On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 10:37:01 -0700, Jim Vassilakos - jim.vassilakos at
gmail.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote to Freelance
Traveller:

>Jeff, I think your article is a good start, but Traveller refs love tables,
>and it only takes a couple of pages to turn good ideas into something
>usable [see Grand Census (DGP, 1987), pgs. 46-47].

Yes, those are part of the sections still labelled as 'to be written'. I
wasn't sure it was a good idea to start on actual generation rules without
feedback on the basic idea; if feedback said that I was way off base with
basic ideas, I didn't want to have to toss out major amounts of actual
rules and tables. As-is, this thread has tagged a couple of things that
need to be looked at that I hadn't addressed.

>Also, it would also be useful to including a section about religious
>conflicts and address how the Imperium keeps the peace (or doesn't). In the
>Plankwell PBEM, I included the Doctrine of
>Divine Mystery, also known as the Prime Doctrine, which every religion is
>supposed to include in order for it to fall under the Imperial Church as a
>recognized/sanctioned religion (see pages 69-76 of the campaign writeup
>downloadable from https://jimvassilakos.com/dos-programs/plank.html).
>Obviously, different referees may want to apply different solutions to this
>problem, but IMO it's something that needs to be addressed.

The interaction between the Imperium-as-interstellar-government and the
Megachurch of the Universal Superconsciousness is _not_ something that I
think THE RULES need to be involved with; that is definitely something that
is between the referee and the players and their perception of what the
Imperial Overgovernment looks like.

>By the way, I've been working on that article you requested regarding how
>to run a single-player, multi-referee PBEM, but it's not quite done yet.
>Unfortunately, it looks like it'll be pretty long.

That's not necessarily "unfortunate"; I've run long articles before (and
will undoubtedly do it again). At most, I might request that we work
together to tweak the final result to allow it to be broken up across a few
issues, if it gets _that_ long. Per my standard policy, you as the author
should give it the treatment you feel it needs/deserves, and let me worry
about length.

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