Mordenkainen wrote:Frex, most
Traveller people I know demand absolute obedience to the canon rules and official universe (OTU), and any infractions, slight deviations or creative innovations result in the offender being violently upbraided then permanently shunned.
Seriously. Those are some intense dudes. I love
Classic Traveller, but the people who play it DRIVE ME CRAZY!
Fortunately, more D&Ders I know are much less up-tight about RP than those in other games.
You never played with me, man.
I play only CT, and have done so since 1983... but I have thrown out the ship's computer rules & brought in ones from The Space Gamer magazine (1981), experimented with a completely self-written Psionics system, altered certain rules for ship-building (like developing a parallel, but somewhat different FTL drive), etc... and changed any number of other rules.
My Traveller game is set in an altered version of the 2nd Imperium (Rule of Man) period... the 1st Imperium-Terran Confederation wars ended in a stalemate and prolonged "cold war", not the take-over of the 1st Imperium by the Terrans (Solomani).
So yeah, you never played with me.
Of course, I played 1E AD&D before Traveller, and CT was still a living, growing, changing thing when I got into it, so I'm "not like the others"... and am proud to be so!
“A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.”
Isaac Asimov
Phunny as phuk. I'm gonna use that from now on.
Got it from the online Traveller group I play with, who as a rule will bend, break and discard anything we don't need or want from Traveller material. We also prefer to play than play at. You likely can blame Bryan Gibson (Traveller artist since CT) or one of his ftf gamers for coming up or swiping the term. He knows Traveller but doesn't care one bit for Canonistas.
