On 6/3/2020 1:56 AM, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml list) wrote: > I suspect it's another case of DGP not really knowing Trav very well. > Plus the natural desire, evident in many Trav products, to put one's own > 'stamp' upon things. frequently at the expense of previous 'canon', > which really has devolved into what could more accurately be called > 'precedent' as the term 'canon' implies, to me at least, a degree of > unchanging that canon in the TU has never had. Another possibility is that they did know Traveller, took a good look at bits of the canon that someone else had pulled out of their arse/favorite old SF novel without modification or further consideration, and decided that it made *No Effing Sense* in the greater context of the 3I setting. Which, I note, is something we do here on the list all the time. -- --------------- Kelly St. Clair xxxxxx@efn.org
