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decalod85 · Seasoned Joined: 02 Aug 2011 Posts: 121

I never played it, but it looks cool.

What did people like about it?

VonDan · Legendary Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 3249

unnamed planets outside of the galactic government who are amazed by standard high tech and ripe for the harvest of there natural resources
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Enno · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:29 pm Post subject:

I can only talk about the Classic, little black book version:

It was totally different at that time (No xp, no levels etc)
You could really "build" every aspect of your little cosmos.
The history and the imperium, its races and stories are as big as the universe.
You can play every style of honest "hard" SF with it
It was one of the first RPGs were you could use BIG fleets, troops, etc in a regular game.
You had a different kinds of combat simulations (normal, fleet, Striker)
Most importantly, it simulated the universe so well, with so few rules.
It had a lot of great, detailed adventures and support materials.

IMO its no wonder, why modern SF games/settings, especially the more "real" ones, have to live with being compared with Traveller...
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kreider204 · Heroic Joined: 19 Jun 2009 Posts: 1712

Character generation as a mini-game in itself - pretty neat.
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warrenss2 · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:54 pm Post subject:

The published adventures were awesome.

The small black books are my favorite too.

I wish they'd publish an edition that had the original rules with the advance character creation (Mercenary, etc...). I buy it in a millisecond.
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Enno · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:36 am Post subject:

Dead in character generation was a point every group coped with differently. I know solutions from starting again, over griviously wounded/leave service, to ignore and go on.

No character generation system was really perfect in these years, but for its time it wa revolutionary. In another important system you rolled 3d6 half a dozen times, to get underwhelming characters with an average below 10.5. In Traveller it was the Death in Service...

Others loved it. I had a friend at school, who never played the game with me, but he LOVED the character generation system. Sat there for hours, rolling dice, taking notes. Note that was in the early 80s pre-PC-era...
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warrenss2 · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:35 am Post subject:

Timon · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:10 am Post subject:

I bought Megatraveller thinking it was a compiled and consolidated traveller set... boy was I wrong. Mega has an errata that is longer than the book.

I also loved the character creation rules, particularly because they actually generated characters who had had a previous career and gathered experience over a period of years. The downside was that your experienced character might well become quite elderly...
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Oryzarius · Novice Joined: 15 Mar 2010 Posts: 71 Location: Houston, TX

steelbrok · Veteran Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 789 Location: UK

I'd recommend picking up the new Mongoose Traveller rather than starting with Classic. It has all the good parts of classic but is much improved, you don't die during chargen anymore but you might be booted out of a career and pick up an injury.

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VonDan · Legendary Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 3249

but the original old books and pamplets have the smell of history

and you can tell your self you only spent $2 a book
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Sitting Duck · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:19 am Post subject:

kronovan · Veteran Joined: 01 Mar 2011 Posts: 678

It's been so long since I played it, but IIRC it was one of the 1st PnP's that featured a skills-based system. Of course its been so many moons since I played, that I may not even be right about that. I do remember it having a true hard SciFi flavor to it, which was very rare back in the day.