Reprinting Old Traveller

[email removed] (Derek Wildstar) writes:
> I'd like to see all of Classic Traveller collected, re-edited, and
> re-printed.  Heck, I'd even do it myself, if I could get permission
> from all those involved (hint! hint!).  I have some experience
> through my job with book-on-demand publishing; and this sort of
> reprint work seems like a perfect application.  Using book-on-demand,
> I believe that I could manage to pay a reasonable royalty, make a
> small profit, and keep the final cost under control.  The only
> drawback would be that book-on-demand is not compatible with the
> way that most book and game distributors work; such reprints would
> probably be available only as mail-order.  This may be a feature, not
> a bug; it would prevent the reprints from competing directly with TNE.

Well, I'd pick them up!  In the same note, a friend of mine said that
if she ever won the lottery, she'd try to buy the rights to traveller,
so that she could get new copies of her old stuff.


Corran J. Webster [email removed] writes:
> World/System Generation
>     By far the most useful way of presenting data about worlds (from
> a game point of view) was the 1-page format in Knightfall and the
> various DGP products, although the system maps were wasteful of space.

I like the system maps.  I have a group of players who try to pick
where they are going to end up in the destination system.  It takes
them longer to get to jump, but it makes them happy.

I think that having lots of information can be really fun.  My players
became really conserned about a planet that was listed in the data
sheets, printed on the large sector overview map, but not shown on
the subsector map. (1706 Spinward Marches, Alell fyi)  Since Efate has
an Imperial waystation,  they found trouble.  They like information,
the more they get the happier they are.

Matt

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