DGP IP status
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The DGP MT Alien books are better than all other treatments of the subject in Traveller history. One thing I still yearn to have is the unpublished texts of the remaining MT Alien series.
The SSOM is nice, but IMHO, it's a lot of detail you don't really need (and like other such works, it provides definitive answers to nitty-gritty questions of technology that are better left vague.)
The illustrations and fluff text from 101 Vehicles would be a nice asset to have, as would be art and text from the Digest and MTJ.
Grand Survey/Grand Census and the WBH were revolutionary at their time, but now others (First In, MgT WBH) have followed and essentially superseded them.
Flaming Eye is a good adventure campaign, I suppose. But nothing special or groundbreaking.
Roger shared what he got with a select bunch... there was no unpublished text, just outlines for Z&D.
Not particularly. Essentially, just a TOC without page numbers. No details.
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Twice, even.
The project he wanted help with in exchange for access to the DGP library was reportedly A.I., the Clarke's Law far, FAR future RPG taking even more from Vance than D&D did.
The problems were two, and have since become three:
- it was AD&D1 levels of crunchy, perhaps even grading into Hackmaster territory; that requires dedication beyond reason for a small company
- DGP lost the working files and backups twice; It's what caused them to give up and get out entirely
- Now, Numenera exists. Same Vance/Brunner/etc concept done better and simpler. The window for A.I. to be a genre dominator has closed.
DGP's Traveller material was well executed, but Roger providing concept access at Marc's request also worked against him. DGP's best material was being over-written or made less distinct as early as GURPS Traveller.
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Conversations are being had, and PDFs are being updated. I think it will be a while or so before you see anything in public, but things have forward movement.
