Are these still unpublished?

[MasterGwydion]

 

[phavoc]

Combat vehicle guide is out there.

 

[collins355]

That is correct - in my collection I have 0318 and 0320, but not 0319 and 0321.

When Dave N reappeared a few years ago he made some remarks about Regency Starship Guide IIRC, but at that time the majority of us were asking him about "Longships" which was supposed to be the starship book for the Reformation Coalition/Star Vikings and was allegedly further along at the time of GDW's collapse than these products.

It would be interesting to know from MongooseMatt what (if anything) he obtained from that era when he purchased the rights to the GDW products. For instance, at one time it was said that the unpublished Challenge 78 existed and was to be included on a FFE CDROM. But that never happened.

 

[collins355]

Postcript: I found what Dave N had to say about it...

Q10: What future products were already sketched out and or near completion at the time of GDW closure and would he consider bringing them out under the Quicklink banner (after some modification due to MJD's efforts)?

A: Before I left GDW to come down to Knox I asked Frank if he wanted me to leave Regency Combat Vehicle Guide for them to finish the art and typesetting, and write the manuscript for Regency Starship Guide, or to do the typesetting, art direction, layout, etc., for RCVG to guarantee that it got done and published. He chose the latter, but I was going to write RSG for GDW after I got down to Fort Knox. I was working on it on my ex-GDW Macintosh in my office down here in Radcliff in the evenings, but about a week or two after I arrived, Frank said forget it, it would never get printed. That would probably have taken a couple more weeks to finish. Loren had a lot of clipper modules and cutter modules he was fiddling with, but that would take a while to pull together. The only other thing was the “Into the Belly of the Beast” Epic adventure, which was where my heart was at in a lot of ways.

I would consider bringing them out, but am not in a position to make any promises as I write this. It would take a while for me to remember how to get into that Mac, never mind remember what I was doing.

 

[Yatima]

Postcript: I found what Dave N had to say about it...

Q10: What future products were already sketched out and or near completion at the time of GDW closure and would he consider bringing them out under the Quicklink banner (after some modification due to MJD's efforts)?

A: Before I left GDW to come down to Knox I asked Frank if he wanted me to leave Regency Combat Vehicle Guide for them to finish the art and typesetting, and write the manuscript for Regency Starship Guide, or to do the typesetting, art direction, layout, etc., for RCVG to guarantee that it got done and published. He chose the latter, but I was going to write RSG for GDW after I got down to Fort Knox. I was working on it on my ex-GDW Macintosh in my office down here in Radcliff in the evenings, but about a week or two after I arrived, Frank said forget it, it would never get printed. That would probably have taken a couple more weeks to finish. Loren had a lot of clipper modules and cutter modules he was fiddling with, but that would take a while to pull together. The only other thing was the “Into the Belly of the Beast” Epic adventure, which was where my heart was at in a lot of ways.

I would consider bringing them out, but am not in a position to make any promises as I write this. It would take a while for me to remember how to get into that Mac, never mind remember what I was doing.

Was this an AMA on COTI? Could you link it, please, I don't think I've seen that before.

J

 

[Sigtrygg]

(hypothetical) What would you ask Dave Nilsen?

I would have to imagine it would be details of Clipper ships. More modules, more clippers, more fuel tankers, and perhaps details about the mini battle riders that are in the Battle Rider game.

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post 29 onwards.

Dave contributed to other threads then disappeared for a long while, work. Almost a decade later he returned and contributed a bit more until ****** was a total nob so Dave stopped visiting the cess pit.

 

[Sigtrygg]

For completeness here are the other threads he commented in:

Another set of questions for Dave

As the main thread starts to go more or less off-topic I decided to gather the questions I saw from page 20 and onwards. They seems not to have been answered. If they have I offer my apologies. Anyway here they come. Zparkz: 1a) Gravitics. In MT the TL 12 gravmodules got a minimum volume of 3...

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Speaking of the Novels...

Not that I am probably not going to buy MJD's novel...especially, if it comes out in print...ebook, I will leave for my employer. Does anyone have relevant contact information for Paul Brunette, author of the GDW TNE novels? He is scheduled to write something Gold Rush Games but his email is a...

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Thank's Dave.

Thanks Dave. Just a visible big thank you to Dave Nilsen for popping back and answering all these questions. It is very much appreciated to get an insight into TNE. Is it ok to ask more ;)

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Strephon.

Allright, time for a bit of a spoiler question again. From what Ive gathered from reading old posts, the "real" strephon was indeed the real strephon. BUt it was alluded to, both in the long "ask nielsen" thread and in gurps traveller, that he had specific reasons for being wherever he...

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Where do all those nukes come from?

Battlerider and Brilliant Lances both assume the use of nuclear missiles. While the Imperial Rules of War may not apply anymore, I found it a little odd that rules weren't provided for any other munition, since I figure the majority of missiles produced in Imperial times must have been...

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Brilliant Lances-- yeah, buddy!

I just picked up a copy for ten bucks. Man, I'm stoked. Three super-mega-giant-hex maps... counter sheets with really large versions of the Traveller ships, design rules, and rulebook. Yeah, buddy. (After GT, The Classic Games, GTIW, CT LBB 1-3, T4, and CT CDRom, it's good to have some...

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TNE...why?

Some of you TNE lovers out there might get a kick out of THIS. It was written just before the release of TNE. Here's an excerpt: TRAVELLER: THE NEW ERA -- WHY? GDW admits they did not support MEGATRAVELLER (MT) adequately. An underlying reason was simply that they did not play MT, and...

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Duke Craig and Daibei question

Hey all, I am once again trawling for information for an upcoming game. This time I was wondering if anyone could give me the lowdown on Duke Craig and Daibei? I don't even know which Megatravller sourcebooks to try to find to get info on them. I'm also a little broke so I was hoping someone...

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TNE fan in the Mad Men writing room?

TNE: Smash and Grab, page 89. Roger Sterling, Captain of the Mackenzie. Motivations are sociability and greed (lustful). Considers women to be "God's gift to him." Mad Men: Roger Sterling, partner of various ad agencies and former officer in the USN. Sociable skirt chaser. Coincidence...

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The Backwards Mask

FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH Marc Miller has contracted an author to write the third book in the TNE trilogy. They have synopsized the first two books, and worked out a plot for the third one. More news as it becomes available.

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Star Viking Atrocity?

In his lengthy discussion of what was to come in TNE, Dave Nilsen mentions a Star Viking Atrocity that ultimately dooms the cause of the RC. Any thoughts as to what it could be? For my money, it would be the intentional release of Virus. After all, they already have a friendly strain in...

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Things that don't add up about TNE

Help me out here, those who understand this: I) Chargen does not line up with the background To wit: Hivers showed up in 1192. Seems to me like the implication is the 20 worlds didn't have space travel before that (most of them anyway). First contact with Traders was in 1195 (they must have...

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Belladonna-class Clippers?

Since I'm always willing to choose Fire, Fusion, and Steel over whatever it is I should be doing, I'm looking to work up a design for the Reformation Coalition Belladonna class clipper. I know from Path of Tears that the clipper is based on the long spine of the Maggart class, but fully...

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Hull configuration errata

I've just noticed that the Open Frame length multiplier in the hull configuration table page 12 of my edition of FF&S is x3.5, while the RCES Clipper ships used a multiplier of x4 to get hull length. The x4 multiplier does appear in the hull configuration table on page 2 of the Brilliant Lances...

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Fusilier!

Been on something of A New Era kick recently. Got out my copy of Space Viking and Path of Tears and building a civilsation from the ruins and stuff. And for me, that means bad doodling! See my interpretation of a Coalition destroyer...

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Combining Hard Times and collapse effects

I've just got a PDF copy of Hard Times and I'm confused about how to combine the UWP changes in that with the TNE collapse effects determination. Do I take the UWP after Hard Times changes and then change that with the collapse effects determination procedure? Or do I use the original UWP and...

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Your Favorite Colonial World

I like Austin's World. Call it what you will, it might be boring, but it has promise. Another good one is Heidelschiemat, those wascally Bavarians.

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