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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dmccoy1693" data-source="post: 4641107" data-attributes="member: 51747">Here's the low down on Traveller.  Stick with Mongoose.  All others are sunsetting (save GURPS and T5, which I'll get to in a moment).  Mongoose has the license for 10 years and they are not being shy about wanting that edition for be around for 10 solid years (instead of making a new edition in 5 years).   The Mongoose Traveller system (or MGT for short) lies closest to original Traveller in its design, but it has been streamlined for a more modern design. Its been updated to reflect a more modern sense of how the future will look (i.e. computers no longer take up tons of space).  Mongoose also went back to the original idea of making Traveller a rules set and not a rulesset and setting bundled together.  They published The Spinward Marches and continue to develop the setting, but they also are using the MGT rules for other settings as well.  Stranium Dogg, Hammer Slammers, Babylon 5, are Judge Dredd are just some of the settings that will use this rules set.   Additionally, Mongoose released the rules under the Open Game License.  This means that any other company may produce material for the system (but not the setting).  Other companies have already released star ships and book of additional careers.  Reviews of such material have been overwhelmingly positive.   There is still material for previous versions still avilable.  The d20 version of Traveller and the Hero version of traveller had their licenses not renewed.  But GURPS is allowed to have their license renewed.  Also, T5 has been promised, but not much has been delivered to date on it (with endless delays going on for years).  What little has been seen has not had the greatest reviews.  I do not know anything more specific than that since I had not seen it first hand.   Lastly, the Mongoose version was widely a major seller.  Mongoose commented that it may very well be their best selling book of all time. They're on their 4th (or more) reprint in less than a year.</blockquote>

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