760 Patrons

[Klaus Kipling]

So what will Traveller: Starship Troopers, Traveller: B5, Traveller: Judge Dredd, or Traveller: Strontium Dog, be?

All the core books should be applicable to them, also. Ergo, Traveller has generic applications

 

[rust]

So if Mongoose want to produce a generic SciFi book, and sell it, they can sell it as a generic SciFi book.

But this is exactly what they did. It just happens that their line of generic
SciFi books is named Traveller, and this is what they have been telling
the average consumers for many months. And they did so with the per-
mission of Marc W. Miller, who once started his career with a line of gene-
ric SciFi books named Traveller.

I really fail to see the problem here. :?

 

[Ishmael]

If Traveller is generic sci-fi ( as it was in the beginning ), and 760 patrons is generic sci-fi, then why isn't 760 patrons Traveller? Because they made it with few/no ties to the OTU?

No.

760 Patrons isn't Traveller because it was written without reference to "classic" Traveller Patron Encounters, and, more importantly, without reference to the Mongoose Traveller Core Rulebook.

I'm afraid that I disagree with you.

The original '76 Patrons' was a booklet with lists of one or two paragraph plot hooks and a few random variants for each 'patron'. Isn't that what 760 patrons is?
My own favorite ruleset (MT) defines patron as a npc used to create an encounter/plot hook.
I don't have this book (yet), but descriptions of it seem to match the above fairly closely even if its not written up as patrons used to be in the old Journal mags.

Personally, I think that a generic, barebones bunch of plot-hook npc's fits the spirit of Traveller better than a bunch of 'stuff' that's fleshed out too much to be malleable yet not enough to be called a canned adventure.
It looks like exactly what I would expect of a patron book.

 

[Allensh]

If Traveller is generic sci-fi ( as it was in the beginning ), and 760 patrons is generic sci-fi, then why isn't 760 patrons Traveller? Because they made it with few/no ties to the OTU?

No.

760 Patrons isn't Traveller because it was written without reference to "classic" Traveller Patron Encounters, and, more importantly, without reference to the Mongoose Traveller Core Rulebook.

Regards

Ewan

I have to disagree with this. The tables are arranged by careers and the careers are straight out of the MGT core book and Mercenary supplement. That qualifies as a reference to the core book, I would think.

Allen