I have been thinking about a science fiction game for some time now, and I finally pulled the trigger and got Deluxe Traveller. I have never played Traveller before, although I may have owned some of the original books way back in the day (digest sized paperbacks). I remember seeing them many times in game shops and bookstores back in the early and mid 80s, but I was very wedded to D&D then, and had other games--Gamma World, Call of Cthulhu, Chill, Star Frontiers--so I never got into it. I do remember people absolutely loving this game, though. For some reason, deep in my neurons, there is a connection with MIT, but I can't recall the details.
So I splurged $135 in store credit at Noble Knight and got the 1983 box set. I am pretty excited about it! I like old games much more than newer games, and I waffled back and forth for a few months before deciding to go wicked old school (at least for now). There is an enormous Traveller ecosystem out there on the internet; I am already reading a bit about the community, and looking forward to engaging. In my heart of hearts, science fiction is my most favorite thing ever (fantasy and horror are close!). I have been sucked into some excellent military science fiction this summer, and I'm reading a big, heavy book called The Space Opera Renaissance (and I mean literally heavy: this thing could kill a small child). Sci-fi on the brain, I guess. There are worse places to be...
I don't know what I'm going to do with this game, if anything, but I am hoping to imagine up some stuff and get a bit of -building done (world, sector, sub-sector, local cluster, empire...whatever!). Should be fun.
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