T5 - The Good Stuff!

[LordRhys]

The FillForms

They are so handy.

 

[aramis]

Is that the one that came with the Starter box? I really don't know as I never had it.

Yes, but It was also sold separately.
"Book 0: Introduction to Traveller"

It gives a setting overview, and a line overview as well. It was a worthy addition to the Deluxe box.

 

[Shadowfax]

Wow, someone actually wanted those tables in there after all. Hot damn! You go with your bad self. And thanks for the tip on using them for Adventures. I had not thought about that at all, but damn if it isn't sensible.

I like those tables too btw. They are very useful. I already had calculated some of the probabilities myself and put them into tables for my players way-way back in the 90s, so I laughed when I saw them. I also discovered that I miscalculated slightly on one table.

Very useful. Pat-pat-pat (on the back)

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

Hey now.

I like those tables too btw. They are very useful. I already had calculated some of the probabilities myself and put them into tables for my players way-way back in the 90s, so I laughed when I saw them. I also discovered that I miscalculated slightly on one table.

Very useful. Pat-pat-pat (on the back)

I am glad because all I kept here on the net is what a colossal waste of space they were. I am happy that once again the internet is just full of crabby whiners.

 

[erisred]

The Dice probability tables while useful to some should not have been in the front of the book.

Scare off the newbies?

I like QREBS, in theory at least, how I like it in practice remains to be seen. I like the expansion of TL and the TL effects on equipment. I like most of the skill set, although there are things in it that won't be used and things left out that could be used.

T5 is way too "crunchy" and rules heavy for me to run, as is, but I think it is going to be a great book to "mine" for nuggets to tack onto what I do run.

 

[erisred]

LBBs on steroids.

T4, cleaned up, and bulked up, is how I'd put it.

 

[Murdoc]

T4, cleaned up, and bulked up, is how I'd put it.

Well, I do remember reading somewhere that T5 was designed so that you could use as much or as little of the rules as you want. A good example is in Rob's recent post about ship design where he shows you how to use the rules to make ship like in HG, what you can skip and what needs to be kept to keep the designs "legal". Really it seemed like there wasn't much change from HG, just lots of 'optional' stuff like types of landing gear, etc.

 

[robject]

T4, cleaned up, and bulked up, is how I'd put it.

There is a grain of truth in that: the first drafts of what eventually became a proto-T5 were T4.1.

 

[Baltech Budapest]

*bump*

Any more positive comments?