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Well, I'm not quite as vehemant about it, but if I wasn't a grognard and saw this I'd be tempted to laugh at it and move on. If I didn't know better, I'd think it was drawn be a Vargr - perhaps when I see the colored version I'll know for sure
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Again tastes vary. I don't expect everyone to like the cover. Grognards will tend (not always) to dislike it because it looks nothing like any of the old Traveller covers and has a style completely different from previous Trav artwork.
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As another poster commented, a female crew member would help alot - perhaps replacing the Aslan? Be brave, make it a Vargr female.
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We have been quite specific about including females in all of our material, the character class sketches are about an even mix. The T20 Ref screen also features a female as the main center character.
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More important - loose the Wanderer (I presume that's the mantis thing.) . If a PC can't play it, it doesn't belong on the cover. Perhaps an Ursa or Virushi instead?
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Thats the one. While not a 'PC' race in the core book, the Wanderers are an integral part of the region, and we do plan to detail them as a PC race in a supplement.
I don't necessarily disagree about using just PC races on the cover, at the time the cover was commissioned, the Wanderer's were planned to be detailed but were pulled for now.
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I won't say it's terrible, but it will make my job as a GM harder rather than easier when I want to convince people that it's a serious game and that they want to play it.
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How so? In the same token, would someone please explain to me how it is 'not Traveller' and 'not science fiction' as a previous poster mentioned. I have to say all three of these comments puzzle me.
The cover says a lot to me. It carries on the story of the Free Trader Beowulf, and it also give a picture of a group of adventurers looking to their future, whatever it may be.
That to me speaks volumes of what Traveller is about. If that isn't *serious*, then I'm not sure what is. If the depictions of alien lifeforms, multiple moons orbiting a world, and a crashed space ship don't say 'sci-fi' then someone has been pullin the wool over my eyes for many many years now
YMMV...
I still like it
Hunter
A 35 yr old grognard, playing the game since 1980...