06-11-2017, 02:07 PM | #41 | |
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Re: Literary source for anti-psionics prejudice?
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Traveller had no real mechanic for character advancement. Characters who are young and unseasoned suck, and will always suck for the duration of the campaign. Oh in theory if the campaign goes on for year after year of in-game time you can improve a rookie...slightly...but no faster than the grizzled 50 year old. Comparatively speaking the rookie will always suck provided that the veteran managed to get his anti-aging roll pills. That's the primary driver for a default campaign, the quest to get enough money to arrest the aging of the elderly protagonists. Except...there's another driver. There's the bit where you wander from planet to planet looking for a psionics institute so the characters who aren't grizzled veterans can suddenly not suck because while they may be lacking actual skills they make up for that by being the only ones who have superpowers. That's the game balance trade-off. The Psionics Institutes are rare and illegal in the original game's default setting because that gives firstly something to quest for, but more importantly it explains why the grizzled veterans don't have have just as much woo-woo as the kids because like the kids they were tested and trained in high school. |
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06-11-2017, 03:22 PM | #42 |
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Re: Literary source for anti-psionics prejudice?
I don't remember a single PC in any campaign I ran or played in who showed any interest in antiagathics. No, really. It was NPC motivation only.
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06-11-2017, 04:02 PM | #43 |
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Re: Literary source for anti-psionics prejudice?
Adventurers who worry about dying of old age do seem to be a little fuzzy on the concept of "adventure".
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06-11-2017, 09:20 PM | #45 |
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06-12-2017, 11:51 PM | #46 | |
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Procedural, not setting description. That the prejudice is the result of a failed psychohistorical manipulation gone seriously wrong, that is setting fluff for the 3I. |
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06-12-2017, 11:53 PM | #47 | ||
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I've seen a 3 month merchant campaign cover more than 3 years (8 hour weekly sessions, suitable spreadsheet support). |
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06-13-2017, 12:48 AM | #48 |
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Re: Literary source for anti-psionics prejudice?
Not relevant to the kind of setting I want when I run Traveller, rule section ignored. Please move on, you can't force me to use the section.
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06-13-2017, 08:58 AM | #49 |
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Re: Literary source for anti-psionics prejudice?
Perhaps you could move on as well. "The kind of setting you want when you run Traveller" is pretty thoroughly off-topic to this thread.
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06-13-2017, 09:23 AM | #50 |
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Re: Literary source for anti-psionics prejudice?
Yeah, I probably should. GURPS Traveller hasn't had anything to offer me in over a decade, no reason to linger here.
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