2300AD - A suggestion

[MasterGwydion]

If the Traveller core rule book was generic, and then setting books are added that is one thing.

But as things are now the Traveller core rule book is written for the Third Imperium setting. The Imperium is mentioned 67 times. Many of the supposedly generic core books assume the Imperium setting.

I wonder if there is a market for a stripped down core rule book that needs a setting book, or make your own setting.

Agreed!

 

[rinku]

As soon as you change the fictional science you change the setting. It's the point of difference between science fiction and medieval/fantasy. So it's trickier to genericise the former than the latter. People want specifics as to how their FTL and ray guns work. Swords and arrows and armour work the same across the settings; magic varies, but that doesn't have to have any justifications.

I dunno. Didn't Mongoose already try this?

 

[boggo2300]

My complaint, and why I wont buy Mongoose 2300 as it stands, is that to play, you have to buy the Traveller rulebook and throw out large parts of it which aren't used in 2300, and replace them with things from the 2300 book, so you are stuck back and forward between two books, neither of which contains enough to play the game.