So, I have a lot of the Mongoose Traveller 2e books. As I have said here and elsewhere, they are nice books. From what I’ve read, even from MT fans, if you dig in just a little bit you find a lot of errors and inconsistencies, but the books look good. They are nice, modern RPG books.

But they are of very little use to me.

The Central Supply Catalog is cool. I can’t unleash the armor and weapons in it upon my Classic Traveller game, but here is a lot of other cool gear in it that I’m allowing my players to pull from.

I simply prefer Classic Traveller and various Cepheus Engine resources.

I have to admit, I have a hard time thinking of MT as “really being Traveller.” That makes no sense, I know. But in my mind, if it isn’t from Marc Miller, it just isn’t Traveller. Hell, even that later versions of Marc’s work don’t seem like Traveller to me. To me, Traveller is the Little Black Books, the supplement books and adventures, the original Journal of the Travellers Aid Society, homegrown Traveller zines, and the stuff we (the players) cook up out of our brains from necessity.

The Cepheus Engine stuff is so varied. I find it easy to find CE material to easily drop into my game. The DIY nature of a lot of speaks to me in the language, if not the exact details, of Classic Traveller.

If I was invited to play in a Mongoose Traveller game (and I had the time for it) I’d certainly do it. I’d play and I’d enjoy it.

I keep thinking about this, I suppose, because as a gamer my tastes and preferences have changed so much over the years.