It is our honour to greet a King of the legendary GDW as our guest today: the inventor of Traveller, Marc Miller. We talked with him about the dawn and origins of the game and hobby (including Redmond A. Simonsen & SPI), many luminaries of legendary GDW (Wiseman, the Keiths, John Harshman, Gary Gygax, Frank Chadwick and others ), crypto-fascism in our hobbies and real life, and how small things can have big impact for the positive. Other subjects include the role of D&D in forming both Traveller as well as changing the wargaming scene, Swiss design, font choices, and information presentation. Hosts: hasran, blut_und_glas, settembrini
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Shownotes
- Not in our town: Darlene and Marc’s anti-racism activism
- Far Future Enterprises. Get your CT-CD Roms and many other things from legendary GDW directly from Marc!
Vielen Danken, es war der supar Interview mit supar Fragen, weil du kennst die Traveller Geschicht. Und auch du fragst von Typsetting und Kunst. Du grok Traveller (Grokst?). Supar!
Does Grok get conjugated in Deutsche? I’m an Ami and haven’t studied Deutsche bis 1989. I think I wrote Many Thanks, it was an excellent interview with excellent question, because you know Traveller History. And also you asked about typesetting and art. You grok Traveller. Awesome! P.S. Found this from your post to Reddit.
Thanks for listening & noticing!
Ever since doing a deep dive on Robert Heinlein, I avoid using the term „grok“, I cannot unsee what I saw…
but the grammatical question is answered as follows:
ich grokke
du grokst
er, sie, es grokt
wir grokken
ihr grokt
sie grokken
This is the first episode I listened to, and now I’m deep in your English back log. Thanks for the great podcast! I’m surprised at how nice it felt to hear an old RPG luminary say „racism is bad.“ Looking forward to future episodes!