I think that's the generic ship deckplan, not the one specific to this adventure. Maus class does not natively have low berths. For this adventure, they are shoved in the cargo lockers, which is area 9. But that does seem to have gotten lost in this version of the adventure.
Great Rift Adventures 1-5 - On Pre-Order & PDF!
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@Sygtrygg
I am now quite concerned that the Core Expeditions book will be a giant faceslap of Empress Wave. :/
I will say there's something that I was less than thrilled to see.
I am now quite concerned that the Core Expeditions book will be a giant faceslap of Empress Wave. :/
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
It comes...
Geir
Emperor Mongoose
(FYI: learning more about astronomical interferometry, it needs accurate placement of sensors down to the wavelength of light its capturing (visual is 300 -700 nanometers) and exact time synchronization. Plus of course even if the resolution problem can be worked out, you still only have the light gathering capability of the individual telescopes). So making for visual light that spans the size of a planet would be extremely difficult. Making one that spans parsecs... I'd rather believe in a recovered Ancient Skip Drive - Project Bouncy Rock)
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
If it's really going to be a thing--which it sounds like it since they went over these adventures just recently--I would wager it will be something less destructive. They've said they don't intend to wreck everything in the setting.
boggo2300
Cosmic Mongoose
thats what happened with it in the 1248 setting for T:20 it was basically a psionic distress call that by the time it got to charted space had dropped in effect so much, that all it did drove a percentage of psionics crazy for awhile. It was pretty much a non-event that had been built up as a terrifying wave of doom due to the fact all the reports of its effects were coming from people affected by it...
We are not intending to wreck everything.
Understood, and this was something we kept in mind. Basically, it works like this:
When the print run for the 32-page adventures run low, we look at compiling them into a hardback (as well as being able to update them, this also reduces the number of stock units we have overall, which both retailers and distributors like a lot).
However, three adventures is not really enough for a hardback, so if we do not have enough, we add a couple more.
That is the only reason we do this. If, for example, we were to compile Reach Adventures, it would be Reach Adventures 1-5, and no new titles would be added to it. The intention is to compile things into a hardback, and new material is only being added because there is not enough adventures to do that.
The alternative would be to release Adventures 4 and 5 separately as softbacks, which would mean either Adventures 1-3 go out of stock for a couple of years OR we reprint them, which would mean we then have to wait until they all go out of stock again, and basically nothing gets done. Ever.
Not brilliant, but that is where we are coming from.
MasterGwydion
Emperor Mongoose
Why not do Print On Demand? Just curious since I do not own or keep hardcopies anymore. I live in the Caribbean with no A/C, so books tend to get moldy. It just seems like you could do POD for one part of the problem and the 5-book slipcase "Limited Edition Hardback - Box Set"
I do not even know if this is a realistic solution or not, so take it with a grain of salt or ignore it if it wouldn't work.
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
Print in demand isn’t as high a quality in my experience. Maybe one day.Why not do Print On Demand? Just curious since I do not own or keep hardcopies anymore. I live in the Caribbean with no A/C, so books tend to get moldy. It just seems like you could do POD for one part of the problem and the 5-book slipcase "Limited Edition Hardback - Box Set"
I do not even know if this is a realistic solution or not, so take it with a grain of salt or ignore it if it wouldn't work.
MasterGwydion
Emperor Mongoose
Ahhh! As I have never purchased Print on Demand, I did not know that. That is a good reason though.
This is it. No issues with black and white books, but we have never found a decent enough quality POD service for colour.
boggo2300
Cosmic Mongoose
I'm part of the BFRPG project and we do POD with 'zon, Lulu and DTRPG, and DTRPG is a royal pain to set up your PDF's for, I would not be surprised if it ended up being more work for Mongoose than using their regular printing.
All my Mythic books (I have all Mythic Magazine Compilation volumes) are POD from DTRPG, and I don't see either any difference with the colors from the PDFs. And honestly, I would rather have a slightly less quality print for one or two books than to have to trash books.
Lurking Grue
Cosmic Mongoose
I have several POD books from DriveThruRPG and Lulu, and while the quality is okay and fine, I would *not* say it is equal to a regular printed book. The B/W stuff fares better, but e.g. my 'Legend of Five Rings: Great Clans' POD book, even with the premium color option from DTRPG, is not nearly as fine as the printed books of that line are (L5R 4th Ed). Colors are less vibrant and a bit faded, paper quality isn't as good, but it is serviceable for sure (and a better option than trying to get a used one for silly prices, like $200+), just not of equal quality. Thus, I'd agree that quality is the issue with color POD.
