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I'm envisaging something like the Martian marine powered armour in the Expanse?

Can you elaborate on what things in it are useful for practical play? This is the aspect I'm most interested in; less excited about lore and invented physics. I mean that stuff is ok for reading but it never really has any relevance in games, in my experience at least.

Nice idea, hope it does well.

With regard to the starship operators handbook, I'm very much looking forward to this. What I particularly want, however, is more game mechanics and procedures along the lines of the tasks and activities at the end of the DGP book. I'd love to see an expansion of that. I'm far less interested in...

I'm guessing the hard copies are all printed without these errata.. I'm not normally too fussy about such things, but in this case the stats _are_ the text of the book, and these errata seem pretty extensive.

That would be better than nothing, but I'd much prefer if the merchant material were part of the core series and thus not necessarily integrated with the Charted Space setting. My preference would be for a single book, not a box set for 1.5x the price with extra material I don't need.

The main thing I'd be interested in would be a 2e version of Merchant Prince. It's all gone very military sci-fi recently, which I know a lot of folks like, but I prefer civilian Traveller and 1e was great at supporting that :).

This sounds great and is something MgT fans have been wanting for a while. BTW I think one of the best - possibly the best - world generation systems that has ever been produced for Traveller is the one in Mindjammer Traveller. Worth a look if you haven't seen it.

Well, clearly the appeal of the miniatures is not sufficient. Plenty of us remember having fun playing Snapshot with cheap counters and paper maps; I'd be delighted in a redesigned version such as this with quality modern production.

It was never going to get funded, never mind hit the stretch goals. Pledges had stalled after the first couple of days.

Probably a sensible decision to cancel this alright. For my part I would be very interested in a release of the rules and boards, as pdfs or in print, and with illustrated counters instead of miniatures. I realise people are fixated on plastic miniatures these days but I find counters work just...

I'm a little surprised that the Traveller branding is not more prominent in the campaign material. In fact its hardly there at all - I didn't realise it at first. Do you not think this would increase its appeal?

Ok sounds good. Can I also suggest then, as a stretch goal or add-on, a set of additional boards with different locations? Or perhaps even just a pdf of them..

Looks nice, considering this. But.. can I strongly suggest not making all the gameboards 11.7 x 16.5 inches, and instead going for a modular 11.7 x 8.3 system - or at least a combination of the two? For two main reasons: 1. The large boards will be very likely to warp - just like the Sedition...

I have quite a few of the 1e career books. What would be the main obstacles in simply using the tables there for character creation? Is it the skills?