Just a few weeks ago my Traveller campaign picked up where it left off about 2 years ago. As I had plans to continue the campaign where we ended it two years ago, I got into a kind of squeeze as I also decided to bring a new member into the group, Jeremy.

Lately I have been drawn into a (on the surface) rather simple game. You may have heard about it. It is called Minecraft. This indie title has been the hottest item since Civilization V: I would dare say even hotter than Civ V. Of course my Traveller activities suffers greatly because of Minecraft. Minecraft t started out as a one-man show. The game is still in Alpha, but sells faster than hot buns. So what is it about. Not much actually. The game does have a theme, but no real purpose other than survival. The game itself is very simple, but behind this simplicity lies the beauty.

As some of you may have noticed, the HIWG CD that used to reside on these pages has been gone for quite some time now. I took down the CD after several persons contacted me and asked me to remove their material. After a while I decided to take down the CD as it became difficult to verify that all contested material was indeed removed as it was quite disorganized.

However, the CD is still in demand.

I am a gamer, and has been a gamer since my early teens when I first played on a Philips 7000 console, way back in what seems to be the stone ages. I have followed the evolution of electronic games since then more or less. My next gaming machine was the C64. I progressed from there to the Amiga and then to the PC. I will remain a gamer until they pry my dices from my cold dead hands.

One subject that often comes up in Traveller discussions is wether there should be an online Traveller game. Visions of how a Traveller game online should be are many. Ranging from the ordinary MMO to a NWN mod and further on to a FPS game.

IMO a Traveller MMO wouldn't do very well, even if it does give Traveller more exposure to the public.

Just recently there has been a large debacle about the new and upcoming book from Mongoose, the alien module covering Aslans. In many ways that discussion is a live example of what I tried to convey with my previous editorial. Mongoose really finds themselves between a grognard and a hard place.

Traveller is old, even older than some of its players. I started out with Traveller in 1988 short after leaving the Norwegian Navy. Just months prior to my leave, I had encountered roleplaying games through a friend that which visited me when I had shore leave. So when I was dismissed, I wanted to buy a rpg myself, and it had to be a SciFi game.