2010-07-14 From Traveller to Diaspora

Bye bye Traveller category – our gaming group has decided to give Diaspora a try!

What happened?

One player left the campaign because he’s working in Berlin during the week and can’t play in Zürich on Wednesdays.
Another player said that the campaign wasn’t really working for him.
That leaves only three players – and one of them very busy – and a game master.
I said that I felt the system was pushing us into micro-managing things we only cared for on an abstract level; basically we weren’t interested in anything involving money: trade, maintenance costs, equipment costs, etc.
Three of us had given Spirit of the Century a try; we liked FATE but didn’t like the rulebook.
Harald and I had read the Diaspora book and liked it.

Today we had three hours. First we discussed the state of the campaign and decided to switch to Diaspora. I printed out character sheets, skill reference sheet, personal combat sheet while Harald explained a bit about the rules. Then we converted our Traveller characters. It went pretty smoothly. The free form aspects are a real boon.

We assigned a system to each one of us, and said that we’d convert the UWP to the Diaspora stats on our Campaign:Kaylash subsector wiki. We’ll convert them as we go. Technology, Environment, Resources, and three aspects, that should not be too hard. We already have a map and a lot of info on some of the systems.

Campaign:Kaylash

I don’t think we need a Diaspora cluster. Perhaps I’m missing something? The benefit of having small clusters might be a localized game suited for people that like to switch campaigns often? We’ve been playing our biweekly game for a year, now. I think we want to keep playing in this subsector and we want to keep exploring our characters for quite a bit more.

Wish us luck! 😄

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Good luck!

I’ll be following this with interest - Diaspora is firmly on my To Do list!

– greywulf 2010-07-14 21:36 UTC

greywulf

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Well, I converted one character: CW:Kaylash/Bergofan Maia for Traveller → CW:Kaylash/Bergofan Maia.

CW:Kaylash/Bergofan Maia for Traveller

CW:Kaylash/Bergofan Maia

– Alex Schroeder 2010-07-15 01:19 UTC

Alex Schroeder