![]() Traveller is very very good for emulating low-tech sci fi like Alien, or hard sci fi like The Expanse. In fact, the idea of even owning a starship-the core element of the genre-is a distant, mortgage-strangled dream. Would people please stop recommending Traveller to newcomers? If you go into your space opera game expecting blaster pistols, derring-do, laser swords, force fields and the fastest ship in the galaxy (to say nothing of teleporters), you'll be bouncing off Traveller at every turn: it's a low-tech shotguns-in-space world with high lethality, low heroics, and a hard maximum speed for all starships. I went a little ballistic, and it reminded me that I don't think I've weighed in on Traveller in this blog yet. ![]() Someone on Facebook just asked for recommendations for a "space opera Star Trek" game, and of course there were all the usual suggestions (Fate, Savage Worlds, etc.).and of course one large contingent recommended Traveller. ![]()
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