What sort of character?

All the characters I've seen so far are good. If you're ready go ahead and submit them to the game. Remember that the character sheets should be 'custom'. We need the basics: attributes (Str, Dex, End, Int, Edu, Soc), career summary (5 term Scout, etc), current funds (most will have 10,000 to 20,000 credits saved up), Skills, and any retirement benefits. Some back story, but leave 'room' to add to that story as we go along. Not everything about your past needs to be revealed up front.

Are videos of the 20th century available?

I think if your want them to be, then they are. In some past games I've tried half-heartedly to limit that sort of thing, but it never works. We'll always fall back on Earth references, jokes, and products.

What would be a good home world for my character? Is there one whose inhabitants are considered lower status?

Sent in my character. It’s also public. I still to get an image.

Fleurin "Riff" Visigraznolle

Career
Scout Services - Field Command - Exploration Branch
5 terms
Age 38

Attributes
Strength 7
Dexterity B
Endurance 9
Intellect A
Education 4
Social 6

Skills
ATV-1
Electronics-1
GravVehicle-1
Gunnery-1
Mechanical-1
Medical-1
Pilot-1
Revolver-2
Science/Planetology-3

Current Funds
Cr70,000

Benefits
Retirement Pay 4,000cr/year

Gear
Revolver

Practically any planet/system is doable. All would have a wide spectrum of status. A world itself might have certain low-class reputation, but that would almost always amount to prejudice!

You can use the TRAVELLER MAP to easily look over systems. Find Glisten, then you can click on different systems and look at their descriptions in the Traveller Wiki.

I'm going to set up a task for EVERYONE(!) later today that will ask for something similar.

Your home-system & planet can help you visualize and enrich your character but doesn't have any effect on your character otherwise. Later versions of Traveller make home planets more important. Not an issue for us, though.

Glisten information is available in the Traveller wiki

And the location on the Traveller Map is here

3 player-characters now on the approved list.

FYI... If anyone is looking for character sheets you can find a version here: Classic Traveller sheet

Here is my character:

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Dr. Benjamin Cole spent twenty-eight years studying life on worlds he rarely had the opportunity to visit.

Originally trained as a xenobiologist, Cole developed a reputation as an able generalist whose interests ranged across a broad range of subjects. His research was respectable but failed to yield any groundbreaking results.

Where Cole excelled was teaching, where he was known as "Dr. B" to generations of students. He had a gift for making difficult subjects understandable and was always willing to help students out, regardless of whether or not he had taught the subject.

His colleagues occasionally felt that his breadth of knowledge was his greatest professional weakness. Cole was interested in too many things and never remained focused on any one problem long enough to earn him any fame.

For many years that seemed enough, but mandatory retirement changed his perspective.

At forty-six, Cole realized that he had spent most of his adult life teaching students about places he had rarely seen or explored.

Retirement therefore became less an ending and more an opportunity to live the life he had only lectured about.

One of the curses of being retired, is that I have too much time on my hands. It makes me wonder about what I have written in games I play or run in the PbP ecosystem. So I find myself asking the question;
Does anyone have any questions or thoughts before we start?

From the introductions, some do not have experience with the Traveller rule system, if there is anything I can help with, let me know. @LloganTamm and @dabagiins both have experience playing in PbP games with David as the GM and they can answer questions too and give you their perspective.

Any thoughts on the game's direction or what you want out of the game?

I’m guessing the character images I’ve seen so far are generated by AI. Any suggestions for the correct prompts to get good images?

Forgot to add that I like the game’s direction. Searching for artifacts sounds like fun.

I think @dabaggins and @LloganTamm are the best to ask.

I have worked with Chat GPT in a long and troublesome pursuit of using AI and the best I have achieved is with pencil-style drawings. My prompts drive AI into areas where I am (WTF did you get that from my prompt?) and very frustrated with the result. (LOL!) No I am not the one to ask.

My instructions were: create an image of a 38 year old college professor in the far far future. No glasses, brown hair and eyes.

I adjusted the image: make him less handsome, make him thinner

I cropped the image to focus on the face then I
adjusted the size of the image to 150x150 using a resize app. 150 x 150 and less than 1 MB are the limits of Gamer's Plane.

You can always ask Chat to change the face and it will do it. Think of working with a police sketch artist.

ahhhh that may be where I am going wrong

For me all I did was feed ChatGPT the stats and background of my character, then I asked it to create me an image for that character. However, like Tamm said you can always chat and modify created images, as required. Modifications work much better than they did in the past.

Questions: (1) How important is a character’s home world? (2) Is it plausible for a character born on Grote to eventually make his way to Wurzburg to get his Scout training?

At this point, your home world is not that important. You can always choose one later.

How far apart are Grote and Wurzburg?
Perhaps one of your character's parents is in the military and was transferred around a lot.

The planets are nine hexes apart. How far is each hex?