Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:

>>> tl;dr: we are no longer bound by paper and dice
>>
>> nor by rules or tables that a human can read, or equations that a human can solve by hand*.  We can now turn many or all of those tasks over to computers, and I submit that we should.
>> * or simple tools like a pencil or even a calculator.
>
> We will not, of course, because this remains fundamentally a game about the /last/ century, not this one or the next, let alone the 57th.

I think this is keenly observed, but wouldn't we be playing something entirely different, some immersive MMORPG or something?

The point is, if we're playing Traveller, we're sort of like old model train hobbyists--like Joe Fugate became--or something.

Works for me. ;)

Cheers,

David
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"Everything is post these days, as if we're all just a footnote to something earlier that was real enough to have a name of its own." - Margaret Atwood, ~Cat's Eye~