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The Regency Sourcebook: Keepers of the Flame (Traveller New Era Sci-Fi Roleplaying)

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"The Flame" that is kept burning by the Regency -- is quoted from page five of this book -- and what this book IS for keeping the flame of Traveller alive. It is an intensely worked-out presentation of the survival of the Imperium in the New Era [in a new compact somewhat more populist form]. The work itself is very informative for one of the favorite general areas of Traveller -- somewhat centered on the Spinward Marches and with other main regions near that. I really like that this sourcebook is well-organized -- with many maps, charts and tables of data. Yet this hard crunch is glued together by excellent ideas and descriptions. The grand poetry of page four -- "Keep the Flame" of Noris Aelia Aledon the First Regent -- is VERY inspiring indeed.

This particular [somewhat limited] Regency setting is a good balance between other Traveller settings centered somewhat on the Spinward Marches [by whatever name]. It's quite large yet quite smaller than the whole Third Imperium. It's centered on a blend of major and minor human types yet has aliens within and without its defended borders. The Regency is just getting set to reclaim other Third Imperium areas, claiming its legacy and destiny -- despite some added aspects of populism, psionics and hi-tech. The author modestly claims to have considered a much larger work that may have taken several more years to compose -- but presented this compact work sooner due to intense Traveller gamer demand for the whole Regency setting soonest. However that may be, this 96 page Regency sourcebook is just that -- a sourcebook for most Regency topics in the Traveller New Era general setting. It covers the still quite vast Regency setting -- much like several sourcebooks would in other Traveller variants -- at a minor cost of small font. As the author remarks -- "efficiency is not the same as effectiveness" -- but this work is very much both +++