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from them and the lack of people on the road it wasn t that bad just annoying right now it s a balmy 10f so yay posted by redbeard at 1 41 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes weather thursday december 22 2022 gaming weather that s for sure i believe that someone somewhere had to have said that it d be a cold day in hell before messi and argentina finally won a world cup uh oh from associated press photo by martin meissner i do know that people said as much concerning the cincinnati bengals and the super bowl this past january double uh oh from associated press photo by charlie riedel so be careful what you wish for i suppose time to turn on the heater down below time to batten down the hatches here comes the snowpocalypse from the weather channel noaa s forecasts are more detailed but the maps a bit cruder in design okay that s being a bit self serving but most of the us is or will be shortly in the grip of what is being called a bomb cyclone along with temperatures low enough that s not been seen in quite a while from the weather channel just search for bomb cyclone here in cincinnati the forecast is for 2f 19c with wind chill reaching 28f 33c or worse so not gonna be fun outside that s for sure i guess that means its time to play some games eta corrected a grammatical error posted by redbeard at 5 42 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels miscellaneous weather monday december 19 2022 meme monday naughty memes well you know that all seeing eye of santa he sees you when you re sleeping he knows when you re awake he knows if you ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake well since he s making a list and checking it twice let s take a look at some memes on the naughty side of that list now i know what to wear when my questing buddy needs an assist from etsy com when monty python and star wars intersect from imgflip com sigh we all have had that one player that definitely walks on the naughty side from fb com dndmemes as dm i have become acquainted with this from fb com dndmemes and one bonus meme because why not have one about the big guy why yes as a lad i looked a lot like kris kringle the one in the ng slot from deviantart posted by redbeard at 12 16 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes thursday december 15 2022 an rpg from the past traveller this is free trader beowulf calling anyone mayday mayday we are under attack main drive is gone turret number one not responding mayday losing cabin pressure fast calling anyone please help this is free trader beowulf mayday the iconic distress call gracing the cover of various editions of traveller back in the late 90s when i worked as a software qa engineer one of my friends there and i would spend about a half hour after 5 pm chatting about whatever was on our minds he wasn t interested in traditional sports but he was an absolute racing nut he preferred the cart series back then so we frequently talked open wheel racing one day however we geeked out over rpgs mainly because of the upcoming d d 3rd edition i never really played d d he confessed i played traveller what s that i thought i knew of most of the rpgs at the time but this one was new to me it s a sci fi rpg like gamma world gamma world was put out by tsr the publisher of d d and was essentially d d in a post apocalyptic setting be warned the prices for the gamma world 1e rulebook can spike a lot from ebay no although it was closer to star frontiers another tsr game this time set in space yikes this is the 90 copy on ebay i d never heard of it before oh yeah it was really cool it came out right around the time star wars was released in theaters so it got kind of a boost from that a few days later when i stopped by his cubicle he handed me a small booklet the travellers digest yeah it was a periodical that was put out to support traveller it had premade adventures like early dragon magazines but in a scientific journal format i flipped through it looks pretty cool hey you can have it i don t play any more and i happened to stumble on it the other day while i was moving boxes thanks it s digest sized too much like the original traveller rulebooks were that was the extent of my knowledge of traveller until several years later when i was perusing the rpg section at a now deceased local game store and came across a few traveller books under the gurps license as it turned out the employee at the store was in a long running campaign of gurps traveller and over the course of a half hour he filled me in on the history of the game i found this pic from talestoastound wordpress com no i ve never acquired a copy of the original version traveller was published by games designers workshop a wargaming company in 1977 marc miller was the primary designer with loren k wiseman frank chadwick and john harshman assisting the original intent for traveller was to be a generic space rpg system but what ended up happening was that the charted space setting released by gdw over the years became so associated with traveller more people think of charted space when they think of traveller kind of like how d d and forgotten realms are so intimately intertwined gdw also kept up with an official timeline of what is going on in the third imperium in much the same way that white wolf did with vampire the masquerade so that further integrated charted space into the traveller rpg traveller has seen many iterations over the years there was the original traveller then megatraveller in the late 80s then traveller the new era and marc miller s traveller 4th edition there is also a 5th edition of traveller put out by marc miller but that version has returned to its roots as a generic space rpg system and is mostly comprised of tables upon tables of stuff hey if you like tables to generate things for a space rpg game there you go but for me traveller took on new life when it escaped the confines of gdw after gdw closed up shop in 1996 among the first of the non gdw traveller games was gurps traveller supposedly a deal made with a handshake between loren k wiseman and steve jackson of steve jackson games the publisher of gurps gurps traveller followed an alternate timeline than the official gdw timeline and steve jackson games put out quite a few high quality settings books for traveller the starship on the cover of behind the claw is the beowulf class free trader the spinward marches is a contested sector in charted space that is the starting point for many traveller campaigns there was also a d20 version of traveller called traveller20 traveller hero using the hero system and what is commonly known as mongoose traveller a version of traveller put out by mongoose publishing of all of those various versions of traveller out there the most popular one that s currently being supported and published is mongoose traveller which is presently on its second edition over the years i acquired several gurps traveller splatbooks but i could never get into the gurps system enough to warrant running the gauntlet of configuring gurps for a campaign of my own but mongoose traveller now that s a system i can get behind the late andrew boulton created several short videos based on traveller and the charted space setting about 15 or so years ago this is the best of the bunch using he s a pirate from pirates of the caribbean curse of the black pearl for the music mongoose traveller is a bit of a throwback to the original traveller system in as much the same way as d d 5th edition borrowed from old school d d if you want to play a game of traveller today most people will be expecting a game of mongoose traveller so if you say let s play traveller this is what people expect you to pull out it is functionally the same as the traveller second edition core rulebook just tweaked for clarity traveller is one of those games whose character creation was a mini game of its own you start out as a fresh faced 18 year old then you go through some or many iterations of professions you could be a student or join the military or be an assistant on a trading crew or you get the idea after that iteration is over you make a few rolls to see how that period of your life came out you gain skills potentially gain defects and either join the campaign or spend more time in another iteration if somewhere in the back of your mind you re thinking that s nice and all but it s not like your character is ever in any real danger during this character creation process right well it s a good thing you re not playing the original version of traveller why because in the original release of traveller back in 1977 your character could actually die during the character creation process you read that right it was one of the quirks that traveller was in famous for thank you john kovalic dork tower april 4 2019 the modern game starting with gurps traveller and mongoose traveller does not allow for character death during the creation process it s merely optional in mongoose traveller i suppose you could use that rule if you really wanted an old school feel to your game but why bother the point is to create a character that you can play not realism to the point of having a useless or dead character another quirk that is not so unusual these days is that character creation in traveller is a shared experience instead of creating a character in consultation with the gm and then showing up with the completed character on the first group session traveller expects that character creation for the entire group is what happens in your first session along with other rpgs such as fate and burning wheel characters in traveller are created with character hooks so that each character has a connection with the others or some of the others this is one of the big editing changes in the 2022 update version of the rules if only other rpgs did this i m looking at you ars magica one thing that distinguishes traveller from say paizo s starfinder or the various iterations of the star wars rpgs is that traveller skews much more toward hard sf elements of fantasy magic force wielders etc are not found in traveller there s sf handwaving in terms of how faster than light ftl travel is achieved via the jump drive and there s psionics among some species such as the zhodani a sub species of humans but aside from that traveller is very much a hard sf setting even the ancients a mystery species well not to the gm who planted human ancestors across charted space and tinkered with and or uplifted others are less fantasy and more sf i mean crispr cas9 exists already unlike star trek where players typically are members of the crew of a starfleet or klingon starship the traveller crews can fill any number of potential roles independent trader naval mercenary pirate espionage smuggling warzone rebellion exploration diplomacy etc all that s limited is your imagination yeah smeghead from zhodani space want to play a campaign inspired by firefly traveller can do that want to play a rebellion campaign without fantasy elements such as star wars andor or blake s seven traveller can do that want to play a bounty hunter space campaign inspired by cowboy bebop traveller can do that too want to play james bond in space or an ocean s eleven in space traveller again want to play a space exploration horror campaign where your crew encounter aliens based off of alien or the thing or even men in black yeah traveller has you covered want to play a military oriented campaign in the same vein as john scalzi s old man s war hey if you want to homebrew the setting a bit traveller can do it after all there s a traveller setting called 2300 a d want to play a space opera where duchies encompassing different star systems vie for power and prestige in a galactic empire let me introduce you to traveller s third imperium set in the charted space universe want to play a game with a lot of starship oriented combat and maneuvers traveller was built with starships in mind at the beginning not bolted on at the end starfinder or added in an expansion star frontiers in fact traveller s charted space setting can handle all of these campaign ideas and more while providing a familiar framework to fall back upon even charted space itself may feel familiar to swtor fans in an unexpected manner as the third imperium s modus operandi is that the imperial space doesn t mean that the imperium centrally controls worlds or systems but the space between the systems mongoose traveller uses the six sided die as its main mechanic typically 2 six sided dice rolled with the nomenclature of 2d instead of 2d6 but aside from that the basics of rpgs are still intact there are skill checks combat checks etc all things you d expect in an rpg while traveller is definitely a hard sf game don t mistake the game as being entirely centered around combat it s not traveller was designed from the beginning to handle a lot of campaigns and while the free form trader type of campaign is the most ubiquitous type of traveller campaign that doesn t mean that you spend all of your time examining spreadsheets and figuring out optimal profit margins as if you were playing a pencil and paper version of eve online heh if you really want to i guess both from imgflip com but campaigns aside let s talk about another elephant in the room advancement traveller may not be so unusual today but the concept of a game where there is little if any skill advancement once character creation is complete very much went against the grain back in the 1970s think about it this way what would wow be like if there were no levels or power ups or skill progression such as is currently found in the game if the point of the game wasn t to become powerful but the telling of the story and your character s progression through the story while you may potentially learn more skills and or spells attack moves etc and you might find better arms armor weapons the concept of raid bosses with explicit and or implicit affiliated gear checks would take on a different meaning if you were a crewmember on the firefly or the bebop your focus isn t on progression it s where your next meal is coming from if you were fezzik inigo or westley your character progression in the princess bride happened before the real story began when princess buttercup was captured the entire adventure didn t end with someone leveling up but rather their escape from prince humperdinck s clutches their adventures certainly didn t end there but they weren t running around looking for loot and better magic items to use my point is that the mindset we have with a lot of our rpgs is very much advancement loot oriented or maybe min max oriented and traveller is not built for that sure you might end up with a better ship than the beowulf class free trader hey that empress marava far trader would 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