Traveller

I ended up getting the latest edition of the Traveller Core Book and would like to give it a spin sometime here in the near future. Any Traveller fans out there?

Damn you, Szemely! Traveller is on THE LIST. Unfortunately, I've only made one character (and survived!), and then we did some brief RP, i.e., one session.

:-)

I've never played it before, so it would be my first go.

Do you have a link to a basic rundown of what the system is all about?

I would love some Traveller. I've only ever messed about with the Mongoose rule set. Started creating an Excel character creator. Got far enough to build a world generator and the stat roller/assigner. I'm in a Judge Dredd game built on the basic Traveller rule set.

Found a Traveller wiki, but nothing like a quick start rule set or anything.

Traveller Wiki

Is it Mongoose Traveller szem? As Drama says, we're running Dredd in the system and I'd be up to join as a player in a traditional SF one.

Yep, Mongoose. The edition that was just recently released.

Hrm. I've got a Traveller book here..

but it's (c) 2008. Time to poke around and see what the differences are. Count me among the interested.

Huh. Amazon says I ordered the other one too..

Time to go hunt the closet of RPGs..

Oh! There it is. Right next to the old one. :)

I got Traveller for christmas. Would love to try it out. I've played the last Mongoose edition so I'm familiar with the rules. Haven't had time to digest what's new and shiny.

OK mine is the older 2008 edition but if there's not a huge difference, I'm in!

Here's the biggest differences I've been able to suss out after a short time with it today:
It looks prettier.
You can join academies (University/Military Academy) at character creation instead of going straight into service.
There's a bane/boon mechanic in that you roll an extra die and takes the lowest or highest two.
Armor seems to be cheaper, no longer priced in the millions. Seems to work differently as well since the bonuses seems to be slightly higher.
Computers seems to be updated.
And that's about as far as I've had the chance to look.

I'll do some reading the next few days and see what I can do about running a game. I'll be learning as I go, but that's the beauty of forum play, ain't it. :-)

Thanks for your interest, everyone!

Haven't forgot about this but with work firing back up at full strength after the holidays I'm going to need some more time to read/plan before starting something up. I'll let everyone know when I'm ready.

Take your time. I'm willing to wait for a Traveller game :)

I got hold a review copy from Mongoose so with you all the way!

is it too late to jump on this?

It'll be a while before I get something running, so it's not too late!

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.