pendragonman
Absent Friends Margrave
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Seconded.
Rob's Traveller Regula Fidei
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Seconded.
Depending on the imagery used, might need to have a new licensing conversation with Steve Jackson Games. :coffeesip:
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Our absent friend Hans did an article in JTAS online about how to Illuminate a Traveller Campaign, including Illuminated Regina/Regina.
Thanks. I'm considering making it a standard option for Avatars...
pendragonman
Absent Friends Margrave
Seconded.
Traveller, with 40 years of source materials and over 200 publications, is a white whale that no one could ever hold in their head in the fashion of an encyclopedia. Too much.
It gets complicated by how many of the previous sources have now been canonized... Signal GK, Some of Paranoia Press, etc. The implications are far reaching. And Marc doesn't usually pass down these decisions in a formal manner. Someone gets the blessing and then I follow up later and verify it with him. That's how Paranoia Press happened.
More than a few folks are still trying to figure out how to implement that one. Thanks goodness for Wayne. Thank goodness for Rob. Bless our mess.
I go off what Don left behind and what Marc tells me. I often use AOTI as a dipstick since it is the newest and most comprehensive vision of how Marc envisions the OTU.
When it comes to the wiki, FFE has specifically stated that it is a non- or semi-canon resource that can mix non, semi, and full canon.
I don't think that we'll get too much better until a published guide comes out. I really like the fact that Marc keeps things as a suggestion very openly. That seems to be in the true spirit of the balkanized chaos that is the Traveller that we all love.
Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.
OK, brilliant. Term now stolen. :-D
1. Have you ever considered that your canon view is not correct?
2. You need someone in the 'inner circle' who is going to push Marc to get stuff done...
3. Be constructively critical, and...
4. Actually know previous canon without looking it up on a disc.
5. Better yet get rid of pre-conceptions and just go with the Galaxiad and previous canon be damned.
6. Rob has his head screwed on, get him to do it
Mike,
A1. Only one guy has a CORRECT canon view and his name is Marc Miller. The rest of us have to guess. It's not fun trialling and erroring various ideas or trying to make sense of the mish mosh. I still try. With great futility at times.
A2. I've been an editor of creative fiction for over 30 years and you can't push artists to do anything period. They usually start working when inspired, when hit over the head by their muse, or when desperate for money. Marc seems to mostly go the inspiration and muse routes.
A3. As Rob mentioned, there are too many cranky grognards, AKA "squabbling children," to get much done that way. I love constructive criticism and try to give it as often as possible, but trying to get feedback from gamers is sometimes like pulling teeth. I watch product get forwarded to reviewers all the time that receives zero replies, mine included. Few folks give it priority or try much at the constructive criticism game.
A4. There are only a handful of folks who might be able to do this. Despite having read every single Traveller book ever published (...although not all of the smaller fan publications), having entered several thousand worlds at the wiki, having written dozens of articles and posts over the years under a number of pen names, having compiled numerous citations, I don't feel qualified to do this. There is always something that I didn't consider, no longer have in my active memory, or just have no idea about. I have taken to now compiling citations at the wiki, one by one, hoping to build critical mass. Almost every Traveller author out there now uses the wiki as a first pass. I frequently compile data there for author s looking for information.
A5. Not a bad idea, or a good one either. The Galaxiad is built on what came before and it isn't set in stone yet. Until Mark commits to a final vision, who knows what the future will bring? I've compiled over a hundred pages of Inner Circle notes on the Galaxiad and I don't feel confident that many of the notes will survive multiple passes and not get voted off the island. Read AOTI to get the best stuff set in stone. It's building up to the Galaxiad, maybe...
A6. Rob has repeatedly turned down an editor spot. He'd rather someone else be the scapegoat and get the public vitriol. Wise, that. I miss Don doing that job. RIP. Any change at all in anyway whatsoever, receives a tremendous amount of flack. Someone always objects. Usually loudly. Head screwed on, heh.
Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.
Actually, I have been an editor (of sorts) since before T5 came out. It started simply as reviewer-suggestor-contributor (since one does not veto Marc without good reason, in the sense of "one does not simply walk into Mordor"). But for at least ten years I have the authority to vet material, and have done so (e.g. Mongoose). I also can delegate, thank goodness.
This is what Michael McKinney calls a "Federal Marshal" spot. Executing canon with derived authority. Having a rule by which canon is determined (this thread is my attempt to refine it, and by the way I find my position agrees more with Wil than Don -- I shall be tweaking my RF). Having a topic concordance (that's in a third thread here). And having a designated list of subject matter experts - got that both on a thread here, and via email.
Ah, and by the way, it's not a one-person-only spot. Don did it as well. It is, however, assigned from Marc.
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