The Great Rift - Travellers' Comments Welcomed!
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Geir
Emperor Mongoose
There's also the Tezcat from AoCSv4 out in the middle of Reft too. Plenty of Reft.
I'd also like to see more on Riftspan and Touchstone. But a patronesque nugget per world, as in PoD the Core version with Sindal subsector and even Secrets of the Ancients is always good. (was that a Hanrahan thing? Seems he's the common denominator there) Side quests or local colour, either way, it's helpful. I mean, not for every world in six sectors, but if details are done for a few worlds per subsector, maybe those featured worlds should have a patronesque thing too.
I'd also like to see more on Riftspan and Touchstone. But a patronesque nugget per world, as in PoD the Core version with Sindal subsector and even Secrets of the Ancients is always good. (was that a Hanrahan thing? Seems he's the common denominator there) Side quests or local colour, either way, it's helpful. I mean, not for every world in six sectors, but if details are done for a few worlds per subsector, maybe those featured worlds should have a patronesque thing too.
ottarrus
Emperor Mongoose
Or, alternatively, have the Mongoose develop something that's part of the Charted Space universe, but completely separate of the Imperium, the Zho's, the Sollies, the lot. A detailed sector with its own races, politics, tensions and stressors with a minimum of a full sector of 'blank territory' between it and anything published thus far.
Shardan13
Cosmic Mongoose
I know this may upset some people but perhaps add the stuff from Deep Night Revelation such as the hull modification that allows self maintenance, the maneuver drive modification (and extend its benefits to TL 16) and whatever it had that was some weird combination of chart chamber and gravitational sensor to the high guard section.
I'm going to jump in and say, nothing, please don't.
I say this mainly because I really don't want to have to buy a revised product.
But if I was forced to offer suggestions...
What I'm always looking for in a sourcebooks are the little ideas. I'm talking about more scenario seeds, NPCs, events (trade fairs, planetary/system celebrations, local holidays), random objects floating in space, famous artefacts worth stealing, encounters unique to a system... you get the idea.
The Traveller sourcebooks are solid, substantial bits of work that I read cover to cover, but given the scale and nature of the game, we're often just getting an overview. I get excited by the little details that bring something to life and make me think, "There's a plot there..."
Does that make sense?
Regards,
Robin
IanBruntlett
Emperor Mongoose
I agree. The source books etc are good but my gamers play Traveller for the adventures, not the setting.
MasterGwydion
Emperor Mongoose
I love Gareth's way of building setting, so I would totally support more stuff like Patron jobs on each planet and such. One subsector of this takes up roughly 2 pages, less if it is a sparse subsector.
Bumped into Gareth this weekend. Said he had an idea for a new Traveller campaign.
Just saying.
Just saying.
AndrewW
Emperor Mongoose
I hope your insurance covers collision.
Geir
Emperor Mongoose
Good point. In fact an excise of much of Book 4's content would, well, be self-serving, but still useful.
TrippyHippy
Emperor Mongoose
1/ Change the Box Design - in line with more recent box sets, deeper and without the 'lip over' cover.
2/ Update the layout and art.
3/ Create more adventure material.
4/ Nothing else. Please don't keep revising books where customers have to question which 'edition' to get.
2/ Update the layout and art.
3/ Create more adventure material.
4/ Nothing else. Please don't keep revising books where customers have to question which 'edition' to get.
Garnfellow
Cosmic Mongoose
I'd like to see Touchstone (Weasuirlaoa) tweaked to incorporate details from the CT Aslan module.
This is something we puzzle over from time to time.
Complete harmonisation of rules vs. giving options for doing the same thing in different ways.
I tend towards the latter, but not completely sold on it so could be swayed...
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Oh, so Great Rift Adventures is due next January.
If it sells out, that's an indication where the next sandbox could be set.
If it's all in one, I suggest being more careful about the military balance.
If it sells out, that's an indication where the next sandbox could be set.
If it's all in one, I suggest being more careful about the military balance.
Limpin Legin
Cosmic Mongoose
I liked to see various surveys giving different results due to their individual approaches to data wrangling, metrics, or political affiliations. It's a shame that there are so few adventures that leverage or develop plots based on these dependencies within different survey datasets. In Mongoose adventures, all that seems to be presented is the notion that Travellers may receive incomplete, oversimplified, or wildly inaccurate information, which then omits to align with the discrepancies noted across different surveys - so I feel there are a few missed opportunities in there, somehow.
Limpin Legin
Cosmic Mongoose
Depends whether, for example, if the surveyors surveyed the entire planet or just obtained a sample of the UWP characteristic. So I'd expect to see variation in reports on population, tech level and government types - for sure. As these characteristics are, in reality, more subjective and less objective.
