[TML] Mongoose Traveller

[Ross Winn]

Tom B wrote:
> For those of us who've only just heard of this, how does it differ from CT,
> MT, TNE, T4 or T20? Pick your point of reference, I probably have them all
> (even GT).
>
> I've been looking for an MT-rules-sans-setting-and-typos or CT++ or
> something for a long time. T20 didn't quite hit the spot. T4 certainly
> didn't.
>
> And given that we have MT, what do we use for Mongoose Traveller? MgT?
>   
I think it has the most in common with Classic Traveller. Let me append 
that comment with the statement that I think that as good as they all 
are, every version of Traveller has had some flaw. Hell, I think every 
game has had some flaw, with the possible exception of Spirit of the 
Century.  This game seems to do all of the things that I commonly think 
of as Traveller without the  glaring flaws of the other versions. I 
think that the game is fairly success-oriented, has a decent core 
mechanic, and has the core of a great game. Yes it is a little old 
school as compared to newer more narrative and collaborative systems. 
However I think that is as much a charm of the game, as anything to be 
concerned with.

As for what we call it, I have seen people refer to it as MongTrav, and 
Mongoose Traveller. I don't think it matters.
 To me it is Traveller, plain and simple.

Ross Winn