Behind the Claw Questions
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Behind the Claw is certainly on the short list of books to consider for a reprint or second edition. I don't get a lot of input into that decision, though. The sales-and-marketing folks are in the driver's seat on that one, and so far they've not been enthusiastic about reprinting anything but the GT core book. Once we get a healthy release schedule going again, that may change.
The idea of the Sword Worlds sourcebook sounds a bit like taking some of Fading Suns, Star Crusade series and Travellerizing it.
Do we have a tentative list of things that will be coming out of the Traveller line from SJG? I mean after Starships, Humaniti and Nobles are cleared the landing bay.
Sadly, I feel that SJG is seriously neglecting a fan base that would help rescue it from some its financial woes. I mean if you look at the loyality of Traveller fans who are hungering for something new, there is an near endless reserve of capital.
I, for one, who hates the GURPS system, will still buy GT, because of the high standard that it sets. But, when it will come time to choose, I think that I still prefer T20, as it innovates and stays closer to a sense of wonder rather retreading over the same pathways that was CT. Which isn't that why I buy FFE products?
(sorry Jon, I am just waiting for something really new to announced in the GT milieu but it just doesn't seem to want to happen...Interstellar Wars is looking more like Imperium rather than breaking new ground like Transhuman Space does. So as the line editor can you not give us the taste of what is to come? Surely marketing & distribution watches things like these lists and actually sees the potential for Traveller versus some of the Generic lines. [eg. GURPS Rogues])
Do we have a tentative list of things that will be coming out of the Traveller line from SJG? I mean after Starships, Humaniti and Nobles are cleared the landing bay.
Sadly, I feel that SJG is seriously neglecting a fan base that would help rescue it from some its financial woes. I mean if you look at the loyality of Traveller fans who are hungering for something new, there is an near endless reserve of capital.
I, for one, who hates the GURPS system, will still buy GT, because of the high standard that it sets. But, when it will come time to choose, I think that I still prefer T20, as it innovates and stays closer to a sense of wonder rather retreading over the same pathways that was CT. Which isn't that why I buy FFE products?
(sorry Jon, I am just waiting for something really new to announced in the GT milieu but it just doesn't seem to want to happen...Interstellar Wars is looking more like Imperium rather than breaking new ground like Transhuman Space does. So as the line editor can you not give us the taste of what is to come? Surely marketing & distribution watches things like these lists and actually sees the potential for Traveller versus some of the Generic lines. [eg. GURPS Rogues])
Kafka opines:
Ok. I happen to like gurps, and while I don't like a straight GT game*, the wonderful thing about gurps is that the system allows you to do your own thing very easily. As for T20, I'm still trying to fathom the character generation
On FFE, I'll buy any CT item they put out, and hope in the not to distant future that actual new CT stuff will be produced. So I guess its all in the eye of the beholder. 
* My Traveller game MUST have one man scout ships; straight GT makes this a difficult proposision to do.
Reposting a previous question:
Since we have someone working on Atora, will this lead to a GT Regina Planetary Survey Book in the not to distant future?
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Ok. I happen to like gurps, and while I don't like a straight GT game*, the wonderful thing about gurps is that the system allows you to do your own thing very easily. As for T20, I'm still trying to fathom the character generation
On FFE, I'll buy any CT item they put out, and hope in the not to distant future that actual new CT stuff will be produced. So I guess its all in the eye of the beholder. * My Traveller game MUST have one man scout ships; straight GT makes this a difficult proposision to do.
Reposting a previous question:
Since we have someone working on Atora, will this lead to a GT Regina Planetary Survey Book in the not to distant future?
Actually, unless Jon has edited that bit out again, I explained that little implausibility away in the writeup of the Darrians for Humaniti (I could not concieve of any way that the Rebellion not happening could cause the Darrians to skip 70 years of scientific and technological development).
Hans
daryen
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While I do agree with that sentiment, I must point out the GT Darrians are quite different from MT/TNE Darrians.
MT Darrians are still the wallflowers they have been for 1000 years. The TNE Darrians, while more agressive, are still totally under the shadow of the Regency. In both cases, the Darrians are still accepting that they have been consigned to their little subsector and are willing to live with that.
By comparison, the GT Darrians are stark, raving warmongers. They are aggressive, expansionistic and very much on the go. They believe they must expand or die, so they are hell-bent to expand.
Consequently, the presence or absense of the Rebellion has nothing to do with their regaining the technology. Actually, the Regency sourcebook almost flat out states that their technological recovery was a joint process with the Regency. In GT, their completely different and totally aggressive attitude is the reason for the sudden leap in technology.
BTW, did you fix the error in the BtC description of the Darrians? (The statement "Despite this slender appearance they are actually stronger than typical humans, though a little less dextrous." That is completely wrong. They are a little less strong, but just as dextrous as typical humans.)
Also, where any of the other Darrian threads given in BtC (e.g. the Spinward Missions) expanded on in Humaniti, or where those ignored?
That is a position that I can't agree with. I am of the firm opinion that the only differences between the GTU and the OTU [ought to] stem from changes emanating from a single change point somewhere in 1116. Any differences that can't be explained that way are (again just IMO) a bona fide canon conflict and should be fixed one way or the other.
I caught it. I don't know if the fix I came up with made it into the book: According to GURPS Space humans that grow up under light gravity gets a -2 to their base strength. So I said that Darrians who grow up in Earth-like gravity have a base +1 to strength, which means that Darrians that grow up on Darrian winds up with a net -1 to strength.
Mostly ignored. I didn't feel like disregarding the fact that Foreven had been designated a GM's preserve.
Hans
daryen
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That is a position that I can't agree with. I am of the firm opinion that the only differences between the GTU and the OTU [ought to] stem from changes emanating from a single change point somewhere in 1116. Any differences that can't be explained that way are (again just IMO) a bona fide canon conflict and should be fixed one way or the other.
</font>[/QUOTE]This effectively means that the Darrians in BtC are fundamentally different than the Darrians in Humaniti. I kinda liked the BtC Darrians, but I understand your reasoning.
Mostly ignored. I didn't feel like disregarding the fact that Foreven had been designated a GM's preserve.</font>[/QUOTE]That's unfortunate. Since the Darrians would never invade either Sword Worlds or Imperial worlds (even client states), the only possible direction for them to expand is Foreven.
Considering that we know where all of the worlds are, that we know the political boundaries and that we even know 5 of the UWPs, I don't see where it would violate the "GM's preserve" to say that the Darrians are expanding into Foreven and that they have two (or however many) client states and that they have had skirmishes with the Avalar. Giving them at least an abstract outlet for the expansion is better (IMO) than just cancelling it out because of a "GM's preserve".
BTW, thank you for answering my questions. While I am (obviously) not thrilled with some of the responses, I do appreciate your taking the time to respond.
Finally, you may be my last hope for one other GT related Darrian question I have. Is Dorianna really part of the Darrian Confederation, or is that a mistake in BtC? I can't figure if it was intentional, if they had really meant to include Kardin (which was interdicted by the Confederation), or whether it was just a "typo" mistake.
neil frier
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I have no objection.</font>[/QUOTE]Cool!
And thank you.
So, MJD and NAF, what *were* you planning with the Darrian spinward missions and the Droyne/Moudray thread?
Oh, and what is on Excalibur's moon? </font>[/QUOTE]I will talk to Martin when i see him next Monday about writing up some details on the Darrians and the Droyne.
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