Kurt Feltenberger wrote: > At 09:08 AM 8/17/2006, you wrote: > > > > Comments after the fact notwithstanding, I think that the length of > > > time from when 4th Ed. was released to when some of the core > > > supplements have been released has hurt Gurps in the average gamer's > > > point of view. World books are nice, but the foundation books need > > > to be done and on the shelf so the game as a whole is > > > appealing. Space, Special Ops, Vehicles, and some of the other > > > "non-world" books should have been released within six to eight > > > months, at the most, of when 4e was released. > > > >Space and vehicles definitely, you could do Spec Ops with the 3e version > >quite happily. > > > >The rate of book production seems really low to me, it would be possible > >to keep up with teh 4e releases, I don't remember being able to do that > >with 3e, back in the day. > > "Back in the day"...I miss those days. > > > > Then again, if the other 4e books are anything like G:T Interstellar > > > Wars, I can understand why a shop would firesale it to get it off the > > > shelves. Since I started playing Traveller in the late 70s, this is > > > the first product with which I've been truly disappointed. > > > >How about G:T Mercenaries - I thought that was a very sloppy piece of work. > > You mean G:T Star Mercs? Haven't read that one. What I saw of it > seemed ok, but IMO, the target audience was the hack and slashers to > build market share.
No more than G:T Ground Forces. The military/mercenary campaign has been one of the most popular with Traveller players and was covered by Book 4: Mercenary, which came out before the books on the Navy, Scouts or Merchants. Calling the target audience "hack and slashers" is a bit unfair. It's like saying the target audience for G:T Far Trader was "certified public accountants". My main problems with GT:SM were: (1) It made a lot of references to Vehicles 1e, although VE 2e had been out for over a year. (2) The battlesuit was ... well ... (3) The deckplans for the mercenary cruiser were unlabeled, making them useless. -- A generous and sadistic GM, Brandon Cope http://www.geocities.com/copeab "It has fallen upon me, now and again in my sojurns through the world, to ease various evil men of their lives. I have a feeling it will prove thus with the Baron." -- Solomon Kane ("The Castle of the Devil", Robert E. Howard) _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
