At 08:32 PM 8/27/01, Darryl wrote:
>I still have about 2 dozen old traveller books. Pretty much all the
>supplements, and lots of adventures. I always liked the Traveller
>background but the rules were kind of funny.
>
>Funny how?
>
>Well, just about every character was a 50 year old retired naval
>officer with 30 years of service. The character generation system
>heavily favored getting really really really old characters, since you
>got skills and characteristic bonuses for every year you stayed in
>service. And there was really no penalty for running a 50 year old
>character.
>
>And of course representing a thousand light year imperium as a
>two-dimensional plane was kind of funny....
Well, the Galaxy--at least the part near us--is rather flat . . .
(OTOH, in our vicinity, the disk is somewhere on the order of 1000 ly or so
thick . . . )
--Ronn! :)
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I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
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