far-trader
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A simple question. Does such exist? (see below for more explanation)
A simple answer will do, though more wouldn't be unappreciated.
I'm just wondering if at some point during the license talks Mongoose (being whoever is the one/s dizzy for Traveller, if I recall the expression Matt used in a interview a while back) and Marc Miller (and/or aides) sat down and hashed out what was CORE to Traveller?
It seems to me such a bible wouldn't hurt. Though putting it together might have required an investment of some time by Marc, it seems it would have been well worth the effort.
I ask because I recall the original sales pitch running along the lines of Mongoose Traveller would be to T5 as CT LBB1-3 was to everything else in CT, or something like that. And that Mongoose Traveller would be fully/backwards compatible with T5 in the same way.
Naturally I saw that as a pretty lofty if nigh impossible goal to be reaching for given that T5 was still in development. Unless (I thought at the time) Marc had a solid outline of the CORE and was further along with T5 than it seemed.
And somewhere along the way that idea seems to have changed significantly. Not saying for better or worse. Though I wonder at the "it was always that way" statements of late. Perhaps it was my misreading, but I think several other people misread it the same way.
Mongoose has been seeming to follow the outline of CT to a large degree. That and the original sales pitch kind of had me thinking maybe there was a CORE bible but recent post make it seem not.
Anyway, if anyone from Mongoose (or in the know) would like to answer I'm sure there are a few here who would be as interested as myself. You don't have to go into details of course but even a yes or no would be of interest. Or ignore it, this is probably just insomniac auto-typing
A simple answer will do, though more wouldn't be unappreciated.
I'm just wondering if at some point during the license talks Mongoose (being whoever is the one/s dizzy for Traveller, if I recall the expression Matt used in a interview a while back) and Marc Miller (and/or aides) sat down and hashed out what was CORE to Traveller?
It seems to me such a bible wouldn't hurt. Though putting it together might have required an investment of some time by Marc, it seems it would have been well worth the effort.
I ask because I recall the original sales pitch running along the lines of Mongoose Traveller would be to T5 as CT LBB1-3 was to everything else in CT, or something like that. And that Mongoose Traveller would be fully/backwards compatible with T5 in the same way.
Naturally I saw that as a pretty lofty if nigh impossible goal to be reaching for given that T5 was still in development. Unless (I thought at the time) Marc had a solid outline of the CORE and was further along with T5 than it seemed.
And somewhere along the way that idea seems to have changed significantly. Not saying for better or worse. Though I wonder at the "it was always that way" statements of late. Perhaps it was my misreading, but I think several other people misread it the same way.
Mongoose has been seeming to follow the outline of CT to a large degree. That and the original sales pitch kind of had me thinking maybe there was a CORE bible but recent post make it seem not.
Anyway, if anyone from Mongoose (or in the know) would like to answer I'm sure there are a few here who would be as interested as myself. You don't have to go into details of course but even a yes or no would be of interest. Or ignore it, this is probably just insomniac auto-typing
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