As I am the only person in my traveller group with an internet
account, I've been making hard copy of the nightly mailing and taking
it over to where I game one to two times a week. There the hard copy
is snatched up and read... We've been working our ways slowly through
the bundles also. (Thanks Bob Dean, for getting me directions to this
list... you've made a whole bunch of old traveller junkies pretty
happy...)
My GM asked me to post the message below. If you have any replies for
Jim, you can send them to me, and I can get them to him. The turn
around time for Jim to reply to items posted on this list is slow, so
as you will see below, he will be responding sometimes to subjects a
few weeks old.
Catie Helm
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Hello out there. I'm an MT GM over in the East Bay Area ( Why yes, we
Californians so think that there is only one Bay Area |-) ) I'm
Writing this to say Hi, and to talk about one of my favorite games!
One of my players is on this mailing list and if you're reading this,
she has consented to send this set of rambilings out. I did look at
the Rouge generation and I don't think it's too complicated at all;
and if anyone of my players want to use it for a character, I'd be
happy to see it.
Speaking of characters, my wife has two that are a new race -
Racoonids! We are thinking of sending them to the Challenge as an
article on a new race - if you people would be interested let us know.
I run a game that is pretty free form but has a lot of role playing. I
like my people to be happy with their characters. I was looking at
some comments about Career changes - I liked the Idea of DM modes
based on time in the old career but allowing the use of brownee points
on the enlistment. Good idea !!
We have one character in our game who changed careers at the start of
the campaign. She was a Cop who rose to Police Commissoner ( also
became a Baroness |-)) She was selected by a certain Duke to be the
mission commander for a group of very strange characters. On eof her
favorite comments ( when no one is listening! |-)) is " I'll get you
for this Norris!!!!" She is riding herd on the Nail mission (the one
from the Rebellion book) Her #1 is an Aslan Male (if he couldn't
command, he might accept #1...) The next is a retired (so she
thought...) Navy Commodore who thought very little of putting an EX
COP in command!!!
There are some very strange people on this crew - even the humans have
communication difficulties ( you are a product of your culture you
know... |-) )
Maybe we'll post some of the stories to the list if anyone is
interested out there. it's been a grand time!! how about the time M.C.
shot up her stateroom wall! or the time Thilea fell in on Sean... We
have a lot of role playing and not to many fire fights ( those are
dangerous - you can get HURT that way!!! ) and only one bar fight
(some of the charcters didn't like it one bit and are not going to get
in another if they have any say in the matter...).
What is up in the MT world ? I keep reading that DGP is not doing MT
any more and that GDW is coming out with (YET) another revision of
Traveller. I don't know how many more I can stand as I bought the
original books and resisted the change until I got a real good look at
MT and they had had time to get most of the Errata |-) done!!
I think that I've run on probably too long now so I'll return you to
your original sender!
Jim Kelleher
Remember: no matter where you go, there you are...