Cumulative Success, the odds of getting that number or higher.
Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition Beta Arrives Friday
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Cumulative Success, the odds of getting that number or higher.
Thank you! (partially thrown by the extraneous "l" in "cu[l]m")
This likely deserves it's own discussion but this is the first time I have seen mention of issues with Anydice's precision. Do we need more than 2 decimal places for this math?
As for the second part the last time I took a stats class was early college (so like 8+ years ago) so the process of calculating something is meaningless (to me). I'd prefer something I can just plug a question into and get a simple and clear answer, which is exactly what Anydice provides. I guess that alone could be a statement as to how reliant we are on technology and blackbox technology, but I digress.
So, back on topic. I like the idea of the Boon/Bane dice. It seems like it is a quick short cut for the GM without having to look up a table of 20 modifiers for a situation.
That is by far the most polite way of referring to a bunch of min-maxers I have ever heard.
They have committed to publishing the following books for the 2nd Edition:
- Core Rulebook
- High Guard
- Central Supply Catalog
- Traveller Companion
As of right now ALL ship design and construction will be in HG. There is nothing about ship design in the core book. The Traveller Companion sounds like it will be akin to the DMG for D&D. It will have alternative rules, additional details, etc. What exactly will be in there we have to wait to find out. They have stated that the playtesters will see the Word document versions of the other books (so I assume it will be all the text, but minimal formatting and no art) as the play test goes on.
As for the old books, I have no idea what will happen, but here are my thoughts so far:
Career Books:Converting characters that are created with the career books shouldn't be too difficult except that many of the skills introduced in them are not in MgT2. The combat rules in Mercenary and ship design in HG are going to be useless. Ships in the books will need to be converted, but I don't know how hard that will be yet.
Adventures: Should be fairly easy to convert. Easier than converting CT to MgT1 for sure.
Supplements:These will be hit and miss. Some will be useful and somewhat easy to convert (760 Patrons, 1001 Characters) and some will be useless (Traders & Gunboats, Fighting Ships, etc).
The Third Imperium: These books (all the sector and system info) will be the most compatible (except where ships are detailed) since the system info hasn't changed much.
Alien Modules: My guess here is that any planetary info will be good. Characters, I have no clue as I haven't looked at what little they included in the new core for aliens yet. Ships.. see above.
That's my 2 cents on the existing books so far. I am confident that if Mongoose doesn't release method of converting existing ships that the community will create one as soon as we get our hands on the new High Guard rules.
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It is, intentionally, not compatible with prior. Matthew's intent is to rewrite the line, starting with HG2E and CSC.
Matthew hasn't sent the draft for the companion yet. I've seen drafts for HG and CSC.
That's what I assumed, but I hadn't seen anything official about it beyond him saying that after the first four, others will be released every 3-4 months. But he didn't specify what those others would be.
That's good. Hopefully that means those of us who purchased the play test will be seeing them soon. I get the impression that a lot of people are anxiously awaiting HG2E to see the ship design rules.
I am assuming that the answer to this question is a solid "NO", but I have to ask. Is there anything that you are allowed to say about those books at this point?
casquilho
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So, truly, this is Yet Another Traveller?
CT, MT, TNE, T4, T20, T5, THero, GT, MgT, MgT2.0? Did I miss any? Does 1248 count?
So, we now have 10 (TEN) versions of this game? All starting with the sad tale of the Free Trader Beowulf?
He's explicitly said that the first three books will be Core, HG, and CSC, one per month. He's explicitly said others will follow. He's explicitly said he's making changes in every chapter.
That it's intentionally incompatible, but readily convertible is my personal opinion based upon multiple interactions, and is merely strongly inferred by Matthew. It's comparable to the CT 2E to MT jump.
The skill list is shorter.
Letter drives are gone; PP and MDrives don't match in formula to them.
PPFuel radically changed.
(That there is a PP Fuel calculation at all you can blame me for.)
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casquilho
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Ah ok, thanks.
Stei'awtliyrl
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Launching the Beta Test in Northern California
I'm a bit excited about the new Mongoose Traveller. So far it's looking pretty fun. Fun enough that I'm running a playtest at my FLGS. If you Travel (see what I did there?) or live near Sacramento, California. Send me a PM and I'd love to have you at my table!
I'm a bit excited about the new Mongoose Traveller. So far it's looking pretty fun. Fun enough that I'm running a playtest at my FLGS. If you Travel (see what I did there?) or live near Sacramento, California. Send me a PM and I'd love to have you at my table!
How did it go?
No, just cost.
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