Re: GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars

Part of thread: GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars · 1 reply ↳ In reply to Re: GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars — alanbgam Re: GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars — alanbgam
I thought most trav meme's had to do with death during character generation.

Derek Stanley
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> On Mar 2, 2015, at 14:34, c[Traveller_TNE] <Traveller_TNEyahoogroups.com> iwrote:
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> It's their choice. ;)
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> ---In , <dcndcn13@...> wrote :
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> "Where the PCs would fit in would be up to them."
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> So carpetbaggers and opportunists it is! (Kidding...joke on the CT
> ethically-challenged merchant crew meme)
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> > It's been a long time since I looked at it, and it's not handy to allow me
> > to refresh my mind, but my impression was positive. If I was going to run
> > a Traveller campaign in the future, and it's been a Real Long Time, the
> > Interstellar Wars period would be a serious contender.
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> > I'd probably set it a fair way into the wars, at a point when it was
> > pretty obvious the Terrans were going to win, and the roots of what would
> > become the Ramshackle Empire were starting to appear. So: less Big Damn
> > Heroes, and more about carpetbaggers and opportunists trying to loot the
> > Ziru Sirka.
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> > Where the PCs would fit in would be up to them.
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> > ---In , <wildcat_hal@...> wrote :
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> > I picked up GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars a few days ago to sort of
> > round out my Solomani Rim collection. Initial impression is that quality
> > of the publication seems good, though I have some concerns about some of
> > the background history presented.
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> > 1. For those of you who have purchased this in the past, what are your
> > impressions of it?
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> > 2. Whether you have purchased it or not, what have you heard about it from
> > others?
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> > 3. Where do you put publications like this one on the 'Traveller Canon
> > Totem'? In theory, everything published by SJG is not canon, but...is
> > that totally true? I ask because if there are nuggets there that look
> > worth mining and incorporating into the CoE setting background, I'd feel
> > more comfortable doing that if there is consensus on the issue.
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