On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:09:36 -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 07:42:09PM -0400, Traveller Mailing List wrote:
>
>> > [ ...snip... ]
>
>>
>> Well, you might want to have a look at
>> https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/expuwp/starports.html
>>
>> Also, Michael Brown has
>> https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/reviews/michaelbrown/startowns.html
>>
>> Neither of these are _official_, but they both might be useful as starting
>> points for inspiration...
>>
>
>Thanks for both of these. I'm not looking for official. And I'm exactly looking for _"points
>of inspiration"._ I found the Michael Brown folio on Drive-Through-RPG. When he refers to
>_"Original 2D6 Science Fiction Role Playing Game"_ is that a wink, wink, nudge, nudge
>reference to the "classic", or really any, version of the game we know and love? It looks
>like things were published in 2019 and so far as I know, the copyrights weren't awful
>in 2019. So, if we are talking about the same game, then I don't understand the masking and
>I like to learn more?

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