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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 8093999" data-attributes="member: 4303">I've always thought that with the various supplements (and JTAS articles, and White Dwarf articles; come on, it was the 70s) Traveller can do most sci-fi just fine, if you regard it as a toolkit; I think that sometimes the Third Imperium can bog it down, as various ideas from that campaign setting have intruded too far into the assumed "rules." That said, it's the minimalistic power of books 0-3 that impresses.Traveller forces you to find solutions to apparent contradictions (how are 10 million people living on this lifeless rock with no atmosphere with Bronze Age technology? Ancient arcologies devastated by disease and nanotechnological war? Underground silos full of humans maintained by aliens as a food source?) There is a kind of perpetual emergent energy in its mechanics. You can literally encounter a world, invent it in 5 minutes, and - collectively, sometimes with a little effort - something quite amazing emerges which takes the game in a completely unexpected direction.</blockquote>