So, who is excited about the new Traveller RPG?

[dmccoy1693]

*Casts Lesser Animate Thread*

I'm still excited about MGT!

 

[kenobi65]

I only have one question: can your PC still die during character creation?

 

[Desdichado]

I hadn't heard of yet another one, but at this point, isn't "going back to it's roots" pretty cliche for Traveller? I mean T20 and GURPS both did that too.

I'd almost rather have seen it do something different, honestly, to distinguish itself from the last several years of Traveller relaunches.

 

[Mishihari Lord]

Not me.

I have no real hostility toward the idea of another edition of Traveller, but I have a hard time imagining what they will get right that GURPS Traveller botched.

I thought that GURPS Traveller was pretty much perfect.

Well, they're doing it in a system other than GURPS. For me, that's very helpful all by itself. I don't really have anything bad to say about GURPS, but the system jsut never has appealed to me, for some reason.

And yes, I am excited about the new edition.

 

[dmccoy1693]

I only have one question: can your PC still die during character creation?

That is an optional rule, yes.

 

[CaptainChaos]

I'd be more excited if it was being published by someone else.

 

[CarlZog]

Anybody got a link for this? I seem to be coming up with dead ends.

 

[jdrakeh]

Weird. I was totally hyped about this but after the near total lack of advertising or promotion past the initial acquisition announcement from Mongoose. . . I completely forgot about it until this thread was reanimated.

 

[Treebore]

I look forward to it in the sense that I hope it will bring people into the worlds of Traveller. Both new and old.

I have been doing my own thing for so long, and does the job so perfectly for me I won't be jumping into this new version. I'll likely buy "resources" like adventures, spaceship maps, space station maps, etc...

 

[Shades of Green]

I've been in the playtest and apparently Mongoose have gotten rid of two major "looks-great-on-paper-but-sucks-in-play" mechanics (a Timing/Effect die mechanic which was downright broken and an energy-point allocation mechanic for starships involving too much accounting). So, as far as I know as of today (I've pre-ordered it, but it takes some time to reach Israel even with airmail) the system is very good and easy to learn and use.