OddjobXL said:I'm playing Mass Effect 2 right now. It just came out for the PS3 with a ton of bundled DLC.
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Smarter move is to latch onto the ME setting and bring it into the Traveller orbit for multiplayer tabletop!
Heck YEAH that would be cool. Bring some of the "Epic Space-Opera" style in that the OTU is short on.
There's nothing fundamentally incompatible with Traveller in ME, as long as you don't mind using the alternate FTL systems, adding some psionic powers and coming up with some way to handle kinetic barriers. (Mass Relays are just know versions of the old Ancient teleportation portals, after all.)
However, I don't think that a solo Traveller product has to compete with video games. For starters, it shouldn't cost nearly as much as a video game, either to produce or buy. Second of all, just as video games haven't killed miniature wargaming, I believe there is still a market for the classic "choose your own adventure" style product. Not a huge market, but it's there.