Travellers Needed! Traveller's 50th

[Sigtrygg]

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.

Seven... sorry couldn't resist

 

[Condottiere]

 

[Yenaldlooshi]

I would love to see a boxed set of components specifically for handling starship encounters and combat. Possible a redo of "Brilliant Lances". It should have a thrust counting mat. Tokens for maneuvers, target locks, jamming, bogeys etc. It does not have to violate Core RAW but it should fill in the holes. Things like what exact info you get from sensors, when do you change programs and how long does it take, how long does it take to do a combat jump and what are the requirements....
Also Starship forms that are actually useful for combat. HG and CORE have no such form. I can supply an example of this.
I have filled in these holes myself and have created an outline and even my own in house gaming aids for this. I really thing this would be a great item regardless if it is for the 50th or not.

 

[MasterGwydion]

After 50 years, I would simply like to see Mongoose writers obey their own rules when constructing ships in their new books and not keep violating the ship construction rules. Same thing with planetary UWPs. I wish the writers could simply obey the rules as written or change them to something else, but change them everywhere, not just in one supplement. How after 50 years is quality control still not important?

 

[Micky]

One thing that would be great to see in the run up to the big 5 0 is Mongoose up its game in promoting its products. Learning from TSR's mistakes is great but there is also learning from the successes of others. Namely contemporary publishers like Chaosium.

I was struck while checking out the Pioneer Kickstarter page, and not the first time (Opening Moves) about how fun your actual play clips are. And by how short they are! Leave you wanting more!!

Yet those two are not even listed on the Mongoose Youtube page. Shown as unlisted. It would be great, for us as many of us love to watch those things, and as Chaosium has shown, great for Mongoose if you did promote your products with actual play videos. It seems like to me you have a fun and charismatic group that are doing the plays. The real strength of Chaosium's long time play group they had. Entertaining while promoting your products. Especially as many of Mongoose's recent products get crickets for reviews and playthroughs on outlets like Youtube outside of Seth's play based reviews on his channel which are generally of older 'classic' Traveller material.

 

[MongooseMatt]

Yet those two are not even listed on the Mongoose Youtube page. Shown as unlisted. It would be great, for us as many of us love to watch those things, and as Chaosium has shown, great for Mongoose if you did promote your products with actual play videos.

The full fat, two-hour, Actual Play of Pioneer is coming next week!

 

[tzunder]

Chaosium have flooded cons with giveaways and con support in this their 50th year, so how about just stealing some ideas:
1: Traveller pin badges
2: Traveller bookmarks, maybe with range rules on them
3: An organised demo team of volunteers who run core Traveller one offs and receive store credit