I started out with and kind of fell in love with the MT system but hated the Rebellion.
The Hard Times post-apocalyptic thing got on my nerves.
TNE I did not like.
Will not go into it but I did not like it all, over-complicated IMHO. Lost all my books and stuff a long, long time ago.
So, I get the LBB re-prints. I play for awhile in a group of Traveller old-timers and then about 2 years later I find a group of people that want to play on-line and I have the books so I am the referee.
Ok, what did I have a problem with or added to Classic Traveller?
Simple to follow
tasks system like Digest Task System.
Good straightforward
Hits and Wounding system kind of like MT.
Traveller Central has a quick
Aiming and location system.
Good
Starship generation and Combat System that is simple and easy to use. I hear a couple of different system praised over another here.
Andy Slack's
experience system is still the best I have seen so far. 1 - 3 experience points a game and get 8 you can progress one skill level. I always add it has to be a skill you used across those adventures. Good stuff.
No dying in character generation. BTW, I know that has been around since the MT days.
Notice, a theme coming here .. simple but enough detail for fleshing out things.
Lots of weapons and equipment please!! The classic books were light even by the early rpg days standards.
Some sample deckplans with a quick starship supplement quickly following release of main books.
Lots of pictures. More pictures everywhere all over the place and I mean it. It was one of the few things about TNE I really liked. (Ok, TNE fans do not stone me IMHO and all that.)
Re-working of canon history timelines and TL stuff for modern times.
At least an acknowledgement of some new technologies and explanations for why they exist or not.
Tweak of computer rules to reflect new tech trends which kind of goes with the above point but it is important enough to go into all by itself.
Rules and careers for non-human characters.
Please..
Bring back the LBB's!! Light, inexpensive and find someone, somewhere, somehow to get them distributed all over the place. Especially the bookstore rpg sections.
I know that part is way tough probably impossible.
Basically, a fleshing out and minor tweaking of CT and MT merged systems.
That is it. I want an updated CT with lots of the MT style rules and all those ends and pieces from different sections of Trav canon brought together in one list of Main books.
For someone who has NOT played Traveller as much as others here I really sound like an old fart.
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