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If thinking of a 'what next' that's not OTU, if Mongoose has a fairly cosy licensing relationship with 2000ad - dredd and strontium dog both being available for traveller, maybe the VCs would be a good setting book?
A mix of infantry and ship combat - and the latter with 'traveller sized' four-or-five-man gunships, as well as the internal politics (and with the newer series, galactic politics).
A mix of infantry and ship combat - and the latter with 'traveller sized' four-or-five-man gunships, as well as the internal politics (and with the newer series, galactic politics).
Supplements
Solomani Rim
TECH: How Things Work
Describes in broader terms how various technical items work practically. i.e. Low berths, power need, they seem to last for centuries, how long to freeze, defrost; jump bubble, how to tow other ships/mass restrictions. The idea being that refs will have common reference point and not have to fudge certain basics and result in 800 refs doing 800 identical things the same rather than 800 different IMTU ways.
Books
Solomani
Hiver
K'Kree
Minor Aliens and Humans
Adventures
The original adventures are near untapped. Referring exclusively to GDW LBB Adv.
The LBB books could be done as Doubles and the Double LBB's as triples or quads. So far we have SOTA/Prison Planet.
In addition new adventures needed. This is one area Mongoose has neglected. Only TRIPWIRE (brilliantly conceived/clumsily executed) and Crowded Hours done, another on way. Beltstike was generic and would need work to hammer into 3rd I, Pirates of Drinax is not yet completed.
Solomani Rim
TECH: How Things Work
Describes in broader terms how various technical items work practically. i.e. Low berths, power need, they seem to last for centuries, how long to freeze, defrost; jump bubble, how to tow other ships/mass restrictions. The idea being that refs will have common reference point and not have to fudge certain basics and result in 800 refs doing 800 identical things the same rather than 800 different IMTU ways.
Books
Solomani
Hiver
K'Kree
Minor Aliens and Humans
Adventures
The original adventures are near untapped. Referring exclusively to GDW LBB Adv.
The LBB books could be done as Doubles and the Double LBB's as triples or quads. So far we have SOTA/Prison Planet.
In addition new adventures needed. This is one area Mongoose has neglected. Only TRIPWIRE (brilliantly conceived/clumsily executed) and Crowded Hours done, another on way. Beltstike was generic and would need work to hammer into 3rd I, Pirates of Drinax is not yet completed.
Reading another post in that forum (http://forum.mongoosepublishing.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=49418) i had an idea.
What would you think about a book of religion in the Traveller universe?
What kinda religions there are?
How different governments and dinasties and the Third Empire focus on it?
How to create priests, preachers, bishops, or any religious character?
Mystic and religious equipment (drugs, evangelizing ships, hi-tech stuffs (an unknown technology is easily considered magic or a miracle).
How can old societies consider psionics as miracles or even as pagan magic?
How can religion interfere in some worlds and societies? In world creation, the religion of a world can be as important as the government or law level.
Religion has always inspired a lot of people, but it has also been one of the most powerfull weapons and ways of crowd control. Tons of sci-fi themes consider religion, Asimov's Foundation, Philip K. Dick, some Dark Horse Alien's comics, even the jedi are a sort of religion (as most philosophies for live), why not Traveller?
What would you think about a book of religion in the Traveller universe?
What kinda religions there are?
How different governments and dinasties and the Third Empire focus on it?
How to create priests, preachers, bishops, or any religious character?
Mystic and religious equipment (drugs, evangelizing ships, hi-tech stuffs (an unknown technology is easily considered magic or a miracle).
How can old societies consider psionics as miracles or even as pagan magic?
How can religion interfere in some worlds and societies? In world creation, the religion of a world can be as important as the government or law level.
Religion has always inspired a lot of people, but it has also been one of the most powerfull weapons and ways of crowd control. Tons of sci-fi themes consider religion, Asimov's Foundation, Philip K. Dick, some Dark Horse Alien's comics, even the jedi are a sort of religion (as most philosophies for live), why not Traveller?
Dungalad said:
Dunia wrote about a book that would be nice to have: This link ---> http://forum.mongoosepublishing.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=49865 Religion could be one of the chapters therein.
kafka
Mongoose
More suggestions...
Illustrated Who's Who of the Third Imperium - essentially a NPC book of the movers and shakers of the Third Imperium
Anomalies and Artifacts that is where it changes my original posting.
A Milieu book (naturally I would want input into any Traveller Now/Modern Traveller) perhaps a good suggestion would be the Long Night or Second Imperium.
More illustrative material in which people get a sense of the future and a sense of wonder...maybe pair up with SF publishers.
Illustrated Who's Who of the Third Imperium - essentially a NPC book of the movers and shakers of the Third Imperium
Anomalies and Artifacts that is where it changes my original posting.
A Milieu book (naturally I would want input into any Traveller Now/Modern Traveller) perhaps a good suggestion would be the Long Night or Second Imperium.
More illustrative material in which people get a sense of the future and a sense of wonder...maybe pair up with SF publishers.
Ah, and i would love, maybe not printed but in PDF a document/book with ALL the rules from all suplements re-paged and indexed. To avoid surf from one book to another everytime.
Character creation? All rules and careers from all suplements, and also the robots.
Ship creation? Basic rules with also high guard and vehicles and all.
World creation? Adding dinasties, animals, and so.
Equipment? All from the basic to the CSC and all equipment in other suplements.
And so...
Not printed, as that would be an unhandable monster, but in PDF, as a reference manual.
Character creation? All rules and careers from all suplements, and also the robots.
Ship creation? Basic rules with also high guard and vehicles and all.
World creation? Adding dinasties, animals, and so.
Equipment? All from the basic to the CSC and all equipment in other suplements.
And so...
Not printed, as that would be an unhandable monster, but in PDF, as a reference manual.
Nathan Brazil
Banded Mongoose
A Solomani Rim book (Solomani Über Alles!) ok that was bad 
A conversion from Legend/D100 SRD or the various D20 SRD's to Traveller
One thing that would be great an "Unearthed Arcana" style or optional rules book. Mongoose already introduced new rules systems in their own campaign books. While they were used for specific campaigns, many I see as sufficiently flexible for many settings. These could compiled together and expanded into a book of their own:
Alternate Characteristics and their use (ex. Influence, Charisma, Caste, Territory)
Alternate Technologies expanded (ex. Jump Gates)
Mapping and different UWP (ex. sectors in Strontium Dog, base notations found in Universe of Bablyon 5)
Mutations
Special Techniques
Sorcery
Finally, IF Mongoose is allowed or would like to, they might be able to draw rules from previous iterations of Traveller as options in the new one.
A conversion from Legend/D100 SRD or the various D20 SRD's to Traveller
One thing that would be great an "Unearthed Arcana" style or optional rules book. Mongoose already introduced new rules systems in their own campaign books. While they were used for specific campaigns, many I see as sufficiently flexible for many settings. These could compiled together and expanded into a book of their own:
Alternate Characteristics and their use (ex. Influence, Charisma, Caste, Territory)
Alternate Technologies expanded (ex. Jump Gates)
Mapping and different UWP (ex. sectors in Strontium Dog, base notations found in Universe of Bablyon 5)
Mutations
Special Techniques
Sorcery
Finally, IF Mongoose is allowed or would like to, they might be able to draw rules from previous iterations of Traveller as options in the new one.
Dungalad said:
This is an interesting idea, though it could be quite a bit of work. Out of interest, what would you think such a PDF, properly indexed and bookmarked, would be worth?
Rusty_Unycorn
Mongoose
A lot, unless you released them as separate books (Character Creation, World Creation, Ship Creation, Vehicle Creation, etc...)
Dave Chase
Mongoose
msprange said:
If this was just a rules supplement of all the supplement rules put into one 'book' and reformated, I would say the price of the core book.
Dave Chase
Egil Skallagrimsson
Mongoose
Dunia said:
Trojan Reach is pretty much covered in the Aslan supplement.
Egil
Egil Skallagrimsson
Mongoose
For what it is worth I feel that the "Careers" books have now been done. Would like to see the remaining aliens books, including Droyne and Solomani, and the 3I to be fleshed out in other areas, e.g. Deneb, and Reaver's Deep.
Outside the 3I, and unlikely because of the need to get a license, how about the "Farscape" universe or the "Night's Dawn" setting? Some interesting different kit, especially for space travel, but also something that could be accomodated well in the MgT system.
Egil
Outside the 3I, and unlikely because of the need to get a license, how about the "Farscape" universe or the "Night's Dawn" setting? Some interesting different kit, especially for space travel, but also something that could be accomodated well in the MgT system.
Egil
And Droyne is being written right now!
Oh, and before anyone asks, K'Kree wil llikely be next, for no other reason than one of the writers came up with a really good idea to make them _cool_
Oh, and before anyone asks, K'Kree wil llikely be next, for no other reason than one of the writers came up with a really good idea to make them _cool_
Egil Skallagrimsson said:
One thing that would be Legend...wait for it...dary epical, would be to have 4 sector books, SM, Reft, Dene and Trojan Reach. Then to have a really epic adventure that would take the players across the entire Domain of Deneb.
This campaign could be made over 4 books all in all, one for each sector. That si something that I would put my money in.
I like the idea of SM book, i just thin that there is too much info on basic imperial stuffa nd too little about the individual worlds to be really great. It is very promising, but I prefer the idea that GURPS had in its Behind the Claw book where each world was described in a few sentences, but teh MTU SM book was great in the way that it focused on two per sector, so i thought that maybe a mix of both?
Dave Chase
Mongoose
msprange said:And Droyne is being written right now!
Oh, and before anyone asks, K'Kree wil llikely be next, for no other reason than one of the writers came up with a really good idea to make them _cool_
Four legged Vega's to whom it's beneath them to do manual labor while wearing various smelling salts and plants to mask your stink.
This sound interesting. LOL
Dave Chase
Egil Skallagrimsson
Mongoose
AndrewW said:
Good Stuff! Will start saving now.
(Please, Please, Please can someone proof read it before it goes to the printer?)
Egil
Egil Skallagrimsson
Mongoose
Thile said:
This is one of those matter of opinion things, I prefer the way that two or threee worlds per sector have a moderately detailed write up, while the rest is left for me to flesh out from the UWP. One sentence write-ups, IMHO, are hardly worth writing, let alone buying.
Egil
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