nosnhoJ enaD [email removed] setirw:
>
> I honestly believe that the current trend towards Combat-Heavy, grim, dark
> RPGs is an expression of the same trend in Movies, TV, Comic books, and
> all other sorts of media. I mean, I have no interest in reading the
> various X-comic books from Marvel because they're drivel. However, they
> sell well. Somebody is buying them. I think that GDW is simply hopping
> on this bandwagon, hoping for higher profits from the 'More Blood, Less
> Dialogue' crowd while more or less ignoring the established customer base.
> They do make some concessions to us (after all, we *can* still use the TNE
> for a 'classic' campaign), but we are, I suspect, a side concern...
The sad thing is the loss of diversity. The new background seems to offer
no alternative except a hard, grim, "More Blood, Less Dialogue" setting.
In the old background, if you wanted such an adventure, or even campaign,
there were places for it. Efate seemed to be a paradise for such people -
no law, high tech (well, high enough, anyway - you can get PGMP's and
battle-dress) and loads of terrorist scum or Imperialist oppressors to
blow away, depending on whose side you chose to join. Alternatively, you
could play on more civilised worlds, such as Regina. The key thing was
that you had the choice.
[email removed] writes:
>
> I haven't bought a copy of TNE yet. I'm waiting for the boxed
> set. I may or may not use the game system. I won't, however, use the
> background. There will be no Virus in my game--I'm the GM, and I can
> do whatever I want. ;-)
You aren't going to use the background, and you might not use the rules.
What's the point of buying TNE, then? :-)
[email removed] (Goldman of Chaos -- postmaster CRI-US) writes:
>
> Perhaps we could get someone to OEM
> the Traveller Workstation! It would have to be black with red
> lettering, portable with a very high resolution color screen. It
> could be bundled with the Traveller CD and the Traveller's Referee
> Toolkit.
Better yet, let's have some Traveller software for pocket computers such
as the HP95 and the Psion Series 3. Oh, I forgot, pocket computers are
TL 10, so they don't exist yet. :-)
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