Really, I wanted to give TNE a chance, even after all of my complaints and
disinclination towards the topic. Really, I did. I even got to the point of
thinking about purchasing the new rules without running screaming into the
night.
After reading last night's information about the TNE writer's conference,
I'm sorry, but I don't think I can find a large enough barf bucket fast
enough. Not to put too specific a finger on it, but from what I read, much
of what I *did* like about MT is getting deep-sixed, and I can't say that
what is apparently going to replace it (and add to it) is at all to my
liking.
Does anyone care to give a more detailed viewpoint? I'd be interested to
hear what y'all think, though it'd be a tough sell to get me to like this
upcoming abomination (much less play it), except perhaps if Mike Metlay
and a few other Traveller curmudgeons could come up with some pretty
persuasive prose... :->
Sigh.
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Nicholas Sylvain ([email removed])
Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William & Mary
"I'm a politician. That means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm not
kissing babies, I'm stealing their lunch money."
--- Dr. Jeffrey Pelt, "The Hunt for Red October"