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<blockquote data-quote="MattW" data-source="post: 8453595" data-attributes="member: 7029432">All the various Traveller systems are good, but it's the world-building that makes them interesting.&nbsp; Most follow Classic Traveller; they have a very stable and semi-feudal interstellar Imperium as the backdrop.Megatraveller is &quot;The Decline and Fall of the Imperium&quot; during a multi-sided civil war.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some people found it a depressing idea, but it did open up all sorts of scenarios .&nbsp; My group enjoyed fighting petty warlords,&nbsp; rescuing refugees, and setting up safe havens.Traveller: the New Era is set several decades AFTER the fall of the Imperium and has a big problem with plausibility.&nbsp; The final collapse of the Imperium was brought about by a sort of AI rebellion.&nbsp; It has THE VIRUS which can add (evil and/or eccentric) Artificial Intelligence to any computer or robot.&nbsp; It gets worse. The simplest piece of electronics might secretly contain VIRUS &quot;eggs&quot; and could infect a more capable computer.&nbsp; The mechanism of producing AI was... not plausible.&nbsp; I suspect that most referees changed that particular part of the background.&nbsp; However, TNE has one really important characteristic: TNE was wonderful for the gearheads.&nbsp; I spent far too much time playing with the supplement &quot;Fire, Fusion and Steel&quot;; it had rules for designing everything.&nbsp; I also recommend the&nbsp; 'Reformation Coalition Equipment Guide'.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MattW, post: 8453595, member: 7029432"] All the various Traveller systems are good, but it's the world-building that makes them interesting. Most follow Classic Traveller; they have a very stable and semi-feudal interstellar Imperium as the backdrop. Megatraveller is "The Decline and Fall of the Imperium" during a multi-sided civil war. Some people found it a depressing idea, but it did open up all sorts of scenarios . My group enjoyed fighting petty warlords, rescuing refugees, and setting up safe havens. Traveller: the New Era is set several decades AFTER the fall of the Imperium and has a big problem with plausibility. The final collapse of the Imperium was brought about by a sort of AI rebellion. It has THE VIRUS which can add (evil and/or eccentric) Artificial Intelligence to any computer or robot. It gets worse. The simplest piece of electronics might secretly contain VIRUS "eggs" and could infect a more capable computer. The mechanism of producing AI was... not plausible. I suspect that most referees changed that particular part of the background. However, TNE has one really important characteristic: TNE was wonderful for the gearheads. I spent far too much time playing with the supplement "Fire, Fusion and Steel"; it had rules for designing [I]everything[/I]. I also recommend the 'Reformation Coalition Equipment Guide'. [/QUOTE]

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