MT Only: Best to purchase???

[whulorigan]

So I have been re-typesetting and making corrections & updates to Mike Mikesh's Grand Explorations. 2 months ago it was working all of the DGP's Medical Digest articles into a coherent supplement for our party's doctor - don't have Advanced character generation done yet, but it is on my master list.

I have also done multiple versions.

Version 1 - 4th Edition MT - Errata Minus Rebellion Timeline information (Moved to the Rebellion Sourcebook) I needed the space to fit the corrections. I also haven't put the artwork back in, but I could do that over the course of a week.

Version 2 - Expanded - Errata + everything else I have found useful (Early Tech Supplement + 1 Small Step added to the Referee's Manual - Additional character classes & weapons added to the Players Manual - Imp Enc has all Library data replaced with the CT Library Data - many many articles added to the Referee's Companion). I have started on new artwork - luvs me some Poser 2014 & Vue.

When I start to update COACC this weekend, I'll also start on Nautical Force Command (The Wet Navy articles + the unpublished Sailor character generation system.) I built it once before a couple of years ago, but it definitely needs a new rewrite.

My goal is to have the entire thing done by Travellercon - I am running another adventure in the Verge sector & I need everything completed by then.

You should consider turning over cleaned versions to Marc. Are you adding home rules or only errata fixes? Home rules would change the ruleset.

This is a great service to the community, if Marc adds it to a CDRom.

If you consider it printable. Just a thought.

I was going to post the same thought as Savage, but he beat me to it.
Please consider sending Marc & DonM copies when you are done.

 

[sfchbryan]

You should consider turning over cleaned versions to Marc. Are you adding home rules or only errata fixes? Home rules would change the ruleset.

This is a great service to the community, if Marc adds it to a CDRom.

If you consider it printable. Just a thought.

It wouldn't be an addition - it would be a replacement for the MT CD-Rom.

Version 1 is strictly errata updates along with moving sidebars to where they belong as opposed to filling up white space. Version 2 is strictly IMTU. Craft Design for instance, has both the information for pre-gravitic drives from Hard Times and the Early Tech supplement merged with it. (The Verge sector has a lot of TL 8-10 worlds)

Providing an update to Marc is in the plans, but I'm not there yet. I did send an earlier version of an updated Players Manual to Don as proof-of-concept a couple of years ago, but I never got a response back.

I have also had people ask to help with proof-reading - the only responses I got back after sending out Release Candidates were along the lines of "Hey, this is great!" as opposed to actual proof-reading, which is another reason this little project wasn't completed 3 years ago.

The errata thread has more than doubled in posts since Don's last significant errata release - there is a lot to sort through, (We need to start working at around post 393).

The hard part is going to be reining in the enthusiasts. Most of them have a very hard time grasping the fact that TL5 is the low boundary for MT. They also want to micromanage every last part of the design sequence.

I believe that if players want a horribly over-engineered system that takes the granularity down to ridiculous levels, there is a rule set available to them. It's called T5.