Which was admittedly a weird way to kick off a Traveller game, but hey, you do you.
Being only slightly adjacent to the space-time continuum will generally do that.
Players love a bait & switch.
My head-canon includes everything up to the "Future Baulderstone" story arc.
It's probably the unicorn.
I'm more flexible than you. The action figures also count.
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Yeah, me too. That's part of the reasons why my personal games haven't all migrated to Tekumel yetI find myself more annoyed by that particular kind of asshole whose sole job it seems to be to ensure that no one else, as his table or otherwise, deviates from that cannon.
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Players like that have always amused me. Look people, it's my game and I'll run it and use the lore as I feel. It's a jump off point, not something written in stone. Part of why I'm not a big fan of The Adventurers League. Having to do something mechanics or game world as dictated by the publisher sucks and bores me.
This is why I won't run Star Wars, tbh.
There's a reason why pretty much all the settings I run are homebrew.I find myself more annoyed by that particular kind of asshole whose sole job it seems to be to ensure that no one else, as his table or otherwise, deviates from that cannon.
If you're into single entendre about wands and ioun stones, it's all yours.
The one where in the end it becomes clear these three are actually the same person who split in order to do the dirty deeds with himself
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I'm confused, would that be gay, or would it just be masturbation?The one where in the end it becomes clear these three are actually the same person who split in order to do the dirty deeds with himself
It's why I never ran MERP back in the 80's. Didn't want to listen to arguments if I deviated from the books, though I did own most of the MERP stuff at the time.
Like rules lawyers, lore lawyers can be useful if smacked on the nose with a newspaper and trained properly to be an asset, but often it's just best to muzzle them.
Canon lawyers to me are beneath even rules lawyers.I find myself more annoyed by that particular kind of asshole whose sole job it seems to be to ensure that no one else, as his table or otherwise, deviates from that cannon.
Your players know Tékumel enough to canon-lawyer you???Yeah, me too. That's part of the reasons why my personal games haven't all migrated to Tekumel yet
I’m on the same boat as you — my players might make assumptions about setting, but they’re unlikely to protest changes to the fictional universe.
I can see why. I usually avoid licensed settings because of this, with rare exceptions:
I guess that's my question how many people really do that? There are some people in my group who were into the lore of some settings, but at the most it made them good guessers when certain things showed up in game. They never insisted on a specific portrayal or outcome in game.
No. But when it comes to this setting, there actually are guys "whose sole job it seems to be to ensure that no one else, at their tables or otherwise, deviates from that cannon"
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I think you should have done that just on general principle!
To be fair this only ever happened to me once. I was so stunned by the stupidity of it, that I burst out in a short bark of a laugh which I didn't even really mean to do. I think I must have really insulted this guy -- There was a little bit of yelling on his part, a little bit from me and I pulled the plug and we went back to the guy who normally ran the games for that group (a lot of "adventure path" scripted D&D type things that I generally loathe, but fuck it, I was only there because it was a chance for me to hang out with a friend of mine).
