Original box I bought in '81, we had been playing since '79, though I waited to get the upadeted rules. Dice might be original, or might be from Squad Leader. #TravellerRPG#MayDay
@nyrath@Robert_Brandt well said. that little fiction blurb was like a taster of what TTRPG experience is at its heart and at its best. using words to stimulate our minds and paint worlds and adventures which exist only in our imagination
@nyrath@synlogic All of it, there were the digest sized books in the racks, micro- and task force games in plastic bags, deluxe bookshelf games from AH and SPI, all sorts of magazines such as the Dragon, General, White Dwarf, and The Space Gamer. It was heaven, and that's just scratching the surface of hobby shops.
I started out on the fediverse arooooound...I wanna say 2017/18 mebbe? My big start in social media was MySpace. Before that, I had a LiveJournal (which I miss mightily with all my heart). My very first computer was a Gateway PC, back when they shipped them to you in those awesome cow spot pattern boxes. I am trying to de-google my life.
I'm #ADHD and suffer from #dysthymia. I'm currently unmedicated. I can be damned moody at times, so there's your warning.
Religiously/spiritually speaking, I'm complicated. That will be a long post, when I get around to writing it. My general rule is: I have my thing. It's not everybody's thing, and that's cool. Not everybody's thing is my thing, and that's cool. Just don't be a wanker towards those whose thing ain't your thing. OM 🕉
I'm 57 years old and have come to the conclusion that we never truly appreciate the decades we grew up in until we hit middle age.
I'm single and childless, hence my user tag: TheLastOfHisName.
Der erste "richtige" Druck ist abgeschlossen und gut verlaufen. Ich muss aber die Pickel der Supports noch weg machen, ist quasi frisch aus der Härtung. #TravellerRPG
#TravellerRPG#Traveller real-time CT-scale Pluto tourism: turn 1117 - almost 13 days under thrust. We're past the orbit of Neptune, and thus beyond all of the unequivocal planets of the solar system. We're moving at 32.5 scale m/turn, 431x system escape velocity, barely over 1% the speed of light. 46675 game meters from the Sun, with 5465 meters to Pluto. The Sun provides about 100 lux - kind of Earth twilight levels. Pluto is still too dim for the human eye to see,
#TravellerRPG#Traveller CT-Scale real-time Pluto tourism: turn 652, 7.5 days under thrust. We're 21487.6 scale meters from the Sun, with 30648.2 scale meters to Pluto remaining, midway between Saturn and Uranus orbits. Velocity is 65.1 scale meters/turn (2.17% c, 576x system escape velocity). We're approaching credible interstellar slowboat speeds. The Sun provides 500 lux lighting.
#TravellerRPG : Pluto Tourism. I had to rerun the model because, apparently for years now, I had the incorrect GM values for both Pluto and Charon (Pluto is supposed to be about 869.61 km^3 s^-2 and I had about 874, and inverse for Charon. I still had a circular orbit of Charon, so I must have had old GM values somewhere - it's possible I set this (solar system config) up before the New Horizons flyby. Surface acceleration on Pluto should be about 0.614919 m/s^2. Adjust expectations accordingly
#TravellerRPG#Traveller CT-scale real-time Pluto Tourism: Turn 474. We've now been under thrust for 5.5 days, and are midway between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. Pluto is still an extremely dim +13.9 magnitude star in front of us. We're 11468 scale meters from the Sun which is providing 1756 lux (23 W/m²). Scale velocity is 47.5 m/turn, 1.58% c. Pluto is 40666 scale meters ahead. We're 280 scale meters "below" the Invariable Plane, and Pluto is currently 2160 m below the Invariable Plane.
#TravellerRPG#Traveller Pluto Tourism - Turn 351: Attention passengers, we have passed through the ecliptic and invariable planes. We are now "south" of or under the ecliptic. Velocity is 1.176% c. From Earth's sky we appear around 19h12m47s RA, -23º7’ DEC, in the direction of Sagittarius.
#TravellerRPG#Traveller CT real-time Pluto tourism evening update, turn 348. We're approaching Jupiter's orbital distance, and are now 6278 scale meters from the Sun. Insolation is down to 77 W/m², illumination about 5852 lux (a bit brighter than an overcast day on Earth). To use a TL7 technical term, we are "hauling ass”, moving at 1.16% lightspeed, 34.96 scale meters/turn, 170x system escape velocity.