We moved into our present home in 1998 and stashed a load of boxes in one corner of the top room to unpack later. Recently my wife and I visited that corner, uncovering those old boxes. The first stuff we found was a mix of really old treasures and accumulated bits that date back to … Continue reading The Star Frontiers Exercise Book
Following on from today's interview with Daniel Jones about Otherworld Immersion, I've been thinking an awful lot about what Daniel calls, "Methodology". This is the stuff of roleplaying gamers that isn't the Rules and isn't the World: it's the methods we use to actually play, to bring those Rules and that World into harmony. One … Continue reading Why Let The Players Create Characters?
It was the Poetic Map of Harn, itself printed on the back of HarnPlayer, that did it. HarnPlayer is the overview of the World of Harn that covers what any native of that place might well know - a useful tome for any potential player in a Harn campaign. But it was the map, alongside … Continue reading Webster’s Harn
One of the features of the GURPS game system is the concept of variable power level. Because character creation is done using a points buy system, in which players spend a pre-allocated budget of Character Points in order to build exactly the character they are imagining, one of the first questions the Referee has to … Continue reading Choose Your Power Level
Just as with the previous posts in this series, I’ve continued to progress through trying the expanded character generation rules found with Traveller Books 4 to 7. Read from the beginning: Learning Traveller 1 Trey Dershyb Joins The MegaCorp Having worked my way through the first three additional books, I felt I needed to try … Continue reading Learning Traveller 6: Merchant Prince
I’ve just had a very pleasant morning rolling up a Scout character using Scouts: Traveller Book 6. Just as with the previous posts in this series, I’ve continued to progress through trying the expanded character generation rules found with Traveller Books 4 to 7. Read from the beginning: Learning Traveller 1 It was during this … Continue reading Learning Traveller 5: Scouts
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m pushing beyond the confines of Classic Traveller Books 1 to 3 and delving into the Character Generation systems presented in Books 4 to 7. This post is about my first taste (well, since about 1986) of High Guard: Traveller Book 5. High Guard presents rules that build … Continue reading Learning Traveller 4: High Guard
One of the great joys in playing Classic Traveller again after so many years has been rediscovering the various caches of Little Black Books (and other supplements) that are squirrelled around the house. Today, as I begin to develop and deepen my understanding of Classic Traveller, I’ve decided to begin to delve beyond Books 1 … Continue reading Learning Traveller 3: Mercenary
I've been having an enormous amount of fun rolling up characters using the Classic Traveller rules. It's an easy, quick, very entertaining mini-game. I totally get why we loved this game back in the 80's. Unlike most other RPGs, Traveller does not simply dump inexperienced 18-year-olds into the world and let them fend for themselves. … Continue reading Learning Traveller, Part 1: Making Characters
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