As promised, this episode is a recap of the two Classic Traveller games Bill ran at Dexcon. I find these games very entertaining to listen to. They make me want to play! Both these games were essentially pick-up games, with characters and the adventure more or less determined on the fly using the Traveller rules for things such as patrons, animal encounters, ship combat and other stuff. Bill points out that the tables are a great help for running the game off the cuff. One thing I will point out is that in the first game, ‘Mustering Out Blues’ Bill was using a large poster size map for the sub-sector that has seen a lot of use over the last year or so, as the same sub-sector is the setting for the ‘Mustering Out Blues’ adventures. It’s neat to see the map amended over time, as the characters discover new things about the different systems, or even change things in those systems!
This episode runs at just under 60 minutes. We’ll have more Dexcon recap episodes as soon as possible!
Mel
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So what map did you use?
The Spinward Marches?
Well looking forward to listen to this tomorrow!
Bill used a homemade map. I’ll have to see if I can scan it in somehow. Let me work on it!
Mel
Great podcast! I really enjoyed it. Can’t wait to hear more.
Thanks! More to come!
I have loaded the actual play file for ‘Mustering Out Blues’ at the Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/ClassicTravellerAtDexcon
The recording starts after character creation.
I really enjoyed listening to this episode. My group just started a Traveller game using the 2008 Mongoose book. It’s a bit crunchy for us after months of diceless games, but we’re getting the hang of it. It was nice to hear people having a good time with the setting.
Great to hear that! It is neat to see the echoes of Classic Traveller in the Mongoose version. Regardless of the version, it is fun finding out what’s out there in the Imperium.