I remember the characters starting from between level 1 and 5 with a life path, nut I haven't touched the book since it came out. Now I have to go look.
Traveller 5E
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I remember the characters starting from between level 1 and 5 with a life path, nut I haven't touched the book since it came out. Now I have to go look.
Wolf_Solheim
Mongoose
I don't like WotC, I stopped playing D&D around 3.5E and I have absolutely zero interest in a version of Traveller shoehorned into a system that is (in my opinion) absolutely ill-fitting to depict the kind of universe that the Third Imperium describes.
If anyone is wondering: this is my first time posting on the forums despite being a long-time lurker without registering. That's how strongly I feel about this.
It's not something I'll buy, because I haven't bought anything for D&D since about 1988? I don't care if they make a new version of T20. But, as I said in another thread recently, I have always been bemused by marketing a game system as running on another game system. This seems likely to just further hammer home that Traveller = Charted Space rather than Traveller being a game system useful for all sorts of sci fi gaming.
But I'm not the one who makes a living off the IP, so it doesn't really affect me either way. If they make new Charted Space setting material, I might get that just because I enjoy reading that kind of thing. But the core rulebook? Nah.
But I'm not the one who makes a living off the IP, so it doesn't really affect me either way. If they make new Charted Space setting material, I might get that just because I enjoy reading that kind of thing. But the core rulebook? Nah.
It seems a total mismatch to me, Travellers aren’t supposed to be ‘superheroes’. Luckily I don’t have to buy it and can pretend it doesn’t exist.
While the idea is that it will introduce more players to the Traveller universe, I don’t see many, if any, 5E players trying real Traveller, especially if they’re given the chance to play it in superhero mode. Meh, if Mongoose gets a slice of the pie from licensing, that’s the biggest plus I can see.
While the idea is that it will introduce more players to the Traveller universe, I don’t see many, if any, 5E players trying real Traveller, especially if they’re given the chance to play it in superhero mode. Meh, if Mongoose gets a slice of the pie from licensing, that’s the biggest plus I can see.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Traveller editions tend to be universally confusing.
Except the first one.
Except the first one.
Talon Greyfeather
Banded Mongoose
So excited!!!! Another set of rules, lore, and a bunch more stuff to further divide the fan base! 
I understand the marketing advantage of taking it to 5E to broaden the audience, but I do not see the 3I being that draw. - unless it is something completely different - and then it is Traveller in name only.
I understand the marketing advantage of taking it to 5E to broaden the audience, but I do not see the 3I being that draw. - unless it is something completely different - and then it is Traveller in name only.
BaalAdvocate
Mongoose
Hopefully this doesn't follow the trend of things going to pot once there's an effort to mainstream it.
As we've discussed in other threads recently, people on this forum are not the target here: we already play Traveller. Some of us even play Traveller with other people.
This is about bringing in players who currently play the TTRPG that, like it or not, has for years had a bigger market of players than every other TTRPG put together. It's not aimed at most of us. The fact that people here get all worked-up about a version of Traveller that dares cross the lines of their Holy War is utterly irrelevant, because we aren't the target.
This is about bringing in players who currently play the TTRPG that, like it or not, has for years had a bigger market of players than every other TTRPG put together. It's not aimed at most of us. The fact that people here get all worked-up about a version of Traveller that dares cross the lines of their Holy War is utterly irrelevant, because we aren't the target.
No one is "getting worked up about a Holy War". That's just you being a jerk and disrespecting other peoples' opinions.
This is probably good for Mongoose, because they get licensing money out of. But Traveller is a rules system. D&D is a rules system. You do not get Traveller players by making a D&D version of Charted Space.
Charted Space is a cool thing. If people want to play in it using a new version of T20, great. That's not actually building the Traveller brand, however. It is further conflating Traveller with Charted Space, which is a known problem with getting people who don't like Charted Space's setting to actually play Traveller.
This is probably good for Mongoose, because they get licensing money out of. But Traveller is a rules system. D&D is a rules system. You do not get Traveller players by making a D&D version of Charted Space.
Charted Space is a cool thing. If people want to play in it using a new version of T20, great. That's not actually building the Traveller brand, however. It is further conflating Traveller with Charted Space, which is a known problem with getting people who don't like Charted Space's setting to actually play Traveller.
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