Whatever happened to Starship Troopers?

[SJE]

I heard from friends at Dragonmeet South West who'd heard at a Mongoose seminar that there were some legal problems with the rights to Starship Troopers which meant a reboot as a Traveller based game was unlikely?

Is that confirmed or announced anywhere by Mongoose?

Thx.

SJE

 

[Paladin]

There are no "problems" they just chose to not renew the license because the expense was greater than the potential revenue.

 

[danbuter]

What? I hadn't heard this. Starship Troopers was the one setting I was really looking forward to for Traveller. Their d20 stuff was really good. I'd love to have seen that converted.

 

[MongooseMatt]

I heard from friends at Dragonmeet South West who'd heard at a Mongoose seminar that there were some legal problems with the rights to Starship Troopers which meant a reboot as a Traveller based game was unlikely?

This is correct.

 

[SnowDog]

Too bad as I can see that Starship Troopers would have been a really nice setting for Traveller rules. Well, maybe some day...

 

[MongooseMatt]

Too bad as I can see that Starship Troopers would have been a really nice setting for Traveller rules. Well, maybe some day...

We have something just as good, if not better, coming very soon for Traveller - watch out for the State of the Mongoose address, as all will be revealed there

 

[SnowDog]

Aliens?

Okay, I'll just have to stay patient and wait for the State of the Mongoose (it's just so long a wait)...

 

[Poi]

Plenty of the published Traveller stuff fits for ST. Just adapt it from the D20 material.

And Matt, asking me to wait, without so much as a hint, doesn't excite me very much. 3 and a half months til State of the Mongoose and I'll have forgotten you even mentioned it here, unless you give me a little sugar..

 

[MongooseMatt]

And Matt, asking me to wait, without so much as a hint, doesn't excite me very much. 3 and a half months til State of the Mongoose and I'll have forgotten you even mentioned it here, unless you give me a little sugar..

Saucey

Happy for you to forget, so long as you come back for the State

 

[Webwolf]

I think it is really sad that there is no longer a Starship Troopers RPG.

 

[PrinceYyrkoon]

I think it is really sad that there is no longer a Starship Troopers RPG.

Well, there is. Its still there and you can still play it.

 

[madprophet]

Well, take the background out of books like the United Citizens' Federation and the basic RPG and plug in the Traveller mechanics and you are good to go. SST is not really a hard setting to convert to Traveller - the TL of the Federation is in the 10-12 range, the bugs have no real tech to speak of and the Skinnies are TL 12-14.

SST figs are easy to find on Ebay, light troops can be had from a bunch of sources (including the Evil Empire of Nottingham) and Skinnies can be proxied by a certain blue skinned race from Nottingham.

Use BFE or something like it to handle mass combat and you are pretty set. :lol:

 

[blockbuster]

did they ever release a drop ship or fighter model for the SST line?

 

[R Arceneaux]

one needs an official rule book?

Just get a close to it rule book for some other game and modify those rules so that they fit the situatins of killing bugs.

Of course there would need to be a game or two to test rules and tweak the rules so as to delete the seemingly ideal but not exactly practical rules.

But bottom line is that there is no written law that someone could not cobble together a few rules and have a go at the game for entertainment purposes--all unofficial of course.

 

[Paladin]

did they ever release a drop ship or fighter model for the SST line?

no. Prototypes were done and a VERY limited run was done.

The Galoob toys on ebay are about your best bet.