Pocket Edition - What's Different
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TrippyHippy
Emperor Mongoose
Which rant?
Yogah of Yag
Mongoose
No pictures?!?! :shock: 
Me like pictures! Pictures goood!
I've been thinking about getting this, but I too would like to know what different from the Big MGT Book.
Me like pictures! Pictures goood!
I've been thinking about getting this, but I too would like to know what different from the Big MGT Book.
TrippyHippy
Emperor Mongoose
Well, the curious thing is that the page count is identical to the hardback core rules - although this could just be a follow on blurb from the corebook itself.
192 pages would make quite a slim pocketbook.
192 pages would make quite a slim pocketbook.
Yogah of Yag said:
It's smaller. Seriously, that is about the only difference. . .
Gruffty the Hiver
Banded Mongoose
If it's going to be the same size as the three little books I picked up (dead cheaply, I might add) at the B5 open day, then it's going to be a neat, handy little book to have around 
TrippyHippy
Emperor Mongoose
What three little books did you pick up?
Gruffty the Hiver
Banded Mongoose
<Grits teeth...>
d20 Modern handbook (OGL d20 Modern)
d20 Players handbook (OGL D&D)
d20 GMs Guide (OGL D&D)
<spits...>
got them cos they were cheap (£ 1 each)...
d20 Modern handbook (OGL d20 Modern)
d20 Players handbook (OGL D&D)
d20 GMs Guide (OGL D&D)
<spits...>
got them cos they were cheap (£ 1 each)...
TrippyHippy
Emperor Mongoose
Yep those were nice.
I guess my only real concern is if the pocketbook is a straight reprint of the full size book, 'cos won't the font be too small to read easily?
I guess my only real concern is if the pocketbook is a straight reprint of the full size book, 'cos won't the font be too small to read easily?
Vile
Banded Mongoose
To put it another way, I guess the question we are all asking is, will the pocket edition have a new layout to make it smaller, or will it be a reduced version of the TMB.msprange said:
If it's the latter, I share TrippyHippy's concern that it might be too small to read. I'm not getting any younger, you know ... :wink:
Gruffty the Hiver
Banded Mongoose
Now, that was my first thought, because I have serious problems reading the font in the deadtree TMB (which is also why I buy the pdf of each book, so I can zoom in and out as needed).TrippyHippy said:
*BUT* the font in the pocket books I bought are eminently readable. I'm hoping that the pocket TMB font will be so, too.
TrippyHippy
Emperor Mongoose
Gruffty the Hiver said:
Yes, but the point is that those books had a page count of something like 300+ pages. This Traveller book has a page count of 192 - identical to the larger version.
I guess we will have to see - I already pre-ordered my pocket edition, and at £10 it's always going to be worth it. But that font size/layout is just my concern.
Yogah of Yag
Mongoose
I'm sure this has been asked before elsewhere, but if I get the core rule book, is that pretty much self-contained or will I need something else?
I've got the B(ig) F(loppy) B(ook) of CT's 0-8 and that looks like all I'd really require to run a game, while the other stuff on the CD-ROM is icing on the cake.
If MGT and CT are reasonably close I've heard its not impossible to mix-n-match (unless my intel is wrong).
The issue with SciFi RPG gaming is the fact that science and our understanding of astronomy/physical cosmology has leapt forward dramatically since '77 when the game was in its infancy. I hope that MGT is more updated, esp. with regard to world generation. (I've read a lot about the discovery of exoplanets (and "hot jupiters"), and wonder if world gen is flexible enough to take these discoveries into account.)
Just some random musings...
:wink:
I've got the B(ig) F(loppy) B(ook) of CT's 0-8 and that looks like all I'd really require to run a game, while the other stuff on the CD-ROM is icing on the cake.
If MGT and CT are reasonably close I've heard its not impossible to mix-n-match (unless my intel is wrong).
The issue with SciFi RPG gaming is the fact that science and our understanding of astronomy/physical cosmology has leapt forward dramatically since '77 when the game was in its infancy. I hope that MGT is more updated, esp. with regard to world generation. (I've read a lot about the discovery of exoplanets (and "hot jupiters"), and wonder if world gen is flexible enough to take these discoveries into account.)
Just some random musings...
:wink:
TrippyHippy
Emperor Mongoose
The core rules for Mongoose Traveller are self contained. You do not need any other book to play it.
dmccoy1693
Cosmic Mongoose
Well, if you considering the Spinward Marches setting to be essential. The book contains nothing of the OTU (save how to make a PC with the OTU aliens).
dmccoy1693
Cosmic Mongoose
As far as hot jupiters and other things like that, the base book does not cover any world except the most important world in the system. It does not contain star generation or how many gas giants there are in the system (save whether or not there is a GG in the system).
Hi guys,
Quick note about the pocket book.
It is indeed a resized version, with the smaller 8 point (I think) box texts at the bottom of some pages removed. The text is smaller, but still easy to read - we did a test run of the RuneQuest Deluxe book in this format a month ago, and it looks sweet!
Quick note about the pocket book.
It is indeed a resized version, with the smaller 8 point (I think) box texts at the bottom of some pages removed. The text is smaller, but still easy to read - we did a test run of the RuneQuest Deluxe book in this format a month ago, and it looks sweet!
Gruffty the Hiver
Banded Mongoose
...which means I wil find it difficult to read.msprange said:
*However* I shall still purchase it, because I'm obsessive about these sorts of things....
:lol:TrippyHippy
Emperor Mongoose
Thanks Matt.
