Recent content by alex_greene

I'd like to know which edition began to list Rule Zero, as found currently on page 4 of the latest Core Rulebook. Not enough people read that rule. If I'm in some dive bar in Liverpool and I hear that someone in Sydney, AU has introduced light sabres into their OTU, it's not up to me to police...

You're right. It won't be the Traveller you know. Tough. That's the point. We cannot play the Traveller you want it to be. Nobody is playing the game with those old rules any more, because come on - have you ever played a character (they never used to call them "Travellers" back then either)...

We could ditch Charted Space, you know. Hand back the IP rights to FFE. And when they decide to change things up to spruce up the game for the 50th, you know, you'll have no say in their decisions at all. I'm sure that'll make you all really happy. And imagining a generation of kids finding this...

We are going wild. You can't stop whinging about it. I dare you to imagine better, but all you can do is tell Matthew you want more of what other people have done in the past. So look at the past. There are almost fifty years of changes already. Everything's changed, and it's going to keep...

Traveller and the OTU have been rewritten so many times, between Martin J, Marc W Miller (peace be unto him), Steve Jackson, Matthew, Marc, Martin again ... We are playing in the TU of Theseus. Everything I have said has come from the core rulebooks. All it'll take will be for one kid down the...

If there is a conflict between the society of a setting and the player characters' actions, and the players' creativity, the society must give way to the players. If some kid next year starts playing Trav and tells the Ref they want to fit collectors and ramscoops to a Free Trader and give it...

It's all canon. You can stop playing FFW or drop the Ancients in YTU. The Trilogy, like Deepnight Revelation, is canon in the OTU.

This. ^^ Only, imagine this being caused by the Travellers. As canon.

The use of High Guard to create rift runners, and the invention of rift running, totally breaks the back of everything in The Great Rift and Deepnight Revelation. Who's to say that rift runners don't become a thing in 1100, only the first ones turn up at Trin in 1105 and enter the fray of the...

And it's also possible for the Travellers to come along and make major canon changes to the OTU, just by using what's already canon in the OTU. The Ancients Trilogy, Pirates of Drinax, Deepnight Revelation, Society of Prometheus, and FFW are all canon. Even if you only play one of them, they...

Spear and shield vs. sword and shield - sword + shield prevails more often than not, because spears' Size works against it, and a sword wielder can use their shield to block the spear, then cut in under the deflected spear and strike at leisure. I've seen escrima fighters. They can strike like...

So you aren't interested in playing the Ancients Trilogy or the Fifth Frontier War, then?

Right next to Annic Nova and those 2300 ships.

It has already changed. It changed before GURPS bought the license for Traveller. It changed again when Mongoose got the license, and FFE changed it and gave it a complete makeover already. We are none of us playing our Daddy's Traveller any more, and the newcomers of 2027 won't be playing our...

So is there anybody else who wants to go back to the Gregorian Calendar, horse and cart, counting in Roman numerals and adopting Latin as the official language of this forum?