			    TRAVELLER Digest 120

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Re: TRAVELLER digest 119	by Steve Charlton/Avalon Software Inc
  2) Re: Fuzzy Sapiens	by Mark Clark <markc@brahms.udel.edu>
  3) TCS player	by KenHagler@aol.com

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Date:  2 Dec 94 17:22:00 MS
From: Steve Charlton/Avalon Software Inc
To: traveller <traveller@MPGN.COM>
Subject: Re: TRAVELLER digest 119
Message-ID: <9412030022.AA28542@khan.avalon.COM>

A few items:

1.  To Merrick Burkhardt:  Thanks for the input.  I will try the suggestions
out
 over the weekend, and maybe I'll have something neat to post Monday.
Stop playing with the fusion reactors!

2.  To Mark Fletcher:  Planetfall was a TNE combat system published in
Challenge 75.  It makes one-on-one combat simpler to allow gaming
small unit (platoon-level) actions without getting too abstracted and
using most of the normal TNE combat rules.  Sort of an intermediate
step between TNE combat and Striker II.  I think MegaTraveller had
something similar in the Referee's Companion, but memory fails me

3.  To the TML Admin Gods:  My version of TML 119 ends abruptly in
the middile of item 7 or 8.  Is my mail server being naughty, or is there
a problem with MPGN?  I hope the recent convern over post 
lengths does not mean posts will be cut off midstream.

4.  To those seeking Classic Traveller stuff:  Most of you are likely
aware of this, but you should not forget to check used book
stores.  I have gotten a veritable wealth of old stuff at some of
the local shops, including nearly all issues of JTAS and one copy
of Azhanti High Lightning for $15.00 (counters unpunched, but
missing the Supplement 5 book).  Even if you already have
everything, its sometimes nice to have spares.

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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 1994 00:43:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Clark <markc@brahms.udel.edu>
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: Re: Fuzzy Sapiens
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9412030044.A15111-0100000@brahms.udel.edu>

The mention of Fuzzy Sapiens, from H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy books, reminded
me of a Traveller scenario I ran at our local gaming con in 1983 or so.  The 
players had a mission to complete on the planet of the Fuzzy's, who were
physically like Piper's Fuzzy's, but technologically very advanced and
very, very, very rich.  The Fuzzy's talked just like the Care Bears, very
friendly high squeeky voices - drove the players crazy.  The scenario was
played mostly for laughs - the look on the players faces when one of the
Fuzzys told them he was installing a new meson cannon at his house because
he was tired of the color of last year's model was priceless.  There was
also something about the major import of the planet being Scotch Tape,
which the Fuzzys used for odd sexual practices... 


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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 1994 02:03:03 -0500
From: KenHagler@aol.com
To: traveller@MPGN.COM
Subject: TCS player
Message-ID: <941203020301_4524931@aol.com>

George Herbert asked about the Serendip Belt player.

There were several different players during Steve's game. I think it's
important to stress this, lest someone end up with an (undeserved) bad
reputation based on the Serendippies' later actions. Only the _last_ Belt
player was a psycho--the other ones, while they frequently did not get along
at all well with me (as Neubayern), were _not_ given to bouts of homicidal
mania.

Just thought I'd point that out... :-)

Kenneth G. Hagler                            
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"If liberals interpreted the Second Amendment the way they interpret the rest
of the Bill of Rights, there would be law professors arguing that gun
ownership is mandatory." --Michael Kinsley

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