"Doc" Kinne writeth:
>
> This is an intro post from the (dare I say it?) newest member
>of TML. James suggested it.
Yeh, he WOULD. |-> Welcome, Doc. My name's Metlay, and I'm the TML
Historian, when not separated from my library by 600 miles like
I am now. |-P My credentials are sufficient for the job, IMO.
Now then, to answer your queries:
>1. What is the current status of Digest Group Publications? From
>various rumors I've heard they have either gone under or were cutting
>back on their Traveller material development.
They're alive but preparing to push a game of their own, A.I., rather
than continue to support Traveller. Their loss will be missed, despite
the fact that Joe Fugate's blithe editorial comments have shredded any
resemblance between Traveller physics and real physics (Hot Topic #1).
>2. Does anyone know what GDW's and/or DGP Traveller line will be
>for 1992?
Traveller: The New Era will be released in the fall. See below.
The last issue of the MegaTraveller Journal (3) will be out eventually,
then DGP sews up their Traveller line, maybe for good.
>3. I also came across some acronyms that weren't familiar to me.
>I assume T:2000 was Traveller:2000. This was a rule system that I
>TOTALLY missed out on. What relation does this rule system have
>with Classic Traveller and/or MegaTraveller, if any? I also came
>across the acronym "TNE:" in a posting that suggested that
>GDW was working on yet another revision of the Traveller rules
>(Traveller V3.0?). This is something I have heard nothing about.
T:2000 stands for Twilight:2000, a postnuclear game with a different
rules system than Traveller's and a different history, which leads
into Traveller:2300, renamed 2300AD, also no relation to Trav or MegTrav.
Traveller: The NEw Era is the latest rev of Traveller (v.3.0) that is
currently in preparation. It will use a new rules system based on the
same principles as Dark Conspiracy and the 2nd edition of Twilight,
and will take place several decades after the Rebellion, in the midst
of another societal collapse. GDW claims to be listening to our input
on these matters; however, they have stonewalled on certain things
that look really terrible, and the outlook (for those of us who use
the Imperium, especially) is glum.
> May you never misjump,
Again, welcome.
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