So what is this?<\/p>\n
I’ve been a Traveller<\/I> fan for a long time. I started playing when I was in college back in 1977\/1978 and it quickly became my favorite game. I continued playing it for years, even decades.<\/p>\n
Eventually however my campaign faded out. I had been playing about once or twice a year with my old players when we would get together, but a couple of years ago we started playing Eclipse Phase<\/I> instead, and the campaign finally ended.<\/p>\n
But I missed Traveller<\/I>. I had occasionally thought of ways to continue it, but never did.<\/p>\n
Then I realized it was 2017. This in and of itself didn’t mean anything (beyond the fact that when I first started playing Traveller<\/I> 2017 seemed as far away as the Imperial year 1117) but then I thought…<\/p>\n
The Rebellion, as defined in MegaTraveller<\/I>, pretty much got going in 1117.<\/p>\n
So I started thinking about Traveller<\/I> again. And I thought about an article that had appeared in the Journal of the Travellers’ Aid Society<\/I>.<\/p>\n
It was in issue 13, back in 1982, and was titled Real Time Traveller<\/I> by Steven Sowards.<\/p>\n
There was always a lot of empty time in Traveller<\/I>. Time spent with your ship in port, time spent in Jumpspace, time spent looking for cargo or passengers, time that was pretty much glossed over in play.<\/p>\n
Sowards’ article suggested playing Traveller<\/I> a different way. He suggested playing one day of game time in one day of real time. This wouldn’t take long, just the occasional die-roll or two on the days you happened to need to worry about something, but he felt that it would allow players to experience Traveller<\/I>, even in a solo campaign, in something like the scale our characters would be experiencing it.<\/p>\n
And I thought… “Let’s try this.”<\/p>\n
So I set up a campaign. It would be in the Hinterworlds, because that was where my last campaign had been set, and it would start in 1117. While I know that some of my fellow players never particularly cared for the Rebellion, I had always liked the idea. I felt it added a sense of urgency and conflict that was somehow missing from the original game.<\/p>\n
((Don’t ask me about Virus. The collapse could have happened even without it and I never really liked The New Era<\/I> because of it. But I won’t have to worry about that for a while. Hard Times<\/I> runs through 1125 or later, after all…))<\/p>\n
Anyway, I did a bit of research and found that news of Strephon’s assassination would have reached the edge of the Hinterworlds on 258-1116 by Imperial\/Naval channels and on 321-1116 by X-Boat. That’s November 17th in our more familiar calendar. So on January 1, when I decided to set the start the campaign, they would know about the assassination but the details and the extent of the Rebellion would not have sunk in yet.<\/p>\n
The Solomani don’t even know. Yet.<\/p>\n
So I figured it would be a good start for a campaign. I started with a Free Trader, since I have always felt that was the classic Traveller<\/I> campaign. I created a set of characters, came up with a basic structure, and started running it how I thought it would go.<\/p>\n
Yeah, a solo campaign has its own difficulties (in that you know where everything is going) but RPGs have changed a lot since Traveller<\/I> first came out. Back then they were still, in many ways, adversarial. The Referee was working against the players.<\/p>\n
Now, of course, things are different. RPGs are exercises in collaborative storytelling and Referees are encouraged to say “Yes, but…” instead of “No!” to player actions. Plus, I have been getting more into writing lately and this seemed like a good way to encourage some creativity. And so a campaign was born.<\/p>\n
And so, welcome aboard the Grayswandir<\/I>! We’re happy to have you. It’s going to be an interesting voyage. Glad to have you with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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