Anyone remember a role playing game called Traveller

[2nd_Law]

Played Traveller a fair amount in college. Still have the books. I always preferred it to D&D.

And I still want a FGMP-15 for my birthday.

[constantine]

@The Sonoran Lizard King

I remember playing Traveller in the early 80s, there was a close combat module called Snapshot that was a lot of fun, too. You could play it as a separate game, just set up a spaceship hijacking or what have you. We were playing a lot of RPGs around that time, as well as Steve Jackson’s Car Wars.

Character creation in Traveller was my introduction to Hexidecimal, as character stats used letters for values above 9. Nice geeky touch.

[/Highjack]: Oh man, Car Wars was awesome. I loved Car Wars, along with Melee and, the best Steve Jackson game of all time, Wizard. [/Highjack]

But back to Traveller. Agree with the poster above who said that rolling up characters was really cool. I remember one time I was at home from school sick, and I just spent the entire day creating Traveller characters.

I also thought it was cool that each book had its own name. Can’t remember all of the names, but I remember that the Navy book was called “High Guard”.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

Don’t forget the Psionics Institute.

This game had a real “Andre Norton” feel. Could have been a Solar Queen novel.