1248?

[LeperColony]

I don't have the 1248 stuff yet (maybe Christmas!) but most of what I've heard about it makes me a little apprehensive. How do you guys feel about it? Do the developments make sense?

 

[Dragoner]

I was apprehensive as well, it makes sense well enough though, more sense than some things. It abandons the deus ex machina plot devices, which is realistic; things change and people change, particularly their attitudes. It is what it is.

 

[Starviking]

I've a mixed view of it. Too cinematic compared to TNE's realism - lots of polities do silly things to send fleets racing and clashing across the skies. Almost all the Mega Traveller factions survive the release of the Virus, some TNE canon is retconned, almost all the TNE Pocket Empires are squashed, and a lot of the political interactions seem silly (Keipes surrenders to the RC because it's scare of Kide, Suffren refugees settle in RC areas of Diaspora in vast numbers - then a few years later vote the area out of the RC).

On the plus side, the writing is excellent, and the Spinwards States book is great - though it still has to accommodate the racing fleets from the back story. The Fourth Imperium is a cool player to throw into the mix too.

You also get a pretty comprehensive selection of TNE articles from Challenge on the 1248 disc.

 

[Uxi]

Don't have it yet, but will get the TNE CD's one of these days to data mine.