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You know you^re really into traveller when... page 1

Antichrist
November 16th, 2006, 05:31 AM
you have a bumper sticker that reads "My other car is an Air/raft.

you've ever figured out how many displacement tons your house/apartment is.

you have an imperial sunburst tattoo.

you think osama bin ladin looks like a Zhodani.

you have a decal on your car's gas door that reads "Liquid hydrogen only".

you celebrate Marc Miller's birthday.

you have children named Cleon or Arbellatra.
matrix cypher
November 16th, 2006, 06:17 AM
Originally posted by Antichrist:
you have a bumper sticker that reads "My other car is an Air/raft.

you've ever figured out how many displacement tons your house/apartment is.

you have an imperial sunburst tattoo.

you think osama bin ladin looks like a Zhodani.

you have a decal on your car's gas door that reads "Liquid hydrogen only".

you celebrate Marc Miller's birthday.

you have children named Cleon or Arbellatra. graemlins/file_21.gif OMG thats pretty good ive done or thought of a couple of those
Gruffty
November 16th, 2006, 07:44 AM
Originally posted by Antichrist:
...you have an imperial sunburst tattoo...Got one ;)
coliver988
November 16th, 2006, 08:25 AM
Back in college one of my players had VARGR for his license.
Keklas Rekobah
November 16th, 2006, 11:42 AM
You know you're really into Traveller when -

- You turn off your car's radio and air conditioning, and then dim your headlights just before 'jumping' onto the freeway.

- You have ever asked a United States Marine to demonstrate his or her proficiency with a cutlass.

- You use skill levels instead of stars next to the girls' names in your 'Little Black Book.'

- You have a UPP for every person you know.

- You've re-designed the entire Solar system at least once.

- Living on a TEC-8 (or less) world with a TEC-A+ mind is the source of all your angst and frustration.

- You gave the nickname 'Bwap' to your accountant.

- You call your boss 'Hiver' and he likes it, especially after you explained what it means.

- You've ever tossed a mouse into a lion's cage just to see the dewclaw in action.

- You wonder if the latest piece of military hardware that makes the news was designed under CT, FF&S, GURPS, T4, or T20 rules.
Baron Saarthuran
November 16th, 2006, 01:16 PM
A scout courier floorplan seems like a viable 4 bedroom home...
hunter
November 16th, 2006, 01:23 PM
You spend your life getting rich publishing Traveller products...(yeah right!)

Hunter
su_liam
November 16th, 2006, 01:45 PM
You spend your life's fortune publishing Traveller products.

OR, as in my case...

You spend your life's fortune buying Traveller products.
Rover
November 16th, 2006, 06:04 PM
You know space is 2 dimensional and all stars are a multiple of whole parsecs away from each other.
matrix cypher
November 17th, 2006, 06:27 AM
Originally posted by Baron Saarthuran von Gushiddan:
A scout courier floorplan seems like a viable 4 bedroom home... Heck if im ever lucky enough to win one of the big powerball lotteries im gonna have a full scale model of a type s scout or a far trader built. might not be able to fly and may have to make it out of normal materials but it will be the coolest house to play traveller in, heck maybe even have a traveller Larp going :D
Baron Saarthuran
November 17th, 2006, 08:13 AM
The only thing I see as problematic would be the three point contact landing Gear, But Overall I see it as doable with a few hundred thousand dollars... it would be a kickass feature to the Traveller Bed and Breakfast for sure...
graymask1120
November 17th, 2006, 09:45 AM
Originally posted by Baron Saarthuran von Gushiddan:
The only thing I see as problematic would be the three point contact landing Gear, But Overall I see it as doable with a few hundred thousand dollars... it would be a kickass feature to the Traveller Bed and Breakfast for sure... ....Well, if someone does that, when I win the lottery, I'm building the varient Type M from 'Vigilante' -- no sense in not being comfortable :cool: :D
graymask1120
November 17th, 2006, 09:48 AM
Originally posted by Heretic Keklas Rekobah:
You know you're really into Traveller when -

- You have ever asked a United States Marine to demonstrate his or her proficiency with a cutlass....I was actually asked that, once - I told him to produce a cutlass, and I would...Strangley, he walked away *shrug* graemlins/file_23.gif
vegascat
November 18th, 2006, 02:29 AM
You know the constelations for tha Aslan Empire, the K'Kree, Hivers, Vargr, Zhodani, and Vilani so you know where to look for visitors
vegascat
November 18th, 2006, 02:30 AM
You can draw the floor plans for a scout courier or far trader without consulting anything other than your own memory with no errors.
zakrol
November 18th, 2006, 05:59 AM
You come up behind a lorry on the motorway that has 'TL12' written in big friendly letters on the back and wonder why it's still using wheels...
Antichrist
November 19th, 2006, 03:29 AM
You've written and composed the official Anthem of the third imperium and are just trying to find a major orchestra to preform it.

(Having said this, I just KNOW someone is going to link me to an official imperial anthem MP3 or something, I just KNOW it...)
ravells
November 20th, 2006, 06:50 AM
You train your dog to stand on its hind legs and tape a gun to its fore-paw.
Liam Devlin
November 20th, 2006, 12:28 PM
Originally posted by Heretic Keklas Rekobah:
You know you're really into Traveller when -

- You turn off your car's radio and air conditioning, and then dim your headlights just before 'jumping' onto the freeway.

All the time, in Baghdad.. graemlins/file_23.gif

- You have ever asked a United States Marine to demonstrate his or her proficiency with a cutlass.

- You use skill levels instead of stars next to the girls' names in your 'Little Black Book.'

- You have a UPP for every person you know.

- You've re-designed the entire Solar system at least once.

Does the TNE-collapse system count?

- Living on a TEC-8 (or less) world with a TEC-A+ mind is the source of all your angst and frustration.

- You gave the nickname 'Bwap' to your accountant.

YES!!!

- You call your boss 'Hiver' and he likes it, especially after you explained what it means.

- You've ever tossed a mouse into a lion's cage just to see the dewclaw in action.

- You wonder if the latest piece of military hardware that makes the news was designed under CT, FF&S, GURPS, T4, or T20 rules. Yeppers. Good ones! ;)
Liam Devlin
November 20th, 2006, 12:38 PM
-You introduce all of your cats and Dogs to strangers & guests at your house as "wannabe-Aslan" and "Proto-Vargr"...

-You know X-number (insert actual number here) of ways to refit and/or remodel the interior of any deckplan from Traders & Gunboats to suit your campaign needs...

-You watch every movie you see and gauge what tech level the gadgets are, and planet they're on...

-You watch and listen to present day media and wish for TAS-TNS to raise the standard, and soon.


And Lastly:

-You subscribe to forums like this; answer posts like this (because you can, and will submit to the desire everytime), and suddenly realize you do spend a lot of time on this game.

Next?
Icosahedron
November 22nd, 2006, 02:01 AM
You drive along the road figuring out how many dtons of cargo space each vehicle would take up, and which ones would need double deck height. (5dt for a standard container, and maybe 10 for the whole truck in a double-height cargo bay?) smile.gif
Antichrist
November 22nd, 2006, 02:49 AM
-you've forgiven Marc Miller for all the money you wasted on T4.
aramis
November 22nd, 2006, 03:13 AM
- You have files of ship designs that exceed your MP3 collection in size.

- - You designed most of them.
ravells
November 22nd, 2006, 10:23 AM
Originally posted by Aramis:
- You have files of ship designs that exceed your MP3 collection in size.

- - You designed most of them. Excellent!

- You send character sheets of yourself to job interviews.

-- You ask about mustering out benefits at job interviews.
plop101
November 22nd, 2006, 12:53 PM
When you see a pair of underwear that has the "FTL" logo and the first thing you think of is
FASTER THAN LIGHT BRIEFS!

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princelian
November 23rd, 2006, 12:49 AM
- Living on a TEC-8 (or less) world with a TEC-A+ mind is the source of all your angst and frustration.Amen, brother.
TheEngineer
November 23rd, 2006, 02:29 AM
Your son has an imperial starburst on his backpack...
Nick Nova
November 23rd, 2006, 03:15 AM
You find yourself interpreting Shakespeare for other species...
TheEngineer
November 23rd, 2006, 04:13 AM
Shall I compare thee to a mild Lairs Summer day?
Thou art more hairy and less temperate
Rough windes do shake packs tails of Maie,
And Sommers lease hath all to short a date
Sometime too bright the eye of heaven shines,
And often is her red complexion dimm’d,
And every faire from faire some-time declines,
By chance, or natures changing course untrim’d
But thy eternall raid shall not fade,
Nor loose preys of that faire thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wandr’st in his shade,
When in eternall lines to time thou grow’st,
So long as the pack can breath or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives loots to thee.
ravells
November 23rd, 2006, 05:14 AM
Is this a plasma pistol which I see before me,
The stock toward my hand?
Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A plasma pistol of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.

------
Old Zhodani Poem
Ganidirsii O'Flynn
November 23rd, 2006, 05:26 AM
LOL!! Ah, Shakespriashav is *so* much more amusing in it's original Zhdatl....

In my hometown we have a Museum of Flight. In that museum there is an upright board with an image of NASA EVA gear... The faceplate of the helmet is cut out so that you may be photographed with your face in the helmet....

Me, I was wondering if I could sneak my old Malamute in.....
TheEngineer
November 23rd, 2006, 05:49 AM
ROTFL .....
ravs, welcome in the Traveller Literature Circle smile.gif

Flynn, what the hell is a Malamute ????
veltyen
November 23rd, 2006, 06:52 AM
Me, I was wondering if I could sneak my old Malamute in..... Hell, a photoshop job would look cool enough.

TheEngineer - I assume Flynn means an Alaskan Malamute. Its a sled dog breed, very vargr like in the face.
Flynn
November 23rd, 2006, 08:07 AM
Hehehe. I was checking the Dailies, saw veltyen's comment, and thought he was talking about me. I couldn't remember saying anything that might be misconstrued as an Alaskan Malamute, so I had to drop in and check it out. :D I then realized TheEngineer and veltyen were speaking about Ganidiirsi, not myself.

I love the thread. There are some excellent ones, some of which I've actually done. smile.gif

Okay, my contributions:

- You love the old fanzines so much that you learn how to publish your own when no one else steps up to the plate.
- Your wife, who has never played the game, recognizes the names of the major races and several of the sectors simply by living with you, and occasionally makes jokes appropriate to the setting.
- Your friends introduce you as the Traveller Guy to new people they've met at parties.
- People think you have a degree in astrophysics because you can hold your own in discussions about the possibilities of interstellar flight.
- People drop your name when trying to join other Traveller games, in the hopes that it will get them a seat in the game.
- You wonder where the local chapter of the Psionics Institute is lcoated, because you're sure that it is not in Egypt like DGP says it is, at least not now.
- You mentally convert the sci-fi movies and TV shows you watch into Traveller stats and lay them out in either the Adventure Nugget or EPIC format.
- You watch science shows on the various cable channels solely to gain ideas for background flavor for the worlds you're developing.
- You keep track of the major Traveller authors you've met, and cherish your collection of autographed gaming supplements.
- You paid more than $50 on eBay for a Traveller supplement you will likely never use, simply because you needed it for your collection.
- You've had longer and more frequent conversations about Traveller gaming with people on the other side of the planet than you typically spend chatting about office politics with your co-workers around the water cooler.
- Your first two thoughts when seeing Firefly for the first time were: "I didn't know Joss Whedon played..." and "How'd Joss get the rights to make a Traveller TV series from Marc?"
- You've seriously considered learning how to produce an audio drama online for the sole purpose of creating a Traveller series.
- The only reason you stopped your plans for creating a Traveller audio drama series is because it would interfere with your fanzine production and your Traveller gaming.

Okay, I'll stop here. smile.gif

Enjoy,
Flynn
Andrew Boulton
November 23rd, 2006, 08:56 AM
I'll really have to finish my haiku history of the Traveller universe...
Elv
November 23rd, 2006, 10:55 AM
Not so interesting, but true for me:

</font> You have multiple copies of the rules so you can keep one at work.</font> Your only piece of fanfic ever is a Traveller story.</font> You fund your gaming habit by writing Traveller articles.</font> When you decided to get yourself published, the only thing you could think of to write was something for Traveller.</font> Your Traveller collection (and it is a collection, including things you consider useless but keep anyway) outnumbers the rest of your RPG library.</font> Your idea of fun is creating maps of unpublished sectors based on unclear dotmaps, and you've written software to help you do it.</font>
John
Fritz_Brown
November 23rd, 2006, 12:03 PM
Hey, Flynn, I haven't gone over the $45 mark for a single item on eBay, yet! :D Of course, that may have to change if I ever want that 1st Sky Raiders book.... graemlins/file_28.gif
You might also add:
- Folks seek you out when they travel, just to buy you dinner - because they "met" you on these boards. ;)
- You have a 50MB Excel file to generate random subsectors using LBB6.
otherles
November 23rd, 2006, 12:21 PM
Up to page 25 of a 75 to 90 page screenplay of a fan film based on a character you invented for a fan-fiction novel.
Ganidirsii O'Flynn
November 24th, 2006, 01:57 AM
Originally posted by TheEngineer:
ROTFL .....

Flynn, what the hell is a Malamute ???? One of the ancestors of the Husky, and relative of the Akita and Samoyed

http://www.akc.org/breeds/alaskan_malamute/index.cfm
(cuz you know yer a Traveller Geek when you can refer to ANY obscure discussion on the CotI with a link...)

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flykiller
November 24th, 2006, 02:10 AM
I'll really have to finish my haiku history of the Traveller universe... the type S scout ship
home to our adventure team
many worlds we'll see
Plankowner
November 24th, 2006, 07:42 AM
Originally posted by Ganidiirsi O'Flynn:
LOL!! Ah, Shakespriashav is *so* much more amusing in it's original Zhdatl....

In my hometown we have a Museum of Flight. In that museum there is an upright board with an image of NASA EVA gear... The faceplate of the helmet is cut out so that you may be photographed with your face in the helmet....

Me, I was wondering if I could sneak my old Malamute in..... They have one like that at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. I have a picture of me in the suit, on a Tee Shirt with stars and planets AND a Type-S Scout Ship in the background!
Ganidirsii O'Flynn
November 27th, 2006, 06:41 AM
Nice! Gettin' yo' IISS chops on! Cuz hey, bugger the Imperial Marines...we all wanna be Scouts! smile.gif
jdegraff
November 28th, 2006, 03:56 PM
You find it easier to plan your new home's / apartment's furniture layout in 1.5m squares.

You see some of the uber ships in other sci-fi media and say "Hey! That's an illegal design! That's WAY more than 1M tons displacement!"

Jesse
Arthur Denger
November 29th, 2006, 11:23 AM
⌡ Every four years, you consider whether to remain in your current career, change jobs, or muster out.
travlar
November 29th, 2006, 01:57 PM
Originally posted by Arthur Denger:
⌡ Every four years, you consider whether to remain in your current career, change jobs, or muster out. No, you figure out which career is closest to yours, and roll to see whether you muster out or not smile.gif
Arthur Denger
November 29th, 2006, 02:01 PM
Originally posted by Kaale Dasar:
No, you figure out which career is closest to yours, and roll to see whether you muster out or not smile.gif graemlins/paragraph.gif You mean you don't roll first to see whether you're accepted in that service? graemlins/file_21.gif graemlins/omega.gif
alanb
November 30th, 2006, 02:30 AM
The survival roll is the tricky one. ;)
Icosahedron
December 1st, 2006, 12:23 PM
The survival roll is automatic in some careers; the real bummer is failing the roll to re-enlist!
Roman
December 9th, 2006, 07:42 AM
After my re-enlistment with the Army failed, I now end my four-year term as Others (salesman). Anyone got a link to the next scout service recruitment center?
:D
otherles
December 12th, 2006, 09:42 AM
Had a weird dream involving a woman who looked and sounded a lot like Emma Thompson, a grand hotel with an antagonistic staff, and a chief antagonist (Solomani Texan) who would not respond properly when I pull out an ID card and say things like "I am an Imperial Lord", "I have an Imperial Warrant", and "SHUT THE ▮▮▮▮▮▮ UP!"

That's where I woke up.
sarahnewton
December 15th, 2006, 12:21 PM
- in your house the bathroom is called the "fresher"
- you've reached the age where you wonder if you made your last Aging Roll
- your idea of accomplishment is to finally get the planetary writeups for [X] sector converted to the latest version of the rules
- you know disturbing amounts about the lethality of various munitions
- you can't remember if TDX has been invented yet
- you refer to the world political state as "balkanised"
- you can draw a planetary geodesic projection with your eyes closed
- you're pretty sure The Truth Is Out There, cos if you had any say in the matter, you'd make Terra 2006 a Red Zone too
robject
December 15th, 2006, 02:32 PM
- you can quote verbatim the accumulated lore about droptanks but have to think hard to remember how many years you've been married

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