Did you have clones a lot in your TNE games? Not exactly standard TNE issue.
I thought you had some Traveller fiction on line someplace. Starship
crews, female main characters, stuff like that.
Lots of blue and green.
Am I thinking of someone else?
> Clones.
>
> I'm the type of player who like / needs to write character backgrounds. I
> need to know where my character's coming from and where they're going.
> Voodoo had a fairly well laid out background including a 1 year blank
> spot.
>
> When I was much younger I aspired to write, despite the fact that I lack
> even the most basic grasp of spelling and punctuation, and that kind of
> carried over into character building. When I built a character it aways
> had 3 or 4 largish plot hooks for the GM so he didn't have to do all the
> heavy lifting.
>
> Basically Voodoo wandered off into the snow one winters eve and returned a
> year later with no memory of the events that had transpired and a child.
> I'm not entirely sure why or what inspired him to fill that void with a
> clone plot line, he's been dead for 15 years so I can't ask him, at any
> rate every where we went in the wilds we'd invariably run into one of
> Voodoo's clones. I think we met 6 all told, by the end I wasn't even sure
> if I was just another clone or the original.
>
> Ya the Spiri bit amounts to 2 or 3 sentances. I just took it and ran with
> it.
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Mar 24, 2014, at 11:20 PM, wrote:
>>
>> You're definitely one of the people that TNE was a really good fit for.
>> Whatever that says about you, me, Frank, and what Frank I expected
>> other
>> people to be like, who knows.
>>
>> Re: being eaten by a thresher, I think he deliberately walked into it,
>> knowing that he had caused it, and thinking that was a reasonably
>> fitting
>> end. I think it was for him a bit of a grace note at the end, finally
>> owning up to it all, rather than making people hunt him down and kill
>> him
>> or put him on trial. Icky to be sure, but dead is dead.
>>
>> Yes, I agree with you about the pocket empires. If you let the
>> Rebellion
>> sputter down to heat death, they're still enemy empires and don't get
>> along, and have not learned anything. They'll just start fighting again
>> so
>> there is nothing to be gained going that way.
>>
>> I can't remember much about the Spiri. I think the guys with the facial
>> tattoos were Lutahlens, right? I assume you have access to PoT, right?
>> All
>> there is is in there.
>>
>> Clones?
>>
>> > This was always something that made me laugh about the old guard, so
>> > you're
>> > willing to let go Jump Drives that take you from a to b in a week
>> > regardless
>> > of the real distance travelled, Anti-Gravity, genetically engineered
>> > Wolves,
>> > Pocket Dimensions, psionics and the human race being seeded all over
>> the
>> > galaxy but a silicon based life form that can live inside of computers
>> is
>> > completely off because it's to unrealistic. Wow. Really?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm of the in for a penny in for a pound type of people, the cymbline
>> > chips
>> > had already been written in as a part of the lore, you can bet your
>> > backside
>> > some crazy mother's going to try and weaponize them. So I just
>> shrugged,
>> > said their computers are so far ahead of ours I'll just go with it
>> and
>> > tried
>> > not to think about it.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > A lot of my friends thought that destroying the 3rd Imperium was going
>> too
>> > far, oh they should have stopped here and then everything would have
>> come
>> > back with a bunch of smaller groups. After reading through all of the
>> MT
>> > source books and Survival Margin that none of the old groups deserved
>> to
>> > survive with the exceptions of Norris and Craig, they all had far too
>> much
>> > blood on their hands and every one of them deserved to go, although
>> > getting
>> > mulched by a thresher might have been a little excessive. Plus, the
>> > problem
>> > with a bunch of smaller pocket empires is you'd still end up with a
>> war to
>> > reunite the Imperium, none of them were ever going to willingly walk
>> away
>> > from the throne. The war would just start up all over again in
>> another
>> > decade.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I always wondered about the Spiri, my RCES character was a Spiri and
>> I
>> > tried
>> > to play a kind of Buddhist shaman. I have a degree in archaeology and
>> > anthropology but I still had a rough time wrapping my head around how
>> to
>> > play the character. I probably came across as more of a weed smoking,
>> > tree
>> > hugging hippy. Then the GM threw in the whole clones of my character
>> > everywhere we went.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
I thought you had some Traveller fiction on line someplace. Starship
crews, female main characters, stuff like that.
Lots of blue and green.
Am I thinking of someone else?
> Clones.
>
> I'm the type of player who like / needs to write character backgrounds. I
> need to know where my character's coming from and where they're going.
> Voodoo had a fairly well laid out background including a 1 year blank
> spot.
>
> When I was much younger I aspired to write, despite the fact that I lack
> even the most basic grasp of spelling and punctuation, and that kind of
> carried over into character building. When I built a character it aways
> had 3 or 4 largish plot hooks for the GM so he didn't have to do all the
> heavy lifting.
>
> Basically Voodoo wandered off into the snow one winters eve and returned a
> year later with no memory of the events that had transpired and a child.
> I'm not entirely sure why or what inspired him to fill that void with a
> clone plot line, he's been dead for 15 years so I can't ask him, at any
> rate every where we went in the wilds we'd invariably run into one of
> Voodoo's clones. I think we met 6 all told, by the end I wasn't even sure
> if I was just another clone or the original.
>
> Ya the Spiri bit amounts to 2 or 3 sentances. I just took it and ran with
> it.
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Mar 24, 2014, at 11:20 PM, wrote:
>>
>> You're definitely one of the people that TNE was a really good fit for.
>> Whatever that says about you, me, Frank, and what Frank I expected
>> other
>> people to be like, who knows.
>>
>> Re: being eaten by a thresher, I think he deliberately walked into it,
>> knowing that he had caused it, and thinking that was a reasonably
>> fitting
>> end. I think it was for him a bit of a grace note at the end, finally
>> owning up to it all, rather than making people hunt him down and kill
>> him
>> or put him on trial. Icky to be sure, but dead is dead.
>>
>> Yes, I agree with you about the pocket empires. If you let the
>> Rebellion
>> sputter down to heat death, they're still enemy empires and don't get
>> along, and have not learned anything. They'll just start fighting again
>> so
>> there is nothing to be gained going that way.
>>
>> I can't remember much about the Spiri. I think the guys with the facial
>> tattoos were Lutahlens, right? I assume you have access to PoT, right?
>> All
>> there is is in there.
>>
>> Clones?
>>
>> > This was always something that made me laugh about the old guard, so
>> > you're
>> > willing to let go Jump Drives that take you from a to b in a week
>> > regardless
>> > of the real distance travelled, Anti-Gravity, genetically engineered
>> > Wolves,
>> > Pocket Dimensions, psionics and the human race being seeded all over
>> the
>> > galaxy but a silicon based life form that can live inside of computers
>> is
>> > completely off because it's to unrealistic. Wow. Really?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm of the in for a penny in for a pound type of people, the cymbline
>> > chips
>> > had already been written in as a part of the lore, you can bet your
>> > backside
>> > some crazy mother's going to try and weaponize them. So I just
>> shrugged,
>> > said their computers are so far ahead of ours I'll just go with it
>> and
>> > tried
>> > not to think about it.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > A lot of my friends thought that destroying the 3rd Imperium was going
>> too
>> > far, oh they should have stopped here and then everything would have
>> come
>> > back with a bunch of smaller groups. After reading through all of the
>> MT
>> > source books and Survival Margin that none of the old groups deserved
>> to
>> > survive with the exceptions of Norris and Craig, they all had far too
>> much
>> > blood on their hands and every one of them deserved to go, although
>> > getting
>> > mulched by a thresher might have been a little excessive. Plus, the
>> > problem
>> > with a bunch of smaller pocket empires is you'd still end up with a
>> war to
>> > reunite the Imperium, none of them were ever going to willingly walk
>> away
>> > from the throne. The war would just start up all over again in
>> another
>> > decade.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I always wondered about the Spiri, my RCES character was a Spiri and
>> I
>> > tried
>> > to play a kind of Buddhist shaman. I have a degree in archaeology and
>> > anthropology but I still had a rough time wrapping my head around how
>> to
>> > play the character. I probably came across as more of a weed smoking,
>> > tree
>> > hugging hippy. Then the GM threw in the whole clones of my character
>> > everywhere we went.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>