Feb 2007
Review of 101 Patrons
Sunday 25 February 2007 Filed in: Products
Nigel Swan has reviewed one of our older books,
101 Patrons, on
RPG.net.
You can read the review here. We love
to know about reviews of products (bad or good),
so please feel free to let us know if you see any,
or produce a review yourself. RPG.net have also
reviewed GDW's MegaTraveller Rebellion
Sourcebook and the Classic Traveller Double
Adventure Chamax Plague/Horde recently.
If you'd like us to post links to reviews to
Traveller products other than the
BITS ones here in the future, just let us know
through the comments.
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Ad Astra now taking orders...
Tuesday 20 February 2007 Filed in: Products
Ad Astra Games have announced that they are taking pre-orders for the first two miniatures fleet boxes for Power Projection, plus they now have the US edition of Power Projection: Fleet available to order.
More details on the Power Projection website.
Freelance Traveller website issues
Tuesday 20 February 2007 Filed in: Traveller
News
Jeff Zeitlin at Freelance Traveller posted
the following to the TML:
As if the breakdown of the laptop with the master copy of the Freelance Traveller website wasn't enough (no loss of information, just some
maintenance software has to be changed, which is what's causing the hiatus there), the system running the Freelance Traveller Forums has
*also* failed.
We believe that we can recover the information, but aren't certain yet. We'll be working on that this week, and will try to
be back quickly. If we have to reconstruct, we have archives of the newsgroups in Unix mbox format through 2/11/07; unfortunately, we don't
have backups of user data, so users will have to recreate their accounts in the event of reconstruction rather than recovery.
The breakdown also affects the IRC "'bots" from #Traveller on Undernet and #Lonestar on Psionics (Brubek and the bridge); we expect to have those back up quickly; it's just a matter of locating some of the older versions of the code for them. More information to follow as it becomes available; please spread the word.
As if the breakdown of the laptop with the master copy of the Freelance Traveller website wasn't enough (no loss of information, just some
maintenance software has to be changed, which is what's causing the hiatus there), the system running the Freelance Traveller Forums has
*also* failed.
We believe that we can recover the information, but aren't certain yet. We'll be working on that this week, and will try to
be back quickly. If we have to reconstruct, we have archives of the newsgroups in Unix mbox format through 2/11/07; unfortunately, we don't
have backups of user data, so users will have to recreate their accounts in the event of reconstruction rather than recovery.
The breakdown also affects the IRC "'bots" from #Traveller on Undernet and #Lonestar on Psionics (Brubek and the bridge); we expect to have those back up quickly; it's just a matter of locating some of the older versions of the code for them. More information to follow as it becomes available; please spread the word.
Limited Number of copies of 'Cold Dark Grave' available from our Webshop
Tuesday 13 February 2007 Filed in: Products
We've put all the unsold copies from the initial run
of 'Cold Dark Grave' up at our webshop on eBay. If you
fancy a Classic Era Traveller
adventure, it may be just your cup of tea! This
was only a small volume run, so will not be in
retail until the second print run is completed,
which will be at least a month.
If you do happen to buy a copy and like it, please feel free to review it at one of the online RPG sites like RPG.net.
Here's the quick description I posted in the comments when I first announced the release:
Cold Dark Grave is set in Yres, in the Regina subsector, one of the two systems involved in the last battle of the Fourth Frontier War. The characters all work for a belt mining company which is struggling through the post Fifth Frontier War depression. A job offer they can't afford to ignore comes along and events ensure.
This is a predominantly space based adventure set in the Classic Era. The scenario has been one of our most popular at cons over the last two years.
If you do happen to buy a copy and like it, please feel free to review it at one of the online RPG sites like RPG.net.
Here's the quick description I posted in the comments when I first announced the release:
Cold Dark Grave is set in Yres, in the Regina subsector, one of the two systems involved in the last battle of the Fourth Frontier War. The characters all work for a belt mining company which is struggling through the post Fifth Frontier War depression. A job offer they can't afford to ignore comes along and events ensure.
This is a predominantly space based adventure set in the Classic Era. The scenario has been one of our most popular at cons over the last two years.
'Cold Dark Grave' released [updated]
Monday 05 February 2007 Filed in: Products
The latest book from BITS was released at Conception 2007 this weekend. The photo above is by Neil Ford (thanks Neil!), and shows some of the physical copies we received in time for the show. News on distribution and availability to follow. 'Cold Dark Grave' is an adventure set in the Spinward Marches after the Fifth Frontier War.
UPDATE: The copies shown here are the initial smaller run we do before the main release, so we only have a limited number as yet. I'll update here as soon as I have more.