Good New Year, everyone!
So let me start off this year with a little background about my role-playing game hobby. I started out, as millions have in the US, with Dungeons and Dragons, in 1979. Soon after I graduated high school, I went to college and was introduced to a whole new gaming environment.
I tripped across a new group at USM, early in 1980 and started down the path with ‘Classic’ Traveller (CT). My little black book (LBB) catalog started to grow as I bought the reprints from our local game store. The store was more of a generalized hobby store, run by a grumpy retired Postmaster. At the time, he did not have much, but I was always biking up there from the University looking for anything new.
It would be many years later, as I joined the Air Force when I discovered another game system, Other Suns. For some reason that game system has always stuck with me, though I was not a total fan of the Furry ‘Altani’ Hegemony that was the base universe for the Other Suns system. I would find out many years after that this system is now the basis for Call of Cthulhu, based off of Rune Quest.
Though many have written up ideas, I have often wondered what a merge of Traveller and Basic Role-Playing (BRP) would look like and how the game would handle. Don’t get me wrong, the simplicity of CT is still a draw for me. Heck, I am sure I will wax nostalgic about the 2d6 system and the other Cepheus Engine systems.
While I missed putting anything into this blog on January 1, I am going to resist entering this as a 1/1/2023 entry and just start here.
Many new systems are in place that could possibly help run a good Traveller-esque game in the BRP system, with a healthy 3-D start map. I have also been a fan of AstroSynthesis.
Let us see where we can go from here. Party on, Dicers!
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