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F33D · **Joined:** Tue May 29, 2012 1:13 pm **Posts:** 603

2330ADUSA1 wrote:

I never liked Gurps myself and being a DieHard Traveller collector, I never ought any of that stuff. That says alot for me, because I buy EVERYTHING...but I did not buy THAT stuff.

You missed the best Trav material produced. I own everything else since I started buying in '78. I never played GURPS (well maybe one game ~'82?) but after leafing through it I had to buy their Trav material.

That being said, T5 won't impact MGT sales. Price of admission is the 1st deterrent and the type of game is the 2nd. 2 different animals.

GamerDude · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:58 pm

Wil Mireu wrote:

SJG's Traveller license has not run out. It certainly did not end when the others "sunsetted" (see http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/Augu ... _Traveller ), it was exempted because of an arrangement made between SJG and Marc Miller as described in the Daily Illuminator I linked to...

I appreciate the clarification... As much as I like many of the products from SJGames (and on my 4th year of subscribing to JTAS) I just don't go to their site much. In truth I just go for updated Munchkin deck/icon lists and to update my e23 purchases.

My info came from someone who is supposed to be a "highly respected, long standing member of their MIB" Looks like he was wrong... again.

Techno-Guru · **Joined:** Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:45 am **Posts:** 160

It might be just because I started with MgT but honestly I'm not impressed by this. Nothing particularly grabbed me and much of it is an appeal to a sense of nostalga I don't have. That and having to give out about $150 is more then I'm willing to pay sight unseen even if it is for a six hundred page monster of a tome.

2330ADUSA1 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:49 pm

I will wait and see T5 core rule book. If it is useless, then it will just sit on my shelf and collect dust.

GamerDude · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:19 am

I'm sorry, I'm retired on disability as is my wife.. meaning limited funds. I have the T5 beta/pre-release CD and since right at the beginning this "T5 - the system that was supposed to be comparable with MGT - MGT compatible with it" was not compatible, not easily. I mean modifiers go the opposite direction making everything topsy turvy...

The only good I see in it is, maybe some new stuff on world.system generation.

ShawnDriscoll · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:32 pm

GamerDude wrote:

The only good I see in it is, maybe some new stuff on world.system generation.

We are on the same page.

rje · **Posted:** Fri Jul 27, 2012 6:22 pm

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Lets face it all the good ideas from T5 are going to get house ruled into Mongoose games and good ideas from Mongoose rules will be house rulled into T5 games.

Though MGT and T5 have diverged (and this was evident almost from the start of MGT, and it was bound to happen, and really it was the only way to get it done!), they are both still true to their roots: MGT is a re-statement and improvement on Classic Traveller, and T5 is an evolution of Classic Traveller.

The task mechanic is not the important element in portability: rather, it's the nouns that are important.

Some exploration has been done into porting characters, equipment, and starships between the two systems. I am confident that reasonable guidelines could be produced; house rules already exist.

Sturn · **Posted:** Fri Jul 27, 2012 7:43 pm

F33D wrote:

2330ADUSA1 wrote:

I never liked Gurps myself and being a DieHard Traveller collector, I never ought any of that stuff. That says alot for me, because I buy EVERYTHING...but I did not buy THAT stuff.

You missed the best Trav material produced. I own everything else since I started buying in '78. I never played GURPS (well maybe one game ~'82?) but after leafing through it I had to buy their Trav material.

I agree with this. While I have never liked the Gurps SYSTEM, I own nearly all of the Gurps Traveller books for their fluff. Some of the most detailed Traveller fluff out there.

IanBruntlett · **Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:03 pm

All my Traveller books are from Mongoose.

I do, however, have a copy of GURPS Space 2nd Ed and found invaluable while preparing to flesh out Spinward Marches' Regina sub-sector.

Basically, I took my notes about stars and planets ("Tell me about the stars") and added extra bits from GURPS Space.

ShawnDriscoll · **Posted:** Sun Jul 29, 2012 12:52 am

I just have Traveller books that don't involve the rebellion or the new era or Foss paintings.

GamerDude · **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2012 5:04 am

One thing that's sad is... there is confusion over what's canon vs just licensed ATU vs what is compatible with what.. and Marc evidently will never come out and say "X is how things are".

rje · **Posted:** Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:40 pm

GamerDude wrote:

One thing that's sad is... there is confusion over what's canon vs just licensed ATU vs what is compatible with what.. and Marc evidently will never come out and say "X is how things are".

I think T5 consolidates a lot of Marc's vision, drawing from concepts spanning multiple editions, compiled into an integrated rule set.

flyingcircus · **Posted:** Mon Nov 19, 2012 6:14 pm

Well they met their $24,000 goal and racked in a whopping $294,000 to boot, so where is T5, I have not heard a peep from them since they hit the kickstarter mark goals. Maybe Mark decided to forget T5 and pocket the cash and head off for Argentina. :wink:

phavoc · **Joined:** Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:13 pm **Posts:** 940

flyingcircus wrote:

Well they met their $24,000 goal and racked in a whopping $294,000 to boot, so where is T5, I have not heard a peep from them since they hit the kickstarter mark goals. Maybe Mark decided to forget T5 and pocket the cash and head off for Argentina. :wink:

Nah. If you contributed as part of the kickstarter campaign you get updated via email when there is a status change.

F33D · **Joined:** Tue May 29, 2012 1:13 pm **Posts:** 603

flyingcircus wrote:

Maybe Mark decided to forget T5 and pocket the cash and head off for Argentina. :wink:

For us older guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYOP1zVKWLo

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