One of the features of Traveller that was always amusing to me is that you would sort of "press your luck" as to how far you wanted to develop your character, and at the end of the day, you had a 62 year old character all seasoned and ready for adventure. lol Very different than in D&D when you started out with a 19 year old kid or something. ;-)

@timgoodwin4649

Жыл бұрын

If you survived. 😁

Thanks for covering this game I am passionate about. To explain the confusing editions thing: Traveller has been licensed to and published under a few different forms over the decades of its existence. GDW published the original Traveller. Their "2nd Edition" was called Mega-Traveller and was an update of the first version. Mega-Traveller was replaced by Traveller: The New Era. Finally, GDW published T20 which was a D20 version. For a time Traveller was licensed to Steve Jackson Games and appeared as add-on material for the GURPS base game. Marc Miller, the game's creator founded Far Future Enterprises and put out Traveller 4 and now Traveller 5. It was also licensed to Mongoose Publishing which put out their Traveller which is now known as Mongoose Traveller 1st Edition. Mongoose's Traveller 2nd Edition is their second edition. The Third Imperium setting is vast covering over 1100 star systems. Over the years it has developed a large cannon of lore. Describing the Third Imperium as dry is, I think, not looking at it closely enough. The Imperium does not rule the worlds, but the space between them. Each world is a member state of the Third Imperium but has its own culture, government, laws, and technology. This is a fertile field from which the "Referee" (as Traveller calls its GM) to create all sorts of cool and interesting things. There are tons of cool online tools on the internet which are free to use, including a vast interactive map of the Third Imperium, a Wiki for the lore, various generators, language generators, and tons of other things.

@thedorklylionchannel415

10 ай бұрын

So which traveller would you recommend, Mongoose 2E or T5?

@theprincipledtransformatio6152

10 ай бұрын

@@thedorklylionchannel415 Personally, I like Mongoose 2E for ease of play and being true to the original Classic Traveller. I own T5 and it is difficult to even read. An alternative to Mongoose 2E is Cephus Engine. Cephus is less expensive, but character creation among other things lacks in my opinion. Cephus and Mongoose 2E play in similar ways, but imho Mongoose 2E is the better version.

@thedorklylionchannel415

10 ай бұрын

@@theprincipledtransformatio6152 Thanks so much for the help! I'll get my group on Mongoose 2E and see how they get on :)

Still one of best roleplaying games ever. Easy to learn, easy to play and can be adapted to ANY sci-fi setting (and also,with a bit of work, any other setting)

Thanks for covering one of my favorite tabletop RPGs! I wish every game had Traveller's character creation system. It is very good at grounding your character in the setting.

@Thegaminggang

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a bunch for the donation!

Just got a Traveller bundle on Humble Bundle, so excited to dive in!

Very much enjoyed the video, I picked up a copy of the Traveller facsimile edition from Drivethru a while back (in addition to having the Mongoose 2E version) and this has made me want to revisit it 🙂👍

Been looking forward to this one, Traveller has a place at my table.

⭐ Firefly is actually based on Joss Whedon's Traveller campaign from college.

Traveller GDW is my all-time favorite RPG. That was the 2nd RPG (after ADD) I played. Great review. Your enthusiasm really shines through. What I missed from this review is how would you rate this version of Traveller next to all the other versions (and the original one).

@Thegaminggang

Жыл бұрын

I haven't experienced all the previous editions (as well as all the current incarnations) of Traveller so I wouldn't be able to break down the differences. Also keep in mind this isn't an in depth review but part of a monthly series where I discuss TTRPGs worthy of your attention. You can check out my review of the starter set here on the channel though. ~ Jeff

Traveller!! Thanks Jeff for a great video.

Had classic, now have MG2E! Love it!

It is one I may check out.Thank you for the review.

@Thegaminggang

Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

Love the album Traveller by Slough Feg, based on the singers Traveller campaign.

Thanks for the review. I have just rediscovered West End Games' Star Wars, and its retro-clone D6 Space (much cheaper than used copy of WEG's SW!). I"d play happily traveller, but D6 Space or Stars without Numbers seem more appropriate for my to go system (T2 being an excellent system on its own right). SWN for hard sci-fi (Expanse, Star Trek) while D6 Space will definitely be my SW fix! Thanks again for your reviews and taking the time to share your thoughts!

@Thegaminggang

Жыл бұрын

Have fun!

Currently, Humble Bundle has a good bundle for traveller rpg, ending 23th of august 2023

New sub here. Great stuff!

@Thegaminggang

11 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard!

I have seen a character die in 2e Traveller creation. A player made a space pirate. He was about to retire and muster out, but rolled a 12 for his survival roll and was compelled to serve one more term. On that term, he failed the survival roll and was thrown into prison. He failed his release roll term after term, and always ended up on the wrong side of a prison riot. sixteen years later, his character was missing a limb, had lost several attribute points due to injury, and then had aging effects hit him hard. A crippled, elderly convict would be unfit for any kind of space adventure so we decided he died in prison of health complications.

@Thegaminggang

Жыл бұрын

The rules didn't force the death on the character, although they led to a completely unplayable character. :) ~ Jeff

You were in HS in Chicago in 81,so was I! What HS? We went to the game store at Harlem Irving Plaza. I never played Traveller back then. I was scared away because I didn't want my character to die in creation. We played Space Opera back then. Ever play that? How would it compare?

@Thegaminggang

Жыл бұрын

Good old Gamers Paradise at the HIP! We spent a lot of money there! I went to Lane Tech. I owned Space Opera and a lot of the other FGU RPGs but never played. ~ Jeff

@InnerProp

Жыл бұрын

@@Thegaminggang My Dad went to Lane in the 50's. A couple of my good friends, the McCormick brothers went there in the 80s!

@Thegaminggang

Жыл бұрын

If one of them is Mike McCormick, he was part of our gaming group at Lane. ~ Jeff

@InnerProp

Жыл бұрын

@@Thegaminggang Yep. Good friend of mine, just retired from the CFD. I'm trying to get him to start DMing a campaign for us.

Not sure why you'd stress Traveller -- which is an iconic SF game unto itself -- for kludging together to play other settings that have their own very capable systems already but cheers for anything that brings attention to Traveller

In my last game my character spent 19 years in prison during character creation. By the time he got out he had 0 Social and could kill anything with his bare hands.

@Thegaminggang

9 ай бұрын

Pretty wild!

$20 humble bundle right now

I had a weird thought that somebody might have an answer to. There are some careers that there is no reason to retire from, careers like Diplomat or Dilettante or even Doctors and Scientists. I could even make a case for Drifter. I'm thinking there should be a rule where a character could take a hiatus from their job for a term to adventure and then return to it. Any thoughts?

@Panicagq2

9 ай бұрын

I don't see why not! It sounds worth a try...

@travisewart4551

6 ай бұрын

So, there's kinda a thing for that with the Naval Campaign concept, (they flesh it out in the Elements class cruiser book, I think, it might be a different book) But basically it's, you roll up characters to a certain point, and then start the game from there with the internal dynamics of there career carrying over, there's really only been detailed stuff for Navy characters (and tangentially Marines, because there's usually some stationed on larger Vessels AT least as far as the 3rd Imperium goes), but you could apply the concept to any of the classes, it'd just take some work to adjust it. Also the concept of Detached Duty for the Scouts, could probably be tweaked to achieve something similar, for less involved carriers.

@Scanner9631

Ай бұрын

I've been thinking that the characters adventure is just a new career and they should get skills and such the same way over each 4 years. You may have retired from your career in the Merchant Marine to run your own Far Trader but that too would be a career even if you accepted "side missions" doing "adventures" for pay, speculation, benevolence or fun.

Did anything come out for this system in 2024?

@Paraboxify

11 күн бұрын

Yes

Wot, MegaTraveller?

It's an incredible system, but almost impossible to get anyone to play due to 5E and MTG.

Have you ever played a game called "Mechanoid Invasion?" .... from Palladium Games? would love to see a review on this game.

@Thegaminggang

Жыл бұрын

Palladium is a company I avoid promoting. You just have to know a little about their Robotech fiasco from back in the day to understand why. ~ Jeff

These books are terribly expensive.