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<blockquote data-quote="Lurks-no-More" data-source="post: 3928356" data-attributes="member: 8226">As far as I can tell, TNE's rules are very solid; the issue many Traveller fans had with it was the demolition of the Imperium (in a way which wasn't plausible in either the real world or in the Third Imperium setting). That said, I think the game got unfairly maligned, partly because a considerable fraction of the player base was unwilling to accept any change, let alone as big changes as TNE brought. The established fans are probably the biggest advantage, and the greatest disadvantage, that Traveller has. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />So, is 4e going to be D&amp;D's TNE? No, I don't think so. The &quot;implied setting&quot; of Traveller, from which the Third Imperium grew, was pretty intrusive from the beginning, and there was only one Official Traveller Universe most players gamed in (or something very much like it). D&amp;D, on the other hand, has had a plethora of settings, some of which (Dark Sun, Planescape, Spelljammer) have already differed a lot from the implied, pseudo-medieval-with-magic universe. Even if WotC blew up FR, the effect on D&amp;D gaming community would be lesser than that of GDW releasing the Virus into Traveller, and I don't think that either Spellplague or the rules changes are going to blow up FR or any other campaign setting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lurks-no-More, post: 3928356, member: 8226"] As far as I can tell, TNE's rules are very solid; the issue many Traveller fans had with it was the demolition of the Imperium (in a way which wasn't plausible in either the real world or in the Third Imperium setting). That said, I think the game got unfairly maligned, partly because a considerable fraction of the player base was unwilling to accept any change, let alone as big changes as TNE brought. The established fans are probably the biggest advantage, and the greatest disadvantage, that Traveller has. :) So, is 4e going to be D&D's TNE? No, I don't think so. The "implied setting" of Traveller, from which the Third Imperium grew, was pretty intrusive from the beginning, and there was only one Official Traveller Universe most players gamed in (or something very much like it). D&D, on the other hand, has had a plethora of settings, some of which (Dark Sun, Planescape, Spelljammer) have already differed a [i]lot[/i] from the implied, pseudo-medieval-with-magic universe. Even if WotC blew up FR, the effect on D&D gaming community would be lesser than that of GDW releasing the Virus into Traveller, and I don't think that either Spellplague or the rules changes are going to blow up FR or any other campaign setting. [/QUOTE]

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