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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Inspired, but flawed edition of Traveller,
This review is from: Marc Miller's Traveller (T4) (Hardcover)
After GDW closed its doors, Marc Miller -- who is to Traveller as Gygax was to D&D -- secured the rights to the game system. He authorized this ill-fated rewrite of Traveller by Imperium games (also known as 4th Edition Traveller). During its two year run, the company published two dozen books, detailing "Milieu 0." Many players felt that Traveller had gotten out of control, and away from its roots during the MegaTraveller and Traveller: The New Era phases. Milieu 0 takes play back to the founding of the Third Imperium, a time of rebuilding after "The Long Night."
T4 was poorly received for several reasons. The first strike was the anemic state the RPG industry had fallen at the time, with declining sales and the shake-up that had claimed GDW and others in the last half of the 1990s. Worse, the publisher -- Imperium Games -- released books plagued with problems. Weak bindings, errors and typos were common. [Note in the photo I uploaded, with 2 softcover main rulebooks on top of a hardcover, a print run of the softcover was done with the graphics of the hardcover -- wrong product code, price, and ISBN. In fact, Amazon currently has the paperback and hardcover reversed: Hardcover should be ISBN 1578281008 and softcover should be ISBN 1578280001. I would advise inquiring with the seller to see which edition they actually have for sale.] That said, the writing quality of the series is generally good, and I collect the accessories just for the background information. And the Larry Elmore art in the main rulebook is a plus.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Worth it for the pictures,
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This review is from: Marc Miller's Traveller (T4) (Hardcover)
Even though I don't have time to play Traveller anymore, this book was a wonderful trip down memory lane with great illustrations by Larry Elmore with a minor storyline of their own thru the book, and beautiful paintings by Chris Foss of his visions of the Traveller universe.
One thing I found gapingly absent was a simple die roll results table for various weapons. For me, basic combat was what Traveller was all about.
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