Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Kickstarting Traveller 5th Edition

If you have encountered the Kickstarter.com website then you know of a novel new way that projects are getting funded.  Marc Miller, the creator of Traveler has started up a kickstarter project for the latest version of Traveller dubbed T5.  I have been in on the play test for this project since 2009 and have enjoyed looking at the new rules and discovering all the enhancements that it offers to the Traveller Universe.  Yes $100 dollars for just a book is a bit hard to swallow but consider this; T5 is more fun that a text book, Comes with some awesome swag and a PDF version on CD, if you preorder it on Kickstarter, this will likely be cheaper to buy all at once than if you wait to buy T5 when it gets broken up in to smaller books and sold in the stores.
Now if you compare T5 to the latest Sci-Fi Offering from Fantasy Flight Games: "Black Crusade" with its hardcover, 400 pages that originally cost ~$60.00 when it came out. Then add to it the game master's Kit for $20 and you still do not come close to the page count that T5 has racked up of ~600 pages. Also as the stretch goals are met, the extra stuff you get for your money like possibly a free deck plan of a scout courier done in full color and 1inch grid squares…

The extra stuff in T5 compared to earlier version of Traveller:
  • A sophont generation process that includes basic culture as well as body shape and genders.
  • Improved world and system generation processes.
  • A new and improved character generation process.
  • Clones, Chimera's, and Robots as characters.
  • An improved UCP that will handle aliens better than before.
  • Oh the list just goes on and on....
  • And backwards compatibility with most of the earlier Traveller versions!
 So get to the site and become a backer of T5.  Besides the more of you that join up and back this project the better the extra stuff you get is.

You have Until July 1, 2012 to back this project.

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