Depends on the definition of "serious flaw" I suppose.
To me, a serious flaw would be something that was both difficult to ignore or remove from the setting AND prevented the setting from telling the sorts of stories/sessions/campaigns that the game is intended to tell.
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> > Watching all of this over the last 20+ years, as well as the edition neutral noodling that the TML occupies its time with these days. leads me to think that the idea of a grand unified Traveller is unattainable. Ask any ten Traveller fans what Traveller is to them and you get twelve answers, at least four of which define the answers of everyone else as heretical. the divides are over rules both general and specific, the timeline of the setting, and even things like page layout and publication choices. These are rifts that are not ever going away.
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To me, a serious flaw would be something that was both difficult to ignore or remove from the setting AND prevented the setting from telling the sorts of stories/sessions/campaigns that the game is intended to tell.
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> To be fair, people can't even agree on what Traveller *is*. And it's not helped by the fact that most of the OTU grognards are so invested in it that they willingly blind themselves to its many serious flaws as a setting - I even recently had some of them claim to me on the SJG board that these flaws were because the OTU actually has different fundamental (and inconsistently applied, apparently) physical laws to our own! If one has to go to that level of self-delusion to cover up a setting's flaws then something's gone wrong somewhere...
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> > Watching all of this over the last 20+ years, as well as the edition neutral noodling that the TML occupies its time with these days. leads me to think that the idea of a grand unified Traveller is unattainable. Ask any ten Traveller fans what Traveller is to them and you get twelve answers, at least four of which define the answers of everyone else as heretical. the divides are over rules both general and specific, the timeline of the setting, and even things like page layout and publication choices. These are rifts that are not ever going away.
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