Re: Gnu Traveller

Metlay, you're crazy.  I like that in a person.

I say GO FOR IT!  We all know Traveller has long suffered from many
obvious problems.  It's time they got fixed.

The one thing that upsets me the most about MegaTraveller is ship (and
vehicle) design.  You need the errata in order to do anything reasonable
with them.  I've seen several different sets of errata (some I have, some
I don't).  I don't have COACC but supposedly this makes it designing
aircraft more reasonable.

I'm SICK AND TIRED of having to compile volumes of errata and supplements
in order to put together a reasonable picture.  I don't even bother trying
to design ships and vehicles under MegaTraveller anymore.  I either use the
old Traveller rules or, more likely, just wing it.

If you could give me ONE source of consistent vehicle rules, I'd use them.

I agree that some of the skills (especially weapon skills) need rework.
The skill system could also use some finer granularity.

I'd like to see the Traveller universe untouched, though.  I also would not
want the basic character attributes changed at all.  I'd like to see the
basic character generation system kept around, although I wouldn't mind
alternate methods.  I WOULD like to correct the system so that ALL methods
of character generation are consistent.

(By the way, I think it should be called MetlaTraveller 8-)

gsw