The argument has been made to GDW that so long as Traveller is black books
with colored stripes it would never grow to include new players, but just
keep appealing to the same aging cohort. Those who prefer the black books
counter-argue that you don't get new players with exciting cover art, you
get them by existing players recruiting in new ones. On the other hand,
the tradition of SF novels indicates there is something to Boris Vallejo
covers.
I think at one point someone suggested we could put a design sequence in
FF&S for giant gladiator robots.
We did do a design sequence for powered armor somewhere, didn't we?
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 4:43 PM, <> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> The fact that for many Traveller players, the "sexiest" of all covers
>> was
>> completely black with a colored stripe across it just drove home the
>> point
>> how different our design and marketing, hence audiences, were.
>
>
> Ain't that the truth. I am one of those weird fans that far prefers
> Literary Science Fiction to all of the film and tv forms, Mind you I like
> it in Comic form too, just as long as there aren't any superheros (in the
> caped running around in their underwear sense, not the the "Pulp"
> sense)....
> --
> Evyn
>
with colored stripes it would never grow to include new players, but just
keep appealing to the same aging cohort. Those who prefer the black books
counter-argue that you don't get new players with exciting cover art, you
get them by existing players recruiting in new ones. On the other hand,
the tradition of SF novels indicates there is something to Boris Vallejo
covers.
I think at one point someone suggested we could put a design sequence in
FF&S for giant gladiator robots.
We did do a design sequence for powered armor somewhere, didn't we?
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 4:43 PM, <> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> The fact that for many Traveller players, the "sexiest" of all covers
>> was
>> completely black with a colored stripe across it just drove home the
>> point
>> how different our design and marketing, hence audiences, were.
>
>
> Ain't that the truth. I am one of those weird fans that far prefers
> Literary Science Fiction to all of the film and tv forms, Mind you I like
> it in Comic form too, just as long as there aren't any superheros (in the
> caped running around in their underwear sense, not the the "Pulp"
> sense)....
> --
> Evyn
>