Rob's View of Traveller5, Revised Edition

[robject]

Eyeballing an old version of the errata document (November 1, 2014), and ALSO taking into account the adjustments made to personal combat, I see:

Up to page 200 (9 pages errata) were about 50% done.
Personal combat (3 pages) is essentially done.
GunMaker, ArmorMaker, and VehicleMaker (3 pages) were largely not yet addressed.
Starship design (3 pages) were 50% addressed.
How ship systems work and ship combat (2 pages) were perhaps 10% addressed.
Worlds, star systems, trade and commerce (4 pages) were maybe 25% addressed.
Technology, computers, consoles, controllers (half page) were unaddressed.
Psionics (1 page) unaddressed.
Sophonts, BeastMaker, ThingMaker, and Equipment (4 pages), 25% addressed.

These are very rough estimates, and they're working off of an old errata document PLUS the personal combat updates.


Errata correction as of 11/2014 is, very approximately, 40% done.

 

[Reban]

It is frustrating to see that the published 0.71 document is July 2013

If 40% of errata is done since November 2014 and we're in May 2015......

And is it really "done" if it's not on general release and being attempted, played and dissected by the general population of players?

Of course some things like Personal Combat have to have their final fix before ArmorMaker, VehicleMaker and GunMaker can be addressed.....

There's going to be a Second Edition that's good, but one of the the great things about T5 was that there was a wider input into building it through CoTI. Somewhere in July 2013 that stopped, which is a pity.


But enough complaining.

If you or Don are interested I'm offering now to get involved when ArmorMaker, VehicleMaker and GunMaker come around to be addressed. I may as well start putting my thoughts down on paper and email them to Marc.

When it gets to 100% done and there's a second edition there are still things I'll use and houserule. And I'll cherry-pick the OTU for things that work IMTU.... but I think that's the real genius of Traveller, its a sci-fi rules set with a strong background but each Ref and gaming group can make their own version of the OTU or depart farther to build an ATU.

 

[OjnoTheRed]

I'm starting to work through using the Mapping Worlds in some detail and I've spotted more errata to add; I take it we just keep adding to the Errata thread as we see it?

 

[DonM]

Yes, please. Once I wade through the projects I will get back to T5 Errata.

I need more hours in a day.

 

[robject]

Yes, please. Once I wade through the projects I will get back to T5 Errata.

I need more hours in a day.

We need to clone Don.

 

[ThornPlutonius]

We need to clone Don.

That would be pp. 118-121.