Here's three messages from Peter for the TML, which mistakenly came to
traveller-request. I apologize for being so slow lately, folks. A new
project and spotty attendance due to very wintry weather are taking
their toll on my time to administer this list.
James
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[email removed] Beaverton, Oregon, USA
[email removed] "Load Auto/Evade, Beowulf!"
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Subject: Re: Mail for you
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 8:47:13 EST
In-Reply-To: [email removed]; from "James T Perkins" at Feb 13, 90 2:04 pm
Thanx for all the well-wishes Gang!
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Subject: Re: GDW on MegaTraveller
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 8:52:51 EST
In-Reply-To: [email removed]; from "[email removed]" at Feb 14, 90 12:17 am
*| No no no, after lots of complaining, GDW is now doing a lot wi{h
<etc>
WHEW! I got a little concerned......
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Subject: Re: GDW & MegaT (Was: Re: The GEnie gateway...)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 9:03:15 EST
In-Reply-To: [email removed]; from "[email removed]" at Feb 14, 90 8:42 am
*| What follows is purely circumstantial evidence and hearsay:
*| When Traveller 2300 was introduced there was an interview with Mark W Miller
El-yuccckkko!
*| in the Digest, where he said that T2300 was the next step after Traveller, and
*| that Traveller was good when it was introduced (ie 70's sometime) but that it
*| now were obsolete.
*| All the old supplements went out of print *before* there were any definite talk
*| about MegaT.
*| JTAS died the silent death and became a part of Challenge (a shrinking part).
And I LIKED that format MUCH better than Challenges... <sigh>
*| Folks I know in the games-shop business claimed that GDW had dropped Traveller.
That prompted me to make a phone call to GDW to find out what in tarnation was
going on. Marc Miller said to me at that time "Old traveller is out and
Mega Traveller is the way to go..".
*| I think it was good. When GDW didn't have the time and/or interest to
*| modernize traveller they had the decency to let the people who had time and
*| interest do it. I can think of a lot of RPG-companies that never would have
*| done that. (TSR as an infamous example)
*| DGP is also smaller than GDW and is more specialized for MegaT. This means that
*| they are more attentive to customer feedback and opinions.
I know the case of TSR well... I personally knew Gary Gygax and didn't like
what I saw in his personality as it evolved over the years. As a result
I now have NOTHING to do with D&D. I even gave away all my books (an
extensive collection) and washed my hands of the whole thing.
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