Traveller-digest    Tuesday, September 28 1999    Volume 1999 : Number 1139



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The following topics are covered in this digest:

Re: TML Roster
Re: Traveller in Oregon?
Re: software data formats
Re: Traveller in Oregon?
Re: good and evil
Traveller Houston or DC?
Re: Shipboard vs. Groundbound salaries
Re: Slightly OT: Religion 
OT: Cats and bookstores (was Re: Traveller in Oregon?)
Re: Traveller Houston or DC?
Jesse's Planet Pics
Re:Archon- Anyone Attending?
Re: Re:Archon- Anyone Attending?
TMLer Con Attendance (was: Archon- Anyone Attending?)
Re: Re:Archon- Anyone Attending?
Re: TMLer Con Attendance (was: Archon- Anyone Attending?)
Re: Traveller Houston or DC?
RE: Pyramid question W/LEGAL ADDITION
Re: OT: Cats and bookstores (was Re: Traveller in Oregon?)
Re: Player handouts? Anyone use them?...
RE: Pyramid question
Re: good and evil
RE: Jesse's Planet Pics

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:03:18 -0400
From: "Thomas Schoene" <TomSchoene@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: TML Roster

> Juliean Galak
> Ithaca, NY (school)

Go Big Red!

Tom Schoene (Cornell Class of 93)
Arlington, VA

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:17:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jason Young <jason_d_young@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Traveller in Oregon?

> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:45:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh@aracnet.com>
> Subject: Re: Traveller in Oregon?

> You're both missing the important sites in that part of
> town.  If you make
> it into Portland you HAVE to go to Powells Books, both
> the Main Store, and
> the Technical Bookstore are near there.  Powells
> occasionally gets Traveller
> stuff in, and I've seen GURPS:Traveller at the Powells
> near Washington Square
> in Tigard.

Indeed, Powell's is always worth the trip. In fact, I
bought my copy of MT there back in about 1989, just
browsing through the store.
 
> The Sci-Fi section of the main store has more books than
> a lot of
> Bookstores!  They carry new and used books, so you can
> find really old stuff
> you can't find elsewhere.
> 
> 				Zane

And their children's section is amazing, and cooking,
travel, and everything else. The rare books room is kinda
fun, too. Any traveler (traveller?) coming through Portland
should drop in for a look-see.

Powells is also on-line at:
http://www.powells.com/

(The picture on that site is just one row, and there's
gotta be 50 such rows in the place.)

Someone else mentioned Bridgetown hobbies. It's now one of
the last great gamestores in town, if not the last. They
are also at:
http://www.bthobbies.com/

Jason (Portland native)


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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 20:04:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Prior <robert_prior@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: software data formats

>In mail you write:
>
>> When it comes to choosing an extensable language to base it on I
>> would think that it might be easier to use XML on a microsoft
>> operating system than for other operating systems to find a way to
>> access the proprietary microsoft INI format.
>
>What "proprietary"? The INI format (which is also used by OS/2) is a
>relatively *simple* TEXT format.

Isn't INI published by Microsoft? The same Microsoft that releases changes
to the operating system with new versions of its applications? The same
Microsoft who's VP once stated "We set teh standards, and we can change the
standards. That's our competitive advantage." (Or very similar words.)?

I for one will avoid it, then. XML I would cope with, assuming someone
explains it to me.

Hm. GT Shipyard and GT Metator, exporting to XML format. Would there be a
user demand?

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 20:16:58 -0400
From: "Jory Earl" <j-man@iname.com>
Subject: Re: Traveller in Oregon?

>Someone else mentioned Bridgetown hobbies. It's now one of
>the last great gamestores in town, if not the last. They
>are also at:
>http://www.bthobbies.com/
>
>Jason (Portland native)


Last time I was there it had just turned to that name from "Military
Corner".  Glad to hear its still around.


___________________________________________________________
 J-Man
 ICQ# 2843475
 New Hampshire - U.S.A.
 Email : j-man@iname.com
 Home Page : http://www.geocities.com/~jman037/
___________________________________________________________

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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:38:51 +1000
From: david.d.jaques-watson@centrelink.gov.au
Subject: Re: good and evil

Dear Folks -

Shawn wrote:
>I'm in a little bind.
>[snip]
>What can I do to bring these characters together?

Have the scientist-type develop/find a powerful tranq drug and
surreptitiously replace all the others' ammo...

...then after the next firefight, when they REALLY need one person alive to
pump for information (a good adventure setup by the GM can force the issue
here), the scientist can inform them of the switch - and lecture them at
length about the benefits of subtlety...  ;-)

Make sure they get thoroughly sick of being chased by the police. And the
MoJ, if they do they same thing on multiple worlds (too dirruptive for the
Imperium) or send bounty hunters after them. Lots of bounty hunters...
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David "Hyphen" Jaques-Watson        Beowulf Down (Tavonni/Vilis/SM 1520)
http://www.tip.net.au/~davidjw                       davidjw@pcug.org.au
"I file things in historical order, with a hashing algorithm of gravity"
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REQ'D DISCLAIMER - material & opinions contained within are solely those
of the author and do not necessarily represent, in whole or in part, the
position of Centrelink or any other Commonwealth Government agency.
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:44:28 -0500
From: "Thomas Vickers" <redroach@flex.net>
Subject: Traveller Houston or DC?

I have a good question.
Anyone have any ideas about Traveller in Houston ? It has been 15 years
since I journeyed to Houston for game materails.
Secondly, any good stores in the Washington DC area?
I am returning there at the end of October for a few days.

TV
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"The dumber you seem to be, the more surprised they'll be when you kill
them."
- -----Original Message-----

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:21:32 -0600
From: cos 90 <cos90@powersurfr.com>
Subject: Re: Shipboard vs. Groundbound salaries

>terribly difficult and uneconomical to maintain aboard. Traveller
>characters, just by virtue of the character generation system, are almost
>to a one single, never married, and over 30 years old. How many of those do
>you know personally? 

Other than myself? Pretty much everyone else in my gaming group... although
one of us is still in his 20's and another is engaged... :)



     Glenn St-Germain  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 
cos90@powersurfr.com  http://plaza.powersurfr.com/glenn
        "There is no longer any normal to be"
                                 -- Gary Numan

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:25:21 -0400
From: "Keven R. Pittsinger" <jamstar@accesstoledo.com>
Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Religion 

> At 06:37 AM 9/28/1999 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> >One of my PBEM characters is a member of the Reformed Solomani Catholic
> >Church.  You can't get his St Elvis medal off of him with nuclear 
> >explosives, even though it's *been* awhile since he picked up a hymnal & 
> >sang 'Blue Swede Shoes'. 
> 
> http://gridlore.home.mindspring.com/elvis.html

Amen, brother!  Hand me down my sequinned suit...

Keven

- -- 
tc++ tm+ tn t4- to ru++ ge+ 3i c+ jt au st- ls pi+ ta+ he+ so- vi zh sy
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                                                     Science-Fiction Adventure
                                                     In Reavers' Deep

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:31:50 -0600
From: cos 90 <cos90@powersurfr.com>
Subject: OT: Cats and bookstores (was Re: Traveller in Oregon?)

>Last time I was in Edmonton, a chain of book stores (Wee Book Inn) had a cat
>in each of the 5 stores. There best store was on White Ave. (2 floors with
>the second floor having some really old pulp sci-fi and the biggist cat I
>have ever seen)

5 Wee Book Inns? Downtown, Stony Plain Road West, Whyte Avenue... where are
(were?) the other two? 

(Trivia note: all the WBI cats are named after old Montreal Canadiens 
hockey players. The large cat at the Whyte Ave store was called "Boom Boom";
I'm not sure she's still alive as she was darn near 20 years old last time
I saw her. Downtown's cat "J.C." can often be found on top of the cash
register...)

- -- Glenn (works in downtown Edmonton)   :)




     Glenn St-Germain  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 
cos90@powersurfr.com  http://plaza.powersurfr.com/glenn
        "There is no longer any normal to be"
                                 -- Gary Numan

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:34:48 -0400
From: "Thomas Schoene" <TomSchoene@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Traveller Houston or DC?

- ----------
> From: Thomas Vickers <redroach@flex.net>
> To: traveller@lists.imagiconline.com
> Subject: Traveller Houston or DC?
> Date: Tuesday, 28 September, 1999 8:44 PM
> 
> I have a good question.
> Anyone have any ideas about Traveller in Houston ? It has been 15 years
> since I journeyed to Houston for game materails.
> Secondly, any good stores in the Washington DC area?
> I am returning there at the end of October for a few days.
> 
I'm near DC, and I don't know of a good store that is really all that
close.  Game Parlour out in Chantilly is good for some things, most notably
thy have a huge (and clean) open gaming area, and support miniatures.  But
their stock often seems spotty to me.  And they require a significant drive
(probably 40 minutes from DC).

Dream Wizards is up in Rockville, which is just accessible by Metro. 
They're a lot smaller though, and I'm increasingly disappointed with their
service.  (I don't like being told that game company is lying about having
released product, just because the store can't find it.)

There's also a very small Compleat Strategist in McClean, but their RPG
support is pretty slim.  

Tom Schoene

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:40:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Collin <charles@hebb.psych.mcgill.ca>
Subject: Jesse's Planet Pics

Neat stuff as usual Jesse, but what I'm wondering is in what sense are
these "texture maps"?  They're just pics from different angles, right? I
guess I was hoping for something flat that I could warp around a sphere in
3D so I could rotate the image and so on.  Am I missing something here?

Thanks,
Charles C.

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:39:21 EDT
From: JLAROSEE@aol.com
Subject: Re:Archon- Anyone Attending?

  Our local gaming convention is this weekend, 1-3 Oct, in Collinsville, 
Illinois. Is anyone attending? 

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:01:59 -0400
From: "Sword Worlder" <swordworlder@clinic.net>
Subject: Re: Re:Archon- Anyone Attending?

Ooh-ooh!  Let me visit Priceline.com and I'll get back to you.  Ya think an
airline will bite on $3.78 round trip from Maine?

- -C

- ----- Original Message -----
From: <JLAROSEE@aol.com>
>   Our local gaming convention is this weekend, 1-3 Oct, in Collinsville,
> Illinois. Is anyone attending?

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:07:13 -0500
From: Black ICE <wombat@premier.net>
Subject: TMLer Con Attendance (was: Archon- Anyone Attending?)

JLAROSEE@aol.com wrote:
> 
>   Our local gaming convention is this weekend, 1-3 Oct, in Collinsville,
> Illinois. Is anyone attending?

Wish I could (I'm a veteran of Archons 5 and 6), but I've already made
my St. Louis road trip for this month (my sister's wedding).  C'est la
vie....

May I suggest that, in the future, folks on the TML post any cons they
intend to attend?  This will help in organizing K'kree barbecues and the
like....

On that note, my next planned con is Exoticon 2, in New Orleans, 19-21
Nov 1999.  See this URL for details:

http://www.exoticon.net/frames.html

- -- 
AuricTech Shipyards Journeyman Gearhead
"Gold-Plated [tm] solutions for copper-plated problems!" (r)
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/9776

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:05:14 -0500
From: "Thomas Vickers" <redroach@flex.net>
Subject: Re: Re:Archon- Anyone Attending?

Tell you what Swordy, I will drive up from Texas and pick you up. That way
we can both go:)

TV
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- ------------
"The dumber you seem to be, the more surprised they'll be when you kill
them."
- -----Original Message-----
From: Sword Worlder <swordworlder@clinic.net>
To: traveller@lists.imagiconline.com <traveller@lists.imagiconline.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: Re:Archon- Anyone Attending?


>Ooh-ooh!  Let me visit Priceline.com and I'll get back to you.  Ya think an
>airline will bite on $3.78 round trip from Maine?
>
>-C
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <JLAROSEE@aol.com>
>>   Our local gaming convention is this weekend, 1-3 Oct, in Collinsville,
>> Illinois. Is anyone attending?
>
>

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:09:14 -0500
From: "Thomas Vickers" <redroach@flex.net>
Subject: Re: TMLer Con Attendance (was: Archon- Anyone Attending?)

Damn, that is close. I may have attend one.
I haven't been to a Con since 85 or so.
TV
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- ------------
"The dumber you seem to be, the more surprised they'll be when you kill
them."
- -----Original Message-----
From: Black ICE <wombat@premier.net>
To: traveller@lists.imagiconline.com <traveller@lists.imagiconline.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 8:50 PM
Subject: TMLer Con Attendance (was: Archon- Anyone Attending?)


>JLAROSEE@aol.com wrote:
>>
>>   Our local gaming convention is this weekend, 1-3 Oct, in Collinsville,
>> Illinois. Is anyone attending?
>
>Wish I could (I'm a veteran of Archons 5 and 6), but I've already made
>my St. Louis road trip for this month (my sister's wedding).  C'est la
>vie....
>
>May I suggest that, in the future, folks on the TML post any cons they
>intend to attend?  This will help in organizing K'kree barbecues and the
>like....
>
>On that note, my next planned con is Exoticon 2, in New Orleans, 19-21
>Nov 1999.  See this URL for details:
>
>http://www.exoticon.net/frames.html
>
>--
>AuricTech Shipyards Journeyman Gearhead
>"Gold-Plated [tm] solutions for copper-plated problems!" (r)
>http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/9776
>

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:21:53 -0400
From: Bill Rutherford <worj@erols.com>
Subject: Re: Traveller Houston or DC?

At 07:44 PM 09/28/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a good question.
>Anyone have any ideas about Traveller in Houston ? It has been 15 years
>since I journeyed to Houston for game materails.
>Secondly, any good stores in the Washington DC area?
>I am returning there at the end of October for a few days.
>

Regarding Washington DC, yes indeedy!

Game Parlor - Chantilly, in Sully Plaza, open 10 - 10 7 days a week,  call
at 703-804-3114.  If I've garbled that, it's 814, not 804 (I never call; I
visit!)
Wide selection of just about everything!

Little Wars - Fairfax County on Lee Highway.  Their website's at:

http://members.wbs.net/homepages/l/i/t/littlewars.html
and has their phone number, hours, etc. - smaller selection, but some nice
& esoteric stuff...

Eagle and Empire - Mt. Vernon (south of the district) call at 703-360-5363

Complete Strategist - Falls Church - sorta hoary; some gems buried amongst
the "stuff"; call them at 703-527-2477 (I think; Directory ass't can help
if that's wrong.  They're on Rt 7...)

There's another place - or was - in Clarendon/North Arlington that deals
mainly in fantasy & RPGs but their name escapes me...

I hope this helps!


Bill Rutherford
worj@erols.com

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:23:35 -0700
From: "Jesse DeGraff" <fenris@slip.net>
Subject: RE: Pyramid question W/LEGAL ADDITION

I may do that in the future.  There may be a slight copyright problem as a
number of them come from a commercial texture cd, but if I use them (a legal
purchaser of the product) and do not make a profit by redistributing the raw
textures, I should be ok.  Can a TML lawyer clarify for me?

Best,
Jesse




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-traveller@lists.imagiconline.com
> [mailto:owner-traveller@lists.imagiconline.com]On Behalf Of Benyamene'
> ZeAbe' Akella
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:35 AM
> To: traveller@lists.imagiconline.com
> Subject: Re: Pyramid question
>
>
> > I've got a fair number of ready made planetary texture maps for
> > illustrations ;)  You can see what I've got at
> > http://www.vision-forge-graphics.com/jesse/traveller/wbd_planets.htm.
> > WARNING!!!!  THIS PAGE TAKES A LLLLLLLOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGG TIME TO LOAD.
> >
> > Jesse
>
> A *fair* number? Like, scads of them! How many are there? A long time to
> load indeed! Perhaps you could divide them up on a couple pages? Maybe
> three? Even catagorize them, like GGs, Rockballs, Habitables, etc? My
> browser got through most of the page (I believe) but then, either due to a
> hiccup on mail retrieval, or some such thing, stopped loading. I may have
> gotton them all, but there was a large blank stretch at the
> bottom. They are
> wonderful planets though. I'll be back to check after thumbing
> and counting
> the ones I got.
> ////////////////////////////////////////
> Akella 0609 C654474-6 S kk+ hi++ as+ va+ dr+ da+ so@ zh- vi++  A523
> IMTU tc++ ?t4 ru@ 3i+(-) c+ jt au@ st- ls+ pi+ ta@ he+
>

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:36:59 -0500
From: "shadowcat" <meow@advancenet.net>
Subject: Re: OT: Cats and bookstores (was Re: Traveller in Oregon?)

No book/gaming store is complete without at least one cat
couple of my favorite places have at least one, and I have a friend 
who runs a little new age shop that has 4 maine coons that inhabit it 
during store hours

Shadowcat AKA Kevin Walsh
Captain of the Free Trader Beowulf
ADD/ADHD Advocate
http://www.advancenet.net/~meow

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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:41:12 +1000
From: "The Roc" <roc@kewl.com.au>
Subject: Re: Player handouts? Anyone use them?...

- ----- Original Message -----
From: <greg.aldridge@marconicomms.com>
To: <traveller@lists.imagiconline.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: Player handouts? Anyone use them?


> > The request about system writeups got me thinking. Does anyone
> > else write up periodic news articles (sort of TNS, but local) for their
> > players to read before, during and after an adventure?  I tried it a few
> > times, and I  must admit that the players really appreciated it. There
> > were a few plot related atricles, a few totally non related, and some
> > 'dunnos'. I think it added a little colour to the game, and most of it
was
> > taken from my local newspaper, scanned in, and manipulated slightly.
> >
> > Does anyone else regularly do this? Would you be willing to share
> > the generic stories with other list members? Obviously not plagiarising
> > your local press like I did, but the outlines if nothing else?
> >

Back in the good old days of Traveller, I had a game group newsletter that
had movie reviews from various players, reviews on music, up-coming BBQ's,
etc.  But the bulk was a newspaper-like presentation with the headline
always being something about what the PC's were currently doing with rumours
and false leads found in other articles.  All this was constructed on the
old Commodore C64, firstly using GEOS, then some newsletter program (which
name has slipped my mind and was a royal pain in the bottom to use, but
looked more "professional" heheheh... yeah, sure...) and all printed on a
Star 21-pin(?) dotmatrix printer.  It had that lovely effect of annoying
PC's when they did something absolutely right... and their names were
misspelt in the "paper!"  I also included text-based advertisements for
air/rafts and the like with special non-book prices that PC's sometimes took
advantage of.

Nowadays, we play a long-running AD&D game campaign (originating from the
same gaming period, though now the current campaign is only some 12-odd
years in the running), but I still run a PC-constructed (using PageMaker)
and bubble jet printed gaming group newsletter that looks 200% on the old
one, and comes  complete with the usual previous game reminders, news that
the PC's hear about, rumours and false leads and the usual "reviews"
including the old staples of movies and music, but also computer games.
Plus stuff about what's happening in the actual gamer's lives, BBQ
announcements, scanned images and pics downloaded from the net.

These props contained from 3-5 double-sided pages, produced mainly by myself
with volunteer in-put from the gamers.  I have always had between 6 and 12
players (average is the current 8 core players).  The old C64 days were a
pain with me producing and printing every page on the old Star, but now I am
lucky enough that one of my players has access to a photocopier at his work
place, so I only have to make 1x master copy and he handles the rest (even
the stapling :)

It can be a lot of work for a GM, but I love doing it and get some personal
gaming enjoyment out of it--an extension of my GM'ing as it were.  For those
who haven't done it but would like to, I say give it at least one shot.

- -- The Roc

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:35:56 -0700
From: "Jesse DeGraff" <fenris@slip.net>
Subject: RE: Pyramid question

Couldn't tell you if that's all of 'em.  There's no way I'm going to sit
here at home on my 33.6 and download my own page :)  I do all that at work
on the T1.  Loads real quick there ;)

As long as the images are not republished anywhere including the web (at
this time), I don't have a problem with you useing any of them for player
handouts.  I have to make sure of the legality (after all, I'm USEING the
textures, not re-distributing them) first.

Jesse




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-traveller@lists.imagiconline.com
> [mailto:owner-traveller@lists.imagiconline.com]On Behalf Of Benyamene'
> ZeAbe' Akella
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 3:30 PM
> To: traveller@lists.imagiconline.com
> Subject: Re: Pyramid question
>
>
> > I just dropped them over on my computer and will be
> > counting to make sure I got them all, then ordering them into
> types (maybe).
>
> OK, I count eighty-six (86), did I get them all? Neptune-boring,
> he he, you
> name your files like I do. Would you mind if I used 'em to spice
> up systems
> in my Farcast Sector? I was planning on having sys-data with orbital
> diagrams, trade codes, UWP's, etc., and these would some real
> nice texture,
> if you'll pardon the pun.
> ////////////////////////////////////////
> Akella 0609 C654474-6 S kk+ hi++ as+ va+ dr+ da+ so@ zh- vi++  A523
> IMTU tc++ ?t4 ru@ 3i+(-) c+ jt au@ st- ls+ pi+ ta@ he+
>

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:50:36 -0000
From: "Chris Seamans" <semo@pil.net>
Subject: Re: good and evil

- -----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Campbell <shawn@electricstitch.com>
To: traveller@lists.imagiconline.com <traveller@lists.imagiconline.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: good and evil


>I agree. Part of the problem, I think, also lies in lack of experience or
>not having played in awhile. 3 of the 5 players are fairly new to
Traveller,
>with one being new to RPG's. Not to mention, It was only about 6-9 months
>ago that I picked up my ol' Traveller books and started playing again.


Fair enough. Usually, when a player wants to switch to a more compatible
character, it's usually for the simple fact he sees others getting more
action than him. On the other hand, if you're looking for ways to curtail
the pirate... well, there are plenty of ways.

Usually, I have the opposite problem. One or two players may take combat
monsters, thinking that they're "getting one over" on me and then find
themselves yawning as the majority of players use their characters' skills
to barter, talk, bribe, connive, and stealth their way through all of the
obstacles.

The funny part is there's one player who's been playing with me for
something like 6 years now. He knows the drill, and yet he always thinks
he's getting over on me by taking a combat monster... and without fail, he
always wants a new character within four or five sessions.

>We're only two game sessions into this campaign and this is the first time
>this group has ever played together. So, I'm not sure if it's just
>player-styles clashing or what.


It might be. I hope everything settles in for you and your players.

>Thanks for everyone's advice.


No problem. Good luck.

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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:48:57 -0700
From: "Jesse DeGraff" <fenris@slip.net>
Subject: RE: Jesse's Planet Pics

This page was originally set up for Stuart Ferris & the WBD developer's
group to pick planets to have in the startup and wait screens of Stuarts WBD
program.  As some of these textures are copyright by other sources,
primarily NASA & Marlin Studios, I cannot post the texture maps themselves.
As the images are currently, you could cut & paste for player handout, etc.
When I have more original planetary textures, I'll consider posting them for
download in the future, but currently I'm useing them ;)

Jesse





> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-traveller@lists.imagiconline.com
> [mailto:owner-traveller@lists.imagiconline.com]On Behalf Of Charles
> Collin
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 6:40 PM
> To: traveller@lists.imagiconline.com
> Subject: Jesse's Planet Pics
>
>
> Neat stuff as usual Jesse, but what I'm wondering is in what sense are
> these "texture maps"?  They're just pics from different angles, right? I
> guess I was hoping for something flat that I could warp around a sphere in
> 3D so I could rotate the image and so on.  Am I missing something here?
>
> Thanks,
> Charles C.
>
>
>

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