Why Traveller Can’t Be A Modern RPG.
I was reading the 2D6SF blog and he said that Traveller, what is known as the Classic Traveller rules published between 1977 and 1984. That Traveller was not a modern RPG. That definitely clicked. Not just because I agree with the idea prima facie, but also because I believe that Mongoose is trying to change that. I appreciate some of their efforts Mongoose has made, but others ring flat. Traveller wasn’t the first SF RPG, that honor goes to Metamorphosis Alpha, but it has been arguably the most successful. If memory serves there have been almost twenty versions from the original “little black books” (LBBs) to the latest Mongoose Publishing Second Edition full color volumes. The entirety of the Traveller canon is nigh impossible to hold in one's head. I've never met anybody who claims to have done so. I do think there are some basic precepts that are easily grasped. Every disparate version has had some sort of flaw. Interstellar Wars used too much of SJGs patholog...