RE: Traveller SGII/DSII Group

I'm not so sure that Traveller and DSII/SGII is an easy a match as some
may
think.	Look at how much tinkering was done to Full Thrust in order to
create Power Projection.  How does one take the various tech levels into
account for vehicle construction?  What about weapons? For instance. you
can't just say a DSII DFFG is a Traveller fusion gun since the latter
has a
much longer range than the former.  Vehicles in Traveller have variable
movement rates; no such thing in DSII.	How about taking Striker Stats
and
converting them to FMA?  How does SGII handle that platoon of Imperial
Marines armed with FGMP 15s and wearing grav belts?  How do you play out
Zhodani psionics and warbots?

You see my point.

I don't doubt that this list would welcome Traveller discussion, it's
just
that I think we should take the discussion elsewhere to avoid clutter.
There
are other things people would like to discuss on this list.

Mark

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From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Doug Evans
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 10:57 AM
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: RE: Traveller SGII/DSII Group

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Not sure it warrants a separate group.	I have always seen GZG games as
Traveller "based".  I've started to work up some of the Mercenary
tickets
for SG and DS minicampaigns, I guess I need to finish.
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I was thinking similarly, though less on the Traveller based part.
Certainly influenced, but the systems are sufficiently generic to
ascribe
the above to 'eye of the beholder'...

No D&D cracks, please. ;->=

This list has always been welcoming of Traveller descriptions from what
I've seen; I've still yet to put to the test the Imperium-to-Full-Thrust
conversions, though.

The_Beast