Sure, there were several letters over the next couple of months detailing why various correspondents thought the article was wrong but that’s about it.

I’m not sure if it’s the passage of 30-odd years or the advent of the internet and troll-culture that has desensitised me to flame-wars and personal insults in public fora but I’m SURE the article caused a huge hullabaloo in the letter pages of the Dwarf for months afterwards, but after bringing the White Dwarf collection down from the highest shelf in the house and blowing off the dust I find, not a bit of it. But I may have been alone in my love for the article… Outlining this one small aspect of the setting just breathed life into the Imperium and gave the imagination a hook which it could use to drag itself into the far future. Thomas M Price’s rethinking of the starport sparked my Traveller imagination in a way that few other Traveller articles had up to then or indeed since. Mr Dwarf was quite right in his section, I was a little disappointed to not have my favourite article featured. Good times (as long as you’re not a tree). Somewhere, a rainforest was destroyed to provide paper for all of my Traveller characters, none of whom ever drew breath. The design a universe mini game, the try to figure out spaceship design mini game and most especially the create a character mini game. I should say I never played the full game until recently. Traveller – the game I had to have but the game I never got to play (not until recently with the boss grognard, Dirk, online). Look out for a Micro Grog-Pod (Traveller – Part Two) coming soon featuring a list of our favourite Traveller supplements and a current online pricing guide. Section Four – An invitation to listeners to contribute their stories of playing Traveller. Section Three – Judge Blythy Rules – Listing three great mechanics and one that doesn’t quite work, the resident rules-lawyer goes ‘under the bonnet’. Section Two – White Dwarf – talks about his early experiences of playing Traveller and makes a selection of an article, scenario and ‘Starbase’ column from the pages of the UK’s best gaming magazine. We introduce ‘the prime directive’ and Blythy has a black mark on his wall. Section One – Open Box – reliving the memories of playing the game for the first time with Blythy, who was our referee back in the day.

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