Forum:Faldor update
Hi new here (although I have been playing and collecting Traveller since c.1978) and not clear on how one goes about editing the wiki.
Faldor is one of the most fully described worlds in Traveller thanks to J Andrew Keith's book Faldor Planet of Adventure.
In FPoA Faldor is something of a lost world with a human population that has regressed to TL2 and has a very medieval/renaissance feel with one major state populated by the descendants of Sword Worlders, some small city states and nomadic tribes and some minor offplanet trade.
However as a Cargonaut press publication this was for decades pretty difficult to find although I believe first Paul Sanders in the late 90s and then FFE in 2015 republished it.
While very much of its time I'd say FPoA is a pretty good supplement and well worth including as an episode in any Sword Worlds/District 268 based campaign - it would fit in the new Skandervik campaign for instance.
However the entry here and on travellermap does not reflect either FPoA or the original UPP - the major change being of the TL from 2 to 5.
This contradicts GDW's Spinward Marches supplement, the Spinward Marches Campaign and Regency Sourcebook all of which had TL2.
The first time it is a given a TL5 is in GURPS BtC where the authors were clearly unaware of FPoA and described it as an alien world populated by the Otarri.
The Mongoose 1 Spinward Marches book however kept it at TL2.
And then at some point the T5 survey changed the TL to 5 for which I can see no justification and which retcons out of existence a whole Classic Traveller era supplement for no good reason I can see.
So my suggestion is that Faldor is returned to TL2 and the entry is updated to summarise FPoA
However while I'd be very happy to do this edit it would be pointless if the travellermap is not changed as well.
So how does one request that change?
Cheers
RogerMcC (talk) 10:32, 1 February 2021 (EST) --> --RogerMcC