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The best science-fiction role-playing game ever, adapted at last to the world's most popular rules! All of Traveller's key activities (character and world generation, personal and ship combat, you name it) fully converted to 5E's exciting, heroic game system. Spearheaded by GDW and TSR veteran...

Traveller 5e powered by the DnD SRD

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    6·
    8 days ago

    I don’t really have a lot of empathy for people who don’t want to learn a new rule system.

    First off, most of those people barely know 5e to begin with. You could swap them into another system and they’d probably perform about as well.

    Aside from that, maybe they don’t mean to sound anti-intellectual, but they kind of do. It’s okay to read and learn new things. I’ve had potential players put up more of a fight than it would’ve taken to just read the thing.

    Related, I think there’s like a literacy crisis. Many people don’t seem to read or think great.

      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        Why are each of your lines wrapped in ellipsis?

        …what many anti-fifth-edition positions miss is that it’s not about learning a new system, it’s about compatibility across a vast ecosystem of disparate settings and campaigns…

        I don’t think 5e is especially compatible with disparate settings and campaigns. It’s not an actually generic system like Fate or GURPS. It’s got underbaked or entirely missing whole RPG subsystems and mechanics (eg: social conflict, succeed-at-a-cost, metagame currency). It’s highly opinionated in other regards- hit points, class and level, resting. You can hammer the peg into the hole, but you could do that with anything.

        It’s not a good system for modeling anything outside heroic fantasy.

        It’s certainly a popular system, but many things are popular without being good. But, if your top priority is going where people are, by all means stick to D&D 5e, reddit, facebook, etc.

  • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
    5·
    8 days ago

    Wait, that is not a joke

    I haven’t played Traveller, but isn’t d20 power creep inflation a bit not in line with Traveller’s more gritty/realistic power curve?

    • ErrorCode@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      Oh, yeah. They even talked about exactly that on the Enworld podcast/stream - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxzQ84JQozk - In D&D 5e, you are heroes (more or less). In Traveller, not so much. You can do space opera type games with 5e, I mean I enjoyed playing in Starfinder (1st edition, haven’t played 2nd) campaigns. I have enjoyed Traveller games too, but those systems really don’t seem to mesh.