> To be fair, people can't even agree on what Traveller *is*.
Exactly. And that problem dates back a long way. I just posted something
to that effect on COTI. And that was without even bringing editions into
it, which raises the problem a couple exponential powers.
> 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...
>
>
>
>
> --- In , "James" wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
>
Exactly. And that problem dates back a long way. I just posted something
to that effect on COTI. And that was without even bringing editions into
it, which raises the problem a couple exponential powers.
> 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...
>
>
>
>
> --- In , "James" wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
>