State of the Mongoose 2025

[IanBruntlett]

Turning 2300Ad into a Core book...and having PIONEER as a core book makes sense on a lot of levels.

OR selling the Core Rulebook and a setting book together for a discounted price?

 

[MasterGwydion]

Core rule books are the best sellers...

Are they? They might be. I haven't seen the data.

I will say though, that after I hadn't played Traveller in years, it wasn't the rulebooks that brought me back. It was Pirates of Drinax.

 

[Bryn the 2300AD guy]

And it’s a shame that 2300AD didn’t bag The Expanse.

2300AD is its' own universe. Originally it had it's own ruleset (the Overlord system), but now uses the Mongoose Traveller rules. If there was an Expanse licence, it would be a separate universe using the Traveller rules.

 

[JupiterIndustries]

Chaosium offers their core system (Basic Roleplaying, BRP) as a completely separate product line now.



What people are asking for in some ways is this. It wouldn't be traveller though, but Traveller would effectively be the flagship of a D6 core system in the same ways that Call of Cthulhu is for Chaosium. Certain elements like "sanity" are exclusive to CoC in the same way that a lot of the sci fi elements are for Traveller.