Social Climbing

[whulorigan]

No, the Imperial elite has just succeeded in spreading the belief that autocracy is the only way to govern a structure the size of the Imperium. Since "everybody knows" that this is so, most people are OK with a hereditary governing elite. The few people who dispute this truth are regarded as kooks.

(And it's not like the governance of the Imperium has much effect on people's daily lives.)

Fair enough. But my primary point is that Solomani culture cannot be used as the sole reference point or determinant of future cultural and/or sociopolitical patterns in the OTU.

 

[Selandia]

Traveller is a set of tropes embodied in the setting and expressed in the assorted sets of Traveller rules. If I run a game featuring those tropes then I'm running Traveller, no matter what rules I use. If I'm using GT rules then I'm not using CT character attributes, but I'm still playing Traveller. If I'm using T20 rules or TNE rules, the attributes are the same as in CT, but the values are different. It's still Traveller as long as the tropes involved are Traveller.

And if a rule doesn't express those tropes properly or, even worse, contradict them, then it's a flawed rule.

Your best writing in a while. Exactly my definition of a flawed rules. Everything else I just fix. As a final comment I will just point that In the example I gave, the prospective Ref was attacking the notion of numeral modeling human attributes. He will still be able to use the Traveller universe as background withiut it, but he would not play Traveller by any name that I know.

Now Law of decreasing return apply, I leave that thread, I d rather go to lunch.

have fun

Selandia