What I want but never seem to get from Traveller world writeups is information about the world's inhabitants. You read about geography and climate and history and megacorporations, but what are the cultural oddities that make this world's people different from others? How do they behave? What offends them? The World Builder's Handbook (from MegaTraveller) delves into this to some extent but it's a rather shallow treatment. The exception is material created by the Keith brothers during the CT era. They delved into cultural aspects more than anyone else.
I always got the feeling that Traveller leans into the feudalistic version of science fiction where the distances of space actually matter to travel and communication, which seems to be cropping up here.
This being that you really aren’t hearing the latest news until well after the fact with stray rumors cropping up in unrelated or distant places, which by the time you act on it, could be resolved or evolved into a much larger issue.
I gotta say, it's rarely ever the case, but sometimes it really comes down to the simple criticism that "the writing is poor." There's lots of lovely detail in there, once you sorta re-write it in your head, rephrase it a few times, give it a new outline with sub-hedlines, sorta juice it up for yourself.
Hey, I'm afraid I'm not up to date on how Osprey are handling that, so your best bet is to get in touch with them through their support. Hope you enjoy the game.
What I want but never seem to get from Traveller world writeups is information about the world's inhabitants. You read about geography and climate and history and megacorporations, but what are the cultural oddities that make this world's people different from others? How do they behave? What offends them? The World Builder's Handbook (from MegaTraveller) delves into this to some extent but it's a rather shallow treatment. The exception is material created by the Keith brothers during the CT era. They delved into cultural aspects more than anyone else.
I always got the feeling that Traveller leans into the feudalistic version of science fiction where the distances of space actually matter to travel and communication, which seems to be cropping up here.
This being that you really aren’t hearing the latest news until well after the fact with stray rumors cropping up in unrelated or distant places, which by the time you act on it, could be resolved or evolved into a much larger issue.
I gotta say, it's rarely ever the case, but sometimes it really comes down to the simple criticism that "the writing is poor." There's lots of lovely detail in there, once you sorta re-write it in your head, rephrase it a few times, give it a new outline with sub-hedlines, sorta juice it up for yourself.
Hey, I just grabbed the doomed hardcover from osprey, does it come with a digital copy or do I need to buy the pdf for 25 and then the mobi for 25?
Hey, I'm afraid I'm not up to date on how Osprey are handling that, so your best bet is to get in touch with them through their support. Hope you enjoy the game.
Ty, excited to get into it!