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Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2006-03-24 11:32 am
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Oh, by the way..

.. the previous entry was inspired by this essay.

and he's right. Classic Traveller had the best cover of all time. Those words still give me chills.
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[identity profile] jonathonbarton.livejournal.com 2006-03-24 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
C) (postscript) ...Will be picking it up regardless of whether or not they actually expect to ever play it.

On T5...

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2006-03-24 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been watching the development process, and so far I'm really of two minds on this.

On one hand, it's Traveller! My family would probably die of heart failure if I didn't buy it, and I want to support table top RPGs...

On the other hand, it's Traveller. Everything I see looks like 1977 with a few refinements. While that might appeal to the CT purists, I'm used to more detailed systems.

On the gripping hand, it looks like he's using the DGP/BITS task system. Which means that we could see a new version of ACQ to support T5

Dither. I'll keep watching and probably end up buying it.

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[identity profile] jeffreyab.livejournal.com 2006-03-24 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Heck I even bought T20 books.

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[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2006-03-26 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought about them, but decided not to for a couple of reasons.

First of all, I'm not that thrilled with d20. It's worlds better than AD&D, but still lacks in many places.

Secondly, I realy think the d20 paradigm is best for epic fantasy. The game engine is locked into class and level systems (no matter what you call them)that advances abilities on a predictable, linear path.

Not so for GURPS. One of the things I've used over the years is giving out a portion of experience as skills and contacts. An experienced trader might not be much harder to kiill, or be much better with a pistol than he was five years ago, but he know the streets of Leedor like the back of his hand, speaks fluent Gvegh, and the Marquis of Aramis owes him a couple of favors.

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[identity profile] jeffreyab.livejournal.com 2006-03-27 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Well I bought the source book out of curiosity and then the sectors book because I have nothing else on most of the region.

The guns and vehicle books were less than useful and I sometimes remember I own the Imperial Navy PDF, one reason I don't like PDF's.
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