Personally, I'd LOVE to see TX be and updated MT, incorporating contacts, and an initiative system like TNE's, and some of the good stuff from FF&S/FF&S2. (While I can and do adjudicate interrupts fairly well, it can be QUITE the pain to explain!)
Personally, I'd LOVE to see TX be and updated MT, incorporating contacts, and an initiative system like TNE's, and some of the good stuff from FF&S/FF&S2. (While I can and do adjudicate interrupts fairly well, it can be QUITE the pain to explain!)
Personally, I'd LOVE to see TX be and updated MT, incorporating contacts, and an initiative system like TNE's, and some of the good stuff from FF&S/FF&S2. (While I can and do adjudicate interrupts fairly well, it can be QUITE the pain to explain!)
As a purchaser of some of those ESD's that could be a good idea in general for Traveller reprints. However at about $5 a book, the propsed $40 for 12 books on cd-rom plus Challener articles and perhaps (one can hope) some extras is a better deal.
As a purchaser of some of those ESD's that could be a good idea in general for Traveller reprints. However at about $5 a book, the propsed $40 for 12 books on cd-rom plus Challener articles and perhaps (one can hope) some extras is a better deal.
As a purchaser of some of those ESD's that could be a good idea in general for Traveller reprints. However at about $5 a book, the propsed $40 for 12 books on cd-rom plus Challener articles and perhaps (one can hope) some extras is a better deal.
Aren't those files just scans of the TSR material? That's not what's being discussed here; the proposed MT CDROM would represent a much more useful product. Each of the MT products listed would have to be scanned in, then OCR'd so that the text could be searchable. If the plan is to produce facsimile versions, then all of the text will need to be laid out again - a potentially huge amount of work, but much better than a bunch of scans, IMO.
Aren't those files just scans of the TSR material? That's not what's being discussed here; the proposed MT CDROM would represent a much more useful product. Each of the MT products listed would have to be scanned in, then OCR'd so that the text could be searchable. If the plan is to produce facsimile versions, then all of the text will need to be laid out again - a potentially huge amount of work, but much better than a bunch of scans, IMO.
Aren't those files just scans of the TSR material? That's not what's being discussed here; the proposed MT CDROM would represent a much more useful product. Each of the MT products listed would have to be scanned in, then OCR'd so that the text could be searchable. If the plan is to produce facsimile versions, then all of the text will need to be laid out again - a potentially huge amount of work, but much better than a bunch of scans, IMO.
Clarification, in general I support having Traveller books made available as OCR (or whatever it takes to make the text searchable etc.) pdf files for sale at places like svgames, rpgnow, and travellerrpg. I can't remember if all or any of the WotC ESD's are OCR at the moment but the concept was good (keeping oop product still available). Too bad they pulled the plug on any more non-D&D ESDs.
Clarification, in general I support having Traveller books made available as OCR (or whatever it takes to make the text searchable etc.) pdf files for sale at places like svgames, rpgnow, and travellerrpg. I can't remember if all or any of the WotC ESD's are OCR at the moment but the concept was good (keeping oop product still available). Too bad they pulled the plug on any more non-D&D ESDs.
