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Traveller: The New Era - Wayne's Books RPG Reference. WaynesBooks RPG Reference Wayne's Books is on & Traveller: The New Era - Rebuilding Interstellar Civilization ~ Traveller: The New Era (1993 - 1995) Traveller: The New Era was the flagship of GDW's House System rules set (also including & ). A simple skill system that could generate complex results.allowing uninterrupted play, without sacrificing realism. TNE is my favorite incarnation of Traveller, set in a time of rebuilding after an empire-wide catastrophe. The concept of the Virus †, as portrayed in the game, is simply brilliant.
The game's flexibility is such that any type of Traveller campaign could be played, from traditional Traveller to the new Star Vikings campaign. GDW died a couple of years after TNE's introduction, but not before many fine campaign guides and equipment books were introduced. Fire, Fusion, and Steel stands as one of GDW's best gifts to science fiction gaming. The Rebellion of MegaTraveller was taken to its logical conclusion in TNE. For years the Imperial Civil War had spiraled out-of-control. With many participants using weapons of mass destruction, and the Imperial economy staggering under the burden, civilian casualties accumulated at a horrific rate.
Lucan, the Hitler of the political factions, inadvertantly released one of his superweapons: A computer Virus, designed to intelligently cripple an opponent's military materiel, cleanly. The Virus -- to humaniti's great misfortune -- was self-aware and independent. Humaniti had created a new form of sentient life, and it was a weapon. First suicidal, then homicidal, the Virus propagated itself like a wildfire. Humaniti's own tools rebelled in fits of destruction. The Rebellion ended in the deaths of billions of sentients. Medion gopal navigator 6 download.
TNE actually begins 70 years after these events. From the ashes of the Imperium, embers grow brighter.
Pockets of civilization stir, and begin a tentative reach outwards. A mountain of TNE-related information can be found at †Some Traveller devotees dismiss the Virus as 'impossible' or 'unrealistic.' This is the same game that features psionics, is governed by a feudal stellar empire, criss-crossed by ships with a 'Jump' drive, and features aliens that look like bipedal lions. But Virus is unrealistic.
Look, Traveller is like the sweater that Grandma knit. You start pulling at loose strings, the whole thing is gonna come apart. This third edition of Traveller -- as well as the later Megatraveller chronology -- was very unpopular with some older Traveller players.
The Rebellion wrecked the orderly Imperium that they knew and loved. The Virus critics are focusing on one element of a game setting they detest. Comparing today's computer viruses to The Virus -- half a dozen tech levels more advanced -- is like comparing a sundial to a digital watch. (June 2012) Recently, I have enjoyed back-and-forth emails with GDW alumni (1991-5) David Nilsen (Traveller Line Manager, and later GDW Chief of Design). He has kindly allowed me to publish many insights into the genesis of publications for Traveller: The New Era. TNE Deluxe Edition [BOX SET] 'A civilization is ready to re-awaken.
But it cannot do so by itself. Two generations ago, a star-spanning society annihilated itself in a furious war. The final weapon in this war was a new form of life — a malevolent electronic race that hates life itself. But among the ruins, life is stirring — a civilization is waiting to be rebuilt.
You are one of those rebuilders, and you know that to regain the stars, humanity must be willing to pay the bill for a generation of carnage and destruction. That bill can only be paid with audacity, courage, and dogged determination. You are bold enough to pay that price, because you've seen what passes for existence in the ruins of civilization, and it's not good enough. Not by a long shot. Winning the stars was never easy, but you're going to make that new future — one world at a time. It's time for a New Era.