Re: (3119) More from GEnie

>More from GEnie...I'll send my response to the last here to the TML, too,
>when it gets written.  If you have comments, I'll send them back that way.

Rob:

I'd appreciate it if you would send this comment back towards GEnie.

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In regard to the new revision of Traveller, I have very much mixed
feelings.  On the one hand, I am quite pleased that GDW is going to
fix the awful mess that the MegaTraveller rules have become.  I frown
somewhat upon the fact that the system is being changed, because it
will cause to modify a lots of things in my notebooks on Traveller,
but I'm willing to approach that with an open mind.  I've played the
Twilight 2000 system about a half-a-dozen times, and I remember it
being a fairly quick, easy to use system.  I'd definitely classify it
as an improvement over the current Traveller system.

However, what does displease me about the change was the apparent
desire to uproot the entire world view that has been presented for
fifteen years.  If the Imperium is effectively thrown away, in return
for this "Star Viking" campaign, set nominally within the same
history-structure, you're going to lose the support of almost every
old Traveller player, something that will be impossible to recoup with
a new, younger audience.

In conclusion, what I'd like to see for a third edition?  A new
system, if it's cleaner and better.  Books that are better proofread
and hold together as a whole.  The Imperium Background, as we know it.
Lots of supplements focusing on the background of the game, not the
mechanics (ie stuff like DGP's excellent Alien Supplements, and
the Imperial Encyclopedia, not 101 Vehicles and Fighting Ships).

Shannon