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Can't believe I'm here. Other people play this game too?
Used to play Traveller back in the early 80s. None of my friends owned the books, which meant that I always GMd (to date, I never actually played the game as a player) and I don't think I ever met anyone who played the game who didn't learn of it through me (no internet back then, so none of us knew anything outside of our circle of friends). The last time I played Traveller, politicians and news media were still wondering out loud if role playing games were spawning a generation of Satanists and delinquents.
I enrolled my daughter in a D&D class a few months ago, and decided I missed role playing, so I'm getting back into it. Got ~4 oneshot 5e games under my belt and we used Foundry VTT, which was nothing short of amazing. No more hand-mapping or describing "you walk into a room that's roughly 30 by 40 which a door on the north wall in first 10 feet and a window on the eastern wall in the center". My jaw practically hit the floor when I saw what VTTs do.
So then I decided to see what's going on with my other favorite game. Lo and behold, I see there's a subreddit and TONS of YouTube videos devoted to it, along with VTT support. Foundry support of Traveller is anemic, but I found FGU with *excellent* Traveller support, so I made the plunge, and here I am!
A couple of very basic questions about FGU:
1. I quickly learned that FGU screen real estate is at a premium. None of the sub-windows have a minimize button. Is there a way to hide/minimize windows to have a clean and orderly FGU desktop?
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2. Similarly, when I start poking around the Library, say, the Core Rulebook, I noticed that each click opens up a new window. Is there a way to open a new link by reusing a Library window already opened? Sometimes I'm just poking around the rules and I don't want to close every single window that opens. The way a modern browser works is perfect: lets us choose whether to open a new tab or reuse an old one.
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3. One thing that surprises me is that I can't seem to poke around the core rules without creating a campaign. Logically, I shouldn't have to start a campaign or connect to the cloud to look at my documentation. Is this possible?
4. Similarly, an NPC shouldn't be tied to a campaign, either. Is there a way to share NPCs among different campaigns? E.g. If the players meet someone in Marooned on Marduk, can I share the NPC with a homegrown campaign?
5. I'd like to actually play the game as a player rather than a GM at least once in my life. How can I find campaigns that are looking for players?