Court Jester
Mongoose
Hopefully Will Chapman, their new layout chap, will give the visuals of Mongoose books a good kick up the arse. One would expect him to know his stuff.
Rebel Scum!! (or mongoose joins rebellion)
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lastbesthope
Mongoose
Well the C'Tech books are no being printed by another publisher, and ill be returning to colour, as for Mongoose, I assume they have acces to colour printing, but are choosing not to use it at the moment for cost or other reasons.
LBH
LBH
Poi said:
Patience
We have always been very open about what we do and when, so as soon as we have something solid on the table, you can be sure we'll let you in on it.Or, perhaps to take it from a different angle. . . Imagine you are running an RPG company. Now imagine you suddenly have all the resources (and that means money too) of an extremely large computer games developer.
What would you be looking at doing?
We have already talked about new premises, complete with dedicated events centre (and, if we can wangle it, a bar).
But what else? Well, there are certainly licences open to us now that were closed before. We can also now look at buying certain properties outright, rather than licensing them.
Try an exercise in imagination though (might be fun
) - what would you be thinking of doing if you were us?wraith recon the computer game instantly springs to mind. this is an RPG book I am looking forward to getting anyway.
CTA computer game type things.
basically alot of your products could go computer style and help bring in new people that usually only play PC games.
for bigger games to go for obviously star trek and star wars. for me I would also like midkemia but thats probably a toughie.
CTA computer game type things.
basically alot of your products could go computer style and help bring in new people that usually only play PC games.
for bigger games to go for obviously star trek and star wars. for me I would also like midkemia but thats probably a toughie.
katadder said:
We've been thinking novels on this line. . .
lastbesthope
Mongoose
Armageddon 2089 novels?
LBH
LBH
lastbesthope said:
Again, they have been raised as a possibility.
lastbesthope
Mongoose
PLEEEEEEAAAAASSSEEEE!!!!
LBH
LBH
Well, what can I say? It was sort of a close call the guess about someone buying Mongoose I know, I know it's not the same thing 
Personally I try to be optimistic about this and I don't see why not as long as things are as Matt tells us.
Instead of making computer games out of Mongoose RPGs I am thinking of the computer game rights that the Rebellion has and turn them to RPGs or miniatures games (I think that Rogue Trooper would fare much better as a minis game than as an RPG).
This would potentially give Mongoose a huge stable of linces (or however the thing goes), besides as RPGs go how many non-licensed RPGs Mongoose has created? Armageddon 2089 and the forth-coming Wraith Recon comes to mind. This is not meaned as an offense and I might have overlooked some d20 products so goin from RPGs to computer games is not something I would envision at this point. Maybe when Mongoose has cultivated Wraith Recon or some new setting?
Anyway, it's good to see that things weren't as bad as they first seemed. The actual sister company thing is not thrilling like Matt predicted but the possibilities seem really promising...
I know, I know it's not the same thing Personally I try to be optimistic about this and I don't see why not as long as things are as Matt tells us.
Instead of making computer games out of Mongoose RPGs I am thinking of the computer game rights that the Rebellion has and turn them to RPGs or miniatures games (I think that Rogue Trooper would fare much better as a minis game than as an RPG).
This would potentially give Mongoose a huge stable of linces (or however the thing goes), besides as RPGs go how many non-licensed RPGs Mongoose has created? Armageddon 2089 and the forth-coming Wraith Recon comes to mind. This is not meaned as an offense and I might have overlooked some d20 products so goin from RPGs to computer games is not something I would envision at this point. Maybe when Mongoose has cultivated Wraith Recon or some new setting?
Anyway, it's good to see that things weren't as bad as they first seemed. The actual sister company thing is not thrilling like Matt predicted but the possibilities seem really promising...
Computer games company = computer programmers = character generation software for RPGs &/or online roleplaying software (I would really like to see a professionally produced application like this) &/or mapping software (OK, probably already been done by others) &/or character sheet software with 3D character profiles, etc.......
GbajiTheDeceiver
Mongoose
I'd be a little concerned that current lines might get edged out in favour of Rebellion IPs. I know there are long term plans, but the nature of goalposts is that they move.
A bit of extra muscle around the negotiating table when it comes to acquiring new IPs never does any harm, though.
Right now I see that Rebellion have involvement in Star Wars, The Simpsons, Alien(s)/Predator and a few others, as well as the 2000AD stuff.
Going out on a limb, I'd say a Star Wars RPG with RQ rules (specifically bearing in mind the stated inspiration for RQ combat) would slot nicely into the mysterious setting Matt talked about a while back that would revive SpaceQuest immediately.
A bit of extra muscle around the negotiating table when it comes to acquiring new IPs never does any harm, though.
Right now I see that Rebellion have involvement in Star Wars, The Simpsons, Alien(s)/Predator and a few others, as well as the 2000AD stuff.
Going out on a limb, I'd say a Star Wars RPG with RQ rules (specifically bearing in mind the stated inspiration for RQ combat) would slot nicely into the mysterious setting Matt talked about a while back that would revive SpaceQuest immediately.
Court Jester
Mongoose
katadder said:
My Traveller game has advancement and exp...
