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A review of T5

Thanks David. I saw a very bad PDF of it that I could hardly read so I deleted it. I'd really like to see the DGP version of Vargr, there material is always really well done.

On the album by the Lord Weird Slough Feg (Traveller), they say 'VARGAR' in there songs when they sing about them if that counts.
(Interesting musical fellow Travellers that's about a virus which will turn entire worlds into Vargr).

Great album, it inspired my username here as the album is about the story of Baltech Budapest. :D
 
I know we're pretty far off topic, but this thread jumped track a long time ago.

Since you brought up Slough Feg, what are your thoughts on the Traders and Gunboats track on Down Among the Deadmen?

I love that song and always play it as a 'prelude' when listening to Traveller.

Did you know that the spoken quote in the middle of that song is from page 16 of Supplement 3: The Spinward Marches:

"The Sword Worlds are a loose confederation of worlds all colonized in the same era. Through the centuries, their relationship has varied from fledgling empires to scattered trading pacts."

The quote then continues but this time from page 1 of Supplement 3: The Spinward Marches:

"At the spinward edge, 120 parsecs from the original center of the Imperium, the Marches represent one of the furthest extents of exploration of the Zhodani Consulate and Vargr Extents."

Those are the quotes in the song but on close inspection of the above mentioned pages of Supplement 3 you can see that Slough Feg used only partial paragraphs so that second quote above is inaccurate.

Anyway, my apologies for steering this thread way off topic.

aaaannnd, back to reviewing T5, go :rofl:
 
That depends on the time value of information, they probably should. And given interstellar economics, it is entirely plausible that along some routes, there might be several per day.

Yep. Imagine Earth as TL 12. There would be MANY leaving everyday.
 
Here ya go:

Dog_Pack.jpg

Different breeds (plus one human). :D

Hey - that tall German Shepherd is wearing a Claw-Glove!

I have stats for that:
http://members.tip.net.au/~davidjw/tavspecs/maint/combat/wpnsheet/clawglov.pdf
 
Yes, it seems as if everyone is anxious to talk about anything but the combat mechanics in T5. Which I guess is itself an answer.

I can't get anyone to talk about the combat roll for TNE in the TNE forum. I don't remember if TNE was ever popular though compared to Traveller versions before it.
 
I can't get anyone to talk about the combat roll for TNE in the TNE forum. I don't remember if TNE was ever popular though compared to Traveller versions before it.

TNE was unpopular with the older fan base, as a general rule. The overlap of a change to a very distantly related ruleset (a close variant of Twilight 2000 2E), coupled to a massive setting change... it has a fan-base. I'm just not certain many of them come around here.
 
I love that song and always play it as a 'prelude' when listening to Traveller.

Did you know that the spoken quote in the middle of that song is from page 16 of Supplement 3: The Spinward Marches:

"The Sword Worlds are a loose confederation of worlds all colonized in the same era. Through the centuries, their relationship has varied from fledgling empires to scattered trading pacts."

The quote then continues but this time from page 1 of Supplement 3: The Spinward Marches:

"At the spinward edge, 120 parsecs from the original center of the Imperium, the Marches represent one of the furthest extents of exploration of the Zhodani Consulate and Vargr Extents."

Those are the quotes in the song but on close inspection of the above mentioned pages of Supplement 3 you can see that Slough Feg used only partial paragraphs so that second quote above is inaccurate.

Anyway, my apologies for steering this thread way off topic.

aaaannnd, back to reviewing T5, go :rofl:

Absolutely thought it was a great rock album, with lyrics I actually wanted to hear. :)

Gee I wonder if Slough Feg might do a new album to celebrate the release of T5??? (Just to put it back on topic... slightly.... :) ).
One further on that, an album which is there review for T5!!!! :) :file_21:
 
TNE was unpopular with the older fan base, as a general rule. The overlap of a change to a very distantly related ruleset (a close variant of Twilight 2000 2E), coupled to a massive setting change... it has a fan-base. I'm just not certain many of them come around here.

I forgot about the Twilight 2000 rules it borrowed from. I don't recall if Twilight 2000 players looked at TNE because of its similar rules? There were a lot of post-nuclear RPGs back then. Well, maybe not a lot. But more than I could count on one hand.
 
TNE was unpopular with the older fan base, as a general rule. The overlap of a change to a very distantly related ruleset (a close variant of Twilight 2000 2E), coupled to a massive setting change... it has a fan-base. I'm just not certain many of them come around here.

There are a few of us. We just don't want to argue over the details of the mechanics.
 
Absolutely thought it was a great rock album, with lyrics I actually wanted to hear. :)

Gee I wonder if Slough Feg might do a new album to celebrate the release of T5??? (Just to put it back on topic... slightly.... :) ).
One further on that, an album which is there review for T5!!!! :) :file_21:

Well if Slough Feg are going to make a T5 album it's going to have to be a triple album in keeping with the huge tome of the T5 book :rofl:
 
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