On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 6:59 AM, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:

For those following my attempt to run The Traveller Adventure with a
group of newbie role players (save one Traveller veteran).

We've now had our 6th session down the pub after work (every other
month) and this was the third on Pysadi.
,
This evening included one stupid/unforgiveable/difficult to salvage
mistake by myself and one possibly poor choice I'd like to ask what
others might have done about.

I think you're doing okay.

Personally, I would have handled the "local not knowing local knowledge" a bit differently, by having "Harrison" be someone who was born and raised in the local startown environs, with parents who only paid lip service to the local religion and therefore neglected his "proper" education as to the details of the faith. But having him be from the far side of the planet (and thus probably a member of a splinter group which didn't know about anolas) works just as well.

As to not turning the crew into a missionary support team, that's a perfectly reasonable choice on the priest's part. None of them have probably been off-world before and thus likely find Travellers (strangers of no providence and likely with criminal records) quite scary. *I* wouldn't want to get on a ship with such folks . . . and possibly take a long walk out of a small airlock a few minutes later. :P

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville (1843)

"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester

"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.