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Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2006-03-24 11:32 am
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Oh, by the way..

.. the previous entry was inspired by this essay.

and he's right. Classic Traveller had the best cover of all time. Those words still give me chills.
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Hm.

[personal profile] seawasp 2006-03-24 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Traveller never grabbed me. Maybe it was just the people who ran it, who seemed very much the "I'm playing a group of numbers" than "I'm playing a character" types. Space Opera was my preferred space game (still is, actually), once it came out (Starships and Spacemen was first).

Oh yeah...

[identity profile] izzylobo.livejournal.com 2006-03-24 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Eric is completely correct.

This is Free Trader Beowulf, calling anyone...
Mayday, Mayday...
We are under attack...
Main drive is gone...
Turret number one not responding...
Mayday...

Losing cabin pressure fast calling anyone...
Please help...

This is Free Trader Beowulf ...

...mayday...



I was impressed beyond measure of coherent words when the initial page for GURPS:Traveller featured the following -


Free Trader Beowulf
Come in, Free Trader Beowulf
Can you hear me?
Come in, Free Trader Beowulf
Hang in there, Beowulf...
(Gurps Traveller tag)
...help is on the way!


with the suggestion that, at long last, the song of the Beowulf might actually have a happy ending...

maybe.

[identity profile] jeffreyab.livejournal.com 2006-03-24 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
What other roleplaying game put your first adventure seed on the cover?

Traveller, back when things were simple.

[identity profile] jonathonbarton.livejournal.com 2006-03-24 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I was quite surprised to see the number of people who commented on that essay who...
A) Remembered Traveller fondly.
B) Are planning on picking up T5 because of that article.

(Anonymous) 2006-03-26 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
from shadowcat48li: I have e-mailed LJ support, it may be a firewall issue of some kind.

I started off playing D&D my freshman year in HS, one of the kids in our gaming group had a brother who worked for GDW in the warehouse at the time, and he tried running traveller with the original lbb set, I read about it in the review in a very early Dragon and walked downtown to the GDW office to get a copy myself, I got hooked there and have been ever since

I will buy T5 at some point, Loren and crew have done a great job with GT
and T20 isnt too bad, although I hate the D20 mechanics

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