On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 1:44 PM Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

I have NEVER been drawn to Megacorps or the Bureaucrat career. I don't even know why the latter is a Traveller staple when many other cooler ones weren't (like bounty hunters) for a long time.

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Me too.

Took one look at those, thought "Oh my, how BORING!" & moved on.

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It's hard to see how administrative paper-generators were conceived as star-spanning travellers getting into fights, jams, crimes, etc and getting themselves out.

Was there some odd reference to something in the 'books that inspired the creators' that suggested bureaucrats as a playable profession were going to be a hot item?

If I had one question to ask Marc in a Q&A, it would be why the Bureaucrat?