Assistance Sought: Traveller Product Publishers and Websites

[FreeTrav]

I'm starting to build the Published Products database for eventual integration into the Freelance Traveller website. This database will ultimately consist of three tables:

Publishers, giving the name of the publisher and the publisher's website/product catalogue;

Products, giving a list of Traveller products, the publisher, the type of product (e.g., rules, adventures, equipment catalog, setting book, etc), and an indication of whether the product is in print or not;

Reviews, giving a list of Traveller products and the URLs on Freelance Traveller for reviews of those products.



Right now, I'm populating the Publishers table. I'd like your help. Right now, I have several publisher names, but the only ones I have URLs for are Far Future Enterprises, Steve Jackson Games, and Mongoose Publishing. So... If you know of a company that has EVER published Traveller material, please let me know the name; if they're CURRENTLY in business publishing/selling Traveller material, please also give me a URL for them. Other than the three mentioned above, don't worry about whether I have the information already; just feel free to post or PM with whatever information you can scrounge up on it.

I'll be asking separately for (pointers to) product catalogs for out-of-business publishers; I want to attack this problem relatively systematically.

Help, please?

 

[AndrewW]

Terra/Sol Games:

http://terrasolgames.com/

 

[Elrick]

BITS: http://www.bitsuk.net/

 

[Nathan Brazil]

Samardan Press

http://stores.lulu.com/samardanpress

Flynn's Guide to Alien Creation
Flynn's Guide to Magic in Traveller

 

[Nathan Brazil]

Jon Brazer Enterprises
http://jonbrazer.com/
Character Data File
Creatures of Distant Worlds Compendium I
D66 Compendium
Mech, Tech and 'Bot series
and other Traveller products

BTRC
http://www.btrc.net/
Guns, Guns, Guns

 

[Nathan Brazil]

Gun Metal Games
http://www.rpgobjects.com/index.php?c=rdp

Reign of Discordia (Traveller Edition)

Hell Creek Sanitarium has products over at Drivethru
(unknown catalog page)
The Starfarer's Kit
Ares Deck Plans
Venture Deck Plans

Loren Wiseman Enterprises
http://www.cgi101.com/~lkw/pdf.html
Traveller Deckplans

 

[FreeTrav]

BTRC and Gun Metal Games don't actually qualify for this particular database/list; 3G³ is not strictly a Traveller product, and Reign of Discordia (Traveller) is actually a Mongoose imprint. I've noted them for a separate list, "Non-Traveller products useful/of interest to Traveller players".

(For the same reason, unless someone can point to evidence to the contrary, Avenger Enterprises won't get a separate listing, as all of their Traveller product came out under the QLI, Comstar, or Mongoose imprints.)

 

[Golan2072]

Spica Publishing
Career Book 1
Career Book 2
Nemesis-class Pursuit Ship
Allies, Contacts, Enemies and Rivals (ACER)
System Book 1: Katringa

 

[The Dark Avenger]

I do think Avenger should have a separate listing.

Avenger was the Traveller brand and although we published through different outlets, it's the identifiable one.

I certainly don't want Avenger products listed under the QLI heading, so at the very least I'll ask that you don't do that, just as a courtesy.

 

[FreeTrav]

I do think Avenger should have a separate listing.

Avenger was the Traveller brand and although we published through different outlets, it's the identifiable one.

I certainly don't want Avenger products listed under the QLI heading, so at the very least I'll ask that you don't do that, just as a courtesy.

On reflection, I think I can see my way clear to doing this; it hadn't initially occurred to me that, under the circumstances, listing the Avenger products that went out under the QLI imprint might well be considered outright offensive to anyone involved on the Avenger side. My concern, in that case, would be clearly differentiating the Avenger products from non-Avenger products done for the other imprints by individuals involved with Avenger. I'm assuming that, when I start compiling product lists, you can assist with that (for example, is the Starfarer's Gazette an Avenger product, or a Terra/Sol product?).

I've added an entry for Avenger Enterprises in the publisher table of the database, and will start compiling product lists soon, starting with the non-databased published product lists that are currently linked from the FAQ on the Freelance Traveller website.

 

[Spica Publishing]

Spica Publishing

Website: http://www.spicapublishing.co.uk
Forums: http://www.spicapublishing.co.uk/phpbb3/index.php

Products (all are PDFs, all are available as POD on Lulu):
System Book 1: Katringa (setting book)
Allies, Contacts, Enemies & Rivals (NPC book)
Career Book 2 (career book)
Nemesis Class Pursuit Ship (ship book)
Career Book 1 (career book)

Review list:
http://spicapublishing.co.uk/product-reviews/

 

[The Dark Avenger]

The easy guide is that Avenger products were published under the Avenger label...

Starfarer's gazette is published by Terra/Sol, yes. It's nothing to do with Avenger.

 

[rust]

K Studio
- Denizens I
- Denizens II

Sorry, I found no website, only the DTRPG link:
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=82760

 

[rust]

Sceaptune Games
- The Sirius Treaty

Product:
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=806&products_id=80463&filters=0_0_40050_10134&manufacturers_id=806

Website:
http://www.sceaptunegames.co.uk/

 

[rust]

Skortched Urf' Studios
- S.C.A.R.E.-Series (Vol. 1 - 5)
- Minor Races (Arien, Neuralon)

Products:
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/index.php?filters=0_0_40050_10134&sort=2a&manufacturers_id=402

Website:
http://www.skortchedurfstudios.com/

 

[rust]

D.B. Game Design
- Ares Dragon Class
- Venture Class

then joined with Hell Creek Sanitarium, and I am not certain whether this
is just a cooperation of two independent companies or a fusion into one
company.

Products (unter Hell Creek Sanitarium):
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/index.php?filters=0_0_0_10134&sort=2a&manufacturers_id=2418

Website - Sorry, I do not know whether there is one.

 

[rust]

Northern Edge Publishing
- Cyclops Combat Walker

Product:
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=79093&filters=0_0_0_10134&manufacturers_id=3104

Again, I am not aware of a website.

 

[rust]

13 Mann Verlag
- Roboter

This is an orignal product by a German author for the German licensee
of Mongoose Traveller, not a translation of a Mongoose publication.

Product:
http://13mann.de/index.php?page=news_entry&cat=4&id=116

Website:
http://13mann.de/index.php?page=news&cat=4

 

[rust]

Well, that's ^^ what I have on my own list of Traveller publications, but I
suspect that there is even more out there, because I usually only watch
DTRPG and occasionally Lulu for new Traveller material.

 

[FreeTrav]

Sceaptune Games
- The Sirius Treaty

Product:
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=806&products_id=80463&filters=0_0_40050_10134&manufacturers_id=806

Website:
http://www.sceaptunegames.co.uk/

As Sceaptune has specifically divorced Hyperlite from Traveller (though it's clearly an amicable divorce), I don't see that they should be listed in the Published Products listing - although reviews of any Hyperlite product would certainly be welcome and even encouraged for Freelance Traveller's "Critics' Corner" (we've already done one!), and articles that would be applicable to crossing over between Hyperlite and Traveller would not be inappropriate for other sections of Freelance Traveller. Remember, Freelance Traveller is a Traveller fanzine, and will maintain a focus on Traveller.

However, it is better to err on the side of telling me about a publisher if you're not certain. I want the information, and I will make the final decision.