Maybe I am missing the whole point of having a setting. It is My understanding that the point of a setting is to...well, have a setting. If you write nothing, there is no setting. Which is exactly what you get when you homebrew. Why buy a setting that then makes you have to homebrew?
Defense alone never won a war. It is also why there have been 5 Frontier Wars instead of just one. They are the same war, just spread across many, many years.
To have an overall thing. If you say 'we're playing in north america' that tells us something. If we say europe, or asia, that gives us soemthing quite different. The 3I is a continent. The sectors are countries within that continent (ok the analogy isn't super accurate, but it should get the point across).
Right, my point is just that there are lots of different types of people who are customers of Mongoose.
It also lets you have your campaign set in Transquixotania and still let your characters travel to Germany or France and do those German or French adventures that come with the setting.
Denied the opportunity? Just pull out what is there and insert what you want there. Inform your players of the change or of the fact that changes exist to avoid preconceptions. Not defining it gives us nothing. Defining it does not prevent people from inserting what they wish in Foreven. I make changes to Charted Space all of the time. If nothing is defined though, the only people it prevents from doing as they wish, are the people who don't want to have to write a whole sector book of material to have a wonderful playground of "whatever cool stuff" is in Foreven.
It’s really moot at this point all the UWPs are in the sector construction box set all it’s missing is trade codes and names. I think if you wan5 a GM playground put it somewhere out of the way
I think you probably mean moot rather than mute. xD, xD.
Once I buy the setting, everything is a GM playground.
Yes, it is moot, because those people who want someone else to make the Foreven content for them now have it. But it isn't "official" and it isn't going to be the basis for further material placed in Foreven, so Foreven remains open for development by those people who do not want to be saying "no, that map isn't right, use this one" and whatnot.
Again, you are ignoring My statement. If they write nothing it only supports the people that want nothing. The same people that want nothing are free to ignore the printed setting material. How are people supposed to ignore not having a setting to play in in Foreven? Your method only works for one side. Mine works for both. You are making a false equivalency.
If you consider just a list of random UWP Code "having it", then you really need to learn the difference between a setting and some randomly rolled nonsense that has no stories in them. A setting is its stories. No stories, no setting.
On what grounds do you say it’s not official? I don’t see Mongoose saying that.
Mongoose should do what the greatest number of customers want. Trying to please everyone doesn’t work it just upsets everyone that’s been a business fact forever.
It is no more cognitive dissonance, than doing what you say, because everyone currently is used to the being nothing there. So as soon as you put stuff there, by your own logic, you have to unlearn that "there is nothing there" and learn whatever the Referee puts there. It is the same.
Okay, you guys win. Not having a setting is better than having a setting. Once you buy the material, it is all open to be changed.
It's not posted to Travellermap. It's not included in any Mongoose content except the Sector guide. And the Sector Guide author wrote this:
Empty space is empty space if the Referee says it is. Anyone can disagree with the Referee, but the Referee's rulings are final. This has always been how it has worked. If players are saying the rulebook says this, and as a Referee, you have not made the changes clear to them before the campaign started, that is just poor Refereeing.
