Merchants and Adventuring Freelance Traveller (22 Apr 2014 16:26 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Merchants and Adventuring
Douglas Berry
(22 Apr 2014 17:19 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Merchants and Adventuring
Jeffrey Schwartz
(22 Apr 2014 17:21 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Merchants and Adventuring
Evyn MacDude
(22 Apr 2014 18:44 UTC)
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RE: [TML] Merchants and Adventuring
Anthony Jackson
(22 Apr 2014 17:59 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Merchants and Adventuring
David Shaw
(22 Apr 2014 18:48 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Merchants and Adventuring
Timothy Collinson
(23 Apr 2014 17:00 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Merchants and Adventuring
Ian Whitchurch
(23 Apr 2014 22:44 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Merchants and Adventuring
Timothy Collinson
(09 Jun 2014 02:31 UTC)
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RE: [TML] Merchants and Adventuring
Steve Ellis
(09 Jun 2014 02:31 UTC)
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Merchants and Adventuring Freelance Traveller 22 Apr 2014 16:26 UTC
Somehow, most published adventures seem to be designed for a mixed party, with most characters having military backgrounds. Even the canonical merchant career seems to have a not-insignificant amount of combat-related skills. I would think, however, that a merchant's mindset, even if he has combat skills, would be significantly different from that of an ex-military character's, and a merchant would evaluate a patron contract with a different mental model for risk/reward balancing. Given that, and staying with the fundamental "problem" that Traveller economics don't work UNLESS the merchant goes adventuring... What sort of adventures would, in fact, 'appeal' to a merchant mindset? (The best sort of responses would be actual adventures or seeds, that I could pull into Active Measures and Getting Off the Ground, but ordinary discussion is good, too.) -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Fanzine and Resource xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com http://freelancetraveller.downport.com/ ®Traveller is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2014. Use of the trademark in this notice and in the referenced materials is not intended to infringe or devalue the trademark. Freelance Traveller extends its thanks to the following enterprises for hosting services: CyberNET Web Hosting (http://www.cyberwebhosting.net) The Traveller Downport (http://www.downport.com)