JTAS 13-18 - Now Here!

[MongooseMatt]

The latest volumes of the Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society are now here, in both printed and PDF formats!

You can grab your own copies right here: https://www.mongoosepublishing.com/collections/jtas?sort_by=created-descending



Each volume is a treasure trove of information and game additions for Traveller, including adventures, new ships, alien creatures from across Charted Space, philosophical musings on the big empires, histories, different takes on familiar equipment, new vehicles, characters to be met in starports, playable alien races, and much, much more…

 

[Technetium 98]

Have there been significant changes from the ones sent out to backers?

 

[MongooseMatt]

Have there been significant changes from the ones sent out to backers?

Same ones! In fact, give us a tad, and we will get all backers the same links as everyone else.

 

[Technetium 98]

Appreciated, but I was more referring to any editing? That's not me being passive-aggressive, I haven't noticed anything, I just want to know if I need to redownload.

 

[RYXlord]

Even just skimming it I can see this is an amazing batch of stuff. It's got everything from generic NPC stat blocks to rules for cup holders! There's so much amazing art, too, wow. I can't wait to really dig in!

 

[MongooseMatt]

Appreciated, but I was more referring to any editing? That's not me being passive-aggressive, I haven't noticed anything, I just want to know if I need to redownload.

Likely no changes - if there are any, they will be very, very minor (like formatting tweaks rather than text changes).

 

[Morgoth99]

so, needing to pick and choose which one I get since i'm poor. But I was gonna ask a question if anyone can give me a one sentence synop of the following articles to help me decide: Volume 15: High Guard: Beyond Jump-6, and volume 16:
Charted Space: Extending the Computer into the Crew and Charted Space: Project Steel. It will help me decide which one to buy first.

 

[Timolution]

Same ones! In fact, give us a tad, and we will get all backers the same links as everyone else.

Hi @MongooseMatt, any chance of this still happening? Not that I haven't been happy with the KS volumes, but last time we backers also got our volumes through a monolithic KSJTAS2 bundle at DriveThru that never got updated further once all volumes were in there. Meaning they never got to the same version of the equivalent commercially available pdfs when those latter were updated in the great Apple-update wave... (and for the record, to this day the KS bundle versions still aren't updated btw). Your customer dep peeps managed to help me out by giving me complementary links to the commercial versions when I raised this through a CS mail (for which my unending thanks of course), but would be a lot easier if we wouldn't have to constantly keep tabs on whether our backer copies are up to date or not versus the commercial releases.

 

[MongooseMatt]

Hmm, let me have a look...

 

[Timolution]

Hmm, let me have a look...

Wow, that was a J-3 speed reaction!!! Just got the links in my DT inbox. Very awesome and a big thanks! Yet another reason why you Mongoose peeps are awesome.

 

[MasterGwydion]

Wow, that was a J-3 speed reaction!!! Just got the links in my DT inbox. Very awesome and a big thanks! Yet another reason why you Mongoose peeps are awesome.

It took you a week or two to hear back? lol

 

[Terry Mixon]

It took you a week or two to hear back? lol

The hit or miss nature of Kickstarter rewards on Drive Through is why I take advantage of Mongoose’s offer to email them and have my Kickstarter rewards added to my downloads on their site.

 

[Timolution]

It took you a week or two to hear back? lol

Obvs I'm not very good at jokes

 

[Timolution]

The hit or miss nature of Kickstarter rewards on Drive Through is why I take advantage of Mongoose’s offer to email them and have my Kickstarter rewards added to my downloads on their site.

You do this during the kickstarter or after the rewards are delivered on DT? Might also consider starting doing that tbh

 

[MasterGwydion]

Obvs I'm not very good at jokes

Neither am I! Just look at the joke I made! lol

 

[Terry Mixon]

You do this during the kickstarter or after the rewards are delivered on DT? Might also consider starting doing that tbh

Once the rewards go on sale. The first time around, I just bought the pdfs because I was so dissatisfied with the lack of updates on Drive Through, but for the ones after, I've emailed them and asked to have the rewards put into my files after they've gone on sale. I sent a screen capture of my backer info to validate.

 

[Garran]

so, needing to pick and choose which one I get since i'm poor. But I was gonna ask a question if anyone can give me a one sentence synop of the following articles to help me decide: Volume 15: High Guard: Beyond Jump-6, and volume 16:
Charted Space: Extending the Computer into the Crew and Charted Space: Project Steel. It will help me decide which one to buy first.

I know that it has been a couple of days, but if you're still wondering:

Beyond Jump-6 is a one page of in-universe musing on the subject.

Extending The Computer is four pages and talks about wafer jacks, neural comms, and wearable computers. It's essentially a descriptive piece.

Project Steel (don't call it that around officials!) is a two-page scenario thumbnail.

 

[RogerN]

Are there any plans to re-release the books in the 6 books boxed sets again ? I wasnt able to afford them when they were released and would love to just pick up the boxed sets rather than individual books.

 

[Sigtrygg]

Or how about a generic slip case so that people who have bought them individual can get a slip case?

Rather than the expense of printing the JTAS 1-6 box, 7-12 box and 13-18 individually do a generic box - bet people would buy just the empty box... I need somewhere safe for Bu and Embla, the FFW, freebee ship pamphlets etc.

 

[Micky]

Or how about a generic slip case so that people who have bought them individual can get a slip case?

Rather than the expense of printing the JTAS 1-6 box, 7-12 box and 13-18 individually do a generic box - bet people would buy just the empty box... I need somewhere safe for Bu and Embla, the FFW, freebee ship pamphlets etc.

amen to that but... I was PDF only with 1-12 until I got the 13-18 KS and loved having the books and not needing to break out the laptop to find that if a Scout gets a +1 or +2 modifier for purifying water hahah. Loved so much I've been buying up the earlier 12 I only had on PDF. About to drop an order for the last batch of 3 from the first JTAS set I didn't have to complete the physical set but... I am a bookcase FANATIC and hated that only one set had a slipcase. It didn't look right. An oddity factor my OCD could not handle

suppose that will never happen so .... how many really would they sell so improvise, overcome adapt and find a slipcase...

www.ebay.com/itm/126278004110