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The new books look great, and are generally better organised than the previous edition. They are also better aligned with the latest Traveller rules, which is nice. In terms of a pure word count, I would guess that they may have a little less content than the previous edition (or so it feels)...

That's not a wall of text, that's a wall of brilliance! Thank you so much for taking the time. This will certainly help our group better understand, interpret and houserule the new edition's spaceship concepts. I actually respectfully disagree here. A couple of years ago, I spent a lot of (too...

I don't know about the OP, but I would definitely be interested in hearing your thoughts on this!

Skills checks in the current system are always 2d6 (+ your skill), against a target number (the higher, the more difficult). Weapon damage is a combination of a dice roll (a machine gun may make 5d6 damage, a hunting rifle 3d6, etc.) and the level of success that you made in your skill check...

In case these might be of use to any of you, I thought I'd point to: 1. A digital character sheet that we created for our group. It's been working pretty well for us in our new 2300AD campaign with the new rules. 2. An update to our 2300AD travel plotter. It now comes with a map (except on...

I'm quite impressed by the changes that you have made to the updated pdf versions. In addition to fixing a lot of bigger things, you have also taken some fairly minor comments and "this would be nice to have" type of ideas and incorporated them into the books. Thank you very much! A couple of...

I got the pdf edition earlier this year. I was interested in running the classic "Murder on Arcturus Station" adventure but actually ended up fielding "Hunt for Sabre IV" instead. Both adventures are really well written, the station is a fun place to explore, the characters are interesting, the...

Ah, indeed. Maybe that's right. Sometimes these things are a bit more art than they are science. I should have mentioned that I haven't actually updated the plotter since the summer, and I haven't yet really looked at Book 3 in the new edition, so I'm not sure how compatible the plotter's ships...

I actually ended up writing a web app to answer this very question for our game group. Here's a link. I don't claim it to be the final word on how ships in this universe work, but it's our group's best understanding. Don't rely on Wikipedia, as the stars in 2300AD are not where they are in real...

The remnants of Book 2. Page 84 "By 2300, Humanity has encountered five other sentient species" -> Yet, you go on to tell us about six: Ebers, Pentapods, Sung, Xiang, Kaefers and Arbors. Page 101 "Hostile Enviroments" (title) -> "Hostile Environments" (missing n) "carbon-based" -> "carbon...

Thanks! I'll clear my calendar. :)

Wonderful! I still have book 3 to go through and would be happy to look through it as well before you go to print, if my comments have been of any help. By when do you need feedback the very latest?

Hi Matt! This past week, I've been posting corrections to the "Official 2300AD Comments Thread" for the pdfs updated a week ago. As far as I can see, there are still plenty of pretty major issues in these books, such as the star maps having incorrect information and most of the tables having...

Book 2 continues. General comments It would be brilliant if each colony could have its foundation year listed in its table. Perhaps my biggest disappointment in this new edition is the removal of descriptions for many colonies that had descriptions in the previous edition. Some of the colony...

Thanks for the clarification, cunningrat! So I guess if we went with today's language and transliteration rules, it should be "Noviy Kyiv". I might personally go with that. Although, it is also true that the timeline of 2300 diverges from ours in the 1990s. In the world of 2300AD, Ukraine (like...