[TML] Mongoose Traveller

[Zane H. Healy]

At 4:31 PM +0100 8/15/07, MJ Dougherty wrote:
>Oh look, it's started.

You do realize that none of my comments were targeted at you?

>For my part I find Mongoose very professional and good to work with.
>They pay their freelancers what they say they will and usually even on time!
>Put that another way... Mongoose is the only games company (apart from my
>own Avenger) that I still work with.

I understand that they are apparently better to work with than a lot 
of the companies out there, and there doesn't seem to be problems 
with getting them to pay the people that do the work.  There is no 
denying they're better than a certain company that I like.

Just because they treat the people that work for them well, that 
doesn't mean that they conduct all of their affairs in an ethical 
manner.  As I stated in my message, I find the whole MRQ SRD affair 
to be unethical.  I'm not alone in that feeling.

>Products are generally good, even the ones I didn't write.

Time and time again I see complaints that the 1st editions have 
numerous problems, but that the 2nd editions correct those.  They 
have done numerous products that are of interest to me, though I've 
only purchased one, as I don't really do D20.

They do get good licenses, though some of the stuff they've licensed 
and are releasing doesn't seem targeted at a US audience.  How many 
people in the US have ever read Strontium Dog, definitely a *LOT* 
fewer than in the UK.  To the best of my knowledge no comic company 
has done reprints in the US since the early 80's and very few people 
get 2000AD in the US.

		Zane


-- 
| Zane H. Healy                    | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary)    | OpenVMS Enthusiast         |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet)           | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
|     Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing,    |
|          PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum.         |
|                http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/               |