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Old 05-13-2008, 02:59 AM
Takei Takei is offline
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Re: [RPG]: Traveller , reviewed by Jon 45 (2/4)

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Originally Posted by mxyzplk View Post
Yeah, the problem with every single edition of Traveller is that it's not a good introduction to Traveller.

To get any sort of a coherent sense of "what's the Traveller universe like" you always - Gurps Traveller, T20, classic - have to buy an antire suite of books and even then there's pretty fundamental questions about "No really so as a normal citizen, what's it like to... " that go unanswered. It's the achilles heel of Traveller and why it tends to only appeal to the same group of grognards and converts in incarnation after incarnation.
I think you're right, although in the case of Mongoose they're looking at using Traveller as the base rulebook for a number of settings. 3I citizen info would be irrelevant in a Judge Dredd game for example. It'll be interesting to see if the Spinward Marches book covers life within the 3I.
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