What universe would you like to see with Traveller?
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CJ Cherryh's Hani books, and the Union/Alliance books, would work well with Traveller. As would Poul Anderson's Technic Civilisation series. And Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind would be a wonderfully weird place to role-play.
But I suspect Dune would be a better bet commercially.
But I suspect Dune would be a better bet commercially.
A second for Mass Effect - that would be the best possible license for Traveller. ME has megacorps, aliens that are "alien" to about the same extent that OTU aliens are (physically different, some bizarre customs and weapons, but still relatable), a version of "psionics" (biotics) and that pseudo-hard science feel we all love.
The only problems I can imagine are not being able to come to a reasonable licensing fee with Bioware, since both companies (Mongoose and Bioware) will consider themselves the "primaries" in the license. In my experience, it's not easy to get pen&paper and video game companies to make deals.
Still, an official Mass Effect + Traveller source book would make me very, very happy. (I propose that it should be set before the events in the first game though, or depending on how the series ends up, a good bit afterwards. I'd like to have Geth around, and there is always some minor species like the Batarians causing trouble somewhere.)
Firefly is fun, but really not much of a stretch from standard Traveller. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to get a different setting if you rolled up your own subsector.
Brinn's "Uplift" setting fits nicely in a great many ways, and would be a nice change from the Humaniti-centered 3I.
The recent "John and Lobo" books by Mark Van Name has Traveller (well, more "Twilight Sector") written all over it. But it's not (yet) well known enough to be a real draw.
The only problems I can imagine are not being able to come to a reasonable licensing fee with Bioware, since both companies (Mongoose and Bioware) will consider themselves the "primaries" in the license. In my experience, it's not easy to get pen&paper and video game companies to make deals.
Still, an official Mass Effect + Traveller source book would make me very, very happy. (I propose that it should be set before the events in the first game though, or depending on how the series ends up, a good bit afterwards. I'd like to have Geth around, and there is always some minor species like the Batarians causing trouble somewhere.)
Firefly is fun, but really not much of a stretch from standard Traveller. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to get a different setting if you rolled up your own subsector.
Brinn's "Uplift" setting fits nicely in a great many ways, and would be a nice change from the Humaniti-centered 3I.
The recent "John and Lobo" books by Mark Van Name has Traveller (well, more "Twilight Sector") written all over it. But it's not (yet) well known enough to be a real draw.
I'd pick-up Traveller: Mass Effect. Bioware already has Green Ronin doing a TTRPG of their Dragon Age game so they seem to be at least open to the idea.
Mass Effect is easily my favorite console sci-fi game and in the top 5 for all time favorite period.
I didn't pick anything in the poll; I'm not familiar with all of them and the ones I do know don't get me excited enough to vote.
Mass Effect is easily my favorite console sci-fi game and in the top 5 for all time favorite period.
I didn't pick anything in the poll; I'm not familiar with all of them and the ones I do know don't get me excited enough to vote.
GamerDude
Cosmic Mongoose
BP, I can see your point and in many ways agree with it, but there is something to be said for getting stats for many things 'canonized' and take them from there. I know I've said this many times about 'canon'... that for me it provides the baseline against which I know just what I'm deviating from. But as I've also related about my Serenity-Traveller games they are *MY* version of the setting, and when what I say and the 'canon' conflict, my version is the defining version so don't argue.BP said:
To put in a nutshell - I'm quite willing to pay for someone else to do all the work of working everything out in Traveller stats.
rust said:
Sorry rust, you'll need stronger underwear than that!
The first ME didn't even let you aim the shot (the reticule was just a target selector, it "rolled dice" behind the scenes), and conversation choices make a pretty big difference in the options and outcomes you get, so I respectfully disagree that it's basically a shooter. The second one was much more "shooty" though, so I'll give you that one.
Of course story plausibility is in the eye of the beholder; it's better than most video games, but is definitely cut from "action movie" cloth rather than reality.
Personally, I would have loved some trade elements like we had in Starflight or Elite, but hey, I also loved the old Mechwarrior and Silent Hunter games, so I'm used to not getting everything I want from a modern title.
/hdan
BP said:
Traveller the game system is Mongoose's generic SF game system; "dice and task mechanics". A lot of things will be different than the OTU Traveller setting for just about any setting other than the OTU (that's not a bad thing, just a given).
On the other hand, I am considering putting Niven's Ringworld in MTU. The biggest deal for me is reworking the Ancients, even though it will likely have little to no impact on the PC's interaction with the Ringworld.
