[TML] Mongoose Traveller

[Michael Jenkins]

On 04/04/2008, Eris Reddoch <erisred at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Tom B wrote:
>  > Sure, but when you discuss version specific things, it is nice to have
>  > language to do it. When people talk about MT, most people know what that
>  > abbreviation means. When people talk about CT, the same. MongTrav is longer
>  > than any of the others (TNE, T4, MT, CT, T20, GT) so I suspect something
>  > shorter will evolve... MgT seemed like a good compromise...
>
> RTT = Rikki Tikki Traveller is what I've said all along that
>  we should christen Mongoose's version. :)
>
>  Yes, if you go to http://mongoosepublishing.com and click on
>  the Traveller link up top you can find some free downloads.
>  Three previews, a character sheet, starchart and a ship
>  design...at least that's what was up there the other day. If
>  you'd gotten in earlier you could have downloaded a beta copy
>  of the rules, but I think that is off the site now.

<mode: humour, ar, ar>

I like it!

Although it involves a reference to Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle
Book", so is not really a serious candidate.

Besides, what would happen if someone developed "Real Time Traveller"?      :)

</mode>

<mode: serious, hmm>

The problem with MgT is that Mg could just as easily be Mega and not
Mongoose - to someone who wasn't already familiar with MT for
MegaTraveller, it is not distinctive and risks confusion. MnT or MsT
would be more distinctive to represent MongooseTraveller but not
MegaTraveller, even if less intuitive by itself.

</mode>

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