ooc Introductions and Chat

This thread is for general "talk" and personal introductions. General Questions, too. Please use it to introduce yourselves and your characters.

Ma Said, AKA Mama

Chief medic and occasional trouble maker

Hi!,
I'm Muns a short form of my last name Munsey'.
In-game, my character's name is LC Rains, the ship’s Navigator with a sharp mind, a knack for reading the stars… and a bit of a scoundrel’s charm. Always plotting the next course — or the next con. Depends on the day.

Hi - Dave here (aka dabaggins).

Playing Bronz Bautista, an ex-pirate who found himself abandoned on Catuz (if I remember correctly) and was fortunate enough to hook up with this crew as 2nd Engineer. Just a kid who fell in with the wrong crowd. Then, by either fate or chance, he was able to get away from them and is now trying to escape his past and live a more lawful life.

Maybe not with Mama about... She is ready to take a few chances.... (But she has may bad rolls to deal with)

David the GM here!

Thanks for joining the game. A lot of my enjoyment comes from your contributions. So please participate regularly!

I started as a Dungeon Master way back in 1975, so I've been doing this sort of thing for quite a time. I've been doing Traveller since it first came out in 1977. Still have my original Little Black Books, though I'm currently using the Facsimile edition from Far Future Enterprises. Worth every penny..., it includes some rules clarifications and examples that weren't in the original books.

I currently live in "Sun City", where every day is a holiday! I play Senior Softball and do Ceramics. I do some photography and a little travel now and then. A few health problems intrude, so there may be times when I don't support the game as well as I should. Expect an occassional delay or pause.

FYI... I have (or had) the original black books—haven't seen them recently. Probably got them in the late '70s and played Traveller a lot back then, but I have a large, multi-year gap with gaming. Only got back into it this year. I live in Canada—which obviously isn't as warm as 'Sun City'.

Hello everyone, I'm Gary, another grognard, playing Alice Petrov - a hard-up young Computer (+4) Scientist and Security Expert (aka, 'Hacker'). I love role-play heavy games and am looking forward to joining you all.

Welcome Gary!!

Welcome Gary!! I too am from the old grey beard age group. I am looking forward to game restart!

Nice to meet you, Muns

Thank you

@playbydave Alice rolled up a Lab Ship as a mustering out benefit. Is this useful for the campaign, or should she sell it? If the latter, how much moolah we looking at, Ref?

... or does she trade it in for Ship Shares in the Free Trader?

For this game any 'ship' type mustering out rewards are simply ignored. There is an ongoing story and a second ship just isn't in the cards. And an influx of credits from selling a ship-share would simply overwhelm the 'vibe' of a crew really needing to generate funds on their own.

Hello everyone, my name is Everett and I live on the East Coast of the U.S. This is my first time playing traveller, but I'm very excited to give this classic rpg a shot. I've been slowly trying to make my way through all the information our gracious GM has shared, and I'm loving out flushed out everything is.

My character is Rin Bauer, an older ship's mechanic with a gruff personality. He's not someone who goes out of his way to be rude, but there is little he shares about himself.

I just want to make sure I'm understanding the direction we're going and I apologize if this was mentioned somewhere already. The new players currently have not met the old crew, correct? I assume some circumstance is leading us to each other?

Right. Please reference the roleplay thread "Odd Opportunity" as that is intended as an avenue (not a railroad!) towards combining the old with the new!

Hello! I'm Shawn living in the SE US. I'm a Yankee transplant so not many y'all's from me.

I will play Llogan Tamm, the Chief Engineer of the ATHELSTONE. I was part of the original crew but I had to take a break from play for personal reasons.

Llogan (pro: Logan) is just over 200 cm tall. His height makes his strong body look thinner. Tamm doesn't have any body hair except for his eyebrows. He has a very deep voice. Mama has nicknamed him Lurch but she's the only one who can call him that name and not get punched. Both arms have sleeve tattoos from the shoulder to just above the wrist. It's likely that Tamm has other tattoos but they aren't visible when he is fully clothed. Tamm's clothes are simple, T-shirts, trousers, bib overalls and ship's coveralls. He does have two fancier outfits but only two. Tamm is fond of resale and pawn shops.

Tamm is a quiet person but when he speaks, it's likely important. This only plays into Mama's nickname. He has a few quirks; he refers to himself in the third person (saying Tamm instead of I & me) & he likes to spend time in a hammock in Engineering while on duty.