Traveller 5E

[Endie]

As a mildly-disgruntled purchaser of T5, I don't think it was a cash grab at all (although, naturally, I am sure that Marc *hoped* it would be profitable). It was a chance for him to try and use what he thought was a superior core mechanic (not a widely-held opinion) and the ultimate expression of the Traveller-as-coherent-simulator that not only Marc but many players thought they wanted.

It turns out that - on the tabletop - you can have a game or a simulator, and that making the latter actually work (even as framework to build a game upon) took several unpaid people years of additional work.

 

[Sigtrygg]

The campaign is now live, here are the youtube videos that go with it:

 

[apastuszak]

Just checked the Backerkit and this is ridiculously expensive. $350 for a full set of hardbacks and $170 for a full set of PDFs is a bit insane. This is a non-starter for me.

 

[Endie]

Backed it at the $349 dollar level. The "limited edition" covers are of no interest to me, especially given the price, but the huge number of pages in the rulebooks make the basic printed and pdf levels good value to me.

Given that it's already at 60k, it looks like being a strong success.

 

[Terry Mixon]

Backed it at the $349 dollar level. The "limited edition" covers are of no interest to me, especially given the price, but the huge number of pages in the rulebooks make the basic printed and pdf levels good value to me.

Given that it's already at 60k, it looks like being a strong success.

I backed at the same level. Not interested in the pricier alternatives.

 

[Grognardia]

"A Civ1 Primer, introducing adventures, worlds, and aliens of a whole new Traveller 5E setting"

This to me sounds very much like 'We couldn't be arsed to check the wiki for the canon setting, so here's a setting we made up from scratch."

Get ready for the psionic crocodiles with plasma rifles, lads!

 

[Jarac Rassen]

"A Civ1 Primer, introducing adventures, worlds, and aliens of a whole new Traveller 5E setting"

This to me sounds very much like 'We couldn't be arsed to check the wiki for the canon setting, so here's a setting we made up from scratch."

I mean, doesn't this go back to the debate "is Traveller a system, or is it a setting?"

Making their own setting is something I won't criticize.

 

[Endie]

I think that they're wise to make their own setting. People will, no doubt, use T5e with Charted Space (I imagine that I will), but this way they don't need to deal with us lot nit-picking them with 50 years of confusing and often-contradictory canon. This way they get to avoid years of "well, actually..."

 

[DeepSpaceAdventures]

Just checked the Backerkit and this is ridiculously expensive. $350 for a full set of hardbacks and $170 for a full set of PDFs is a bit insane. This is a non-starter for me.

Plus insane shipping costs to Europe. To just get the rules, you'll end up with $79 + $39 = $118 (or abt. 103€). And I wouldn't be surprised if tariffs were added to that as well.
Nah, I'll pass.

 

[Jame Rowe]

I might go for the digital tier in a while.

 

[steelbrok]

"A Civ1 Primer, introducing adventures, worlds, and aliens of a whole new Traveller 5E setting"

This to me sounds very much like 'We couldn't be arsed to check the wiki for the canon setting, so here's a setting we made up from scratch."

Get ready for the psionic crocodiles with plasma rifles, lads!

I'd be more curious to see the setting info than anything else

 

[Endie]

After four hours they're nearly 50% above the entire, completed Pioneer kickstarter, so it seems to be going well.

 

[nats]

I laughed when I saw the prices. Nobody even knows if the product will be any good and the tiers are insanely expensive. People will buy anything these days lol. I will see what these books are like when the 2nd hand ones arrive on Ebay and I've had a chance to read reviews .... but I definitely dont need yet another Traveller version.