Traveller

so I have a copy from mongoose but it says 2008 on it. is that the most recent one?

I think that's the previous edition darth

Agreed.

ok, I've been reading the quick start rules (also from 2008, anyone have a quick start of the most recent edition?) and there's a chance you can die during character creation? I so gotta play this game now

Yeah, it's one of the hallmarks of Traveller. Essentially, you get a minigame to play out your character's backstory. So instead of "Yup, I was a ruthless criminal, but I decided to quit out from under the don's nose!", you actually have to check to see if you survived each 4 year chunk of backstory from like 18 years old to the start of the game. It also frames the things your character learns and such on the way up. Prevents a lot of possible min-maxing.

Yep, we had a blast doing character creation for my Judge Dredd game, using Traveller rules. I remember spending hours in my teens just rolling up traveller characters!

Shoot, that's half of why I started working on the character generator I was messing about with. Simply to enable my making characters at work.

are there any character generators for traveller? I'd like to play around with this

https://rpgsuite.com/shop/traveller-character-generator-tcg/

Not sure how up to date it is though. It says 2nd addition which seems to be the current book.

that costs 39 bucks

you know, with all this stuff I'm reading about the game, I might run this game myself....

basic one is free. I've been playing with it myself

the basic one only has the drifter job, right?

Shoot, with the whole play by post method, we could just about do a game that is just character creation. Where you tell the actual stories of your 4 year career chunks after the roll gives you your target.

szemely, would tou be upset if I started a traveller game after I slog throguh the rules?

I would so love a character creation game...

Not at all! Be thrilled to see the game getting played.