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Traveller’s Upcoming 50th Anniversary Ask

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Greetings and salutations from across the pond,

This is as much an ask as it is a proposal.

With the 50th anniversary of Traveller quickly approaching, 2027, right?, and with Mongoose now owning the IP, will you be re-releasing Classic Traveller rulebooks from 1977 in print as the originally sized and formatted three little black books (or perhaps as a single volume, properly edited compilation)?

I can think of no better way to honor Traveller's half-century birthday than by paying homage to its origins, in whole or in part.

What say Mongoose, please?
 
One addendum to your request - no errata, no corrections, no rules from later editions
a reprint of 77 edition should be just that by all means include a proposed errata sheet in the box but the rulebooks should be exactly the same s the 77 edition.

Just think in 2031 we can then get a reprint for the 59 anniversary of the 81 revision... :)
 
Well, that asks a deeper question.

Was there errata for '77? Or was it all just "fixed" for '81? '81 is '77 with all errata included. I mean, e.g. the whole Jump Routes thing - it's gone. Is that errata?

Another example, to me HG '79 simply doesn't exist. It's just a bad, buggy, preview. All of the changes in HG80 are errata, or something. Errata is not really the right word. Adding drywall to an unfinished house is not errata. HG79 was a mistake, and should not have been published. It was unfinished. I do not consider HG'79 canon at all.

They pretty much gave away the entire B5 80 "for free" by publishing it in JTAS to fix that mistake. This was no newsletter with a list of typos.

But '77? /shrug, I dunno. So much of it survives, the tweaks are pretty minor for '81. Clarifications, and such. But we never heard from Jump Routes again.
 
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