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" (was: Where the UPP fails Apr 2020 05:52 UTC Re: Where the UPP fails May 2020 17:51 UTC Re: Where the UPP fails Apr 2020 19:23 UTC Re: Where the UPP fails Apr 2020 14:55 UTC Re: Where the UPP fails Apr 2020 08:31 UTC Re: Where the UPP fails Apr 2020 01:31 UTC What you manage to do despite your limitations is surely as impressive as what powers they bring to play.Re: Where the UPP fails Apr 2020 22:06 UTC I think they look exactly right for the genre they're in, which is more Lois Bujold/Gordon Dickson/Poul Anderson than Star Wars/EE Smith/James Schmitz. I don't actually agree that Traveller characters look in any way lame compared to characters in other RPGs. This is incidentally one reason why I don't think Star Trek and Star Wars are the same 'Science Fantasy' genre, at least in terms of writing a game that could manage both. In D&D/Wars, there are beings with special powers and PCs/protagonists who have special powers to oppose them with. PCs/protagonists in Traveler/Trek sometimes have to deal with powers that are more than they could have (Yaskoydray/Q/hostile environments) and solve those problems without having powers to throw around - using their ingenuity, largely. Traveller relates to D&D the way Star Trek relates to Star Wars. Dietrick, taken from Starter Traveller rules booklet. It's up to you to make those plans as b ig as possible. All it offer s is a univers e in which to make you r plans. But it takes planning and careful play, because Traveller doesn't offer power-ups as shortcuts. Successful Travellers are those who use their brains more than their br awn, who out-think and out-maneuver their opponents. With just a few skills and some moxie, this normal guy can go out into the TU and (with determination and luck ) make a bi g fortu ne, or g et a peerage, or control a f leet of ships, or any number of other accomplishments. I know I'm not cut from the mythic cloth of John Carter or Dominic Flandry, and my alter ego/PC is also normal guy. Wh at it might be is an adult power fantasy. Let Classic Traveller be what it is.Īcknowl edge up front that Traveller is not a video game, or a n adolescent power fantasy. What is to be done about this? I say: Nothing.
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Survival in other media is assumed, but not in Traveller. Combine that with all of the things in the Traveller universe that can kill you, and merely surviving should be considered a major accomplishment. In Traveller, there is no 'raise dead' spell once you're gone, you're gone. Video games also have 'save game' functions that make character death merely a pause in the game play. Traveller was never meant to do that (but there are lots of games which are) it was meant to bring the worlds of classic/pulp sci-fi literature to life. It is very hard to produce on the tabletop the visuals currently popular in other media. Traveller is not set up to produce those kinds of scenes. T here's al so the trend in first person shooters and action/adventure movies where the protagonist mows down waves of mook opponents - like the main characters in Star Wars, or Jason Bourne. I wonder if even John Carter could keep up with the dizzying spiral of power-ups that define a lot of action/adventure games. The power creep in D&D a nd in video games has left Traveller behind.
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Plus those games have more dramatic interior artwork.
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A Barsoomian White Ape will make dinner out of him quickly, unless the PC is lucky and the player is smart.Ĭompare this to a Pathfinder character with his feats and bonuses and class abilities, and huge hit points pools. Rifleman-3 is a tough hombre in a fight, but even so he can still get capped by a thug with an auto-pistol. Yes, we know that my 4-term Marine with UPP 9998A8 and Cbt. When you compare a 'competent' Traveller character to a character from most other RPGs, especially D&D in its later editions, the Traveller comes off looking, well, lame. T raveller does not provide the power fantasy of easily overcoming enormous obstacles and defeating large & powerfu l enemies. In Traveller power comes from player ingenuity, and an understanding of how the Traveller universe works. OD&D characters feel bland, like they are missing something. To a gamer who is used to 3.5E, 4E, or 5E, the old OD&D offers - lean, streamlined, not very differentiated Granularity, *wants* special powers, and *wants* character advancement.Ī sense, Classic Traveller still offers the sort of characters that "I think the problem (to the extent that one can say a game with so manyįans has problems) is that a certain segment of players *wants* Traveller PCs can be powerful, yes, but it doesn't look that way from the char acter sheet. We've both talked about this in multiple places. Omer the Lizard King has written another post elaborating what skills mean in Traveller.