At Origins a few years ago, my brother and I sat in the breezeway trying to rope people in to a kind of fast-and-loose Classic Traveller: roll up a piece of a subsector together, brainstorm world details, roll up a character, say, "Okay, you're mustered out here--what do you do now?" The high point was a sort of Ocean's 11 in orbit sort of thing where a 1/2-term Merchant survivor of a pirate attack twigged the other PCs on to a megamillion credit job lifting a cargo of radioactives from the disabled fat trader he'd been serving on. Whee!

It was a lot of fun; my brother recorded it and put it up on the Internet Archive. I don't know if anyone here listens to AP recordings, but here it is.

I think our desire to play was partly nostalgia but partly an appreciation of just how much life was left in the concept--kicking around the galaxy looking for the next big score. You're Han Solo! I mean, Halfjack's Diaspora started out as Traveller for FATE, and you can't swing a cat without hitting a different port of Traveller: Mongoose, GURPS, even d20 IIRC.

Did you say Oceans' 11 in space?

Quote from: thedungeondelver;414931Did you say Oceans' 11 in space?

I saw this trailer a while ago, are they ever going to Make this?

I can't find anything out on IMDB.

If they did make it, the networks would probably cancel it anyway.

It looks awesome though.

Quote from: EBM;414942I saw this trailer a while ago, are they ever going to Make this?

I can't find anything out on IMDB.

If they did make it, the networks would probably cancel it anyway.

It looks awesome though.

Sean Pertwee wants to do it, the creators want to do it - the point is getting that pitch to stick with somebody.  Chief issue is swinging 60's nostalgia (and 40's swing nostalgia) has died out somewhat.  People are in a "we-want-our-sci-fi-to-reflect-our-post 9/11-anomie" mode, still.  So we get the Battlestar Galactica reboot (which is most excellent, please don't misunderstand me) and so forth.

Maybe it'll stick in a couple years.

Sean Pertwee sounds so very much like his dad. He doesn't look much like him though.

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Quote from: RPGPundit;415194Sean Pertwee sounds so very much like his dad. He doesn't look much like him though.

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Maybe he regenerated at some point before he hit the big time!