Hi there

I had the privilege of visiting Shop on the Borderlands this week as I happened to be (vaguely[1]) in the area, and fascinating it was too.  (Purely an online shop for RPG material but the owner and his wife made me very welcome ferreting in a bedroom or two for 3.5 hours!).

One thing I spotted on the Traveller shelves - which I was told I had sadly depleted with my previous purchases - was a MegaTraveller Player's Manual.

So far, so ordinary.  But this was stapled and not perfect bound as the other MegaTraveller books I'm familiar with are.  (The Player's Manual I've owned for years is perfect bound.)

The only difference I can see is that the title page is set slightly 'lower' in the stapled version so that Marc W. Miller's name and the title isn't quite so close to the top; and at the bottom, instead of GDW in a designoid font, GAME DESIGNERS' WORKSHOP is stretched out full width.  On the imprint page (back of the title page) everything is identical except that below the ISBN is the string 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 instead of the numbers 1-9 as in the perfect bound version and the logo is a serifed font GDW with Game Designers' Workshop in three lines beside it as opposed to the designoid sans serif font of just GDW with 'Since 1 9 7 3' above.

So, does anyone know, please:

why the difference?

which is older/newer? (which may be answered by the previous question)

is there any difference in the main text? (perhaps errata corrections?)

were any of the other MT books published in the stapled version?  (I'm aware the DGP publications were, I'm thinking of the core books).

For comparison, the FFE CD pdf version appears to be the staple bound version but with the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 under the ISBN.  (I assume this is to do with print runs but am not overly familiar with how that works - i.e. why the 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 of the version I have - 3rd printing?)

Many thanks

On behalf of Traveller arcana   :-)

tc

[1] a 90 minute drive one way is hardly "in the area" but it's closer than home which is 4 or 5 hours away.

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