Please use this thread to post a short self-introduction to the other folks hanging out here.  We don't really need your entire life history, and you probably don't have time for that much typing, anyway, but take a little time to tell us about you.

Please also do not use this topic for chat.  Topic 9900 is in play for that purpose.

On that note, I'm The Traveller, but my friends call me Dave.

I've been a Traveller referee and player for many years now, but off and on for most of that.  I went so far as to write a system generation program in MBASIC so many decades ago I can't remember what I did with it.

Enter RPoL.  I got interested in RPoL primarily because it could help me connect with other folks who had an interest in Traveller.  Wow.  Wish I had found this place a lot sooner.

Full Disclosure:  I've played other games, too.  I started out in war games and sort of graduated to role-playing games.

When I'm not gaming I play bass guitar, do computer repair, and work (there's that four-letter word again) in the field of Energy Management.

Oh, oh, oh, and I just took and passed my Technician Class Amateur Radio Operator's license exam today.  Woot!

UPDATE:  As of 11 Dec 2017, my call sign appeared in the FCC database.  I am now KG5WLH.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:10, Fri 15 Dec 2017.

Hi everybody:

I'm Participant 2.

I started to play Traveller in 1998/99.  It was over the internet (but not RPoL) with a bunch of people I had never met and I didn't know a single thing about it.  They were very nice in helping me figure out enough to play my character and it did spark an interest in the system that continues to this day.

I am in some Traveller games on RPoL (classic (player) and 1st edition-GM).  I was co-GM and left the technical stuff to the other GM but now find myself being the main GM.  In addition I am GMing a face to face group in 2nd edition and they know more about the system then I do.  They have the time to read which also means they can try to figure out ways around the rules.

I would like to have a source where I can ask other people how they would handle different situations, etc.  I would also like to grow as a player of Traveller.  it's a great game.  I also have a tendency to make character who are NOT military oriented.  Something I think the game is usually missing.  There is more to it than just shoot and loot.

In real life I go by Bonni and I am an Office Support Specialist (fancy rename of Secretary) for a University.  I have played other genres and my face to face group likes to switch up what we play.  Before Traveller 2nd edition, we were doing D&D 5th edition.  We have also done:  Shadowrun, Serenity, Battletech, In Harms Way, and many others.  I have test played some games and some earlier Traveller stuff (Operation Dominoes for example) and helped write some Patron Encounters.