Yeah, I saw that. In fact, I'd heard rumblings about this for a couple of days before hand and am not surprised.
It won't affect my plans for Thousand Suns at all. This being Mongoose, I'm sure they're not the least bit committed to Traveller as a property, but they'll strip mine it for ideas and rules they can use in other games. It's good PR for them and I'm sure they'll sell quite a few copies to old timers looking for a "Revised Classic Traveller" rules set. Sadly, this won't be it.
More importantly, Thousand Suns, while a spiritual descendant of Traveller, has a rather different focus. From what I can tell, Mongoose is keeping Traveller support wedded to the official Imperium setting rather than genericizing it, which would be a better option and, not coincidentally, my plan for Thousand Suns. Yes, there is a meta-setting and it will receive support of a sort, but it's much less integral to the game.
I'm still intrigued by what Mongoose does, but past behavior doesn't make me think it'll matter much in the long term, so I'm not changing my plans at all.
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Date: 2007-08-04 09:45 pm (UTC)It won't affect my plans for Thousand Suns at all. This being Mongoose, I'm sure they're not the least bit committed to Traveller as a property, but they'll strip mine it for ideas and rules they can use in other games. It's good PR for them and I'm sure they'll sell quite a few copies to old timers looking for a "Revised Classic Traveller" rules set. Sadly, this won't be it.
More importantly, Thousand Suns, while a spiritual descendant of Traveller, has a rather different focus. From what I can tell, Mongoose is keeping Traveller support wedded to the official Imperium setting rather than genericizing it, which would be a better option and, not coincidentally, my plan for Thousand Suns. Yes, there is a meta-setting and it will receive support of a sort, but it's much less integral to the game.
I'm still intrigued by what Mongoose does, but past behavior doesn't make me think it'll matter much in the long term, so I'm not changing my plans at all.
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Date: 2007-08-04 10:50 pm (UTC)