[13Mann] Traveller Hephaestos IndieGogo

[Gerd]

Traveller Hephaestos

The IndieGogo-campaign for Traveller Hephaestos is online!

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/traveller-hephaestus


Hephaestos is an exciting adventure for Mongoose Traveller by the German publisher 13Mann Verlag. The adventure, written by Sebastian Witzmann, is already available on the German market and got great reviews. In order to make it available to an international audience it needs to be translated into English. That's what this IndieGogo-campaign is for.

The Story: A gigantic star ship has stranded nearby a gas giant of a populated system, sending out an automated distress signal. The type of vessel is unknown, so is the language used in the distress signal. However, the ship appears to be very advanced, maybe even beyond Imperial maximum.

All communications with the ship have failed so far and suddenly a race for the apparently abbandoned ship begins. Imperials, Pirates and Travellers make strange bedfellows. Who will be the first to claim its treasures..and survive?

The adventure spreads across 24 pages and contains 20 images of interior art in black/white. The printed version comes with a color-hardcover that can be removed and used as referee screen which contains all deckplans.

The minimum goal we aim for is € 1.100,- to make a pdf-release possible. If we reach the stretch goal of € 4.000,- the adventure will also be available as printed version!

Deadline: 15 Sep 11:59PM


About 13Mann
13Mann Verlag is a German publisher of role-playing games and has been publishing a wide array of products since its foundation in 2007. Besides translating material for their official German licenses, Rolemaster and Mongoose Traveller, 13Mann also maintains an original line of games: Aborea, a rules-light fantasy-setting aimed at beginners and Heredium, a dystopian near-future setting. 13Mann already published two English supplements for Traveller: 13Mann’s Robots and Traveller Spinward Marches - Excellent Maps for Explorers and Merchants.
For more information you can visit http://www.13mann.com or the official facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/13Mann-Verlag/292335867503330.

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I hope it's okay, that I posted this here! If you have any questions about the adventure, just ask

 

[Infojunky]

The Story: A gigantic star ship has stranded nearby a gas giant of a populated system, sending out an automated distress signal. The type of vessel is unknown, so is the language used in the distress signal. However, the ship appears to be very advanced, maybe even beyond Imperial maximum.

How do we know it's a distress signal if we don't understand them?

 

[Wil Mireu]

Probably because it's repeating over and over and the ship is showing no sign of doing anything else?

 

[Gerd]

Exactly The distress signal can be received by anybody, but the information (what kind of emergency, what happened etc.) it contains cannot be understood.

 

[Easterner]

It's probably not a distress signal....but a warning to avoid.

 

[First Age]

It's probably not a distress signal....but a warning to avoid.

Exactly the sort of draw that will bring in greedy and daft player characters.

 

[Easterner]

They met their goal and have begun the translation.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/traveller-hephaestus

My question is why the need for upfront cash? Currently they can sell it in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and very few anywhere else. In English they can sell it on a planetary scale, Why would they not have done that automatically to get access to a market of such size? If goal not met they'd have been stuck and forced to not enter the international market?

If ABBA and Roxette can write songs, a complex item of rhyming, in English, a 2nd language. Why is it so difficult in multi-language Germany to translate straight tech info (what an RPG is basically) in-house?

 

[Wil Mireu]

If ABBA and Roxette can write songs, a complex item of rhyming, in English, a 2nd language. Why is it so difficult in multi-language Germany to translate straight tech info (what an RPG is basically) in-house?

I think it's pretty clear why they need the cash, in the section that says "Why do we need the money"...

We need to translate the German text into English and have it checked by a copyeditor. Afterwards we will have it layouted and a PDF created. This is the minimum version we aim for.

Not everyone in Germany can speak English or translate into English on their own.