------------------------------ Bundle: 561 Archive-Message-Number: 7050 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 01:13:16 EST From: "Susan M. Shock" [-- REDACTED --] Subject: My Campaigns David Johnson asked for details on campaigns, so I will share mine. I'm running two concurrent campaigns with the New Era rules; one set in the Reformation Coalition circa 1201, and the other set in the old Imperium circa 1106. In fact, I'm running the "Secrets of the Ancients" series (Adv 2 "Research Station Gamma", Adv. 3 "Twilight's peak" and Adv 12 "Secrets of the Ancients", for the newbies). My players are enjoying themselves immensely after a somewhat rocky start due to rules glitches. One guy quit the RC game because he was ticked off that his laser rifle couldn't penetrate the armor of robots (the police bots from TNE), but everyone else uses slugthrowers, so they did okay. The folks in the "Old Era" game really enjoyed "Gamma"; one person, who has been into Traveller forever and has played that adventure before said he enjoyed it more with the TNE rules. To Anthony K. Baggeley: I did not mean to seem critical of Twilight 2000. I like the game quite a bit. It's just that, especially in the early modules, there was no mistaking the fact that everything had gone to Hell in a handbasket. It was depressing and downright sad at times to think of that happening-which is the type of setting where heroes shine even brighter-when you can convince people to play them. I also understand what you mentioned about CP 2020 (another game I enjoy), and your comments about Cybergeneration make me want to check it out. I don't mind "dark" settings unless they seem hopeless. That's why I like TNE; the "phoenix rising from the ashes" bit always gets me. Oh, and by the way; I am definitely ALLEN Shock. My name has appeared with question marks recently on posts both here and on gdw-beta. My wife lets me use her account to keep me off of more expensive long-distance bulletin boards. Nothing compares to the Internet, anyway. Oh, and one more thing, while I have taken it upon myself to defend TNE from it's detractors, I have both CT and MT, and still run CT from time to time (like this Thursday night). Traveller in all it's forms is far above anything else. ------------------------------