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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9090266" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Agreed... but it is really grounded in Frank's En Garde! rules for character creation and advancement, which was 2 years earlier... which is even more amazing, considering it's still in print, and has been continuously since '75. Currently, Margam-Evans.Disagree. Strongly. It's not horrible, but MGT1e retained a number of clunky bits from CT-77 which had been made much smother in CT-81, because the primary author hadn't been given access to CT-81.¹  CT 81 made certain all damages were in whole dice, because that makes the allocation to attributes easier, and makes characters a hair less crunchy. The inclusion of up-or-out by the linking of promotion and retention to one die roll is novel within the Traveller lines. It's also explicitly wrong for the OTU, where many an old NPC is of relatively low rank. (Which is the major Britishism in the GDW editions.) Meanwhile, MgT puts in Up-or-out (an Americanism) while making the enlisted ranks more reminiscent of the UK's...Note also: Ranks for the OTU are canonical in rules as well as setting, as they're part of the mercenary unit operations system in CT Bk 4 Mercenary.Given the time crunch Gareth was under, and certain issues otherwise present, it's not horrible. But it's not amazing. And don't get me started on Mr. Steele...  Or the rest of MGT Mercenary... Jealous of GW much?²¹: Yes, Gareth and I discussed this. While I was providing some help on trade goods. I verified that Marc had sent them a CD-ROM of CT. And that Gareth hadn't gotten access to it at that point.²: it's very interesting to note that just prior to GDW/Marc Miller cancelling almost all the 3PP licenses in 1984, Games Workshop was launching Warhammer Fantasy Battles and advertizing their upcoming Traveller minis rules... then, when the license terminated, suddenly, they launched WH 40K... an imperium, space marines in power armor, comm only at the speed of ships...  given that GW had held a license to produce local print runs of CT, and to produce their own 3PP supplements for the OTU...and wrote at least one of the official numbered adventures... 40K appears to be their local Traveller universe... with some bits from other 3PPs'... Now, I don't know if they ever printed local UK runs of CT-81... which if they did, would make the basing of MgT off '77 more understandable...</blockquote>

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