Nov 2006
Dragonmeet 2006 (2nd December 2006, London)
Tuesday 28 November 2006 Filed in: Conventions
BITS will once again be at one of
our favourite conventions, Dragonmeet, at Kensington
Town Hall in London on Saturday 2nd December
2006.
* Come and see if we've managed to complete the layout of the new book in time!
* Come and tell us what you think of the Interstellar Wars and 1248 books!
* Come and chew over the likelihood of T5 being released in 2007!
* Come and buy stuff off the BITS stand!
You could even....
* Come and play Traveller!
Full details at http://www.dragonmeet.com/
Dom (BITS webmaster)
* Come and see if we've managed to complete the layout of the new book in time!
* Come and tell us what you think of the Interstellar Wars and 1248 books!
* Come and chew over the likelihood of T5 being released in 2007!
* Come and buy stuff off the BITS stand!
You could even....
* Come and play Traveller!
Full details at http://www.dragonmeet.com/
Dom (BITS webmaster)
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TML down due to Server Failure [Updated]
Monday 27 November 2006 Filed in: Traveller
News
Rob Davenport, the TML list-mom sent the
following out today:
Dear TML,
I sent this notice out just after the server hosting the TML crashed but only had 80-some subscriber addresses then (the actual TML subscriber list has been offline until Hunter can restore the last backup). I've been trying to recreate the TML subscriber list and have over 350 unique addresses who've posted to the TML between 2004 and 2006. I'm sending this out to them too. I apologize if you received this notice before, and for multiple copies if you have multiple addresses subscribed. If you don't want an address on the TML (if we have to recreate it from this list), please let me know.
No update on the status of the server in the last week. We're waiting for Hunter to get the mailing list software up and running again.
Rob Davenport
TML listmom2
---forwarded message (11/16/06)---
As you probably know or have guessed, the machine hosting the Traveller Mailing List - travellerrpg.com (quiklinks.com) - suffered a hardware failure of some kind yesterday [11/14/06].
All data after 10/22/06 was lost also. So all TML posts and archives after 10/22/06 are gone from that machine. (I know I have archives on my machine of those posts, and others probably do also, so we should be able to rebuild the missing data once the machine is back up and running.)
Hunter Gordon, the owner of the machine, and the TML's benefactor, is hard at work getting things back up. His priority is the Citizens of the Imperium website (the main site, the catalog, order system, Moot and other forums), and then he said the TML is his next priority.
He didn't expect to get to the TML until early next week though.
I apologize for not having a complete TML roster to send this notice to everyone on the list. I'm sending it to the people who've posted in the last month. If you see any names missing from my to: list, please pass this on to them, or direct them to me here. (And sorry if you get two of these messages.)
If you're on the CotI website, Hunter has been posting some progress there, if you want to check up on things. But I wouldn't expect anything until next week.
Rob Davenport
TML listmom 2
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Tod Glenn posted the following:
The TML will go up on travellercentral.com if I don't hear
from Hunter by Dec 8. I can have the list running in nothing
flat, But I need to check with my ISP and see if he's going to
charge me for high bandwidth usage.
Tod
Dear TML,
I sent this notice out just after the server hosting the TML crashed but only had 80-some subscriber addresses then (the actual TML subscriber list has been offline until Hunter can restore the last backup). I've been trying to recreate the TML subscriber list and have over 350 unique addresses who've posted to the TML between 2004 and 2006. I'm sending this out to them too. I apologize if you received this notice before, and for multiple copies if you have multiple addresses subscribed. If you don't want an address on the TML (if we have to recreate it from this list), please let me know.
No update on the status of the server in the last week. We're waiting for Hunter to get the mailing list software up and running again.
Rob Davenport
TML listmom2
---forwarded message (11/16/06)---
As you probably know or have guessed, the machine hosting the Traveller Mailing List - travellerrpg.com (quiklinks.com) - suffered a hardware failure of some kind yesterday [11/14/06].
All data after 10/22/06 was lost also. So all TML posts and archives after 10/22/06 are gone from that machine. (I know I have archives on my machine of those posts, and others probably do also, so we should be able to rebuild the missing data once the machine is back up and running.)
Hunter Gordon, the owner of the machine, and the TML's benefactor, is hard at work getting things back up. His priority is the Citizens of the Imperium website (the main site, the catalog, order system, Moot and other forums), and then he said the TML is his next priority.
He didn't expect to get to the TML until early next week though.
I apologize for not having a complete TML roster to send this notice to everyone on the list. I'm sending it to the people who've posted in the last month. If you see any names missing from my to: list, please pass this on to them, or direct them to me here. (And sorry if you get two of these messages.)
If you're on the CotI website, Hunter has been posting some progress there, if you want to check up on things. But I wouldn't expect anything until next week.
Rob Davenport
TML listmom 2
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Tod Glenn posted the following:
The TML will go up on travellercentral.com if I don't hear
from Hunter by Dec 8. I can have the list running in nothing
flat, But I need to check with my ISP and see if he's going to
charge me for high bandwidth usage.
Tod
FarFuture.net Website is Temporarily Down [Updated]
Sunday 19 November 2006 Filed in: Traveller
News
Marc
Miller has confirmed in email that Far Future
Enterprise's website, http://www.farfuture.net/
is
temporarily down, but should be back up after the
weekend.
[UPDATE 25 November 2006] - The site is now back up.
[UPDATE 25 November 2006] - The site is now back up.
Scenario Playtest (16th December 2006, Edinburgh)
Friday 17 November 2006 Filed in: BITS News
"You've been loyal, hard working, god fearing farming
folk all your years. But something just ain't
right. Maybe it's this war, all that violence. Your
dreams haven't been good these past few
weeks, nope, something just ain't
right"
Masks sets the players in the middle of the Fifth Frontier War as the Zhodani (psionic humans) prepare to invade your planet. But the dreams have been bad, very bad... (6 slots free, 4 hr adventure)
Richard Talbot will be playtesting this new scenario at ORC Edinburgh at 13.00 hrs on 16th December 2006. 6 players required. If you fancy coming along drop Richard an email.
Masks sets the players in the middle of the Fifth Frontier War as the Zhodani (psionic humans) prepare to invade your planet. But the dreams have been bad, very bad... (6 slots free, 4 hr adventure)
Richard Talbot will be playtesting this new scenario at ORC Edinburgh at 13.00 hrs on 16th December 2006. 6 players required. If you fancy coming along drop Richard an email.
Slight Delay for Classic Traveller CD ROM
Friday 17 November 2006 Filed in: Traveller
News
Marc Miller has sent out an email apologising for a
slight delay to the shipping date of the Classic
Traveller CD ROM. Apparently there have been a number
of issues, the main one being the printed wrap for
the CD ROM case. The CD is now expected to ship by
mid-December 2006. A picture of the offending wrap
can be seen below!
Power Projection Demo (Virginia USA)
Sunday 05 November 2006 Filed in: Conventions
Kory Kaese of Mystic Station Designs has
informed us that they will be running another
Power Projection demo game at
Game Parlor in the USA.
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A summary of the event:
On 11th November 2006 Mystic Station Designs, LLC will be hosting a Traveller Power Projection game at Game Parlor, Woodbridge, Virginia. For directions to Game Parlor, Woodbridge please see their site at: http://www.gameparlor.com/ The event will begin at 5.00pm with an overview of the rules for Escort and depending on the attendance will conclude with the event entitled: Blockade Runner. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
Kory
Managing Member
Mystic Station Designs, LLC
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A summary of the event:
On 11th November 2006 Mystic Station Designs, LLC will be hosting a Traveller Power Projection game at Game Parlor, Woodbridge, Virginia. For directions to Game Parlor, Woodbridge please see their site at: http://www.gameparlor.com/ The event will begin at 5.00pm with an overview of the rules for Escort and depending on the attendance will conclude with the event entitled: Blockade Runner. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
Kory
Managing Member
Mystic Station Designs, LLC
The New Era Continues: Traveller 1248 released in Print
Sunday 05 November 2006 Filed in: Traveller
News
Avenger Enterprise's (Martin Dougherty's company) has
combined with ComStar Games to release the
first two 'Traveller 1248'
sourcebooks. They are called 'Out of the
Darkness' and 'Bearers of the
Flame'.
In the UK they are
retailing for around £17 each, and should be
generally available. You can also get them as PDFs from
DriveThruRPG for $15 each.
The first book gives an overview and history of the
whole of Charted Space 46 years after the
Traveller: The New Era setting,
space that is very different, but in some ways feels
more like the Imperium of old. There is also a small
campaign setting in the book. The second book gives
details on the four sectors of space that are
occupied by the Fourth Imperium, plus details on the
various institutions (especially the military) which
may be found there.
BITS Members: we are hoping to have a review
of this in the next newsletter in the near future. If
anyone has a copy and wants to review it, please
contact us.
Traveller demo in Edinburgh 4th Nov
Wednesday 01 November 2006 Filed in: Conventions
Richard
Talbot will be running a demo session of
Traveller d20:
'Space Dogs' at the Open Roleplaying Community in
Edinburgh from
about 1pm to 5pm on Saturday 4th
November. Despite the fact it is
Worldwide D&D Day we will be flying the
Traveller flag.
albeit in d20, so if you are in Edinburgh and fancy a
game drop Richard an email and
he'll pass on the details. 4 slots left out
of six.