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Of course I had to do one completely 100% honest. The first time I took it I entered things in, in my Traveller “mindset” which is as a Traveller Referee. Let’s just say the results were a bit unsettling. You can…

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We pretty much wrapped up our latest campaign tonight. It was a short campaign but much fun. Most all the players had never played Traveller of any flavor before so now that they have their feet and more wet in the system, I told them they can draw up new characters if they wish so they will be ready and raring to go when I have the new campaign ready to start in a few weeks.

I just ran them through the Marischal mini campaign by Andrew and William Keith, consisting of the folio adventures ‘Flare Star’, ‘Storm’, ‘Periastron’, and ‘The Newcomers.’

Next up is something really wild and totally original that I have been working on - and am still working on. I just hope it is ready to run when after we do the wrap up next game. If it isn’t then I may have to put together another, even shorter, mini campaign until the new campaign is finished. I could easily start them into The Traveller Adventure and run that for a long while to come but I was hoping to get my original campaign into the cue and played prior to TTA.

I would love to talk more about my new campaign but a number of my players are finally starting to show up here and I don’t want to give anything away. Even if I said what sources I was drawing from, it would give it away. So I guess mum’s the word for the time being.

-JR

This is an original post I made on another web forum. I would like to add that my current and foreseeable future feelings about Mongoose Traveller has no affect whatsoever on my plans to invest in the supplements for this game that are and will be written my Martin Dougherty of Comstar Games/Avenger Games. He is an excellent game writer and an all around good guy. It aggravates me to think I will be putting money into Mongoose’s coffers but I know from past experience that Martin’s books are some of the best Traveller books you can have on your shelf next to the original books. That being said, my original post…

I have come to the conclusion that I can no longer visit the Rikki Tikki Traveller (Mongoose) forums.

Every time I read the posts, especially from a certain Haight-Ashbury/Woodstock wannbe, it is all I can do to keep from screaming at my computer.

It really wouldn’t be so bad and I honestly believe that the old Traveller guys wouldn’t come off sounding like a handful of grumps in bathrobes if the Rikki Tikki Fanboys wouldn’t jump on them like rabid dogs every time some one points out an error or points something out that they aren’t to keen with in the new incarnation.

This is especially true when those fanboys proceed to rip you up one side and down the other then come back with some bogus rodney king line like how they can’t understand all the fuss, when they have have been sitting back pushing buttons and keeping the pot stirred.

It just isn’t worth it.

Further, if this is what Mongoose wants to promote as genteel forum society - since they love to delete threads when one of the old guard finally has had enough a blows his stack - but nary a word to or about the fanboy regulars that needle them to death.

Feh!
They can keep it - game and all.

This is as bad as the WOTC OOP boards where the new edition fanboys barrage the OOP board for weeks on end and whoever from the OOP board that gets annoyed enough to respond or complain - they not the trolls are the ones banned.

Gaming is fun - it’s supposed to be. A company opens itself up for suggestions and input - that’s fine. But when they get negative responses, instead of answering and to it themselves they just let their fanboys shout it down — that does nothing but promote bad blood and hard feelings.

What I don’t get is why when an error or problem is found, why doesn’t MG just own up right away and say - yup we are gonna fix it or nope we did that on purpose, it’s supposed to be that way? Why do they wait for days and weeks before they do or say anything? Surely they know that their most rabid fans, they are easy to spot since they post in every thread, are going to jump on the posts and start hammering the original poster and others that have found the same problem or that agree that there is a problem. Why wait till THEIR FANBOYS stir it up into a firestorm when you know all they are going to do is delete the thread and never give an answer after that?

It has to be the most stupid (potential) customer interaction I have ever witnessed in my life.

*Shrug*

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My intention is to create this website in the image of the online Traveller Community with you, members of that community being able to publish your ideas. I know some can’t afford websites and many of us are programmers that have new and neat Traveller utilities to share - so here you can make them available to the rest of the community without having to pay a bunch of money just to host a couple utilities, projects, or (PDF) publications.