Cease thy foaming and smooth thy hackles, O Excitable One. I stated,
plainly, that the people I no longer gamed with were good D&D players
but not good Traveller players. I'm sorry if that immediately registered
as a D&D slam, but I was trying to hark back to the idea of a different
mindset, not to belittle D&D, which I have played and run off and on
since 1975 and which was the basis for the variant game that supported
my single best campaign ever (1984-1987 nonstop). The people in it were
great D&D players-- among the best-- but we'd started playing D&D because
my repeated attempts at Traveller games continually went flat with them.
And as far as finding players goes, I still maintain that no players beats
bad players every time. I can afford to be patient.
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Mike Metlay
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