This is in response to the Quarry adventure last nights list
presented...
Most recently I was at WARPCon and though I fully intended to play
the Traveller:TNE competition..I was approached by the organiser Rob
Cosgrove (see the T;TNE credits for helpful comments and kibbitzing)
and asked to RUn the adventure.
In this adventure we (RCES) were investigating Kiepes which was a
dictatorship and the rulers nephew was kidnapped and brought to
Quarry....to the USS Montana, a 30 000 ton staship which since has
been renamed FREEPORT.
It was a very good adventure IMHO though my hasty rendition of it
didnt do it justice and it was a wee bit linear...but what the hey.
Just added that as it was last weekend and there was a quarry
adventure listed last night.....
- --A real problem I found with running a competition game is that for
those of us who really wish to try out THE NEW ERA there is the
problem of those Classic 'travellers' who rather than being the new
starfarers on the brink of glory prefer to mull about how life was
better before they spent 80 years in coldsleep or whatever. At every
opportunity the 'oldsters' griped about not having reactionless
drives, about how you cant mine space...(for details of this last
arguement ask me later), about how the new era is tacky and crap....
Now I wouldnt mind so much if these individuals were playing
characters from the old days but they were playing brand new
hopefuls.
I admit, when Megatraveller came out I ignored it and used my old
black and red basic set and a few A5 books which i had managed to
pick up for exorbitant prices wayback then. Traveller didnt have
background then...just pretty pictures that gave hints. The most hi
tec weapon we used was the Laser Rifle...but we had fun.
On a new subject...read this months RPI for an interview with Dave
Nilsen..line manager for the New Era...and if there are GDW people
out there...they should do a Space 1899 sourcebook in the vein of
the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs sourcebook....it may not be mainstream
but there IS interest out there and its an untapped market
especially seeing as S1899 is gone now. Besides...the hokey drive
systems from FFS could be used...ie the ones that dont really work...
This was my first post to this list this time around.
Matt.