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[Oracle]

When will we see the products of:

- The American Arm
- American Arm Adventures

Thanks

 

[kermit]

Not to speak for Colin, but it may be a while. French Arm Adventures consisted of re-worked adventures that had been previously published. Chinese Arm Adventures will have portions taken from the old supplement, Ranger, as well as some information regarding the Sung I would imagine. But it too will be harder to create as Ranger was the only published adventure/sourcebook set in the Chinese Arm that I can remember.

As for there the American Arm, there was very little canon material without raiding the old Challenge Magazine articles. Colin could adapt the Back Door Adventure from Challenges numbers 49-52, but that opens the old can of Kaefers. I'm not sure he wants to do that yet.

Realistically, I think we're looking at a year or more until American Arm material is published. Hopefully I'm wrong.

Benjamin

 

[Lemnoc]

One problem with the American Arm is it's IMO kinda boring. Mostly sketchy, unpleasant worlds and no aliens. I guess if you introduced the vanished Aquilans things might start to get interesting.

Chinese Arm is a bit more interesting, with three of the settings aliens and a richer int'l texture on a variety of worlds. Plus the various terrorist outfits. $0.02.

 

[Oracle]

Maybe they focus more on writing new stuff for the American arm and flush it out more and going into some detail about the main worlds in each system. I just wanted a update and I thank you for that.

 

[Colin]

French Arm Sourcebook is in writing, though there is a delay. Next after that will be a book of short adventures set int eh French Arm, the RebCo SAR Employment Guide (or something like that), an ebook. After that, we will leave the French Arm and journey over to the Chinese Arm, with the Adventure book, and the Chinese Arm Sourcebook. Following these books will be another RebCo SAR e-book. Only after that will I be looking at the American Arm.

Somewhere along the way, we may see Star Cruiser II, and a book oriented towards the military, a la "Tools for Frontier Living." I will also be working with Ian Stead on a book of vehicles, and another book of weapons, mostly, but not entirely, guns.

 

[Prime_Evil]

I think that the Chinese Arm will be very interesting, simply because there an interstellar region dominated by Chinese interests has never been fully explored by an RPG. There have been a number of SF novels set in futures where China is a major superpower, but this is rarely seen in games - which tend to prefer Japan as the dominant Asian state (possibly a holdover from early cyberpunk genre works). But novels like Paul McAuley's Red Dust or David Wingrove's Chung Kuo saga show that a Chinese future might be an interesting setting in its own right.

 

[voradams]

One problem with the American Arm is it's IMO kinda boring. Mostly sketchy, unpleasant worlds and no aliens. I guess if you introduced the vanished Aquilans things might start to get interesting.

Chinese Arm is a bit more interesting, with three of the settings aliens and a richer int'l texture on a variety of worlds. Plus the various terrorist outfits. $0.02.

I would love to see the American Arm done, if only because the Aussie Sub Arm would be covered as well.

That alone will sell 5 or 6 copies

 

[Lemnoc]

I think that the Chinese Arm will be very interesting, simply because there an interstellar region dominated by Chinese interests has never been fully explored by an RPG. There have been a number of SF novels set in futures where China is a major superpower, but this is rarely seen in games - which tend to prefer Japan as the dominant Asian state (possibly a holdover from early cyberpunk genre works). But novels like Paul McAuley's Red Dust or David Wingrove's Chung Kuo saga show that a Chinese future might be an interesting setting in its own right.

Seconded.

Three of the setting's five major alien races reside there, and there are plenty of interesting, habitable worlds plus a few interesting, sketchy ones (Van Maanen). Strange mashups with Tex-Mex, Inca, and Muslim nations. Then you've got the weird Orwellian Manchurian security state ethos poised against ProVolution and the other terror groups. Head spinning.

I've been running the majority of my gaming sessions out of that Arm. It's almost like a Mirror, Mirror universe of the French Arm.