Ronin84 said:
Going to print this week, will likely appear in most stores early January.
B5 Traveller... what to expect?
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Going to print this week, will likely appear in most stores early January.
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ARGH! Ok won't have it for XMAS break...but can look forward to it in January!! Thanks for getting back with the info!!
Well I went ahead and purchased Traveller Core, High Guard, and Mercenary from RPGNOW in PDF. Pretty excited to jump on the Traveller bandwagon. Never played it before, so I am hoping I like it.
Either way, I will stioll be purchasing the two B5 books in PDF if they come out in that format.
Any inkling?
Razuur
Either way, I will stioll be purchasing the two B5 books in PDF if they come out in that format.
Any inkling?
Razuur
Greg Smith
Mongoose
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Hi guys,
We are just waiting for some last minute art on this book, and then it will be off to print - currently predicting middle of February for release.
We are just waiting for some last minute art on this book, and then it will be off to print - currently predicting middle of February for release.
lastbesthope
Mongoose
In time for the Corporation Launch Event and picking up a copy thereof thereat?
Excellent!
LBH
Excellent!
LBH
I'm sure people have their books by now, but I now have a copy sitting in front of me.
I've been a huge Babylon 5 fan, ever since I caught the first airing of Midnight on the Firing Line back in 93, I think it was. When the Babylon Project came out, I bought it, but was disappointed. I wasn't crazy about the game system and I wasn't a big fan of the art. After looking it over I put it down in frustration because it was not the game I was looking for. For a while I flirted with the idea of adapting Alternity to the B5 universe and I almost got a game started, but that fell apart when my gaming group disintegrated after one guy decided to get out of the Air Force and move to Texas.
Then a few years ago Mongoose decided to do a B5 RPG and I couldn't have been happier. Finally B5 was going to get the treatment it deserved, and it was going to use a system I was familiar with. I entered a contest where I wrote some Babylon 5 fiction for the D20 Magazine Rack, won, and received the B5 core book gratis from Mongoose. After that, I wrote some articles for B5 in S&P and took payment for those mostly in the form of B5 RPG product. I didn't get the whole line, particularly some of the later titles, but I do have more than half a shelf devoted to the game.
So here we are at the end, probably looking at the last B5 RPG supplements that will see the light of day for quite some time, and Mongoose is offering up what almost amounts to a reboot. I was a bit mystified at first. I mean why invest in a couple more books when I already have the game, right? This is where Mongoose's genius with this line shows through though. After reading through the books, Mongoose's Traveller is a wonderful science fiction system. It plays fast and it works well. Better, most of the B5 RPG products focus on setting information rather than crunchy game stuff. That means that with the Traveller B5 book, I can still use most of that other material. I don't feel like switching systems would be a total waste of the other books I have.
Granted, the production values on the B5 RPG 2nd edition are amazing (I mean probably one of the top 10 nicest looking books in my entire RPG collection) but there's something to be said for a nice elegant game system, and that system is Traveller, baby! So I'm looking forward to the ships book this month, and then bidding a very fond farewell to what is arguably the best space opera RPG setting ever envisioned. But when one door closes another opens, and as I said before Traveller is a sweet, sweet system. I think I'll be seeing more of it in the near future.
I've been a huge Babylon 5 fan, ever since I caught the first airing of Midnight on the Firing Line back in 93, I think it was. When the Babylon Project came out, I bought it, but was disappointed. I wasn't crazy about the game system and I wasn't a big fan of the art. After looking it over I put it down in frustration because it was not the game I was looking for. For a while I flirted with the idea of adapting Alternity to the B5 universe and I almost got a game started, but that fell apart when my gaming group disintegrated after one guy decided to get out of the Air Force and move to Texas.
Then a few years ago Mongoose decided to do a B5 RPG and I couldn't have been happier. Finally B5 was going to get the treatment it deserved, and it was going to use a system I was familiar with. I entered a contest where I wrote some Babylon 5 fiction for the D20 Magazine Rack, won, and received the B5 core book gratis from Mongoose. After that, I wrote some articles for B5 in S&P and took payment for those mostly in the form of B5 RPG product. I didn't get the whole line, particularly some of the later titles, but I do have more than half a shelf devoted to the game.
So here we are at the end, probably looking at the last B5 RPG supplements that will see the light of day for quite some time, and Mongoose is offering up what almost amounts to a reboot. I was a bit mystified at first. I mean why invest in a couple more books when I already have the game, right? This is where Mongoose's genius with this line shows through though. After reading through the books, Mongoose's Traveller is a wonderful science fiction system. It plays fast and it works well. Better, most of the B5 RPG products focus on setting information rather than crunchy game stuff. That means that with the Traveller B5 book, I can still use most of that other material. I don't feel like switching systems would be a total waste of the other books I have.
Granted, the production values on the B5 RPG 2nd edition are amazing (I mean probably one of the top 10 nicest looking books in my entire RPG collection) but there's something to be said for a nice elegant game system, and that system is Traveller, baby! So I'm looking forward to the ships book this month, and then bidding a very fond farewell to what is arguably the best space opera RPG setting ever envisioned. But when one door closes another opens, and as I said before Traveller is a sweet, sweet system. I think I'll be seeing more of it in the near future.
Rikki Tikki Traveller
Cosmic Mongoose
I came late to the Mongoose table as it were, coming over only when they announced the Traveller line, but I have been a B5 fan since the pilot (Believers removed any remaining doubt).
As a Traveller player who also likes B5, I will use the T:B5 book and now I will buy several of the supplements so that I can fill out my B5 universe. So Mongoose will make extra sales of their dying B5 line thanks to the Traveller version.
As a Traveller player who also likes B5, I will use the T:B5 book and now I will buy several of the supplements so that I can fill out my B5 universe. So Mongoose will make extra sales of their dying B5 line thanks to the Traveller version.
