General / Off-Topic What if Traveller was made an MMO?

[Andrew Gaspurr]

Does anybody remember the pen'n'paper RPg Traveller or Megatraveller from the 80ies?
I sometimes wonder what might have been if GDW was still around and launched it as an MMO.

Would it even be playable with space & surface based roleplay/adventures? I never played SWTOR or STO but maybe there would have been some similarities in storyline?
I don't know, any ideas?

 

[metatheurgist]

Don't think it would work. RPGs now are not what they used to be. Once you introduced the standard MMO grind mechanics to Traveller you'd probably grind the original game out of existence.

 

[Hexen]

Don't think it would work. RPGs now are not what they used to be. Once you introduced the standard MMO grind mechanics to Traveller you'd probably grind the original game out of existence.

What he said. Although I never been much into Traveller but I did enjoyed pnp games for quite some time in the past. I think it might be worth to mention that pnp games that keep being made today are dumbed down in general. Turning them an MMO will just squeeze every last bits of imagination, originality and fun out of it.