Re: ooooo... traveller... (was: [ogf-d20-l] Everything old is new again department...)

[lizard]

Brad Thompson wrote:

> Lose the chargen process and Traveller becomes just another sci-fi game.
> 
The success of GURPS Traveller would seem to dispute that.

To me, Traveller was about incredible mounds of detail -- the Grand
Survey/Grand Census supplements, building grav tanks with Striker,
rolling up animal encounter charts, and turning all those abstract
numbers into something with meaning.