![]() ![]() At a first glance bad editing doesn’t seem to be an issue this time. I assume that all the errata has been included but – to be honest – I haven’t actually checked yet. Much clearer layout than before!Ĭontent-wise not that much has changed from the older version of the rules with the big exception being that they included starship generation this time. I’ve included a couple images from the book below. The about 260-paged hardcover book is well bound and looks a lot better than the original 2E corebook from a few years ago. To my surprise the book came directly from Studio2Publishing in the US which Mongoose obviously cooperates with. ![]() The transaction was still on hold until they were ready to ship the hardcover book a few days later. That is actually pretty good customer support especially if you consider that at this point I haven’t even paid the guy. Interestingly enough, you have to email Mongoose’s owner Matthew Sprange directly and to my surprise he responded pretty quickly and immediately made the PDF available to me. My PayPal transaction was still on hold, so I reached out to Mongoose. You get the hardcover book plus the PDF for £45 plus shipping, which is totally fine.Īfter ordering I expected to get access to the PDF at once, but unfortunately that wasn’t the case. Why? Because it’s the best deal available. Eventually I made up my mind and ordered a print copy from Mongoose Publishing directly. ![]() The improved layout looked like a good start and the fact that this corebook included starship generation rules made me think that just maybe Mongoose had learned a lesson. This combined with the questionable quality of their products lead to me avoiding them for quite some time.Įven after all this I was still slightly intrigued when the new corebook was announced. The new cover in all its gloryĪnother reason why I haven’t bought anything in a while from Mongoose was their treatment of third party publishers during the transition from 1st Edition to 2nd Edition of their Traveller line. I really liked the modernized layout and higher production values, even though some of the artwork was really, really bad. But I have to admit that their second edition of Traveller products were actually an improvement. ![]() Especially the editing was often bad to non-existent. Over the years I have often criticised Mongoose for over-priced products with questionable quality. When I first read about Mongoose Publishing releasing a rather expensive update to their Traveller 2nd Edition core rulebook I expected a cash grab. ![]()
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