Re: [GZG] Under the Hammer

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On  Jun08 08, at 10:37, Allan Goodall wrote:

> I hear pretty good things about Mongoose's version of Traveller, which
> is very, very similar to the old black book edition, with a few things
> cleaned up. Marc Miller is confusing things with the release of his
> "5th edition" Traveller (which looks like it's crunchier than
> Mongoose's game). I also haven't seen a whole lot of buzz about the
> game online.

You just don't hang out in the right locations... Traveller has  
always been kinda niche market, and with the birth of the web and a  
couple of edition changes fandom for it is kinda fragmented. People  
are talking, it is just a whole buncha little clots.

> Those who bought it liked it, but there's not a ton of
> love for whatever reason.

It's new mostly, T4 soundly reamed both the fans and the writers  
without ever presenting a whole unified game. The base book was fine,  
a lot of the support was utter crap. With that there is the wait to  
see if the initial release was a fluke, or not.

I for one am mining it for what I like, and not worrying about the  
rest, but I'm not right, ifn y'all understand.

Evyn MacDude
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