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Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!
I played Traveller from the Black Box edition circa 1982/3, and reading the OP was a real nostalgia flashback; thanks! It's really interesting to see the setting backstory and alien races described in detail, because IIRC, in the original LBBs, they just... weren't. There are references to the Imperium and mention of the Zhodani and the other races, but there's no D&D-style setting book - you're left to infer an awful lot, so one GM's Imperium is probably very different from another's.

The relative lack of sci-fi weapons and gadgets probably led to my not playing it that much (compared to reading the adventures and ship plans); I was into Stars War and Trek, and wanted ray guns and rapid warping to strange new worlds, not weeks on end cooped up in tiny cabins. No phasers? No blasters? Just regular bullet-firing guns? Boring! Of course, this was just a few years before Aliens...

Small Strange Bird fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Jun 12, 2021

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