Let's try on our own

Robert S. Dean writes:
>
>You know, I just fully realized this evening (as I was reading my Classic
>Traveller Book 3) that by the time that GDW changes the rules system and
>the background, there is no reason left for them to use the name Traveller
>except to capitalize on whatever good will they have left. (And since I think
>that we old Traveller grognards _are_ what good will is left, I don't think
>it will work.)
>
>   By the reasoning that they are using at GDW, 2300AD was really the same
>game as Twilight:2000 (1st edition)--they had about as much in common as
>our Traveller is going to have with New Traveller. Scary, isn't it...or
>maybe just sad.
>
>Rob Dean

Well, if GDW is going to dump MegaTraveller and DGP is too, how do you people
feel about trying to keep it alive by ourselves? I don't suppose we could
manage an actual business-type game company (even if GDW would grant us a
license), but we might be able to do some sort of ideas exchange or something.
I've several pieces lying around that I planned to whip into shape and sell
to GDW or DGP... someday soon ;-). If I won't be able to do so, I might as
well share it with someone who will enjoy it. (Of course, I may not take the
trouble to cross the i's and dot the t's). I've a good deal of information
about the Five Sisters Subsector (Mostly Mirriam, Karin and Iderati) and I'm
currently working on The Weltbund, a small interstellar state in the Foreven
and Beyond Sektors spinward of the Spinward Marches. (Actually, it would be
fun if we could get the license to those areas. They used to belong to
Paranoia Press and FASA respectively, and the PP stuff at least is no longer
official. It's the one place where it would be possible to create a genuine
unknown frontier (as opposed to the settled-1000-years-ago frontier of The
Spinward Marches. I always felt that GDW mad a mistake in placing huge
interstellar states on all sides of the Imperium)).

The last bit is just a pipedream, of course, but what about the rest of it?
If each of us works out one or two planets in detail (and have them vetted
by some of the others) then we could each get a lot more background material
than we could manage on our own.


      Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
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