, it looked pretty cool, how could I not.

Military Service: None. Respek though.

Favorite Adventure: Any Recommendations? Or maybe I'll just put down the influences I plan on using IMTU... say for example Fifth-Element, Firefly, Dune, Foundation, H2G2, Known Space, Orion's Arm, Honor Harrington, Culture, Hyperion Cantos... Twilight Imperium, A Mind Forever Voyaging, Elite, Nexus: the Jupiter Incident? Homeworld 2? Want to avoid Trek/Wars kind of feel and go for something... else. Dirtier?

Favorite Sector: Spinward March stories sound like they'd be very cool. Early contact OTU would be good stories.

Favorite Race: I dunno about the official races yet, save that they're pretty Nivenesque. The T5 book random alien maker is pretty cool IMO, made a couple of my buds roll up sophonts and the results are usually pretty hilarious. Nobody wants to play a human.

Favorite Empire: I think the Terran Confederation time period would have some damn fine stories... but I'd probably rather build my own empire?

Started Playing Traveller: TBD!

Most upsetting point in Canon: I have no idea! But I've been reading through the historical write-ups and OTU timeline and from what I've seen I think I'm a little disappointed that in the expanded universe things didn't get a little crazier? Like, after so many thousands of years things shouldn't be so familiar and equivalent to past empires. No nebulous nanotech emergent intelligences that use pulsar radiation neural networks spanning a quarter of the galaxy holding biological sophonts as pets? Or as an immune system? Things could be a little more out there, maybe.

Anyway! Hey all. Pleasure to meet you.

 

[Claytonford]

Name:Jacob
Age: Almost a quarter century
Country: Portland (originally from Michigan)
Favorite version of Traveller: Mongoose
Military Service: Not for me.
Favorite Suppliment: Scouts
Favorite Sector: 40th squadron?
Favorite Race: Aslan seem scary
Favorite Empire: Third Imperium (all I've played)
Started Playing Traveller: October 2013. Yeah. I'm new here.

 

[simonh]

Name: Simon Hibbs
Age: 47
Country: UK, SE London
Favorite version of Traveller: Mongoose
Military Service: 4 Years UK Territorial Army, Infantry.
Favorite Service: Scouts, but whatever suits the character and the game.
Favorite Adventure: Leviathan
Favorite Sector: Trojan Reach
Favorite Race: Humans, but Hivers are cool.
Favorite Empire: None, I tend to GM. No Favoritism
Started Playing Traveller: 1981
Most upsetting point in Canon: Not bothered about Cannon, take it or leave it.

 

[inexorabletash]

I don't think I ever posted on this thread...

Name: Joshua Bell a.k.a. InexorableTash
Age: 40
Started Playing: 1984
Country: USA / Left Coast (but citizen of Canada)
Military Service: Nope. I was raised by Muppets.
Role: Scout/Cartographer
Favorite Milieu: Late Classic Traveller (early 1116)
Favorite Supplement: Atlas of the Imperium
Favorite Adventure: Secret of the Ancients
Favorite Sector: Far Frontiers
Favorite Sophont: Droyne
Favorite World: Karnika

 

[jwmarsh1962@gmail.com]

Name: John Marsh
Age: 51
Country: USA, Florida
Favorite version of Traveller: Classic Traveller w/ Mercenary, High Guard, MayDay
Military Service: Nope, Bureaucrat
Favorite Supplement: Mercenaries-just for the Iron Mongery section
Favorite Sector: Regina, Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: AVargyr
Favorite Empire: Home Brewed Pocket Empire
Started Playing Traveller: 1978

 

[Quint]

Name: David (Quint is an old and favorite Traveller character)
Age: Sliding towards 50 quicker than I like...
Country: USA - Chicagoland
Favorite Version: CT/MT, but I'm finding that I'm currently leaning towards MgT after running MTU using the CP2020 rules for years and wanting to get back to a set of Traveller rules.
Military Service: Nope, multiple other careers though - and I married into the military LOL!
Favorite Supplement: SORAG, maybe Aslan Mercenary Class ships (FASA)
Favorite Adventure: Leviathan, Knightfall, or the Mongoose Secret of the Ancients.
Favorite Sector: The Beyond (PP version), maybe Glimmerdrift (JG version)
Favorite Race: Home-brewed, metahuman "Exotics"
Favorite Empire: IMTU Darrians and Sword Worlds (not very canon)
Started Playing Traveller: 1979-80ish
Most Upsetting Canon: The Virus (what a waste of the Cyms), with the Rebellion as a close second. I'm not bothered by Stephon being assassinated, but I would have enjoyed seeing a "rough transition of power" rather than the breakdown of all of Known Space.

 

[Citizen Lefty]

Name: Herb
Age: 45
Country: USA
Favorite Version: CT (the only version I've ever read/played/used)
Military Service: Air Force (a LONG time ago)
Favorite Supplement: CT Supplement 7, Traders and Gunboats
Favorite Adventure: The Kinunir (my first, the "gateway drug", at a vulnerable age )
Favorite Sector: The Spinward Marches
Favorite Race: Human
Favorite Empire: 3I
Started Playing Traveller: circa 1980/81 maybe? Then a REALLY long gap between 1986 and a couple weeks ago).