Traveller - The Kickstarter, And More Blood Bowl

The original Traveller is getting a fiftieth anniversary reprint. My first and overwhelming thought is OMG, how old am I. Whilst I am not quite old enough to have purchased it when it came out I am old enough to get hold of a copy in the early eighties.

Traveller is arguably the most important game in my gaming life. Not by first and not even the second. Even being in third place, it dominated the next decade and a half. I mourned the passing of the original edition. Possibly I raged against the next two GDW editions. Then I mourned some more when GDW went out of business.

For a good chunk of the early noughties I went through buying up the original games books. I am missing two. One was a scenario so bad nobody brought it (I have just placed a bid on a copy). The other came in a boxed set which is currently retailing for £200. Whilst I would really like to complete the collection I don't have the kind of low level psychological condition that would value this over the actual money in my bank account.

My collection is old and very far from pristine. I was just trying to think of a suit antonym and dog eared is probably it. It is a much used collection. That said, if I get a pristine copy I will want to keep it that way.

If Tunnels and Trolls was my first RPG kiss, then Traveller was definitely my first, er, meaningful relationship. Like a lot of first relationships, I have learnt a lot since then. As has Mongoose. Old school Traveller is good but it is showing its age. Mongoose Traveller is a more well rounded game. Its a much more fun experience. Original Traveller is a pretty solid game. It's got a lot of nice mechanisms that I have stolen again an again. Mongoose Traveller is just better all round. That said, I am feeling just a little bit of fomo. 

The Halflings are progressing. They are almost starting to look like they might be finished this week. Almost. I think I just need to add a couple of metallics and paint the bases as they will be done. I am getting sick of the site of these guys.

In other news, my real baby has demanded a fur baby. Specifically a dachshund. Dachs are not a dog that would normally go with my self image, although I have a neighbour with a Dachs crossed with a Jack Russel, which seems more like me. But what my daughter wants, my daughter generally gets, eventually.