Traveller 5e coming from World's Largest RPG in cooperation with Mongoose Publishing

[dragoner]

Why is this an expected turn of events (is that just snark or was this leaked or something)?

It had been hinted at in the Mongoose forums when people asked why no 5e port.

 

[schneeland]

Hey! Dumb question here. Why is this an expected turn of events (is that just snark or was this leaked or something)? Is it just because of the popularity of 5E? Lots of people on Bluesky and /r/Traveller are scratching their heads over this one.

It should read unexpected, but I apparently cannot type (correcting this now)

 

[andyvanhout]

It should read unexpected, but I apparently cannot type (correcting this now)

Story of my life (the not being able to type part), my sympathies.

I am really keen to see how this Kickstarter does next year as a barometer for how 5E is doing generally! I say that it probably isn't for me, but I've enough love for both D&D and Traveller which means I'm probably going to be suckered into at least give this thing a look over.

 

[overgeeked]

That's too bad. The money machine must be fed.

 

[andyvanhout]

Here's a take. I don't know if it's a correct take, but here we go:

Because the 5E SRDs are released under a CC-BY-4.0 license, making content for this hypothetical Traveller 5E so long as you don't use IP that's owned by Mongoose Publishing has less restrictions on it than making content for Mongoose's in house system.

That's a bit wild to me, and it's still wild to me that the 5E SRDs got yeeted into the Creative Commons (in a good way, I think it's amazing for the hobby).