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« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2017, 02:31:05 AM »
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What would you recommend as a minimum to play from something like drivethrurpg.com?


http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/58279/Book-0-Introduction-to-Traveller
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« Reply #16 on: October 04, 2017, 02:32:42 AM »
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(well, that and watching frustrated bickering on the starship before the table imploded. this time we might actually see spaaaace!) :)

Oh... the memories!  My only attempt in the last decade to sit on the player side of the table (GURPS Traveller!) imploded over one player's attempting to demand salary for multiple positions on the ship the first time we docked.

Finances, man! What can't they do?!
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« Reply #17 on: October 04, 2017, 11:41:05 AM »
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http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/58279/Book-0-Introduction-to-Traveller

The price is right on that one. =)

Question though, is this different than Mongoose Traveler you mentioned a preference for?

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« Reply #18 on: October 04, 2017, 01:57:39 PM »
You've told us 3 times not to worry about analgesics, I don't even know what they are but I'm very worried.  

Also psionics?  Can I have telepathic powers?

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« Reply #19 on: October 04, 2017, 05:42:33 PM »
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The price is right on that one. =)

Question though, is this different than Mongoose Traveler you mentioned a preference for?

That is the "quick-start" of Mongoose Traveller;).
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« Reply #20 on: October 04, 2017, 07:26:21 PM »
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You've told us 3 times not to worry about analgesics, I don't even know what they are but I'm very worried.  

Also psionics?  Can I have telepathic powers?

Like anything else, you have to take a psionic career, or have rolled it randomly.  Anagathics! (I kept calling them analgesics, which are... aspirin...) are anti-aging drugs available in Traveller to offset age penalties (at a huge money cost and a significant health penality).
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« Reply #21 on: October 04, 2017, 07:43:24 PM »
Ahh.  I'll stick with the asprin.  

Psionics don't seem to be part of the charcter generator i found.  No tele-pathic powers for this guy.

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« Reply #22 on: October 04, 2017, 09:17:54 PM »
Hmm... yeah, I don't see the psionic career in the generator, and I'm not sure how many iterations I'd have to go through to disprove the random event route (lessee... event roll of seven for life events. Boxcars (I think???), followed by a 6... odds... lets ballpark it to 1 in a thousand, and I'd probably want to double or triple that to 3k careers, or roughly a thousand characters just to show it is or is not possible... probably easier to hack the program for data mining!)
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« Reply #23 on: October 04, 2017, 09:25:20 PM »
Well I've done a hundred? Maybe?  50 for sure.  No psionics.  Just desieses and betrayal.

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« Reply #24 on: October 05, 2017, 06:45:11 PM »
Okay, so I've transferred the two characters I've been sent to actual character sheets so I can get a better handle on them from raw-data and I am now working on my half of the setup.

If I can get a few more players going that'd be great (Ras? AsenRG?), but if not I'll get something going to keep the flame alive for the people who are already onboard.
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« Reply #25 on: October 05, 2017, 07:39:52 PM »
Okay, so I've got the gmail up and running  stolenelegy@gmail.com   and I think I've found out how to post documents so in the morning I should begin posting some setting context docs to link to for players to use.

I know, I know, I'm YEARS behind the curve ball on this Google+ crap.
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« Reply #26 on: October 06, 2017, 07:03:27 PM »
I'm curious about this, I used the generator linked above, and got the following:

Name: John

Age: 34 (ageing effects were applied automatically)

Race: Human

Gender: Male
Characteristics:

Strength: 3

Dexterity: 7

Endurance: 8

Intelligence: 7

Education: 7

Social: 5
Skills:(accumulate skills per rules)

Trade-0

Admin-0

Computer-0

Drive(any)-0

Vacc Suit-0

Broker-0

Steward-0

Comms-0

Persuade-0

Drive(any)

Zero-G-0

Sensors

Streetwise-0

Survival

Streetwise

Melee(unarmed)-0

Streetwise

Streetwise

Career History:

Career: Merchants = Terms: 1

Career: Navy = Terms: 1

Career: Drifter = Terms: 1

The output missed a 2nd Drifter term...

Rank History:

Career: Merchants = Rank: 0

Career: Navy = Rank: 0

Career: Drifter = Rank: 0

Event History: (characteristic, skill and benefit effects are applied automatically)
Mishap History: (characteristic, skill and benefit effects are applied automatically)

Merchant Mishap: You are bankrupted by a rival. You lose one Benefit from this career, and gain the other trader as a Rival
Navy Mishap: Severely injured in action and will lose 1 point from your Strength attribute
Drifter Mishap: You are betrayed. Gain an Enemy and one level of the Streetwise skill
Drifter Mishap: You are betrayed. Gain an Enemy and one level of the Streetwise skill

Benefits: (characteristic, skill and benefit effects are applied automatically)

5000
Air/Raft or one Ship Share
Contact
0

Finishing Touches are left up to the player and GM.

I think something was messed up, I would up with two terms of Drifter despite failing survival in the 1st. If that invalidates character fine... I'll use the book (I do own MgT1e) to generate properly. Also, it forced me to roll the benefit for merchant even though I got kicked out after 1 term with no benefits, that would wipe out that 5kcr...

An interesting character... Looks like Streetwise-3, Drive (Air/Raft)-1, Sensors-1, Survival-1, and a bunch of level-0 skills.

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« Reply #27 on: October 06, 2017, 07:11:15 PM »
sure, makes sense. Just remember that a mishap ENDS character creation for this campaign, though seeing a character who appears to have rolled a mishap every term reminds me of one unfortunate player I once tried to rope into playing traveller. He dropped out because EVERY character wound up failing to get into careers, mishap'd out of careers on the first term and so forth.  After the fifth or sixth attempt to make 'not-a-drifter' he gave up.  Sad.

Also send the character you want to play to PM or the email I posted above.
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« Reply #28 on: October 06, 2017, 07:39:17 PM »
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sure, makes sense. Just remember that a mishap ENDS character creation for this campaign, though seeing a character who appears to have rolled a mishap every term reminds me of one unfortunate player I once tried to rope into playing traveller. He dropped out because EVERY character wound up failing to get into careers, mishap'd out of careers on the first term and so forth.  After the fifth or sixth attempt to make 'not-a-drifter' he gave up.  Sad.

Also send the character you want to play to PM or the email I posted above.

Ah, missed the mishap ending chargen... I will use the book to generate one and see what I get and e-mail.

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« Reply #29 on: October 09, 2017, 07:38:40 PM »
Ok, so I've got four characters. I've got room for more, but I'm going to move forward with what I've got. I'm a bit behind on finishing up the characters I've got but I've got all day tomorrow (No work!!!) to do that, so in... two days I'll start up the IC and OOC threads, with the game opening in the IC thread. I'll try to remember to use funny colors of fonts for GM speak and I expect to do most of MY posting in the IC thread... but then again I'm new at this format so maybe I'm wrong.

To repeat: There is still room for new players

Existing players: Equipment: Everyone has starting cash and no one has spent it yet... but we do seem to have a shortage of books, so if you give me an idea of things you want, I can throw together some starting gear.
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