I'd add that, as well as size, the more human-level everyday Joe focus is a massive pull for some of us. It's the first Mongoose campaign I've bought, and it's because of that.
I'd add that he's engaging and fun too watch, something I find vanishingly rare in rpg channels.
Wily Muffin has good, in depth, overviews and reviews too
Cluster Truck is the first Mongoose campaign to have caught my attention, simply because I don't like the grand or epic scales in Traveller. So this strategy gets you at least one more potential customer anyway! Any 70's-styles silliness is just a bonus in my book too.
Absolutely great post. This interpretation makes far more sense to me than any of the official material (in almost all versions of the game) that assumes the Imperium is largely benign. I never could see how that would actually work.
It's an oldy, but FASA's Fate of the Sky Raiders is a bit like this in terms of being a massive sandbox but enclosed. Different human groups rather than aliens and monsters, though.
In terms of interest in something like that but more gonzo, I'd definitely check out a preview if I saw it on...
T4 has a rule where the referee rolls up to half the dice on uncertain tasks. For an average difficulty task that comes out as 2d6, roll one each. I don't know if it's where that later version of the rule first appeared, though.
There's a lot of classic and megatraveller stuff I'd like to see back in print, but collected volumes of the Digests would be very near the top of the list. PDFs would be a good start, but I like hard copies (and shudder to think about what the early issues must cost now).
More broadly, I...
I replaced most of my little black books with FFEs big floppy books. If you're gonna start printing new LBBs, you should do at least 8 so they can be complied together into my favoured format :p
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