I don’t have a link for this, but a usually reliable source posts:
Huh. Way to get me not to enthuse about it.
Huh. Way to get me not to enthuse about it.
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Aaargh.
I’m at a venue to play 5e D&D right now and still I say aaargh.
In my amateur opinion 5e is desperately bad for combat above about level 8, and irrelevant for roleplaying.
I was going to look up Mongoose Traveller precisely because it was different.
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I’m very happy with the current Mongoose Traveller.
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On one hand, I get it. 5e is the new d20. There was Traveller20, so of course there would be Traveller 5e. It’s a (presumed) short-cut to reach D&D players.
On the other hand, I don’t get it. The things that make D&D 5e good for D&D* seem irrelevant to Traveller. Fortunately, there will still be non-5e Traveller for those who do want something different than 5e.
(*) This point is debatable. I’m running a D&D 5e (2024) campaign and the system is fine. D&D has always been defined by the system and the culture. D&D 5e is not AD&D1e or B/X D&D and they’re all D&D in their own way.
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As far as I recall Traveller d20 was a dismal failure. Starfinder isn’t doing too well either. The notional market for “a science fiction game, but with the rules we already know for monster-bashing” doesn’t seem to be there.
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If your recollection is correct, then it raises the question of why they think Traveller 5e would be different.
I thought Starfinder was basically monster bashing with a science fiction (or science fantasy) veneer. “I like Pathfinder, but I want it to be in space.”
If Mongoose is trying to attract D&D 5e players to Traveller, how many of those players will bounce off because your typical Traveller adventures do not match your typical D&D adventure? Even if they know the rules, will they want to play a Traveller game?
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It seems clear from the Mongoose forums that this is a licensing deal for another company to make a 5e compatible Traveller. Given I can’t keep up with official Mongoose Traveller books no loss; I have no interest but it doesn’t seem to trump the continued flow of Traveller books. Indeed for Whartson Hall they have just announced a full 2300AD core book (in a couple of years …) rather than flipping through two books!
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Goodoh! Im not going to object to it if it doesnt become the Only Traveller.
I saw the 2300 thing -I really should look into other non-military campaign options in that setting…
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Because they can sell it before the audience —5e players who think they want a different story with the same basic rules — figure out it’s not really what they want. That’s why you use kickstarter.
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Yeah and if it’s a different company actually publishing it, then no risk (except dilution).
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That’s pretty much my experience of Starfinder (and I’m enjoying it very much) - we have an ongoing joke with our GM that when he converts a module from Pathfinder, all he does is put the word ‘space’ before most of the nouns (so space halberd, space pickaxe etc.). It’s lots of fun though.
And it can’t be doing that badly as Paizo have just released a second edition, and it seems to be reasonably well supported with material.
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