Re: 3G <-> Traveller

> From: [email removed] (Jack Dietz)
> Subject: (3517) 3G <-> Traveller
>
> Has anyone prepared a list of the modifications necessary for weapons
> designed with 3G to be used with Traveller?

  If we are talking about MegaTraveller, there were an article in Challenge #40
by Greg Porter, but some parts of his manuscript had been cut by the editors.
A full(er?) version can be found among the conversion essays at the end of 3G^3
(3G third edition).

  Note that his conversion was made to yield results similar to MegaTraveller
weapons already given in Players and Encyclopedia, a conversion method which
I don't agree with philosophically.

  I support the method of converting through the common physical bases if
such a critter exists: A weapon that can penetrate 40mm of armor quality
steel in 3G should be able to penetrate 40mm of hard steel in MegaTraveller
regardless of how far out the weapons given in the manuals are.

  This leads to a slightly (to use an understatement) different conversion
of DV to Pen. I posted it and a series of remade designs (cut off halfway,
unfortunately) to the TML about half a year ago. I don't know which bundle
they ended up in.

> Jack Dietz.

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