SpaceBadger, I'm with you on the PDF, but I will go one step further: I'll pay for it again with errata included. Heck, I would buy a subscription if it were upgraded even annually.
Isn't it us fans who are editing the thing after the fact? For free right here on this board? Many of those same fans PAID to help write it and play test it?
FFE isn't very big. The same guy is the CEO and also licks the stamps. If we didn't have to pay, then eventually the largess has to dry up. He loves the game, but he's got to make a living, too.
LARGESS? My arse! The kick starter brought in more than
TEN TIMES the amount required to publish, print and distribute.
It took 13 years to bring T5 to market. We, the hard-core fans, are going to have to build support for this nearly 40-year old game if it is to outlive us. I'm not sure how to do that, but it has to happen or the game dies.
Unfortunately Traveller has died. It is in its death throws now. As we old fans die off there isn't a new crop of fans developing other than a few of our children and acquaintances. Very few of those and very few others.
Look at this board. Very few new names pop up and of those here few support it. As for the Moot section, those who do support the site nearly never post there. Activity isn't exactly nil there but you'd be hard pressed to find a pulse.
What we have had for decades is poorly edited publications, missing data and recycled versions that sooner or later faded out.
ERRATA has been the one constant and if you have
ANY doubt of that look at Dons work.
BTW Don thank you for your hard work and the developing
Magnum Opus
The people buying Traveller are those of us die hard fans (Me Included). Marc, on those rare occasions that he visits this, his own board (and never? posts here), must either laugh at our (Me Included) continued gullibility or hang his head in shame.
You even have aramis, the board admin, admitting T5 needs an overhaul. So guys, flame away at me but first how about
proving me wrong?
