In response to:
>GDW owns Traveller, and they can of course do whatever they like with
>the published background-but once YOU buy the game, you can do whatever
>YOU want with it.
Viva la freedom! Although "Burning Bright" by Melissa Scott was a
well written book concerning virtual reality role-playing gaming the
only drawback to her idea of gaming was that everyone was restricted to
using the official universe. We don't have that limitation although the
farther removed a game is from published material the more difficult it
is for a game master to use such material - obviously a balance must be
reached.