[TML] Mongoose Traveller

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 4/4/08 2:28 PM, "Bruce Johnson" <johnson at pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

> 
> 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.)

Ah.  My apologies.  This is very different from what I was led to believe.

However, it remains that Marc appears to be doing T5 mainly on his own.
That, or everybody involved has been incredibly tight-lipped.  It's hard to
produce a 1000 page book(s) while doing other work to eat.