When I first came across TNE 4 or 5 years ago I was mildly interested in the setting, so much so I purchased the FFE CD set. It wasn't until I read the novels that I was hooked. I'm currently running a game with a TNE setting in Reavers' Deep but using the classic rules as I haven't had time to read TNE rules!
Thing I like about the setting is the grittiness of it all.
Brett.
---In , <dedly@...> wrote :
Hi all,
I've been over on the CotI boards these last two days (for the first time in 8 years) to try and find an answer to my question regarding the two vargr states: Ruler of Five and Opposition Alliance. I never even got around to posting my question there, which means I'm going to have to go back. Crap!
The hate for TNE lives on. Oh my goodness, there are active threads (ACTIVE!) with subjects like "Why do you hate Virus?". And people are attacking it for all the same old reasons. One guy who was just discovering the setting said that TNE didn't feel like Traveller. Another guy complained that though TNE was bad, Martin's 1248 setting made things worse. And on and on. It was a flood. I had to fight the urge to respond to these people or drown.
I checked the TNE section. No one had posted anything there in 75+ days. We haven't had much activity here either. SFRPG has been quiet too. So has everyone moved on from TNE?
I heard a rumor over on CotI that T5 will have a new setting where the timeline is advanced to the year 1900. It's far enough out that Charted Space should be sufficiently recovered from the Rebellion, Collapse, Empress Wave, and Black Curtain War. The tech level max is to be bumped up to 20. Sentient AIs and cybernetics will be embraced (someone claimed that it's in the T5 rules). I admit that I'm intrigued, but I have to wonder if it will be enough to appease the haters. They'll finally have their shiny new 4th Imperium and all will be as it was in 1105, except with more stuff. Will they finally shut up and move on?
\_/
DED
TNE @ Yahoo ml Admin
Thing I like about the setting is the grittiness of it all.
Brett.
---In , <dedly@...> wrote :
Hi all,
I've been over on the CotI boards these last two days (for the first time in 8 years) to try and find an answer to my question regarding the two vargr states: Ruler of Five and Opposition Alliance. I never even got around to posting my question there, which means I'm going to have to go back. Crap!
The hate for TNE lives on. Oh my goodness, there are active threads (ACTIVE!) with subjects like "Why do you hate Virus?". And people are attacking it for all the same old reasons. One guy who was just discovering the setting said that TNE didn't feel like Traveller. Another guy complained that though TNE was bad, Martin's 1248 setting made things worse. And on and on. It was a flood. I had to fight the urge to respond to these people or drown.
I checked the TNE section. No one had posted anything there in 75+ days. We haven't had much activity here either. SFRPG has been quiet too. So has everyone moved on from TNE?
I heard a rumor over on CotI that T5 will have a new setting where the timeline is advanced to the year 1900. It's far enough out that Charted Space should be sufficiently recovered from the Rebellion, Collapse, Empress Wave, and Black Curtain War. The tech level max is to be bumped up to 20. Sentient AIs and cybernetics will be embraced (someone claimed that it's in the T5 rules). I admit that I'm intrigued, but I have to wonder if it will be enough to appease the haters. They'll finally have their shiny new 4th Imperium and all will be as it was in 1105, except with more stuff. Will they finally shut up and move on?
\_/
DED
TNE @ Yahoo ml Admin