Thanks, Charles, I thought the other was "CotI" but then came over all
self-doubty and impatient to hit SEND. Forgot about Vader. Did it include
his Psi rating, or was Trav already burying that stuff in a shallow grave?
> He along with Vader was in Citizens of the Imperium
> So was Conan, There was a bunch plus in 1001
>
> Wherever you go there you are-Buckaroo Banzai
>
> We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to
> visit violence on those who would do us harm. (Winston Churchill)
>
> When in doubt I think of the immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I
> just drank what?"
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:58 PM, [Traveller_TNE] <
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I think Luke Skywalker was in 1001 Characters, or the other one like it.
>>
>> I think the Traveller rules work just fine with Superhero storylines,
>> absent the superpower rules. It's just the superhero TONE that is not
>> "Travelleresque," by which I mean, not for official publication
>> alongside
>> the Lists of Emperors and Megacorps, but it works just fine for your
>> campaign.
>>
>> I recall when we had to come up with the name for the difficulty level
>> above Difficult with the D20 rules some people were opposed to
>> "Impossible" because it seemed too silly or cartoony. I liked it, and at
>> the time there was a lot of angst in the game industry about having to
>> make games more "heroic," so I said, "this will allow players in our
>> games
>> to do the Impossible, can't get more heroic than that." That convinced
>> Les.
>>
>> > Of course a lot of this was part of that old Star Wars strand in
>> > Traveller, in which the Imperium was the Evil Empire. It produced lots
>> of
>> > Han Soloes, but very few, umm, Princess Leias. Or even Luke
>> Skywalkers.
>> >
>> > Not many canonical Darth Vaders, though.
>> >
>> > Yes, moral ambiguity, but sometimes you just want Good and Evil.
>> >
>> > But ignore me, I've just spent the last decade playing superhero
>> games.
>> > I've managed to master-gearhead the Flash and Aquaman, and now I'm
>> bored.
>> >
>> > Time for Traveller again, or should I revisit Old School DnD (because
>> the
>> > newer stuff melts my head, and my potential players haven't played
>> it)?
>> >
>> > Either way, I need easy freeform stupid rules, that don't get in the
>> way
>> > of the jokes.
>> >
>> > And even when I'm playing historical miniatures, I'm not that
>> interested
>> > in looking up tables. My ideal game is Kampfgruppe Peiper on the
>> Kokoda
>> > Track, versus nearly anyone.
>>
>>
>>
>
self-doubty and impatient to hit SEND. Forgot about Vader. Did it include
his Psi rating, or was Trav already burying that stuff in a shallow grave?
> He along with Vader was in Citizens of the Imperium
> So was Conan, There was a bunch plus in 1001
>
> Wherever you go there you are-Buckaroo Banzai
>
> We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to
> visit violence on those who would do us harm. (Winston Churchill)
>
> When in doubt I think of the immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I
> just drank what?"
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:58 PM, [Traveller_TNE] <
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I think Luke Skywalker was in 1001 Characters, or the other one like it.
>>
>> I think the Traveller rules work just fine with Superhero storylines,
>> absent the superpower rules. It's just the superhero TONE that is not
>> "Travelleresque," by which I mean, not for official publication
>> alongside
>> the Lists of Emperors and Megacorps, but it works just fine for your
>> campaign.
>>
>> I recall when we had to come up with the name for the difficulty level
>> above Difficult with the D20 rules some people were opposed to
>> "Impossible" because it seemed too silly or cartoony. I liked it, and at
>> the time there was a lot of angst in the game industry about having to
>> make games more "heroic," so I said, "this will allow players in our
>> games
>> to do the Impossible, can't get more heroic than that." That convinced
>> Les.
>>
>> > Of course a lot of this was part of that old Star Wars strand in
>> > Traveller, in which the Imperium was the Evil Empire. It produced lots
>> of
>> > Han Soloes, but very few, umm, Princess Leias. Or even Luke
>> Skywalkers.
>> >
>> > Not many canonical Darth Vaders, though.
>> >
>> > Yes, moral ambiguity, but sometimes you just want Good and Evil.
>> >
>> > But ignore me, I've just spent the last decade playing superhero
>> games.
>> > I've managed to master-gearhead the Flash and Aquaman, and now I'm
>> bored.
>> >
>> > Time for Traveller again, or should I revisit Old School DnD (because
>> the
>> > newer stuff melts my head, and my potential players haven't played
>> it)?
>> >
>> > Either way, I need easy freeform stupid rules, that don't get in the
>> way
>> > of the jokes.
>> >
>> > And even when I'm playing historical miniatures, I'm not that
>> interested
>> > in looking up tables. My ideal game is Kampfgruppe Peiper on the
>> Kokoda
>> > Track, versus nearly anyone.
>>
>>
>>
>