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The new rules regarding Backgrounds are where we seem to to have the most complaints. They seem to have some arbitrary calls in them, can stereotype characters somewhat and also lead to some peculiar optimisation. For example, Hermits have Ability bonus options for Constitution, Wisdom and...

Traveller: 2300AD was not associated, setting-wise with Traveller’s Charted Space/3rd Imperium setting. The technology and timelines of both settings don’t mesh at all. Nor did the rule-set - until Traveller: The New Era was published with the then GDW house-system. I think it was basically an...

The established D&D market has grown since 2014 and with plenty of marketing and advertising it is no surprise that the book has sold a lot. I also still don’t have my preordered copy. Will Hasbro/WotC be bragging about slowest delivery ever?

Yet, in NZ it is delayed till October. Hey Hasbro/WotC, if you're worried about the D&D brand being "under monetized" you could start by actually delivering your Preorders on time!

One final ‘selling point’ for the GURPS version of Discworld was that it was actually co-written, along with Phil Masters, by Terry Pratchett himself. He has sadly passed away now.

There was a point - when and where I cannot recall now - where it was shown that something like a fifth of all books sold in the UK was written by Terry Pratchett. I think he's been overshadowed in recent decades by Harry Potter though. For me, I am happy to keep my copy of GURPS Discworld. It...

I think that is a pretty harsh appraisal of the article’s statement based on personal interpretation of what ‘Initiative’ means. In the case of both games, the point is that there is no mechanical use of an initiative system to determine the speed of consequential actions. Unlike other games...

Why sad? They still have the license, just with somebody else who owns the IP.

I’d take note that Marc Miller did mention Cepheus Engine in his address and they are included in the CotI message board too, so there isn’t any official hostility to it. The situation arose when MGT1e transitioned to 2e, which involved a new license. This altered the terms established in the...

There are rules to develop skills through training in the core rules and alternative rules for an experience style system in the Companion book. Incidentally, there has always been rules to advance skills and characteristics through training in all editions of Traveller, but it usually takes a...

While Mongoose Publishing had their problems about...what...20 years ago now? ....they have matured a lot as a professional company. I’ve said it on their website also, but my personal experience of their customer service, delivery times and costs, and the general quality of their products is...

All I will leave with this is the notion that a shared 50th Anniversary of Traveller AND Star Wars is a marriage made in the stars....

Is there any chance of getting some big licensed settings for the Traveller ruleset? I mean, I’ve asked about Star Wars before.....

To be honest, the Third Imperium is akin to Forgotten Realms for D&D- a fairly generic, all encompassing setting that you can run a wide variety of scenarios, adventures and campaigns in. That said. It does still feel a lot more science fiction than many other RPGs that are really more space...

While there will be one or two grognards who don’t like this news, I think Mongoose have become increasingly a great company in the last few years - including customer service and product quality. It is a good development and, to be sure, Mongoose have held the Traveller license (since 2008) as...

Well, there was Firefly/Serenity.... Seriously, though, I’m not sure that a Traveller IP could make enough of a splash in the TV/Movie world to get a big viable investment. I have suggested before that Traveller could still make a good ruleset to adapt a big license - like Star Wars - to it...

Sorry, I thought there was no new edition and everything was 100% backwards compatible - why should any content be considered redundant?

Not worth it.....

And likewise, no matter how much WotC don’t like it, fans will call the new edition of D&D what they want. Oh, look, I just did!

The .5 labelling came from computer software most likely, but this still has no bearing of WotC declaring that they get to define what ‘edition’ means. They don’t. They can label the game want they like as a title, but they are not doing this. They are simply trying to tell people what they...