Traveller Sections: Keep, Fix, Discard...

[Lord Iron Wolf]

Just a question for the next version of Traveller and what it will include or exclude. If you had a voice in how it was done; what would you do to the numerous sections of it (Not versions!) Examples would include: Task Resolution System, Aslan, Jump, Military term generation, ect.

-What would you like kept without changes?
-What would you like fixed (and how would you do it?)
-What do you want discarded?

Lord Iron Wolf

 

[T. Foster]

Keep
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• MT Universal Task Profile</font>
• MT Experience/Improvement rules</font>
• MT Psionics</font>
• MT Research rules (from Referee's Companion)</font>
• OTU setting (tech progression, history, astrography, Major Races)</font>
• LBB format</font>

Fix</font>

• T4 char-gen (use lower MT skill-point awards, include 'missing' careers from MT)</font>
• AHL/Striker combat system (rephrase tasks to match UTP, allow variation in capability based on characteristics/skills)</font>
• TNE world-gen, trade, encounters, etc. (basically the same as CT/MT systems with minor clarifications/corrections; still on the fence over whether to make world-gen and trade more realistic/scientific or keep it simple and let those who care come up with their own fixes)</font>
• MT craft design (fix power-consumption rates, explain the whole thing more clearly, include a "simplified" version for those in a hurry)</font>
• Mayday/HG ship combat (include sensor rules, allow more places where PC skills make a difference)</font>

Discard</font>

• Book 8: Robots</font>
• Fire, Fusion & Steel</font>
• GT alternate timeline</font>
• GT & T20 rules</font>

Add</font>

• Alternate technologies and guidelines for using Traveller outside of the OTU</font>
• Optional deterministic/point-based char-gen procedure</font>
• Value-added CD with automated programs for all the design procedures, searchable library data, Second Survey stellar atlas, etc.</font>

But really, a simple errata-free re-release of the MT rules in LBB format would suit me just fine

 

[thomryng]

M. Foster: I think you've hit the nail on the head (and other cliches).

Originally posted by T. Foster:
TNE world-gen, trade, encounters, etc. (basically the same as CT/MT systems with minor clarifications/corrections; still on the fence over whether to make world-gen and trade more realistic/scientific or keep it simple and let those who care come up with their own fixes):

Personally, I'd like to see a "basic" system complemented by an "expanded" system along the lines of World Builder's Handbook.

MT craft design (fix power-consumption rates, explain the whole thing more clearly, include a "simplified" version for those in a hurry)
Discard
Book 8: Robots
Fire, Fusion & Steel

Again, I'd like to see a "basic" system for craft/robot design, complimented by a version for the gear-heads.

Value-added CD with automated programs for all the design procedures, searchable library data, Second Survey stellar atlas, etc.

And this, of course, is the best idea of all.

cheers,

thom