Try It Out: Traveller with Vince Potter, Extra Session!
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NOTE: This is a duplicate of an earlier event originally hosted on February 17. While it's primarily intended for people who were on the Waitlist for that event, anyone is welcome to sign up, although those who actually played in the Feb 17 session will have already experienced these events and should save spots for new players.
RTR member Vince Potter has offered to run a Try It Out session of Traveller, a 2d6-based scifi TTRPG with a long, rich history across multiple editions and publishers. In this quick two-hour one-shot, players will have the opportunity to try out the game's systems and engage in a fun, exciting adventure!
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System: Mongoose Traveller 2nd Ed. is a 2d6 skill based system whose major mechanic is rolling dice, adding bonuses, and trying to meet/exceed a target number (typically 8). It has an interesting life path chargen that's worth talking about separately, but that is out of scope for this TIO.
Session: The players are under contract to a corporation. They receive an urgent emergency distress signal from a research ship from a rival corporation. The group is to rendezvous with the distressed ship and possibly render aid. Pregenerated characters will be provided.
Teaser:
In the distant future, hundreds of light years from Terra
While on transit contract for the Elias Corporation, your ship picks up this message:
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PRIORITY MESSAGE - URGENT
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Mayday. Mayday. Mayday.
ECLIPSE - GEDECO research ship 439A6-T7
Power plant failure imminent.
Require immediate assistance.
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RETRANSMIT
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You acknowledge their distress signal and set course. Your ship travels for 30 hours to reach the coordinates. Of course, aiding the crew is a priority, but Elias Corp will pay handsomely for copies of another corporation's research files. Visual contact has been established.