Oh, by the way..

[gridlore]

.. 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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Re: On T5...

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

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.

Re: On T5...

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

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.