Friday, 15 July 2016, 00:25am +01:00 from Abdul Rahman Reijerink <xxxxxx@gmail.com>:

>> Oh!!!  Thank you!  This is like a source book for that part of the adventure.  It's wonderful, thank you. :-) 

>Definitely worth a write up for one of the blogs or fanzines. Great stuff.

Seconded.

 >> 'course they'll still end up in the desert now they've *really* peeved the baddies and let their faces be seen...

>Hehehe.

Oh dear, have I become one of *those* referees?!

I was just reading this to my players in the pub last night:
"To a certain extent, Traveller is a contest between the referee and the players, as the referee represents all the - nasty things that the universe can throw at people. As such, it is very easy for a referee to come to view the players as "the enemy", whose every move is to be thwarted, and to take every opportunity to make things tough on the players, throwing problem after problem their way and piling disaster on top of disaster. This makes the players sullen and suspicious, and spoils the entertainment value of Traveller. A referee's fun in Traveller is different from a player's fun. While players plot and scheme on the basis of (often) incomplete data, the referee sees all and knows all."  The Traveller Book, p.11

tc