Lets see, my TNE gm died the same week as Princess Diana so 1997... Holy crap that's pushing 17 years ago... Apparently time flies.
So ya it's been a looooooong time since I was there, typically this list is super quiet, it's just every so often something comes along rousing it from it's slumber.
Full disclosure here, the last iteration of traveller I purchased was the GURPS version. Despite the TNE retcon the products themselves weren't bad, I usually purchase things to borrow ideas, maps and pictures that I find useful for my own games. So my question about the more recent versions of Trav were genuine, my "local" rpg store is a 2 hour drive from my house so i haven't been to it in 5 or so years. There used to be 4 within about 30 mins of where I live but most of the, have vanished over the past few years.
As for errata in a Traveller game well hell it wouldn't be Traveller without errata. Don't get me wrong that's a good thing not a bad thing. I don't think I've ever seen another game produce errata to fix problems. Most rpg's tend to follow the business model, it's not hopelessly broken, it's flavour. Now shut up and give us your money or we'll add sparkly vampires in our next edition.
I think the thing that amused me most with the TNE rules was you could literally create a fantasy game with psionic / magic only to have the whole thing turn on it's head when the (insert favourite post collapse faction here) showed back up to reinitiate contact with the world.
Derek Stanley
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> On May 10, 2014, at 11:19 PM, "Evyn MacDude [Traveller_TNE]" <> wrote:
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>> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:39 PM, DEREK STANLEY [Traveller_TNE] <> wrote:
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>> I haven't been on the TML in a decade, there was at the time so much bile and hatred directed towards anyone who liked anything TNE it just seemed pointless to attend.
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> When was that.... Shit that is disingenuous, It's Traveller online fandom, it was always like that then the bitching subsided and some of the most amusing tech designs got rolled out. In a lot of ways this list here recently has been sounding like what you have been complaining about there.
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> And yet the TML abides...... Come on back lets see what y'all can do...
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>> TNE seemed to take a lot of heat for things that were beyond it's control, the down turn of the RPG and the birth of card games, fantasy MMOs, the collapse of GDW, the Rebellion, Virus... Okay that last thing was totally on TNE.
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> TNE has a strong flavor, and you have to like the game that it pitched. Then there was the bit about the game changing incomprehensibly with the edition change (A lot like the changeover from CT to MT, wanna here me bitch get me started on the abortion that was MT game mechanic wise). Though to be honest maybe people haven't been reading what was going on in those last few issues of challenge and the final folio adventures and book of MT.
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> Shit where was I, Oh, yes the favorite pastime of the Online fanbase is to Bitch about edition x.
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>> The hobby shop RPG universe went through a pretty horrible patch there.
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> Yes it did.
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> And don't get me wrong I always loved me some TNE, it laid the groundwork in official Game Mechanics and the related to run the weird sorts of games I enjoy with minimal pain in the form of writing my own rules... (Funny thing is that MgT has a butt load of that too)
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So ya it's been a looooooong time since I was there, typically this list is super quiet, it's just every so often something comes along rousing it from it's slumber.
Full disclosure here, the last iteration of traveller I purchased was the GURPS version. Despite the TNE retcon the products themselves weren't bad, I usually purchase things to borrow ideas, maps and pictures that I find useful for my own games. So my question about the more recent versions of Trav were genuine, my "local" rpg store is a 2 hour drive from my house so i haven't been to it in 5 or so years. There used to be 4 within about 30 mins of where I live but most of the, have vanished over the past few years.
As for errata in a Traveller game well hell it wouldn't be Traveller without errata. Don't get me wrong that's a good thing not a bad thing. I don't think I've ever seen another game produce errata to fix problems. Most rpg's tend to follow the business model, it's not hopelessly broken, it's flavour. Now shut up and give us your money or we'll add sparkly vampires in our next edition.
I think the thing that amused me most with the TNE rules was you could literally create a fantasy game with psionic / magic only to have the whole thing turn on it's head when the (insert favourite post collapse faction here) showed back up to reinitiate contact with the world.
Derek Stanley
Sent from my iPad
> On May 10, 2014, at 11:19 PM, "Evyn MacDude [Traveller_TNE]" <> wrote:
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>> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:39 PM, DEREK STANLEY [Traveller_TNE] <> wrote:
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>> I haven't been on the TML in a decade, there was at the time so much bile and hatred directed towards anyone who liked anything TNE it just seemed pointless to attend.
>
> When was that.... Shit that is disingenuous, It's Traveller online fandom, it was always like that then the bitching subsided and some of the most amusing tech designs got rolled out. In a lot of ways this list here recently has been sounding like what you have been complaining about there.
>
> And yet the TML abides...... Come on back lets see what y'all can do...
>
>> TNE seemed to take a lot of heat for things that were beyond it's control, the down turn of the RPG and the birth of card games, fantasy MMOs, the collapse of GDW, the Rebellion, Virus... Okay that last thing was totally on TNE.
>
> TNE has a strong flavor, and you have to like the game that it pitched. Then there was the bit about the game changing incomprehensibly with the edition change (A lot like the changeover from CT to MT, wanna here me bitch get me started on the abortion that was MT game mechanic wise). Though to be honest maybe people haven't been reading what was going on in those last few issues of challenge and the final folio adventures and book of MT.
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> Shit where was I, Oh, yes the favorite pastime of the Online fanbase is to Bitch about edition x.
>
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>> The hobby shop RPG universe went through a pretty horrible patch there.
>
> Yes it did.
>
> And don't get me wrong I always loved me some TNE, it laid the groundwork in official Game Mechanics and the related to run the weird sorts of games I enjoy with minimal pain in the form of writing my own rules... (Funny thing is that MgT has a butt load of that too)
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> Evyn
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