[TML] Mongoose Traveller

[Eris Reddoch]

Evyn MacDude wrote:
> On  Apr04 08, at 04:53, Tom B wrote:
> 
>> It's a challenge when we run out of space in our set of acronyms.
>>
>> Thanks for the links to Mongoose stuff. I'm going for a look.
>>
>> I hadn't thought of MgT as being MegaTrav but it fits. Darn. MGT  
>> could work,
>> but it could still be confuzzled.
>>
>> TM would work. Or T(M). Is it really T5?
> 
> Kinda, Marc is releasing T5 on CD at the same time TM is being  
> released by
> Mongoose.
> 
> I have to say Eris's suggestion of RTT amuses me to no end, and pays
> homage to one of Traveller's and classic sf inspirations Kippling.
> 
> I would like to note that a 2 or 3 letter acronym is superior to some  
> of the
> suggestions out there IMHO.

I don't think I was the first person to suggest RTT, but I 
thought of it very quickly after reading that Mongoose was 
going to be doing a version of Traveller. And anyone that 
doesn't get the RT (Rikki Tikki) needs to perform a bit of 
googlefu. :) I contend that anything done by a company called 
Mongoose Publishing should expect to be compared to Kipling's 
brave little creature.

Mongoose's Traveller, and I'm going to refer to it as RTT, is 
not T5. RTT is more of a CT, updated, reloaded, fixed (and 
let's hope not rebroken) than T5 which is much bigger and much 
more complex. My understanding was that RTT is Traveller-Lite 
vs T5 which I'd call Traveller-Complex. RTT is aimed at 
bringing in new players to Traveller and providing fast, fun, 
games and T5 is aimed at existing Traveller players and 
provides all the detail that gearheads of any stripe would 
want.  I strongly suspect (can't say for sure not having seen 
any of T5 recently) they will have different character 
generation systems, different task systems, different most 
everything...but the end results of all the systems *might* be 
compatible one with the other. At least, such compatibility 
was once a goal.

As for when T5 is coming out. It's been missing deadlines for 
sometime now. On http://www.farfuture.net Marc still has a 
March 31, 2008 drop dead final date for T5's release...that 
was last Monday. I suspect he missed that deadline, too. Well, 
I guess T5 will be done when it is done.

Eris