Millenial Impression

[ovka]

This is only one person's comments, but I have no doubt that there are others who feel this way.

Is there an issue with millenials and Traveller? I don't really have much trouble with kids and classic sci-fi but I do have trouble with kids and games that haven't fully adapted their business to the internet.

FFE is a case in point and why I prefer Mongoose's Traveller. Trying to buy Traveller 5 is a nightmare slog. FFE's main website sells CD-ROMs (No, I don't know what those are either) and the e-book link goes to a page on Drivethru RPG that has no Traveller books on. So you try to go to the forums to find out what's happening but you can't register because it doesn't accept email addresses from gmail or any other email provider I've heard of. I *think* my physical ISP gave me an address that would work, but everyone I know changed to apple or gmail already because of the phone services it integrates with. For a product traditionally aimed at geeks or for people who live their lives on a phone, this can be a bit jarring.

So I end up with Mongoose. Their books might be plain black and white like it was 1970 all over again (Legend!), but at least Mongoose has a functioning internet presence with a working shopping cart that enables me to actually purchase things and bore people to death on forums.

Cheers,

Baron Ovka

 

[atpollard]

Aramis,
Does Marc maintain the FFE webpage or do you administrators?

The link (on FFE) for Ebooks should be changed to redirect from the DTRPG Homepage to HERE.

A small fix that would be a giant step forward.

 

[ThornPlutonius]

With respect to attracting new/younger players, Mongoose Traveller 2 is getting a boost. Sarah Newton's current Mindjammer expansion Kickstarter just reached the point of funding a 288 page setting conversion book to take Mongoose Traveller 2 into her Mindjammer far future transhumanist setting. How popular is classic Imperial Science Fiction, out of which Traveller grew, with the younger crowd, many of whom have probably never heard of, let alone read, the classic fiction that was the first love of so many of us oldsters?

I fear Traveller 5 is, in fact, too much too late. I want to see it succeed, to see the rules come into a workable, readily usable and enjoyable form. By the time another year or three of work passes, will it be anything more than an interesting dinosaur living on the shifting fringe of RPG ecology? That fate has been worrying me since I found and tried to digest T5 a year or two ago. It is a sad shame that Mr. Miller does not have the resources or a staff able to put the full-time effort into things that some of FFE's competitors have for their projects.

That said, there is value in the doing of something. It is clear that there are folks, Mr. Miller included, who are "being fed" by the process of wrestling T5 into shape.

 

[aramis]

Aramis,
Does Marc maintain the FFE webpage or do you administrators?

The link (on FFE) for Ebooks should be changed to redirect from the DTRPG Homepage to HERE.

A small fix that would be a giant step forward.

Marc, with occasional technical advice from others.