Re: [TML] Comment on current Humble Bundle
Rupert Boleyn 21 Aug 2023 23:44 UTC
On 22Aug2023 0802, Mark Urbin - eclipse at urbin.net (via tml list) wrote:
> It's 'described,' I'll give it that. I was hoping for some feed back
> that wasn't written by their marketing department.
Their adventures are well-thought of, especially the long campaigns like
Pirates of Drinax.
Despite several read-throughs, and attempts to give it an honest shake,
I do not like the system, for reasons ranging from niggling to
fundamental. I think most of it is about tone - Traveller has always
been, in its descriptions of equipment, etc., a 'pseudo-hard' SF game.
MgT doesn't have that veneer of plausibility. Fusion guns actually fire
radioactive bolts, shotguns require considerable strength to use
(presumably because they're gnarly weapons, or for 'balance'), and so on.
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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>