Would their tongue be hanging out, too?
Your Favourite OTU Race/Species/Whatever
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chshrkt
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Absolutely!
The only tricky part is when they try to stick their head out the other side of the vehicle... while driving...
Andrew Boulton
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That'll be the votes of three steppelords, each representing a whole herd...
Gruffty
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....meh. Just more for the Ithklur marines to eat
Plankowner
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I like to PLAY Aslan but GM Droyne, so I voted for both.
The Droyne IMTU are NOT the stay at home types and are DEFINITELY doing something that no one can figure out yet...
After reading through the new TNE Spinward States book, I see that the Droyne are active there as well, so the OTU (if it's OTU...???) seems to be moving that way.
The Droyne will have an INTERESTING reaction to the Empress Wave! :devil:
The Droyne IMTU are NOT the stay at home types and are DEFINITELY doing something that no one can figure out yet...
After reading through the new TNE Spinward States book, I see that the Droyne are active there as well, so the OTU (if it's OTU...???) seems to be moving that way.
The Droyne will have an INTERESTING reaction to the Empress Wave! :devil:
G. Kashkanun Anderson
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Maybe some of the K'kree got confused and voted for the "Vegan" candidate, too? I mean, as far as their concerned, those ARE the kind of aliens they prefer, right?:smirk:
ThunderChilde
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Aslan and Minor Himanitii
My Aslan impressions have been corrupted by the Chanur stories. Hilfy Tol Anshur is a deviant heroine.:nonono:
Any of the non-solomani are inherently more interesting because they were transplanted and thrived or died on alien worlds.
o: Always bet on survivors.
The Solomani are just a bunch of native stocks that are powered by their sense of their own self worth. The funny thing is the are no longer a pure strain, yet listen to the propaganda. It would be funny, If it wasn't so damn tragic.
My Aslan impressions have been corrupted by the Chanur stories. Hilfy Tol Anshur is a deviant heroine.:nonono:
Any of the non-solomani are inherently more interesting because they were transplanted and thrived or died on alien worlds.
o: Always bet on survivors.The Solomani are just a bunch of native stocks that are powered by their sense of their own self worth. The funny thing is the are no longer a pure strain, yet listen to the propaganda. It would be funny, If it wasn't so damn tragic.
I voted for Hiver and Droyne, because they seem the most "alien" and therefor original. I mean, you see cat-girls and dog-boys all over the place. Humaniti is just "us" with different cultures, and the K'kree, well, I don't think I need to expound upon that. 
So it's really the neat sense of "new" that comes with those two races. I try to include them in any game I can. They're always a hoot because properly played, the PCs seldom know what to expect of them. I once did a wicked horror-style game where the PCs come across a small research station where everyone is dead. The only survivor is a droyne scientist (technician) that tells them that there is some kind of invisible energy-based alien that killed everyone else. The only reason he has survived is because he managed to build a handheld detector for them. He gives the PCs one while he keeps the other. Then I have the odd NPC wander off alone and hence gets killed. Then I leave little hints like their detector never goes off when the droyne isn't with them, only when he is, and that the only time people die is when the droyne isn't around. The truth in the end was that the technician had gone psycho, and was killing people while invisible. He could manipulate both "detectors" that really detected nothing, and were just a ruse to manipulate the PCs. They eventually figured it out, but not before I had them both scared and confused for a good while! One PC ended up becoming racist against droyne because of that incident. :devil:
Within the human cultures though, I do have this inexplicable leaning to the Solomani. I mean, I don't like supremists normally, not even to role-play. But somehow with them being from Earth, and the other humans not so much, and those damn Impies always trying to lord over us just because they discovered jump drive like 1000 years before us, and then steal the cradle of humanity away from us...
Sorry. Maybe it's just fun to play that extreme once in a while. Maybe it's a lesson on how easy it can be to fall into that mindset...o:
So it's really the neat sense of "new" that comes with those two races. I try to include them in any game I can. They're always a hoot because properly played, the PCs seldom know what to expect of them. I once did a wicked horror-style game where the PCs come across a small research station where everyone is dead. The only survivor is a droyne scientist (technician) that tells them that there is some kind of invisible energy-based alien that killed everyone else. The only reason he has survived is because he managed to build a handheld detector for them. He gives the PCs one while he keeps the other. Then I have the odd NPC wander off alone and hence gets killed. Then I leave little hints like their detector never goes off when the droyne isn't with them, only when he is, and that the only time people die is when the droyne isn't around. The truth in the end was that the technician had gone psycho, and was killing people while invisible. He could manipulate both "detectors" that really detected nothing, and were just a ruse to manipulate the PCs. They eventually figured it out, but not before I had them both scared and confused for a good while! One PC ended up becoming racist against droyne because of that incident. :devil:Within the human cultures though, I do have this inexplicable leaning to the Solomani. I mean, I don't like supremists normally, not even to role-play. But somehow with them being from Earth, and the other humans not so much, and those damn Impies always trying to lord over us just because they discovered jump drive like 1000 years before us, and then steal the cradle of humanity away from us...
Sorry. Maybe it's just fun to play that extreme once in a while. Maybe it's a lesson on how easy it can be to fall into that mindset...
o:Patron Zero
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Perry Rhodan
I would vote for inclusion under the 'other' option to have the various races from the Perry Rhodan novels be considered. Both humanoid and mechanical sentients have been encountered in that long running series, many would compliment a Traveller setting quite nicely.
http://www.perry-rhodan-usa.com/web1998/sersumm.htm
http://www.perry-rhodan-usa.com/web1998/races.htm
I would vote for inclusion under the 'other' option to have the various races from the Perry Rhodan novels be considered. Both humanoid and mechanical sentients have been encountered in that long running series, many would compliment a Traveller setting quite nicely.
http://www.perry-rhodan-usa.com/web1998/sersumm.htm
http://www.perry-rhodan-usa.com/web1998/races.htm
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mike wightman
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Hivers for me - although my favourite is probably the pentapod from T2300 (which exist IMTU ).
).Madarin Dude
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Well I wanted to go on about some of the aliens. I voted for the hiver. I think they are a strange sort of enigma. Look at actually playing them. There is an alien race that is manipulative and curious. This is not a hard play they enjoy the sciences actually mentally probably the easiest to play when you consider. But their shape and look are downright bizarre.
Can i play an alien? sure you can play one.
Droyne well they have a caste system that tells you your physical and mental abilities.
Well that one is a no go.
Aslan Well they have a strict system of what male and female roles are so you will only be able to have skills from certain areas they have an honor system in their style of live again a no go.
Vargr well you have to constantly search for ways to get ahead you have divided loyalties. Generally you behave like you are in a rock band.
Hiver they are curious and manipulative
Ok I'll be a hiver.... You are a giant slimy subterranean hexapedal starfish.
Can i play an alien? sure you can play one.
Droyne well they have a caste system that tells you your physical and mental abilities.
Well that one is a no go.
Aslan Well they have a strict system of what male and female roles are so you will only be able to have skills from certain areas they have an honor system in their style of live again a no go.
Vargr well you have to constantly search for ways to get ahead you have divided loyalties. Generally you behave like you are in a rock band.
Hiver they are curious and manipulative
Ok I'll be a hiver.... You are a giant slimy subterranean hexapedal starfish.
Official Traveller Universe (NOT, as I've seen it somewhere recently, Original Traveller Universe). It's the background universe that authors of official Traveller material are required to adhere to (Though it seems to me that enforcement of that is spotty on occasion). No one requires individual referees/GMs to stick to it (in fact, I doubt there's a single Traveller ref/GM who hasn't changed or added material that only applies in their own TU). However, it serves as a "common denominator" when we argue about things Traveller. Or would, if we could agree on what is and what isn't OTU
.Hans
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Changed? You mean, 'OTU' no longer refers to an official TU, but to the nascent universe of the early books? Does that mean that there is no such thing as an official Traveller Universe any more? If not, what i the new appelation for it?
And here I thought someone at Mongoose had just made a mistake.
Hans
