Re: Gaming Setting Conversion to DS II/SG II

On Mon, 16 Mar 1998 11:58:50 -0500, Thomas Barclay
<Thomas.Barclay@sofkin.ca> wrote:

>As oppposed to just *another* set of ship building or mass combat 
>rules. They've written striker, azhanti high lightning, snapshot, 
>high gaurd, trillion credit squadron, fire fusion and steel (I and 
>II), brilliant lances

Let's see, got it, got it, got it, got it, got it, got it (I), need it
(II), need it. I liked the older stuff better. I've noticed that the
rules seemed to have gotten more complex as time went on.

>, etc. etc. and they still haven't got a simple 
>yet satisfying set of rules for spaceship combat (FT!!!!) or for 
>ground combat (DS2 and SG2). 

Agree!

>It's a pity we can't get Marc 
>Miller and Jon T together.... problem is I'll bet that Marc thinks 
>all the labourious agonizing errata-ridden rules for vehicle and ship 
>construction and combat are just fantastic....

Maybe, but I hear that Imperium Games (Traveller 4) are teetering.
Marc seems to have given up on the old rules set, hence his licensing
Traveller to Steve Jackson as a GURPS background. 

Mind you, it STILL cries out for an FT, DS2 and SG2 implementation.

Allan Goodall	     agoodall@sympatico.ca

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