What's up with Traveller?
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dmccoy1693
Cosmic Mongoose
I'm getting back into writing for Traveller. We released our first d66 lists in over a year last month. Expect more from Jon Brazer Enterprises soon. And by more, I don't mean just d66 lists.
Rikki Tikki Traveller
Cosmic Mongoose
Spica Publishing also has some Traveller stuff coming out (very) soon. Both generic and tied to our Outer Veil setting.
ShawnDriscoll
Cosmic Mongoose
Me too.qstor said:
GypsyComet
Emperor Mongoose
qstor said:
I'm curious. Is this level of anticipation due to these two Major races being late to the party in nearly every other edition? Are you looking for new places and flavors of adventure? Academic interest as a setting scholar?
ShawnDriscoll
Cosmic Mongoose
For me in general, Mongoose does re-boots of the Traveller aliens and settings rather than just copying/pasting what's been published already for previous versions. In my opinion, the Mongoose re-boot material is way better and far more interesting to role-play in. I'm guessing these two races will be more approachable for role-play for players and referees. Marc Miller and Loren Wiseman were not able to accomplish this, or they just didn't care to.GypsyComet said:
GypsyComet
Emperor Mongoose
ShawnDriscoll said:
To be fair to Marc and Loren, "high role playing" was a scarce beast in the early 80s, especially in print. By the time of the CT Alien Modules (83 on) they obviously recognized that more than a couple short pages was needed, but good characterization of aliens is *hard* to write. Look at how many have tried and failed with a much simpler race, the Aslan, who descend into simple tropes for lack of properly conveyed uniqueness.
It takes work to see the Hivers as more than mustache twirling wannabee villains minus the mustache and often minus the villainy. Making the K'kree playable for both players and referees has a few more tools now than in 84 (think "Troupe style play") but they are still so herd-minded that typical players will be constantly tripping over even that one difference.
Like I said with the Droyne, I'm willing to wait if the results are better.
nats
Banded Mongoose
msprange said:
These products are eagerly awaited, not that bothered about the others tbh. If merc has a good large battle resolution system and a system for resolving vehicle/air conflicts and a neat way to incorporate the present vehicle design system this could be a brilliant addition to the Traveller line and been sometime I have wanted to buy for Traveller for many years. I did resolve this to some degree myself for CT but it was never very well planned.
Same for the World Builders Handbook - if this is something that will bring MgT more into line with the detail of solar system design of CT Scouts Book 6 whilst adding more flavour to worlds and incorporating exciting fauna and flora etc again this is something that has largely been missing even from Classic Traveller.
When you consider that both of these books will open up massive new avenues of gaming for the franchise they could be superb sellers, but I hope they are seeing the appropriate degree of time and love spent on them.
But still no adventures/scenarios? Probably the thing MgT needs most is some solid, fun, self-contained adventures that are simple in rules but limitless in gaming possibilities ... CT adventures have yet to be beaten by anything I have seen for MgT as yet.
