Traveller Changing Hands - Q&A
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CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
If you thought S&H to Australia was extortionate...Then they will have plenty of time for shipping and handling.
Anstett
Cosmic Mongoose
Welcome!
Here is a link to the middle of a thread:
Travellers Needed! Traveller's 50th
A UK Traveller Convention I'd go to this.
forum.mongoosepublishing.com
I ran several Traveller sessions this past summer at the library. Part of that thread is the 'super simple scenario' that I ran, along with the Explorer edition PDFs for people. It went very well.
There is work on that. I follow/haunt/stalk
the VTT team on various social media feeds. As mentioned else where here on the Forums Mongoose has two people currently working on Fantasy Grounds, Roll20, and Foundry. The key limiters are time/manpower hours and the availability of a store for each VTT to sell things. Eventually I would suspect all three of the major platforms will have official products on them. We just have to be patient.
GamerDude
Cosmic Mongoose
When MGP picked up Traveller, SJGames lost their license, Interstellar Wars was a last 'hurrah' to put out a 4e GURPS book. In discussions I had with Mark & Sean Punch way back beginning of MGT1 he told me that the GURPS edition was at best "Apocryphal", with Sean pointing out the core GURPS Traveller book explicitly states that their version is "an alternate timeline". So, while Interstellar Wars is a nice book its an interesting copyright question for MGP to use some of what is owned by SJG.
CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
It did inspire a bit of my head canon, required to have the Interstellar Wars go as they did: the Vilani and Terrans both had the same blind spot in their understanding of jump, which did not allow them to plot jumps into flat space; hence, a rogue body (rare in my head, which gleefully uses the same Fifties astronomy as the LBBs) had to be painstakingly identified for Starleaper 1 to make its trip, and until late in the Wars, whoever controlled Dingir, Kinunir, and Gashidda controlled access to the Terran Pocket.
Which is another blind spot - once you have Jump, why use sublight?
Geir
Emperor Mongoose
Sure it is... wasn't it an option in the Imperium board game? (no I am NOT going to dig it out of storage, but I seem to recall that).
You could move from one empty hex to another per turn (at sublight speeds). Movement along the hyperspace routes was unlimited in a turn until you ran into enemy ships in that system and then you had to halt. There's some blah-blah in all that with more rules, but you get the gist.
The did not exactly lose it - they are still selling the books. There might be some conversations in the future about new titles as well, but we'll have to see how the wind blows.
Nice work!
Can you drop me a line at msprange@mongoosepublishing.com? Might be some little tweaks needed, just to keep things fair for other people doing similar projects but it won't be too much of a pain in the rear end
Sigtrygg
Emperor Mongoose
Because in Imperium you could only jump along jump lanes, STL allowed you to go wherever - slowly.
Sigtrygg
Emperor Mongoose
The game turns in Imperium are two years...
Sigtrygg
Emperor Mongoose
Yes, I even quoted it word for word above.
I absolutely support this...
If Marc is reading this, I would love to see a podcast series where you talk about all the projects you thought about but which never got completed. I would love to hear about the grand ideas that you dreamt of, but which didn't make the cut due to time, effort, economics.
I would love to have an entire series about all those ideas and more.
Tell us about what never got finished. As wmarshal said, imagine if Christopher Tolkien hadn't shared his father's lifetime of notes and ideas, how much we would have missed out on. Even then, they are Christopher's interpretations of his father's work. Marc, since you are still with use, why not do this yourself? Give us your point of view on why or why not things happened.
I write for another game system. I have produced many articles, but there are almost as many half-finished, abandoned projects on my hard-drive. Some I ran out of inspiration, some were too hard, some others just didn't seem interested in. I also recently thought about succession planning and gave a copy of my entire archive to a trusted friend so that should something happen to me, they won't be lost forever.
Don't wait! Share them now!
- Kerry
The preview PDF for The Traveller Adventure looks perfectly fine, and it might be as simple as telling DTRPG to enable PODs. (I haven't checked any of the other books.) I do understand prioritizing the current edition of course - it's your revenue generator. That's why I mentioned TTA specifically - TTB + TTA are a complete, if basic, Classic Edition.
GamerDude
Cosmic Mongoose
Ahhh okay thanks Matt. I'm just use to when a license moves the prior holder doesn't have any rights any more. I ran tons of Traveller under GURPS 3e, and until MGT1 came along that was my go to.
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