Showing posts with label Far Future Enterprises. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Far Future Enterprises. Show all posts

Tuesday, 1 December 2020

My Classic Traveller Journey Begins (or re-starts after thirty four years) and Kindle Joy

It came. Huzzah! But even more importantly, I managed via resurrecting an old laptop to gain access to the CD, transfer it to a flash USB and get it on my computer so I can read it at my leisure (see below, an inconspicuous looking package but it literally contains a whole universe of ideas, or even multiple [infinite worlds] universes): 


"Calling Free Trader Beowulf, hold one we are coming ..." but I don't know whether that is good or bad news.

Update: Even better, I learned how to send PDFs to my Kindle via an App called "Send to Kindle", please see following links:

Three small Steps: 
Install/Download App (called Send to Kindle)
Login to Amazon
Select destination device
Right click PDF and select "Send To Kindle"

Also from Steve-The-Wargamer:
No App needed Geordie.. make sure your Kindle knows to accept emails from your email id, and just send the PDF's as attachments on a mail to your Kindle's email address.. it also works for RTF, or Word DOC or a number of other formats.. more here... https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/email
There are many ways to "skin the cat" :)  

Saturday, 14 November 2020

Retro Gaming - Old School RPG: Classic Traveller

Do you remember the Traveller little Black Books? If so you might well have tried a mullet in the eighties, along with Chris Waddle and half the England squad .. but more importantly you were also must plead "Guilty M'Lord" of playing Traveller and probably humming along to Blake's Seven (but on the up side didn't miss a penalty for England). In my search for retro-nostalgia I harkened back to the days of my youth and asked in forums, joined a Facebook Group (Classic Traveller) and in the was pointed to a website of the originator (see below, the lost books of the Traveller legend and lore): 


https://www.farfuture.net/

Don't ask why, as I only played a few games back then, my RPG was mainly fantasy (95%) and that meant D&D or rather AD&D as we got a kick out of saying that (although we did 'dabble' in a [one] Runequest adventure but came back to the fold). Recently I played something similar to Classic Traveller in an online game and since that moment something like "peeling wallpaper" was happening in my mind. Now, I am eagerly awaiting delivery of a CD from the States with the first collection on the above to help me through the dark winter nights ;)