Payn's Ponderings Traveller Editions

[éxypnos]

26tons cargo isn't bad.

ya, the lack of PP fuel helps.

 

[dragoner]

ya, the lack of PP fuel helps.

That is an interesting subject, of why they eliminated power plant fuel, that is something I missed, looking over the rules.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Note also: the Games Workshop version is CT1E... To my knowledge, they never upgraded to CT 2E.



Mongoose (MGT) 1E was derived from the GW version, not Marc's preferred CT2E...

Games Workshop/GW? Or Game Designers' Workshop (GDW)?

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Own many LBBs (sold all once, re-bought recently). I believe I have the 1977 version, but would have to check.
Have the Traveller Adventure, which I love to read.
Own many FASA and Judges Guild Traveller books.
Have the big floppy books from the 90's by Far Future Enterprises - the Adventures and Double Adventures books.
Recently purchased a couple of bundles of CT.
Basically, I've got a lot of CT.

Also own pretty much the entire line of GURPS Traveller - we used to play a lot of GURPS.

That said, have never run nor played but once either of those editions. I did run a short 4 month (maybe 8-10 sessions) of MegaTraveller. Sadly, in a move, those books were sold/given away.

Now about to resume a Stars Without Number campaign. I find SWN is an interesting spin on the B/X (or was it BECMI) system applied to a Traveller like setting, without the implicit setting.

 

[pemerton]

I did run a short 4 month (maybe 8-10 sessions) of MegaTraveller. Sadly, in a move, those books were sold/given away.

I've got a 3-book MegaTraveller set (players' book, referees' book, setting book). I've never played or GMed it. But my feeling is that it takes away two of the things that I really like about Traveller: the random PC gen (MegaT is still notionally random, but many of the results allow choosing from a cascade list); and the distinct subsystems that I've analogised to a PbtA game (replacing them with a universal task resolution system that reminds me a bit of Rolemaster in its basic structure).

 

[aramis erak]

Games Workshop/GW? Or Game Designers' Workshop (GDW)?

Games Workshop (Jackson & Livingston) UK was a licensee of Game Designer's Workshop (MIller, Chadwick, Brown, Wiseman), printing locally rather than importing.
They did the same type of deal with Flying Buffalo for T&T, and with Chaosium & Avalon Hill for RuneQuest 3rd Ed.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I've got a 3-book MegaTraveller set (players' book, referees' book, setting book). I've never played or GMed it. But my feeling is that it takes away two of the things that I really like about Traveller: the random PC gen (MegaT is still notionally random, but many of the results allow choosing from a cascade list); and the distinct subsystems that I've analogised to a PbtA game (replacing them with a universal task resolution system that reminds me a bit of Rolemaster in its basic structure).

That's a pretty fair assessment; a lot of people actively disliked both of those, which is why MgT mitigated one seriously and eliminated the other, but if you were fond of them you're not wrong.

 

[pemerton]

if you were fond of them you're not wrong.

My only quibble with this: the were should be are! I think my appreciation for both those aspects of Traveller has probably grown over time. It definitely has in respect of the various subsystems found in Classic Traveller.

 

[pemerton]

Games Workshop (Jackson & Livingston) UK was a licensee of Game Designer's Workshop (MIller, Chadwick, Brown, Wiseman), printing locally rather than importing.
They did the same type of deal with Flying Buffalo for T&T, and with Chaosium & Avalon Hill for RuneQuest 3rd Ed.

I've got a copy of the GW version of RQ3. It has some nice illustrations!

 

[Thomas Shey]

My only quibble with this: the were should be are! I think my appreciation for both those aspects of Traveller has probably grown over time. It definitely has in respect of the various subsystems found in Classic Traveller.

I meant "were" as in "liked them in CT, and saw them change in MgT".