warmaster40k
SOC-6
Here is an idea, instead of a 600pg 100 dollar monstrosity why not a simplified core book for running traveller. Then place the subsystems in sourcebooks.
Traveller 5 Basic
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Its called Classic Traveller - and that suggestion is far from being anything new under the sun regards T5. 
In physical form, its got advantages and disadvantages - six of one, half dozen of the other to me <shrug> - but, in electronic format its more convenient to have one file.
Modern tablets allow bookmarks and highlighted notes instantly viewable at any time, in addition to word searches and instant page range access. Plus, saves lugging around a dead tree and sifting through its branches, in addition to completely avoiding soiled, torn and lost pages and books and allowing one to re-size and recolor to accommodate personal viewing. Granted, it lacks the nostalgia, heft, texture and smell of dead trees. <shrug> I can live without those, YMMV.
In physical form, its got advantages and disadvantages - six of one, half dozen of the other to me <shrug> - but, in electronic format its more convenient to have one file.
Modern tablets allow bookmarks and highlighted notes instantly viewable at any time, in addition to word searches and instant page range access. Plus, saves lugging around a dead tree and sifting through its branches, in addition to completely avoiding soiled, torn and lost pages and books and allowing one to re-size and recolor to accommodate personal viewing. Granted, it lacks the nostalgia, heft, texture and smell of dead trees. <shrug> I can live without those, YMMV.
Its called Classic Traveller - and that suggestion is far from being anything new under the sun regards T5.
Classic Traveller and Traveller 5 are not the same game though.
Vladika
SOC-14 1K
From reading my T5 I agree they aren't the "same" BUT T5 seems to be a lot closer to CT than all the other (insert disparaging adjective here) versions.
I am, reluctantly, liking T5.
CosmicGamer
SOC-14 1K
I'll disagree with the first half and agree with the second.Wrong.
Its the same game - different version.
For an exaggerated example, I hope this is right:
When playing a game of cards, is poker and solitaire the same game? They are both a card game. They both can use the exact same deck of cards.
Traveller starter and the CT LBB 1-3 might be different versions of the same game but I'd hardly call CT and T5 the same game.
CosmicGamer
SOC-14 1K
It's an idea that is a bit late. There is no instead. What's done is done and can't be undone. Perhaps future releases will vary.
Wrong.
Its the same game - different version.
Few people consider MT and CT the same game, and they have more mechanically in common than CT and T5. You'll have a lot to unlearn rules wise when going between CT and T5...
Every edition of traveller seems to be a different game, and if one works from the rules-prescriptivist perspective (That is, the rules define the world, rather than simply describe some hypothetical other world), each is a different parallel universe.
Parallel universes is how I describe it also.
Garyius2003
SOC-13
I am going to hang way way back and wait for everyone to chime in on the quality.
Word on the street is that he forgot to proofread. I got burned on T4, will not waste money this time without one heck of a lot of good reviews.
Word on the street is that he forgot to proofread. I got burned on T4, will not waste money this time without one heck of a lot of good reviews.
