No answers here, only questions. Are there two different class divisions for small/large/capital for star ships and system ships? I'd assume system ships could be much smaller and have more capability, considering they have the j-drives and fuel. Does that necessitate different class breaking points?
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This art is amazing. Is this your project or what's the background here?
I can't believe I totally forgot about this.
Is there a definitive montage song? I will play it over discord during our next montage, which will surely happen.
I feel you. I am not a forever DM (we rotate who is GM in our group) but it is decidedly a 5e D&D group.
A lot of the reason I started looking down the solo path was to try to learn new systems, in the hope of selling my group on trying them out. In the case of this Traveller game, 2 of my close friends from the group got interested and decided to join me.
As far as your netrunning game goes, don't be too quick to assume a solo system wouldn't work. Regardless if you use Mythic or another system like Motif, the mechanics are just a bridge between the game and your imagination to conjure what's happening. It functions a lot like a writing prompt, allowing your imagination to fill in the blanks and populate the story. In that way, it could be very flexible.
Thanks for crossposting! Pardon my Lemmy ignorance, but I have a question. So, when you crosspost, it creates a copy of the linked thread on the new community? Meaning there are two separate but identical articles but on different communities with separate sets of comments? I had originally crossposted the first post to sci-fi, but I wasn't expecting the two copies thing, so I thought I had done something wrong. I deleted the crosspost after that and left it only on the traveller community. Was I doing it 'right' originally after all?
As milkisklim said, I did write a follow-up post: Game Report: GM-less Traveller. I also added a link in the main body to it in case anyone stumbles in here going forward.
Thanks for looking out! Now I feel dumb, but it didn't occur to me to come back here to add a link or tell people about the follow-up post. If there's any help I can give to help you and your friends do the thing, please let me know.
I would say there was a good amount of discussion, but not an excessive amount. In most instances, the word pair meaning was pretty straight forward to interpret. There were some times that we had different interpretations of the word pairs, and there was more discussion that went with that. But, it was limited to us sharing our perspectives and agreeing that one was more likely, thematic, or interesting than the other option(s).
As an example, the trap scene was triggered with the meaning words 'military' and 'trap.' We all jumped to the same conclusion that the locals had some sort of militia and were intent on attacking us. There could have been other interpretations for sure, but our imaginations all went to the same place.
Later in that same scene, after we had talked down the attackers, we started negotiating and wanted to know what their motivation was. We asked for meaning again and got the words 'repair' and 'obscurity.' My buddies' minds went the literal route, thinking that the locals had some sort of technology that was hidden and needed repairs. My mind thought that perhaps it was metaphorical, and these tribespeople wanted to repair their society, which was forgotten about by the King and Court of Drinax. I presented that interpretation and my friends responded with a "yes, yes, that one" which is what led to us trying to recruit them as allies.
So yes, there is definitely room for differing perspectives and discussion. I suppose your mileage may vary on how easily other players might settle on a meaning. The Mythic book actually talks about having a caller for group play, so one player is delegated to be the one that decides which meaning or course of action the group will take, after hearing the options.
Dang, somebody gave $2,500 (and ten cents) towards that bundle.
Wow, this is fantastic. You can also download it and run it in your browser standalone. I put a downloaded copy in my character sheets folder. Thank you for sharing!