Originally posted by Tobias:
A "modern game" like mid-80s GURPS?
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It's a damn sight more modern than CT was.
Okay man, now you're seriously losing it. What are you claiming next, that Traveller was a natural development that would have materialized anyway if Marc hadn't written it?
The OTU isn't exactly a complicated setting is it - it's a very bland, flavourless, generic scifi setting. It's big secret is a big, unoriginal cliche - that aliens took like from earth and seeded in through the galaxy. And as a setting, the "golden era" OTU is entirely dull and uninspiring - what fun, playing a bunch of retired has-beens ekeing out a living in a very dull, stable Imperium!
And don't give me that 'you should use your imagination to flesh it out' crap either. There's barely anything there to sink your teeth into to start with. (heck, books 1-3 didn't even have a setting, and just said "go read some scifi" - very helpful).
I find it rather telling that you sneer at the one incarnation of Traveller that did have a distinct flavour to it, that
was actually an exciting universe with a unique feel to it.
It's becoming clear (to me at least) that you are now reaching into the realm of the absurd just to make your point of discrediting MWM.
And it's clear to me that you're a CT fanboy who doesn't see anything wrong with it. I don't believe you - or people like you - are capable of looking at the game objectively to see its flaws.
Besides ignoring that he did have a close involvement in the fleshing out of the OTU as well.
Yes, and look how well that turned out.

Loads of contradictory adventures, rules and settings that he's made no effort to correct at all. Such genius!