On 4/4/2019 8:18 PM, Richard Aiken wrote:
On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 6:37 PM Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:
On 4/4/2019 5:56 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
> IMO, MT was the 1st mistake while TNE was 'merely' the compounding
> fatal one.

GDW lost me when they killed Strephon and didn't get me back until GURPS Traveller said it was all a [TV "Dallas"] bad dream.
 
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Richard Aiken

I remember going to Race-O-Rama at the Queensgate Shopping Center and seeing the newest issue of Traveller's Digest.  I bought it and sat in the car reading and it was the gaming equivalent of watching the news when Reagan was shot.  For my entire gaming experience, Strephon had been Emperor and there was no warning that things weren't going well.  Then, Dulinor shows up and stinks up the place.  The best part about TNE was when the infected combine ran him over.

The idea of a fractured Imperium had some appeal, it certainly opened the doors for different adventures within the core sectors.  However, it seemed to me that other than some very minor border issues and the Solomani, the event pretty much happened in a vacuum.  I would have expected the Vargr and K'kree to make serious attempts at gaining border worlds but all we saw was minor skirmishing.

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Kurt Feltenberger
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