I don't actively play the game anymore but I haven't given up on it altogether. In fact in my pursuit of becoming a science fiction author I use the Traveller rules in all its versions as a framework for sanity attempting to keep the science in science fiction.

Of course, as an aside, my son bought me a book for Christmas entitled "The Physics of the Impossible" by Michio Kaku. Great book. Mind bending in fact. Has changed my position of what is and is not plausible for future tech.

The group I used to play with back in 1978 when I was stationed in Groton CT in the Navy was a mix of genders. Never thought of RPGs as being gender biased.

When I got on the USS Cushing after I was transferred from Groton the RPG crew was all male... but in those days women did not serve aboard warships. That fact definitely had more to do with the gender makeup of our Traveller group.

My son was discharged from the US Navy this past July and reports to me that the RPG gamers on his ship (USS George Washington) was definitely multi-gender with the GM being a woman.

So I don't get this idea that RPG playing is somehow gender biased...

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 4:12 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <nobody@simplelists.com> wrote:

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On Fri, 2/6/15, Evyn MacDude <evyn.macdude@gmail.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: [TML] Why I hate Traveller
To: tml@simplelists.com
Date: Friday, February 6, 2015, 1:24 AM

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at
11:37 AM, The Sayat Menace
<sayatmenace@earthlink.net>
wrote:
>
> Below.
>
> I met this game and
this 'universe' a long time ago. It was always a
boys' thing. I dealt. We all did, those who had to
deal.
>
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Hum, that isn't my experiance, Traveller
has been the one game that I
always have had
a broad selection of genders willing and eager to
play.

Now the
TML, is a different story...

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Well, TML has always been loaded w/ a lot of 'grognards' , set in our ways, but there was a time, back when the Higginbothams were around, where Cynthia, as I recall, actually posted more frequently than her husband.

Still, my experience is that most rpg's, and gaming in general, is heavily weighted towards males.

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> Twenty years ago I
proposed the Pelvic-Mount Plasma Gun, well within the scope
of the rules at the time. I thought it was a shake-up, a
hard josh, or at least an elbow-jostle, to the
'trend' at the time. I was wrong: I was already a
crazy loony alone thing. That wasn't a 'trend'.
It was REALITY.
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Is lunacy,
especially self assigned Lunacy such a bad thing?
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Since most Trav miniatures depicting Battledress usually have an PGMP or FGMP mounted on the shoulder, what's the big deal about mounting it elsewhere?

Also, my parents, both veterans BTW, both thought gaming was silly, perhaps even to the point of irrational, but so what?

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