"Traveller, Which Edition?" Topic

Well, having looked at the new Mongoose edition, very much better, cleaned up, clarified bits, better layout (you can FIND stuff!). Yet the core mechanics is pretty much the same old 2 dice and pray of the LBBs.

Well most recently it has been the Cepheus Engine
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It takes the Traveller OGL produced for Mongoose's 1st edition Traveller and crosses it with Classic Traveller and releases it into the wild.It is very cross compatable with Both Mongoose 1st edition and Classic Traveller, and if your clever it also matches well with MegaTraveller.

The second edition produced by Mongoose is ok. Well honestly Vastly overprices considering they broke bits that were working in the 1st edition while not fixing the issues that existed in the 1st edition….

As for T5, well you will need to do a lot of work…. It is kinda Love it or Hate it, in terms of game mechanics, if you liked T4 it probably is your cuppa tea.

And if your crowd is ok with GURPS, then GURPS:Traveller is great.

Hey, us Oulde Phartes are still here due to a combination of surviving Low Passage, catastrophic misjumps, and anagathic pharmacologic regimens. Or a steady diet of ugly, nasty inside-out rats found in a hollowed asteroidal colony of cannibals.
So get off my planetary diameters, afore I have my psionic leeches suck yer brain out, ya rotten kid!

I use a mix of Cepheus Engine, Classic Traveller, T5 and Mongoose Traveller 1st & 2nd Editions – but with Cepheus as the basic framework. Yup, Olde Pharte here too, who first played with CT in 1979 :-)

Ran a homebrew LBB/77 game out toward the spinward end of the Solomani border a few years back; used primarily BK1-3 with skill bonuses tweaked and the abstract unit combat system of BK4, a few scraps from BK5 and Mongoose variable success and trade rules.

Of course, it's not so much the system as the detail / fluff one puts on top; my take on the Argon Gambit ended up with the party infiltrating an isolated island priory full of nuns militant (MWWG) that the party weren't allowed to kill. Naturally the novice they were trying to exfiltrate turned out to be a double agent…

Played the LBB back in the 70s/80s (played a little, but mostly collected the books).

Collected some of the GURPs stuff, but was never a fan of the GURPs system in general.

Have been getting some of the D20 stuff recently, and probably would have preferred this version.