Thread: FFE and the Avenger 1248 materials

Marc and Martin made an agreement that keeps the 1248 material still available.

Marc sells two TNE CDs, and the second one... just look at the contents.

http://www.farfuture.net/Contents%20CDROM%20TNE-2.pdf

So you can buy the ENTIRE 1248 line for one price.

I would hope Martin gets a decent percentage of the royalties from the 1248 CD sales, especially given that Marc's decision to sunset the licences means that he couldn't sell his 1248 material directly anymore.

--- In , "donm61873" <don.mckinney@...> wrote:
>
> Marc and Martin made an agreement that keeps the 1248 material still available.
>
> Marc sells two TNE CDs, and the second one... just look at the contents.
>
> http://www.farfuture.net/Contents%20CDROM%20TNE-2.pdf
>
> So you can buy the ENTIRE 1248 line for one price.
>

> Avenger were, IIRC, using Mongoose's Flaming Cobra imprint as a way to get
their
> CT and 1248 products printed and distributed to gamestores.

Avenger was using ComStar to publish their CT, 1201, and 1248 products until
the
Avenger license was sunset because of the Mongoose license.

> As it stands, the only people who can now publish OTU material are
Mongoose, SJG
> (though they haven't done anything new for years - I think they're just
using
> their license to be able to continue to sell GT books), and FFE.

After being sunset, Avenger had to work through and with Mongoose. Some of
the
Avenger products (e.g. Project Steel) that were CT-related were updated to
use MGT
and published using Mongoose's Flaming Cobra. However, none of the 1201 or
1248
products have seen the light of day through Mongoose. (Though, fortunately,
they
are included on the TNE 2 CD-ROM from FFE.) This heavily implies that
Mongoose wants
nothing to do with 1201 or 1248 stuff. Presumably because they want to stay
focused
on their 1105 setting. Considering that Mongoose appears to be greatly
hesitant to
even do the Fifth Frontier War, I expect that the Traveller timeline under
Mongoose
will never get past 1112 at the absolute farthest.

Mike West

It's as if TNE locked Traveller forever into an infinite timeloop, with
the clock never to advance again (1248 excepted, but it seems chosen by
the same Valkyrie).

Next stop, the Twilight Zone.

>> Avenger were, IIRC, using Mongoose's Flaming Cobra imprint as a way to
>> get
> their
>> CT and 1248 products printed and distributed to gamestores.
>
> Avenger was using ComStar to publish their CT, 1201, and 1248 products
> until
> the
> Avenger license was sunset because of the Mongoose license.
>
>> As it stands, the only people who can now publish OTU material are
> Mongoose, SJG
>> (though they haven't done anything new for years - I think they're just
> using
>> their license to be able to continue to sell GT books), and FFE.
>
> After being sunset, Avenger had to work through and with Mongoose. Some of
> the
> Avenger products (e.g. Project Steel) that were CT-related were updated to
> use MGT
> and published using Mongoose's Flaming Cobra. However, none of the 1201 or
> 1248
> products have seen the light of day through Mongoose. (Though,
> fortunately,
> they
> are included on the TNE 2 CD-ROM from FFE.) This heavily implies that
> Mongoose wants
> nothing to do with 1201 or 1248 stuff. Presumably because they want to
> stay
> focused
> on their 1105 setting. Considering that Mongoose appears to be greatly
> hesitant to
> even do the Fifth Frontier War, I expect that the Traveller timeline under
> Mongoose
> will never get past 1112 at the absolute farthest.
>
> Mike West
>
>
>

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:01 PM, <> wrote:

> It's as if TNE locked Traveller forever into an infinite timeloop, with
> the clock never to advance again (1248 excepted, but it seems chosen by
> the same Valkyrie).
>
> Next stop, the Twilight Zone.

Well to be honest, a number of my Traveller Games have looked like episodes
of the Twilight Zone... 8-)

Consider this Macrofauna, a Terraformed Venus research station, a
Virus infected Mad Scientist (or the reverse, never had to clarify that)
and a bunch of remnants awakening from cold sleep by
really overprotective natel Nurse-Bots.

--
Evyn

For a while, I used Traveller rules to play just about every era there
was. WW2, age of sail, etc. And that was the charm of the game. You could
go to any given planet and it could be the Horatio Hornblower planet, the
Battle of the Bulge planet, whatever. Or, as you point out, the weird
horror movie planet. I had a number of weird horror movie adventures. And
then you could climb back into your ship and move on to the next
environment. Of course Gene Roddenberry did all that before Gary Gygax
chained his first mail.

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:01 PM, <> wrote:
>
>> It's as if TNE locked Traveller forever into an infinite timeloop, with
>> the clock never to advance again (1248 excepted, but it seems chosen by
>> the same Valkyrie).
>>
>> Next stop, the Twilight Zone.
>
>
> Well to be honest, a number of my Traveller Games have looked like
> episodes
> of the Twilight Zone... 8-)
>
> Consider this Macrofauna, a Terraformed Venus research station, a
> Virus infected Mad Scientist (or the reverse, never had to clarify that)
> and a bunch of remnants awakening from cold sleep by
> really overprotective natel Nurse-Bots.
>
> --
> Evyn
>

I know got them all. Love the stuff. Sorry for the following but I am really
upset that Marc partnered with Mongoose, they have a very bad track record add
to the fact that they cut off Avenger when it was looking promising.

________________________________
From: donm61873
Sent: Sat, June 16, 2012 2:11:31 PM
Subject: [Traveller_TNE] FFE and the Avenger 1248 materials

Marc and Martin made an agreement that keeps the 1248 material still available.

Marc sells two TNE CDs, and the second one... just look at the contents.

http://www.farfuture.net/Contents%20CDROM%20TNE-2.pdf

So you can buy the ENTIRE 1248 line for one price.