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

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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.

Mongoose Traveller isn't going anywhere. Nothing is getting absorbed. This is a third party producing a new 5E game that incorporates Traveller elements.

 

[zarionofarabel]

All I can say is eww...gross...

Why would you want to ruin a system as awesome and eloquent as Traveller by making it D&D 5e?

Why does everything have to have a 5e D&D version? It reminds me of the days when everything had a (generally really terrible) version of their game that used the 3e d20 system. D&D doesn't work well for most genres or themes. It's good at the weird superhero fantasy D&D thing. That's it.

 

[Peter BOSCO'S]

To be clearer then, it implies to me that with respect to this product they're completely uninterested in existing Traveller fans and are only interested in the D&D market.

The existing success with and support of various existing Traveller products only makes this particular decision regarding the name seem even stranger to me.

I don't see this as undermining the existing products in any way. I just don't understand why they would call this Traveller 5e when there is an existing 5th edition of Traveller.

Or they are trying to sell it to existing Traveller fans who, probably correctly, assume that they will have a mush easier time getting players if they use the system from the most popular RPG in the world. RPG's, like computer software, have network effects - the more people play your game/use your OS, then the more other people will play your game/use your OS.

 

[The Soloist]

I've often seen D&D translated to other systems, like d100 Classic Fantasy by Design Mechanism, or to a 2d6 Traveller style version, not a big deal to me. Pathfinder for Savage Worlds was a success. No reason to bleed from the nose.

RPG players are often like baby ducks, first RPG system they play, is what they want to play all their life. It becomes their mama duck imprinted into their deep memory. They want all other RPGs translated to their mama-duck system.