[TML] The SRD is out for Traveller at the mongoose site.

shadow at shadowgard.com shadow at shadowgard.com
Sun Jul 6 16:51:57 MDT 2008


On 6 Jul 2008 at 11:27, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> At 1:49 PM -0400 7/6/08, Jerry W Barrington wrote:
> >Err... Run Pulp Traveller?  :)
> >
> >Sounds fun actually, if you can pull it off.
> 
> Sounds a little difficult to pull off, though I think if I run a 
> Traveller campaign, it will have definite Pulp elements.  Actually... 
> Brain cells are starting to function...  Hmmm...  Nothing says you 
> have to set a Traveller game in the "Cannon" setting, and I'd already 
> threatened to roll my own.  Just might be time to flesh out a 
> Pulpish/50's Sci-Fi setting I've had in mind.  Who knows what I'll 
> do, I need more time to talk to the players, and realistically I 
> don't see us being ready to start a new campaign for a couple months, 
> our next session is tentatively in a month.

A lot of Lester del Rey and Arthur C Clarke stuff from the 1960s and 
earlier would work just fine for getting the right flavor. 

There are plenty of other authors, but those were the ones who came 
to mind.

Del Rey's stuff starting with "Step to the Stars" is a nice "history 
that never was" setting.

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com




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