[TML] What is Traveller?

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From: tml-bounces at travellercentral.com
[mailto:tml-bounces at travellercentral.com] On Behalf Of Terry Carlino
Sent: Sunday, 2 December 2007 1:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [TML] What is Traveller?


> Well, as multiple people have answered, what Traveller is depends on who
you
> ask.  Many of the answers are mutually incompatible.
>
> Perhaps a better question, in light of these differences, is why Traveller
> has remained so popular for 30 years?  What are the important things to
> capture in an SF RPG to make it popular, whether Traveller or not?  Are
> there lots of contradictory answers, depending who you ask, or can it be
> boiled down to some sort of Truth?
Maybe Traveller is so popular because many of the answers are mutually 
incompatible?

One person likes the rule system from the LBB and never plays in the 
Imperium at all. Another could care less about the CT rules systems and 
plays Traveller using the Hero system, or GURPS or FUDGE.  Another plays 
mostly Imperium and Fifth Frontier War, Another is most interested  in 
Striker and has a closet full of painted lead.

All these people play Traveller and support the game.

I don't think that there is a boiled down Truth, rather each person 
finds their own truth in Traveller.

-- 
TerryC
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[joel]

To borrow a line from a religion:
"If you see Buddha walking down the street, kill him.  Because the real
Buddha is in each of us."
I think the real Traveller is in each of us, and how we choose to listen to
him or her is how we play the game.

-Joel