Phil gripes about the loss of Classic Traveller support:
>My major gripe is that there will be, in all likelihood, no
>more supplements, & probably no material at all, that will be
>usable by me. For me this is a *MAJOR* loss & one that I will
>be incapable of replacing.
>I think this reason alone is ample cause to bitch. The fact that
>bitching is about all I *can* do just makes it all the more ir-
>ritating.
Actually, as Steve said, there is more you can do about this than
bitch (although bitching certainly has it's advantages). You can
write your own stuff. Actually, we all can. I, personally, would
be willing to throw in my bit if others would do the same. This,
in fact, is precisely the reason I starting coming up with my
own setting years ago. I realized that Classic Traveller, like all
good things, wouldn't last forever (and even if it did, it didn't
take an Einstein to realize that it would never be perfectly
attuned to my personal weirdness).
My advice, for whatever it's worth, is that you accept and embrace
the fact that Classic Traveller will probably never again be commercially
supported, so you either need to support it yourself or come up
with your own setting and support that. But don't rely on GDW or
anybody else for material. Just grab from the hodgepodge of sources
we call SF-culture and make like a Borg on Steroids: "Assimilate...
assimilate... resistance is futile!" :-)
Wildstar writes (regarding the pocket empire group):
>An outline for a campaign module has been written, and sent to Dave Nilsen
>at GDW for comment. Nearly all of the major worlds have been detailed, and
>write-ups are available for them. Adventure plotlines have been written,
>UWP data has been prepared. Starmaps, deckplans, and other miscellania
>have been done. Megabytes and Megabytes of conversations have passed
>through our mailers. Discussion continues; the largest area of remaining
>work is to take the adventure plot outlines and flesh them out into
>real, publishable adventures.
Is this stuff available on sunbane in a semi-useable format?
Yes... you guessed it... you've just been targeted for assimilation,
so don't even think about resisting. :-)