[RPG]: Imperial Encyclopedia, reviewed by Lev Lafayette (2/3)

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12768.phtml

Lev Lafayette's Summary:

Where the detail is provided (data, personal equipment, vehicles and starships) it is very substantial but has some inexplicable gaps (e.g., computers). Organisation could certainly do with some further care and consideration of use in play.

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[Ante]

Once more an informative review. I guess you're not a collector of Traveller editions, are you?

The things lacking, cybergear, robotics, AI and biotech are indeed the things that came to sf in the eighties, and it sure solidly grounds Traveller as a seventies game. GDW actually tried to changed that in the next edition, The New Era. Those changed never worked very well, for various reasons, alas.

The newest official Traveller products have given machine intelligence and some other modern sf schticks more space, but I think that advanced biotech would change the setting into something with too different a flavour from "golden age" sf, which is the core of the Traveller experience.

[Lev Lafayette]

Originally Posted by Ante

Once more an informative review. I guess you're not a collector of Traveller editions, are you?

I certainly am; I have classic Traveller, Megatraveller, and Traveller NE. I also have numerous 2300AD modules and am currently hunting down the rules (which used to be in possession, many moons ago)

The things lacking, cybergear, robotics, AI and biotech are indeed the things that came to sf in the eighties, and it sure solidly grounds Traveller as a seventies game. GDW actually tried to changed that in the next edition, The New Era. Those changed never worked very well, for various reasons, alas.

True that, but Megatraveller was late 80s in its own right - and seeming that some andriod tricks are a central theme of the game (the assasination of the emperor) and little more on robotics would be interesting.