Mongoose's New IP: Traveller is BACK

[Treebore]

Woohoo! This is fantastic news! Yay! As a bona fide Traveller fanboy, I am pleased as punch to see that Traveller is going OGL. This could mean great things for Stellar Reaches.

This is a great day,
Flynn

Ditto.

 

[Matrix Sorcica]

To me, the only thing that really would classify as the Holy Grail would be Lord of the Rings. It would surprise me a great deal to hear of anything else.

Hmmm, LotR powered by RuneQuest? Sounds interesting to me.

Mongoose have said nothing about their Grail using the Runequest system. The second license (which is not the Grail) may use Runequest, that's all

 

[Cam Banks]

That's an interesting take on it. Both games always struck me as quintessentially American, especially Traveller. Traveller especially, in large part due to the support it got in Dragon magazine in the early to mid 80s. Warhammer was the game I always saw as being the British RPG.

Well, you have to understand that I was a teenager in New Zealand and White Dwarf was the only real magazine dealing with either RQ or Traveller. Dragon was more of a D&D magazine, with only occasional non-D&D support, whereas White Dwarf had RQ articles every month, their D&D stuff was very much RQ and Moorcock inspired, and there was a Traveler comic strip every month as well.

I don't think Warhammer would have been the thing it is if the British gaming community hadn't been so invested in the sort of mood and feel of RQ and Chaosium at the time, to be honest. Chaos spikey bits and all. Warhammer's like the love child of Runequest and Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks through a Moorcockian filter.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[nerfherder]

That's an interesting take on it. Both games always struck me as quintessentially American, especially Traveller. Traveller especially, in large part due to the support it got in Dragon magazine in the early to mid 80s. Warhammer was the game I always saw as being the British RPG.

Count the number of 'l's in Traveller. Of course it's British in spirit

 

[Gez]

Count the number of 'l's in Traveller. Of course it's British in spirit

Or Canadian, heh?

What do you say aboot that?

 

[QLI/RPGRealms]

Count the number of 'l's in Traveller. Of course it's British in spirit

Or just a misspelling that was never corrected

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

Or Canadian, heh?

What do you say aboot that?

Canada?

 

[Plane Sailing]

That's an interesting take on it. Both games always struck me as quintessentially American, especially Traveller. Traveller especially, in large part due to the support it got in Dragon magazine in the early to mid 80s. Warhammer was the game I always saw as being the British RPG.

The time period that Cam is talking about is probably early 80's - White Dwarf had a lot of support for Traveller and Runequest during that time period (on of the monthly cartoons was even a traveller cartoon). Warhammer RPG wasn't even invented then (and warhammer wargaming probably wasn't either).

I speak as an avid collector of White Dwarf from issues 1-60 or thereabouts. Although people forget now, I loved the way that the name reflected both sci-fi and fantasy nicely.

Cheers

 

[Psion]

I really do hope it's like the original Traveller. The 2d6 system still works quite well, I think, much better than the reverse D6 system used in T4 (and I think T5).

I agree, but some discussion on CotI leads me to beleive we are both out of luck on that score. Mongoose Trav is supposed to be a subset of T5; T5 uses a reverse dice pool system that is essentially T4 without the half-dice.

I dunno. I had sort of settled into T20 for occasional forays into SF. It's cool that gateway will continue to be supported, but T5/MonT are sounding unappealing to me. With a time limit on T20 (and support sparse as it is), I may more aggressively pursue alternative SF systems. Perhaps some respin of Spycraft or D20 Modern with some bits from T20 like the excellent ship combat.

 

[QLI/RPGRealms]

I agree, but some discussion on CotI leads me to beleive we are both out of luck on that score. Mongoose Trav is supposed to be a subset of T5; T5 uses a reverse dice pool system that is essentially T4 without the half-dice.

As far as I am aware, the exact details of the Mongoose rules are not known yet other than being based on CT and designed to work with T5 in mind. My speculation (and that is all this is) is that to work in hand with T5, the Mongoose rules would need to at least be compatible task-wise with the T5 rules.

I dunno. I had sort of settled into T20 for occasional forays into SF. It's cool that gateway will continue to be supported, but T5/MonT are sounding unappealing to me. With a time limit on T20 (and support sparse as it is), I may more aggressively pursue alternative SF systems. Perhaps some respin of Spycraft or D20 Modern with some bits from T20 like the excellent ship combat.

Yes our license to use the Traveller trademark on our rules will expire in a few years.