On 21/1/21 10:29 pm, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk
(via tml list) wrote:
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> On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 at 12:00, Alex Goodwin
> <xxxxxx@multitel.com.au <mailto:xxxxxx@multitel.com.au>>
> wrote:
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>     <snip>
>     >
>     <Joke>How about "Collinson's Colossus"? An epic, multi-millennial,
>     odyssey spanning from the Treaty of New York to the 3I's peaceful
>     dissolution?</Joke>
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>
> ooooh, now *there's* a thought!
>
> Between Memory Alpha and Marc's _Agent of the Imperium_ jumping
> through eras, plus the stuff in _Book 4: Psion_ which allows time
> travel, it might well be a fun thing to try something like that.
That'd be my luck - the bit I explicitly tag as a joke, you make like a
hobo on a ham sandwich on.
> <snip>
>
> hah!
>
> Tempting, just for the title!  Although as I often point wrt The
> Traveller Adventure and my reports... it's not really THE Traveller
> Adventure, just A Traveller Adventure.  Many have passed that way
> before and I'm sure many more will after we've finished with it.

But how many who have run TTA can legitimately be nicknamed "Collision" ? :)

Besides, I'd like to see someone else's take on the ISW.

>
>     and have them cross paths with Milford et al.  As you seem
>     to have bypassed the uncanny-valley culture shock my mob had to get
>     around with the Golden Age, your mob's take on the ISW era should
>     be a)
>     interesting and b) quite different.  ("Low Jump.  Low-tech. 
>     Low-life.")
>     </Serious>.
>
>
> My problem is two-fold:
> - the first is, I suspect I need a break
> - the second is that if we were to go on there is just so much choice!
How about gee'ing up one of your players to GM?
>
> Continue as we are (same characters, ship etc) and see where we get to?
> Do something else of my own invention with nobles, scouts etc?
> Do a grand tour of the old classic Adventures (including JTAS/White
> Dwarf adventures)?
> Persuade the member of the group that's taken against it that BITS'
> wonderful _In Search of Angels_ [1] would, after all, be worth tackling?
> Get my money's worth from new Mongoose books by taking on one of their
> new campaigns?
> Try something "completely different" (but still Traveller) - the Judge
> Dredd setting, Reign of Discordia, Strontium Dog, Clement Sector, 2300AD?
> Visit a different time, as you suggest... or do something timeline
> hopping?
>
>
Timeline hopping could work, but, IME, it confuses the blazes out of my
players.

>
> No.  Stop even thinking about it.  Stop.
>
> tc
>
I thought my suggestion was fairly explicit, but on review, not explicit
enough.  For more detail, early ISW era - officers and senior crew
aboard a smallish AZS ship laying down the law to these Terran
barbarians.  ("The Vilani counterattacked, singing rude drinking songs"
- with apologies to The Goon Show).

Speaking of which, if you want to do the Terran riff-raff side, how
about the _Mad Dan Eccles_ ?  (and when that gets deaded, the _Mad Dan
Eccles Overdrive_ )

Keep it small, keep it simple.  Petty smugg(l)ing, graft, etc, not
First-Imperium-shaking plots.

That approach has worked wonders for me, but I may have outsmarted
myself - discussion plans for backup games for my mob are always
bracketed with "As long as it doesn't screw up Traveller".

Alex