Regarding "locals are not all yokels" remember that this issue is from 1986. The game had existed for only 12 years, and the *vast* majority of players in this era were teenage boys. I was one of them, and yeah we did all kinds of despicable stuff, chortling about it like Beavis and Butthead the whole time (B & B are funny not because they're caricatures, but because they're pitch perfect reflections of a very specific population in a very specific time and place). We had a whole loose Traveller "campaign" where we lured space station officials onto our ship so we could beat them up. It was absurd and cringey, but adolescent boyhood is a time of cringe absurdity. "Locals are not yokels" is pretty clearly a response from "older" gamers to 80s teen-boy murderhoboing. Boomers gonna boomer. :)
Love getting the clarification. We “played” in the early 90’s, and yeah, I remember being a cringe teenage boy. We had one character called Drex, who was lord of the black dragons, he rode around on black dragons and murdered stuff. He was fun. I still use that handle to this day.
Regarding "locals are not all yokels" remember that this issue is from 1986. The game had existed for only 12 years, and the *vast* majority of players in this era were teenage boys. I was one of them, and yeah we did all kinds of despicable stuff, chortling about it like Beavis and Butthead the whole time (B & B are funny not because they're caricatures, but because they're pitch perfect reflections of a very specific population in a very specific time and place). We had a whole loose Traveller "campaign" where we lured space station officials onto our ship so we could beat them up. It was absurd and cringey, but adolescent boyhood is a time of cringe absurdity. "Locals are not yokels" is pretty clearly a response from "older" gamers to 80s teen-boy murderhoboing. Boomers gonna boomer. :)
Love getting the clarification. We “played” in the early 90’s, and yeah, I remember being a cringe teenage boy. We had one character called Drex, who was lord of the black dragons, he rode around on black dragons and murdered stuff. He was fun. I still use that handle to this day.