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On Wed, 11/18/15, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Absurdities of the Official Traveller Universe
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 5:55 PM

 On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at
 4:26 PM, Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org>
 wrote:
 More to
 the point, macro-world-building provides stuff for people to
 talk about (and pick apart) in lists and forums like this
 one, as compared to, y'know, actually playing Traveller.
 :p-- 
 Sad, but true.
 Which actually reminds me of the
 option in the CT rules for playing Traveller
 "solo." E.g. using the game systems to create
 stuff just for your own amusement, when you've got
 nobody else to play with or can't manage to make
 schedules mesh . . . which is the case with
 me.
  Richard Aiken

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re: all the chargen, worldgen, etc, utilities allover the place.

Having a father & numerous other relatives who were vets from WWII onwards (remember the 'draft'? who still has one?), with quite a number of career 'regulars', I found out right away that it was a lot of fun to sit around & play at generating characters. For good measure, I was also hooked on CT HG shipbuilding for quite some time. Even wrote a BASIC prg for it that I could only use at work as I had no computer at home yet!

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