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Marc Miller released a T5 draft as a CDROM in November 2008. He has also stated that he will direct it very closely and not trust others with production so much as before (T4). - http://traveller.wikia.com/wiki/T5
So I am on safe ground thinking Marc, after three decades of not being able to "trust others with production" is going to do it right this time?
It has gone to press already. Yes, it could have used real proof reading by a real copy editor.... - DangerousThing
...there's no way all that errata could have been edited into the final PDF on time... - Shonner
Four plus years wasn't enough time to do "on time"?
...kickstarter was a spectacular success. Yet there wasn't money to pay a real copy editor to do a proper job? - rancke
A real copy editor would have needed months to get it done to your version of "proper" and would still have had errors in it.
Those additional months would have pushed back delivery to well passed the current timeline, which would then open up the authors to grousing about delayed delivery of a product they paid for. - pendragonman
Yeah, after 4 years those "additional months" would have just pissed everyone off...lol Now we can be content "grousing about" more of the ERRATA we've been buying for the last 35-36 years!
...One concern is that Traveller5 may fragment the player base more by adding yet-one-more rule system in a Babel of rules systems. - robject
It certainly WILL fragment the fanbase. It's mechanically incompatible on many levels.
Unfortunately, even as a "reference" it's already creating division...
The one thing T5 has prompted me to do is to start doing my house rules... I'll be pulling a very few items from T5... (That's about ALL that I've found useful.) - aramis
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And that from the usual "voice of Marc"?
Don McKinney gives me old ERRATA for free http://dmckinne.winterwar.org/pdfs/ConsolidatedCTErrata.pdf
and Marc Millers offers to sell me the new ERRATA and toss in some swell swag...
2,085 - backers
$294,628 - pledged of $24,000 goal
0 - seconds to go
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/traveller5/traveller-5th-edition
T5 looks to be a raging success, for one persons bank account. CT keeps looking better and better.