Comments on: New to Traveller http://zho.berka.com/2005/01/18/new-to-traveller/ Upgrading to TL-15 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:57:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Expatriate http://zho.berka.com/2005/01/18/new-to-traveller/#comment-855 Expatriate Wed, 19 Jan 2005 04:27:22 +0000 http://zho.berka.com/2005/01/18/new-to-traveller/#comment-855 Good idea about the non-player races, I hadn't thought of that. I wasn't going to make the alien races humans with funny ridges on their heads, but I do see your point. Thank-you for the link, I'll have to check it out. Good Travels... Expat Good idea about the non-player races, I hadn’t thought of that. I wasn’t going to make the alien races humans with funny ridges on their heads, but I do see your point.

Thank-you for the link, I’ll have to check it out.

Good Travels…

Expat

]]> By: BeRKA http://zho.berka.com/2005/01/18/new-to-traveller/#comment-854 BeRKA Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:23:36 +0000 http://zho.berka.com/2005/01/18/new-to-traveller/#comment-854 Being inspired by B5 (and making Your own setting) is probably a good thing. (That was what You was supposed to do, before the "canon" was thrown at You.) Then You could run political and/or spy adventures at the futuristic equivalent of Singapore or any other multicultural city. For some similar ideas, check out the comic "Valerian et Laureline" by J-C. Mézières. Here is a <a href="http://www.stacken.kth.se/~maxz/valerian/valerian.html" rel="nofollow">webpage about that comic</a>. I wouldn't recommend that all races are anthropomorphic. That would only lead to the alien with zippers type of game, and give it too much of a trekkie feel. You can have some humanoid aliens, that the players can play, (like vargr and aslan in the canon setting) and then some strange ones that are not allowed to play. Then the setting will be more varied, and probably more realistic = better. Good luck with Your game. Please tell us more later! :-) Being inspired by B5 (and making Your own setting) is probably a
good thing. (That was what You was supposed to do, before the
“canon” was thrown at You.) Then You could run political and/or
spy adventures at the futuristic equivalent of Singapore or any
other multicultural city. For some similar ideas, check out the
comic “Valerian et Laureline” by J-C. Mézières.
Here is a webpage about that comic.

I wouldn’t recommend that all races are anthropomorphic. That
would only lead to the alien with zippers type of game, and
give it too much of a trekkie feel. You can have some humanoid
aliens, that the players can play, (like vargr and aslan in the
canon setting) and then some strange ones that are not allowed
to play. Then the setting will be more varied, and probably more
realistic = better.

Good luck with Your game. Please tell us more later! :-)

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