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Re: [RPG]: 1248 Sourcebook 1: Out of the Darkness, reviewed by ShannonA (3/5)
I'm one of the few (perhaps only) people who liked TNE more than regular Traveller, so 1248 made me very happy.
I think my thoughts on it are largely the same as yours, and I loved the massive amounts of explanation, history, detail, and interestingly well-defined ministates in this book.
What made me less than pleased, though, was the sudden, almost whiplash-inducing shift in the apparent technical base. In TNE, even the most advanced political entities like the RC just had small single ships venturing out among the virus-filled wastes to laboriously rebuild even a small interstellar empire from the ashes of boneyard worlds and TED-controlled planets. And yet the 1248 book is filled with colossal fleet clashes like epic Babylon 5 battles...and not just once, but repeatedly, as fleets get wiped out and rebuilt almost as an afterthought.
It just bugged me...
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"There is time." The man said. He was smiling at me. I gazed at the black coffin. There was only one thing; I remembered why I was here. My place was within the coffin. I had come from there, and I had come back here so I could return. But the man was sitting on the coffin.
As long as he doesn't leave, I cannot go in. - Yuki Nagato, Haruhi Suzumiya Novel 8
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