[TML] 1st session with Mongoose Traveller.

[Knapp]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/14/08 12:19 AM, "shadow at shadowgard.com" <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
>
>  > On 13 May 2008 at 20:55, Jeff Zeitlin wrote:
>  >
>  >> On Tue, 13 May 2008 08:53:33 -0700 (PDT), Azalais Aranxta wrote:
>  >>
>  >>> I'm a chick, and I've been a chick since I was born, in 1964.
>  >>
>  >> Y'know, it says something about my circle of friends when my second
>  >> thought about the part after the command is that it's NOT redundant
>  >> information...
>  >
>  > You and me both. :-)
>  >
>  > And that'd be an interesting bit of "color" to throw at the players
>  > if your TU's med tech is up to it.
>  >
>  > Have them run into an old contact (or enemy) who has chaged sex since
>  > the last time they met.
>  >
>  > Or have some comment in conversation "Oh yeah, I used to be a woman".
>  > With about the same emphasis as "Or yeah, I used to dress goth".
>  >
>  > Great for the "we're not in Kansas anymore" feel.
>
>  In John Varley's stories, it's just about that easy.  He even menions that
>  some parents have their childrens genitals removed so they grow up
>  completely neuter and can choose when they reach adulthood.  Also prevents
>  unwanted pregnancy.  Of course one of his main characters has implants
>  allowing him/her to adjust *bone structure* to better play acting roles (or
>  escape identification).  I wish he'd write more.  :P

You can't change your X and/or Y though.


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Douglas E Knapp
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