[TML] Mongoose Traveller

[Bruce Johnson]

On Apr 4, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Jerry W Barrington wrote:

> On 4/4/08 12:44 PM, "Eris Reddoch" <erisred at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I don't mean this as criticism, but Marc seems to have a few  
> problems.  As
> far as I can gather, he's doing T5 mostly on his own.  And he has to  
> clothe
> himself and supply food at the same time, so it's not likely his  
> primary
> job.  And we all know how well T4 worked out under similar  
> circumstances.

No, those were NOT the circumstances under which T4 was produced; not  
by any stretch of the imagination.

This process simply means T5 will take a while, but it's entirely  
unlikely that anything even remotely resembling the clusterf*ck that  
was T4 would come from Marc's hand.

That can be laid entirely at the feet(oily tentacles?) of SweetPea  
<spit>, and attributed to a production company that didn't know what  
it was doing and didn't give a rats ass.

Too bad, because a bunch of stellar material (Milieu 0, Pocket  
Empires, and some of the others) was produced for T4 only to be  
completely buggered by slipshod production and a nearly complete lack  
of coordination from the top (not Marc, he just licensed it), which  
lead to several of the books being mutually incompatible (as well as  
internally so...in the T4 sourcebook, NOT ONE of the Library ships  
could be built with the ship construction rules IN THE BOOK), some  
books being utterly at variance with established canon, some being  
recycled stuff from other games (The Aliens sourcebook...) and stuff  
like the positively criminal way in which FF2 was printed.

A lot of good folks poured their hearts and souls into that T4 stuff,  
only to see it wrecked, because all that SweetPea was interested in,  
really, were movie rights.

For D&D. These were the same folks. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190374/ 
 >

Courtney <spit> Solomon <spit>.

Damn near wrecked Traveller as a brand.

(And I'm being polite, here. I would expect, for instance, numerous  
others on this list take on it to be like listening to a normal Chris  
Rock show on ABC. One long series of <beeeep>'s.)

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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