Travellers Needed! Traveller's 50th
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ross
Cosmic Mongoose
As I had mentioned earlier. The original 1977 Classic Traveller retypeset with all the errata, grammar, and spelling corrections. Printed on A5 as 3 books with a decently made box and priced at $89. Possibly also the other books, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 sold separately with the same treatment.
Setting books for each of the settings or eras. Bonus points for Galaxiad.
(Unfortunately Galaxiad would pretty much have to be spun up whole cloth from various tiny bits of information and notes, but a man can dream)
Setting books for each of the settings or eras. Bonus points for Galaxiad.
(Unfortunately Galaxiad would pretty much have to be spun up whole cloth from various tiny bits of information and notes, but a man can dream)
NOLATrav
Emperor Mongoose
So much potential, just sort of lingering, meandering…
Galaxiad could be supercool, what Rob Eaglestone has done is a nice start but it needs someone to really take the reins and start defining the setting. I don’t have a game going right now but my next pitch will be Traveller2000, set in Charted Space 2000 years after the establishment of the Third Imperium. Based on what Rob published after conversations with Marc about Galaxiad but definitely my own home brew.
I like a 5-step paradigm to my tech progression so…
Early: TL15 (2 disadvantages)
Basic: TL16 (1 disadvantage)
Standard: TL17 (CSC)
Advanced: TL18 (1 advantage)
Ultimate: TL19 (2 advantages)
So the setting is basically TL17 whatever that means lol. Which means the Mcguffins are are TL20+…
Galaxiad could be supercool, what Rob Eaglestone has done is a nice start but it needs someone to really take the reins and start defining the setting. I don’t have a game going right now but my next pitch will be Traveller2000, set in Charted Space 2000 years after the establishment of the Third Imperium. Based on what Rob published after conversations with Marc about Galaxiad but definitely my own home brew.
I like a 5-step paradigm to my tech progression so…
Early: TL15 (2 disadvantages)
Basic: TL16 (1 disadvantage)
Standard: TL17 (CSC)
Advanced: TL18 (1 advantage)
Ultimate: TL19 (2 advantages)
So the setting is basically TL17 whatever that means lol. Which means the Mcguffins are are TL20+…
I wonder if Mongoose have learned the same lesson that WotC did from TSR going bust?
One big takeaway from that was that publishing different settings for your game fractures the audience: if your party are playing Traveller in the Galaxiad setting and my party are playing in the 1105 setting (and her group are playing in Year Zero and his group are playing in TNE) then every setting book you publish only sells to a smaller group of your customers.
I loved AD&D 2e and the golden age of campaign settings it produced, but they were recognised as being one of the reasons TSR died (although God knows there was no shortage of reasons with the way the company was run).
Sigtrygg
Emperor Mongoose
There is no reason that adventures could not be era neutral.
Core rule books are supposed to be generic, they are not, they are Third Imperium
Era books could be one offs.
Adventures can be era neutral even setting neutral
Equipment books can be era neutral based on TL and setting tech paradigm (HG, CSC, Vehicles and Robots are meant to do this...)
Core rule books are supposed to be generic, they are not, they are Third Imperium
Era books could be one offs.
Adventures can be era neutral even setting neutral
Equipment books can be era neutral based on TL and setting tech paradigm (HG, CSC, Vehicles and Robots are meant to do this...)
Yatima
Cosmic Mongoose
This, but printed in the original Digest size, not GW's UK A5 reprint size.
Traveller Organized Play
ross
Cosmic Mongoose
Since most books aren't printed own the US any longer A5 is actually cheaper.
A UK Traveller Convention that isn't the small affair that is TravCon.
Of course it could be TravCon if it was in a major city, say Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield.. in a serious venue, with extensive games schedule and extensive speaker slots.
Then the same in the US.
NOW.. there is the core TravCon team in the UK, and the North Star con team in the UK.. if Mongoose would bring some heads together I bet an organising committee could be scurried up.
NOW.. there is a Traveller Con in the US, and so the same might be possible.
The BITS team have done a great job at keeping TravCon going in the UK when all was very quiet, but for the 50th an extravaganza would be so good!
Of course it could be TravCon if it was in a major city, say Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield.. in a serious venue, with extensive games schedule and extensive speaker slots.
Then the same in the US.
NOW.. there is the core TravCon team in the UK, and the North Star con team in the UK.. if Mongoose would bring some heads together I bet an organising committee could be scurried up.
NOW.. there is a Traveller Con in the US, and so the same might be possible.
The BITS team have done a great job at keeping TravCon going in the UK when all was very quiet, but for the 50th an extravaganza would be so good!
Totally agree
FreeTrav
Cosmic Mongoose
TCUSA is closing in on a hundred participants annually; we're not quite there yet, but we routinely run eight or more tables (out of ten to twelve available) for the Saturday sessions.
Comprehensive errata for everything published by Mongoose for the 2nd edition to date in the support downloads section of the website (rather than scattered through various forums).
Not new, updated versions to buy, just publishing the typos for the books we have already bought.
Not new, updated versions to buy, just publishing the typos for the books we have already bought.
Yatima
Cosmic Mongoose
Sure, but then the reprints would not fit with my other LBBs. Book 9 Pirates was Digest sized.
ross
Cosmic Mongoose
Yes, it was. However that was a different idea. A test case. I think a new set of LBBs should truly be published for the new generation, amd not us old guys.
ross
Cosmic Mongoose
I think three A5 56 or 64pp books is a better choice for two reasons.
1) it would allow for some more art, ideally in the original B&W line art styles.
2) it would allow some additional examples and “color text”.
We are very much aware of this
Discussions are being had...
I didn't doubt it for a second. I just used a passive framing ("I wonder if...") because I know that if you state something as a fact on this fine forum, three professional-grade contrarians will start a six page argument.We are very much aware of this
OriginalCaruso
Cosmic Mongoose
Bingo
Affirmation is preferable to critique which should only be used to explain and bring understanding.
Getting back on-track: There are two main games conventions I attend, Games Expo mid-year at the NEC and Dragonmeet end Nov (I am attending 29th Nov this year). Seems to me these events are ideal venues for a Traveller meet assuming agreement can be reached with the organisers.
