So I finally ordered books for me and from reading the responces from my earlier post on what to purchase. I ended up ordering the Pocket version, as well as the Spinward Marches, Traders and Gunboats, and 760 patrons. Which all together to me seems a good start. I do want to ask if Book 0 is worth getting a couple of copies of for my players. for the rules and character generation? Thanks in advance and I did my ordering thru Amazon.ca as they had the best prices I could find. So all I have to do is wait for them to finally ship lol well thanks again to everyone that helped me earlier and thanks to any that help now.
I Finally got off my bum and ordered books yay.
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Poppyseed45
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Welcome to the Mongoose club.
Seriously, my best RPG buy in a long time - I've got the main book, 760 Patrons, Mercenary, and High Guard. I'm very happy with all of them and they'll all see use once I get my group to agree to play it (especially 760 Patrons - that book is gold).
Seriously, my best RPG buy in a long time - I've got the main book, 760 Patrons, Mercenary, and High Guard. I'm very happy with all of them and they'll all see use once I get my group to agree to play it (especially 760 Patrons - that book is gold).
mike wightman
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And this is why Traveller will last another 30 years - new blood brought in by the new version of the game.
Welcome Jacqual
Welcome Jacqual
ThunderChilde
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Welcome to the fold, Jacqual.
Well I did start with CT back in the day. I have the 1st printing of books 1-3 and then others I got over the years. Mongoose Trav got me interested as I heard it was very close to CT in feel. If all it is an update to the CT rules I will pretty much be in game exctasy. Now all I have to do is wait for arrival of goods in the post.
Poppyseed45
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I figured from your post count that you must have been a previous Traveller owner, which is why I said welcome to Mongoose Traveller. It is similar in tone to CT (which I also still have) and yet, for me at least, does so many things I wish CT had done (and that later versions like MT and TNE tried to do) that for me it was a no-brainer. That I went and got a bunch of other supplemetns for it was just conceit on my part.
Madarin Dude
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yes I just did the same the rules are very familiar with a few tweaks they seem to sit well with me. Old grognard getting back in the game again.
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Young grognard who never really got out of the game here *waves* and likes MGT, with a number of revisions (e.g. the biosniffer as written is TL 9 and improves in function every two tech levels).
Britti_Lover
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I love the Mongoose version of Traveller - best yet. We finally get official ATU's - Babylon 5 looks yummy. Although Traveller T20 did publish 2320AD.
HOWEVER - I will not ever run this version. Why? I'm a GURPS gamer and GURPS 4th edition is very good. Yea we only got one Traveller book three years ago - but its a good one. I do use all of my other Gurps books like Bio-Tech and Martial Arts as additional material for my Traveller campain.
The good news is - if I ever run out of stuff to do - I can also buy the awesome Mongoose Traveller material and convert it to Gurps easily.
By my count there are 10 major versions of Traveller:
Classic Traveller
Traveller:2300
MegaTraveller
Traveller: New Era
Traveller T4
Gurps Traveller
Traveller T20
Hero Traveller
Mongoose Traveller
Traveller T5
Of the ten - Mongoose is the Best and will keep the flame going for another 10 years at least.
I threw in 2300 because it is Traveller to many - but is not to many also. It was 2300AD - the cyberpunk game of a gritty future to me.
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There are actually two versions of CT, tho' no big deal was made about the change.
GT, T20, HT: Not really traveller in the same sense as the rest; non-traveller games in the CT 2ndEd setting.
There was also Traveller: 2300, which is not the 3I setting, but is a clear rules-descendent of CT and Striker, and uses a task system later used in MT, but substitutes a d10 instead of 2d6. It's second ed was renamed: 2300AD.
GT, T20, HT: Not really traveller in the same sense as the rest; non-traveller games in the CT 2ndEd setting.
There was also Traveller: 2300, which is not the 3I setting, but is a clear rules-descendent of CT and Striker, and uses a task system later used in MT, but substitutes a d10 instead of 2d6. It's second ed was renamed: 2300AD.
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