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    Zhodani in March

    What I personally wouldn't mind seeing, up and beyond what you mentioned would be more information, in this book or even a second suppliment on the core expeditions. That has always facinated me. I'd love to see what minor races they have found, (or if someone dares to add a seventh one, a new...
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    Accents in OTU Traveller

    I don't really have the talent for it, so I don't try to do any accents when I GM a game. But, in the OTU, what accents do you picture the various races and cultures having when speaking Gangellic? There's of course the obvious ones (First one that comes to mind is Sword Worlders sounding...
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    Highly skilled characters - or the lack thereof

    I've done this myself. The way I see it, if someone get's let's say a vacc suit with an armor mustering out benefit, and yet has no vacc suit skill, getting the second mustering out benefit IMO indicates that they got some free training on how to use their surplus vacc suit they got free from...
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    Character Creation Question

    If I remember right the 3I hit TL 15 around year 1000 or so? T20 had some TL 15 worlds but not a lot in the Gateway domain if memory serves, and I want to say that most or all of the TL 15 worlds circa year 990 or 1000 were just entering TL 15. There's a table in a couple books from earlier...
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    993 ATU (Gateway Domain)

    I wouldn't mind that. One I'd want to see a bit more if we're going to do an "old established" sector might be Vland. That would also open up a possible "alien module" about the Vilani (mostly a book about their culture and history I'm sure, although the fact that they live quite long would be...
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    Increasing main stats..

    If I may, also figure social standing can go up (or down) just from roleplaying. Getting an honorary noble title for instance. And the MGT version of the module "Prison Planet" has a list of crimes that if convicted and sent to a prison that would lower your Social standing by a point or two...
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    Astrogation question

    Well, isn't the system the ship is leaving, along with the system the ship is wanting to jump to moving? Let alone any system(s) that might be in the way if a ship is jumping past them? Okay, 2 weeks time might not be a lot to compensate for...but maybe (or maybe not) it's enough that an...
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    Astrogation question

    True, but that makes it even more interesting that a lot of ships at 400 dtons and under often list "Pilot/Navigator (or Pilot/Astrogator) as one single position. Look at a lone Scout in a Type S or X-Boat if nothing else. THAT poor sap is his own pilot, navigator AND jump drive engineer when...
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    Astrogation question

    My take has always been that an astrogator isn't there for routine jumps. He or she is there for when things go pear shaped, and one has to figure out why when going from a to b, the ship ended up at point c, where point c is located and how to get from point c to point b (or if one must, to...
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    Solomoni Rim Anybody?

    I'd like to see MGT's take on Solomani Rim, so far I've liked every "rehash" of stuff that was already done in previous editions. Having said that, I'll agree that Rim of Fire would be a good purchase overall as well, with or without a MGT rehash. If one needs stats that can be used with MGT...
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    993 ATU (Gateway Domain)

    Fair enough, although I do feel that MGT has added things with their rehashes of the various aliens, the Marches and so forth that are noteworthy too. But then again some editions of Traveller I do have complete or almost complete as far as the collections go, some I know about them and the...
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    993 ATU (Gateway Domain)

    Simply as a friendly discussion, I'd ask then if you feel the sector books about the Spinward Marches and Reft were of worth to you then, since the Marches have been covered with most versions and Reft in at least a couple. Or the recent Darrian alien module, since CT's Alien Module 8, GT's...
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    So, how canon is GURPS Traveller, anyway?

    YES...but as I pointed out in my original post, I'm well aware of where GURPS Traveller diverges from the "standard" Third Imperium timeline. So thus my question, which again I feel was maybe best to not ask, was based more on items that weren't timeline dependent. Such as the two minor alien...
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    So, how canon is GURPS Traveller, anyway?

    LOL..my intent was to see if there was an official ruling, if any. Although I do like to follow the OTU as much as I can, I'm not letting canon dictate my roleplaying, nor did I ask for the definition of canon. :P Tell you what, with all due respect to everyone, forget my question. :P...
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    So, how canon is GURPS Traveller, anyway?

    Sorry if this has been asked before, and hopefully I'm not asking something that has a potential to start a flame war. Anyway, I was wondering if there's any official word on the canon status of GURPS Traveller. Okay, obviously anything from Dulinor's assassination on past that is an alternate...
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