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

[Waller]

Also I feel like Traveller is one of those big original D&D competitors dating back to the 1970s. Isn’t it the first sci-fi RPG? Getting absorbed into 5E makes it feel a bit like D&D has won that 50 year contest.

I love D&D and I love Traveller. I love most that they are so different not just in design but in ethos. It saddens me a little to see this. Traveller should stand proud!

 

[The Soloist]

Also I feel like Traveller is one of those big original D&D competitors dating back to the 1970s. Isn’t it the first sci-fi RPG? Getting absorbed into 5E makes it feel a bit like D&D has won that 50 year contest.

I love D&D and I love Traveller. I love most that they are so different not just in design but in ethos. It saddens me a little to see this. Traveller should stand proud!

There was a d20 Traveller called T20 edition back in 2002.

 

[TrippyHippy]

Also I feel like Traveller is one of those big original D&D competitors dating back to the 1970s. Isn’t it the first sci-fi RPG? Getting absorbed into 5E makes it feel a bit like D&D has won that 50 year contest.

I love D&D and I love Traveller. I love most that they are so different not just in design but in ethos. It saddens me a little to see this. Traveller should stand proud!

Technically, Metamorphosis Alpha was the first 'Sci-Fi' game, released by TSR back in 1975. However, the term is loosely defined as it is much more of a 'Science Fantasy' (and later morphed into Gamma World). Traveller is a full-bore science fiction RPG and was released in 1977 (notably just before Star Wars was released in the cinemas). I'd describe Traveller as the 'archetypal sci-fi rpg' though and is a hugely significant, Hall of Fame level game. For me, personally, Traveller is in the Top 3 tabletop rpgs ever released.

If they release a 5E version of it, I'm pretty happy because not nearly enough gamers know about it. In terms of the D20/OGL/DnD market - which is probably half of all gamers at least, the only other game of note is Starfinder, I think. So, it could be quite a hit. I still prefer my 2D6 though.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Begun the end times have.

 

[andyvanhout]

Traveller is all about its system and it loses that by converting it to 5E. Unless they’re completely replacing 5E’s classes and levels with a new life path system in which case it isn’t 5E any more.

GURPS Traveller kept the setting alive in the 90s and early oughts, so I think it can work with other systems. But... Traveller 5E is a tough sell in a world where Starfinder, Esper Genesis, the Voidrunner Codex, and probably a bunch of stuff I don't know about exists... let alone Mothership running hog wild with the OSR/NSR scene.

 

[Bill Zebub]

Ehh....I guess I hope other people enjoy it.

 

[MGibster]

Also I feel like Traveller is one of those big original D&D competitors dating back to the 1970s. Isn’t it the first sci-fi RPG? Getting absorbed into 5E makes it feel a bit like D&D has won that 50 year contest.

D&D won that contest a long, long time ago. And it wasn't really a contest. I don't say that to badmouth Traveler. While I've never played it, I do own the Mongoose version, it's a good game with a long, proud history. It's just that D&D was an continues to be the juggernaut of table top RPGs, dwarfing the competition.

 

[TrippyHippy]

GURPS Traveller kept the setting alive in the 90s and early oughts, so I think it can work with other systems. But... Traveller 5E is a tough sell in a world where Starfinder, Esper Genesis, the Voidrunner Codex, and probably a bunch of stuff I don't know about exists... let alone Mothership running hog wild with the OSR/NSR scene.

Seems like an easy sell to me!

 

[SableWyvern]

I feel the need to point out that Traveller 5e is a thing that already exists. This is a version of Traveller based on the 5th edition of D&D, which is different thing.

I understand that this is a D&D-centric forum and the term 5e gets thrown about a lot with the understanding that it refers to D&D 5e, but once you're talking about non-D&D games (especially ones that already have five or more editions of their own), a little more precision is required.

To the matter at hand, while I have no interest in version Traveller based on D&D, I'm sure there's a large market for it. I have no doubt that just the claim that it's based on D&D 5e will generate sales, even if it's changed massively to fit.

Edit: I see that it's Mongoose going with the Traveller 5e terminology. That feels like a very strange choice to me. It implies that they're completely uninterested in existing Traveller fans and are only interested in the D&D market.