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UK Games Expo 2015

British Isles Traveller Support are pleased to announce we will be attending UK Games Expo 2015 on May 29th to 31st at Birmingham NEC Hilton Metropole

More details on the convention: https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/

We will have a trade stand in the Palace Suite (P32) next to Leisure Games selling a wide range of new and second-hand products for Traveller and many other systems.

As with previous years, we will be running a series of RPG tables using the Mongoose Traveller ruleset. Our RPG adventures will be a varied adventure set written by our ever aging stable of crack (ed) GM's.

More details of slot times located at

http://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/bookevents.php?category=rpg

As always find us at http://www.bitsuk.net and http://www.powerprojection.net for more info on BITS and Power Projection.

Thanks

The BITS Team
Supporting Traveller in all forms since 1996
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New BITS PDFs: Power Projection: Fleet

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BITS are very pleased to announce that the Power Projection: Fleet has been released as a PDF, making our fusion of Traveller and Full Thrust starship combat available once more.

Purchase from RPGNow.

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Apologies for the break in service

It appears we have suffered a misjump, but we’re back and as soon as the navigation data is resolved then things should be hunky-dory. Well, mostly. We have lost some files and pictures, but I will recover them from archive over the next week or so.

http://www.powerprojection.net will be down for will be back in the next two weeks, as it was on the same server.

(We’ve had a big issue with our host and their lack of communication and help has led to us relocating the domain name server and the server to another company.)

Apologies that it has taken so long to resolve.

Dom
BITS Webmaster
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Travcon 14 - limited places available - BOOK NOW!

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BITS is proud to announce their annual Traveller convention TRAVCON is running again over the weekend of 21-23 March 2014 at Redwings Lodge near Sawtry in Cambridgeshire (near the junction of the A1M and A14).

Once again we’ll be running Traveller games solidly from Friday evening through to Sunday afternoon. TravCon is a friendly convention with between 30 and 40 attendees, with 5 games slots across the weekend and 5 different games running in each slot, so there are plenty of opportunities for you to play different adventures with novel characters and make new friends. There will be the usual BITS sales stand, bring-and-buy, charity auction and awards (the Starburst for Extreme Heroism and the PFI – the latter for less fortunate adventure outcomes).

I’m looking forward to welcoming many of our regular attendees and we still have a couple of rooms free so, if YOU are interested in a weekend of Traveller gaming, please contact us at bits@bits.org.uk for details.

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New BITS PDFs: 'Tis the season to be Jolly...

‘Tis the Season to be Jolly’ – and in the spirit of trying to make Travellers everywhere even more jolly at this seasonal time...

BITS are very pleased to announce that the last six books in the 101 Series (Lifeforms, Patrons, Plots, Rendezvous, Religions and Travellers) have been released as PDFs, as well as our skirmish rule set At Close Quarters.

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The intention of all the
BITS supplements is to provide quick-to-access resources for the harassed Traveller Referee, fleshing out the worlds and people that your adventurers encounter, with plenty of ideas for adventure sessions, sub-plots and red herrings. The 101 Series has been out of print for some time and have never - legitimately - been available as PDFs before.

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For a dose of extra seasonal jolliness, you can pick up the all the 101 Series supplements released to PDF in one reduced-price bundle, saving 20%!

We plan to release the remainder of the
BITS back catalogue (such as our adventure books and Power Projection) over the coming months. Check back here or follow @BITS_Traveller on Twitter to be kept up-to-date on our plans

Buy the reduced price bundle of ten 101 Books (does not include At Close Quarters)
Buy 101 Lifeforms
Buy 101 Patrons
Buy 101 Plots
Buy 101 Rendezvous
Buy 101 Religions
Buy 101 Travellers
Buy At Close Quarters



These PDFs are the original
BITS products and so you’ll find the older ones don’t mention Mongoose or even GURPS Traveller (we released the first 101’s just after Imperium Games launched T4!) In addition, Mongoose are pulling together the 101’s into larger books: 101 Cargos, 101 Starcrews and 101 Travellers form the core of the first of these, Supplement 13: Starport Encounters.

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New BITS 101 PDFs - How's your Corporate Governance?

BITS are pleased to announce that the release of two more of the 101 Series as PDFS:

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101 Governments
and 101 Corporations are now available for purchase and download. These are excellent resources for the harassed Referee, with plenty of ideas that can spark an adventure session off. They have been out of print for some time and have never - legitimately - been available as PDFs before.

We plan to release all the 101 Books in this format, along with most of the remaining back catalogue such as
At Close Quarters and Power Projection over the coming months. Check back here or follow @BITS_Traveller on Twitter to be kept up-to-date on our plans

Buy 101 Corporations
Buy 101 Governments

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BITS 101 Series releasing as PDFs - Need are Cargo moving? We've got a ship and crew for that!

BITS are extremely happy to announce that the back catalogue of 101 Series ‘little white books’ is to be made available once again in electronic format through DriveThruRPG / RPGNow.



101 Cargos and 101 Starcrews are now available for purchase and download. These represent the first and last 101 Books released and are excellent resources for the harassed Referee. They have been out of print for some time and have never - legitimately - been available as PDFs before.

We plan to release all the 101 Books in this format, along with most of the remaining back catalogue such as
At Close Quarters and Power Projection over the coming months. Check back here or follow @BITS_Traveller on Twitter to be kept up-to-date on our plans.

Buy 101 Cargos
Buy 101 Starcrews


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DRAGONMEET 2013 - London, 7 December

Back here again for the 14th year in a row. Wow, must be a prosperous trade route.

“This is the crew of the
BITS Traveller, inbound towards Dragonmeet Station above the planet Kensington in the London system of the UK subsector. Systems seem nominal and we can confirm we are go for landing with both the demonstration and retail modules. Mission deployment, codename DRAGONMEET 2013, will commence on 7th December 2013. Let’s hope the natives are still friendly and the Imperial Credit hasn’t defaulted.”

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We’re pleased to announce that BITS will be attending Dragonmeet 2013 at The Kensington Town Hall in London on Saturday 7th December 2013. This is our fourteenth year at the show which is always a great event. We will be running demos and also have our trade stall. Come by and say hello and find out how we’re doing with the various projects...

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We also hope to be joined by Clare Eden from the Minister of Chance for the second year running.
 
Further information can be found at
http://www.dragonmeet.co.uk
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BITS at Conception

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BITS will be at Conception this week (Wed 30 – Sun 3 Feb), with trade stand, running games in every slot and supporting Traveller!

More details on the convention: http://www.conceptionuk.org/

As with previous years, we will be running using the new Mongoose Traveller ruleset.

When: 30 Jan to 3 Feb
Where: Hoburne Naish, Christchurch Road, New Milton, Hampshire, BH25 7RE (Sat Nav BH25 7QT)
What: We’ll have the trade stand and be running games as per previous years.
Link: http://www.conceptionuk.org/
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DRAGONMEET 2012 - London, 1 December

Is it really a year later? Did we misjump?

“This is the crew of the
BITS Traveller, inbound towards Dragonmeet Station above the planet Kensington in the London system of the UK subsector. Systems seem nominal and we can confirm we are go for landing with both the demonstration and retail modules. Mission deployment, codename DRAGONMEET 2012, will commence on 1st December 2012. Let’s hope the natives are still friendly.”

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We’re pleased to announce that BITS will be attending Dragonmeet 2012 at The Kensington Town Hall in London on Saturday 1st December 2012. This is our thirteenth year at the show which is always a great event. We will be running demos and also have our trade stall. Come by and say hello and find out how we’re doing with the various projects...
 
Further information can be found at
http://www.dragonmeet.co.uk
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Travcon 13 is full

With regret, I have to confirm that Travcon 13 is now full before it was publicly announced.

Places are always offered first to past attendees, and all spaces have been taken up.

If you want to follow what’s happening, the games planned etc. please visit the forum on the Tavern BBS: http://is.gd/travcon13tavern

Thanks to Tom Zunder for maintaining the Tavern.
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RIP Andrew Boulton

Statement from Andy Lilly, on behalf of BITS about the news of the death of Andrew Boulton, who passed away in August:

Andrew was one of the first Traveller enthusiasts in the UK whom I discovered through the Internet forums back in the early 1990’s, with whom I swapped out-of-print Traveller products, and who was therefore one of those who encouraged me to take things that bit further and create BITS. His memory will live on through his contributions to several generations of Traveller.
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Back Again

All,

We suffered an outage of the website this week due to a major hardware failure at our ISP, Primehosting. We’re now restored and back!

Dom
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Change of BITS address

Due to a number of issues with the BITS PO Box thanks to Royal Mail, we are closing the box:

Our new postal address is:

BITS
c/o Marquee Models
Unit 71, The Harvey Centre
Harlow
CM20 1XS
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New Forum for BITS & Travcon

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We’re very pleased to announce that Tom Zunder (aka Guvnor) has kindly created BITS and Travcon a forum on his excellent BBS, The Tavern. Why not pop in and share your thoughts and love of Traveller?

The Tavern may be found at http://gamingtavern.eu/ and is a friendly place for discussion and sharing on games and more. It also houses the official forum for Furnace, and forums for Continuum and others such as the Wordplay RPG.

Thanks Tom!

Dom (BITS Webmaster)
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LAST MINUTE PLACES available for TravCon12

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Due to last minute cancellations by attendees, we are pleased to be able to offer a limited number of places at TravCon12 at the Early Bird Rate.

Priority will be given to those willing to run a game in one or more slots, as one of the attendees was a referee and we have gaps in the schedule that need to be filled. If you want a place, a quick response is essential.

TravCon is BITS’ dedicated Traveller Convention, held in Sawtry near Peterborough. You can see details of past years on the Travelling pages.

TravCon12 is being held 2nd to 4th March 2012.

Booking forms and information can be found here:

We hope to see you there!

The BITS Team

PS In case you wondered...
Q: So why haven’t I seen previous adverts for TravCon12?
A: Because the previous year’s TravCon attendees get offered places in advance and this year all spaces were taken nearly immediately, so we didn’t advertise. Until now!


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BITS at Conception UK (25-29 Jan)

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Once again, BITS will be at Conception this coming week, running a variety of Traveller games in most slots. Come and see us and have some fun.

More details here: http://www.conceptionuk.org/
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Happy New Year

Hello, and Happy New Year.

Dragonmeet went well, with both the roleplaying tables and the Power Projection demos being busy the whole time. I hope to have a con report up soon.

We’ve been quiet due to personal circumstances hitting team members over 2011, but have just started on a plan of action that will hopefully allow Andy (the BITS Director) to focus on new material while some of the background logistical stuff moves to other members of the team. Key to this will be making the back catalogue available properly again.

Anyway, we’ll update as soon as we have news.

Best Wishes,

Dom (BITS Webmaster)
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BITS at UK Games Expo

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British Isles Traveller Support are pleased to announce that we will be attending UK Games Expo 2011 from 3rd to 5th June 2011

More details on the convention can be found here: http://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/

As with previous years, we will be running a series of RPG tables using the Mongoose Traveller ruleset. Our RPG adventures will be a mix of Living Traveller, The Angels Share sequence and a new adventure, The “Merry” Light, written by our ever ageing stable of crack(ed) GM's. More details of slot times and general convention details located at http:// www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/bookevents.php?category=rpg

Thanks

The BITS Team
Supporting Traveller in all forms since 1996
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TravCon 11 - Con Report

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TravCon 2011 (4th-6th March) at Redwings Lodge, Cambridgeshire

For the fourth year in a row, British Isles Traveller Support (BITS) laid on an exciting weekend of twenty Traveller games across five slots. Attendees arrived throughout Friday afternoon and evening, to be presented by organiser Andy with impressive glass tankards carrying the BITS logo – a much appreciated free gift to assist in their enjoyment of the Scout brew prepared specially for the convention by beer maestro Derrick. An extensive buffet of Indian fare just a few steps away from the Lodge provided the opportunity to socialise and refresh players after their travel, refuelling them for the games running that evening: investigating a corrupt government; recovering a lost Scout ship; fighting off a monster at a research base; and guiding an Azhanti High Lightning through hostile Zhodani space!

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Post-game analysis was held in the 24-hour bar, where players and referees could exchange anecdotes and humorous stories (old and new) well into Saturday morning... until even the hardy few admitted defeat and headed for bed.

Saturday morning the Traveller kicked off after a lazy breakfast with another four games: visiting (yet another) suspicious remote research base; pulling apart a military base for scrap; escaping a prison moon; and investigating an Ancient site. A skirmish using cool miniatures was just one of the highlights of the morning games. On-tap coffee and plentiful Danish pastries, bagels, and fruit (provided by BITS) kept everyone alert and in fine form until lunch.
With everyone limbered up for the afternoon slot, the referees dived in with the Living Traveller helping Aslan traders recover stolen cargo; finding a missing Scout team; a sequel to the famous Skyraiders trilogy; and... yet another mystery research base!

Saturday evening and supper was either a visit to the Spice Land Indian restaurant, or a delivery of pizzas and Chinese takeaway from nearby Sawtry. Stomachs replete, the gamers returned to the fray: another Living Traveller scenario; freedom fighters planning a starship hijack; another Scout ship recovery mission; and a noble dinner party!

After a triumphant denouement to the games, many again took the opportunity to relax in the bar, relishing the chance to relate their adventures. Several games of Fluxx games challenged everyone’s ability to switch thinking modes, with the game’s goals and rules changing with every card!
Finally, Sunday morning dawned – though not too early, which was a relief for those who’d spent two late nights of chatting and playing card games in the bar. A longer six-hour slot saw a second run of the corrupt government investigation “Thorny Problem”; a follow-up to the previous day’s Scout expedition; the heroic Terran navy taking on the Vilani; and surviving a crash on a remote planet.

All too soon, TravCon was drawing to a close: attendees took the opportunity for a final look around the sales tables – books, miniatures and more from all the Traveller eras were available, as well as “bring-and-buy” gaming stuff which attendees could sell with a percentage going to charity.

Andy began the closing session by auctioning the last of the specially brewed Traveller beer that Derrick had so kindly donated. Andy continued with the awards: the Starburst for Extreme Heroism for the most heroic act by a character during the con; and the Ping... F*** It award for the most awful foul-up from poor dice rolls, bad decisions or extraordinary circumstances!

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SEH Award Winner Derrick Jones accepting his award from Andy Lilly

This year the SEH (a beautiful acrylic trophy) was won by Derrick Jones for role-playing ‘The Mother’ – one of the survivors of a lifeboat crash who, while suffering amnesia fiercely defended herself against pirates with an assault rifle while carrying her baby in her other hand. The PFI award went to Tom Zunder, who was part of a team trying to rescue hostages from a “beanstalk” capsule. Jumping from one capsule to another was the first challenge which he barely achieved. Jumping back while carrying one of the hostages was another challenge but he survived... however, what won him the award was that the valuable hostage wasn’t so fortunate, slipped from Tom’s grasp, and was last heard screaming profanities as he fell the very considerable distance to terra firma.

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PFI award winner Tom Zunder accepting his award from Andy Lilly.

The PFI award always has multiple strong contenders: runners up included the delightful moment when a low social standing character at a garden party – thrown by Duke Norris – managed a double-one on his Carouse throw as he tried to chat up three charming young female nobles. He was unceremoniously ejected from the function, the referee decreed, for inappropriately pinching one of the ladies! Another contender demonstrated that hovering only one storey above a bunch of live grenades just after dropping them (in a failed attempt to throw them through a window) was not the best of ideas...

Andy rounded off the convention with the proud announcement that £125 had been raised for the charity Help For Heroes. He emphasised that TravCon’s appeal was a combination of the great attendees and the heroic referees who ran games throughout the weekend. He expressed his heartfelt thanks to everyone who had contributed to the convention, and encouraged potential new referees to come next year with their own games. Andy concluded by conveying everyone’s thanks to the Redwings staff who are so welcoming and patient with the TravCon gamers descending on them for the weekend.

“I really appreciated the opportunity to continue the long-running game arc of BITS’ In Search of Angels.”

“My best memory was planning to stick a cobbled-together lightning attractor to a rooftop prior to a break-in in the middle of a raging storm, massively outnumbered and somewhat outgunned, with only a mad scientist armed with a poisoned pizza as a backup plan.”

“I really felt I'd visited a bit of Mora and experienced its dockyard culture.”


For all of you who fed back that you wanted to book ahead for TravCon12, we are glad to be able to announce it will be held at the same venue on the weekend of 2nd-4th March 2012. Please make sure you book early as places are sure to go quickly. We look forward to seeing you again in 2012!

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TravCon 11 Fully Booked

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TravCon11 is now fully booked. If you’re planning to go and haven’t book then there’s always next year.

If anyone is planning to run a game and hasn’t told Andy, please let him know via the contact forms here or by direct email to bits@bits.org.uk. Volunteers greatly appreciated.

We’re using #travcon11 when mentioning it on Twitter. Our Twitter Account is @BITS_Traveller.
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TravCon 11 - Limited Places Left

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LIMITED PLACES LEFT!

BITS
would like to invite you to TravCon 11 – our next Traveller roleplaying convention.

TravCon 11 is running over the weekend of 4-6 March 2011 (in the same location as previous years, just off the A1M near Peterborough in the southern end of the UK).

TravCon is a small, friendly event specifically for Traveller – all gamers are welcome, whether newcomers or experienced players.

We only have space for about 30 attendees and were over-booked in 2010 – the remaining few spaces are being filled on a strict first-come, first-served basis.

Click here for a PDF giving more details of the convention. If you would like to attend, please fill in the booking form as soon as possible (a Word version of the form can be found here) or you can print the PDF, fill it in and either post it to BITS (PO Box 4222, Sawbridgeworth, Herts, CM21 0DA, England) or email us a scan of the filled in form.

Please do NOT send any money with your application – wait for us to confirm that you have a place at the convention.

We are always looking for new referees to run games, so if you are interested in running a game at TravCon (Traveller only, obviously!) please make a note on your form or email.

BOOK SOON!

Pictures from the last TravCon here
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Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you all from BITS!
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Only 19 days to Dragonmeet 2010

Dragonmeet 2010 is nearly upon us, and BITS will be there. Hope that we’ll see you there!

The annual London convention is being held on Saturday 27th November 2010, starting at 10:00 am, at Kensington Town Hall. More information can be found here: http://dragonmeet.phoenixgamesclub.org.uk/

They have a Twitter feed @dragonmeet http://twitter.com/dragonmeet
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Further Fundraiser by Ad Astra (supported by BITS)

Ad Astra Games have announced the following:
Until September 30th, half of the purchase price of the following items will be donated to Loren Wiseman to help him recoup his medical expenses after his heart attack and bypass surgery. We wish Loren a speedy recovery, and thank you (and the people who generously let us sell their material for this sale) for helping it happen.

Power Projection: Fleet
Voidstriker Fleet Box
Nexus Journal #1
All Traveller Spaceship Minis

Remember, we're also holding a discounted shipping window on all items from our ship...so act soon!

Ken Burnside

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BITS are supporting this through the Power Projection: Fleet sale.
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Power Projection Fundraiser for Loren [UPDATED x2]

BITS would like to join in some of the efforts to raise funds for Loren and give something back in return...

Send a donation via Paypal to Marc Miller at Farfuture@gmail.com, marking it ‘Loren Wiseman Fundraiser - Power Projection’, and then send a copy of the transaction confirmation to webmaster@bits.org.uk.

If I receive confirmation of more than $100 in transactions, I will make the PDF of all the ships for Power Projection: Escort that were not included in Power Projection: Fleet available to download for free on 20th September 2010.

These are:

Imperial
200T SDB
Broadsword Class
Chrysanthemum Class
Fer-de-Lance Class
Kinunir Class
Midu Agashaam Class

Zhodani
Chtierabl Class Tender
Plokl Class
Shivva Class
Vlezhdatl Class
Zhdoq Class
Zhodatl Class

These will be updated to match the Power Projection: Fleet SSDs and include Points and RCP values.

I will post updates on progress via the @BITS_Traveller Twitter feed.

UPDATE: A day left and only $11 short of the minimum at which I’ll release the PDF publicly. If you pledge to this, I will guarantee that I will send you the PDF whether or not it goes public.

Dom
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TravCon 11 Booking Now Open



BITS would like to invite you to TravCon 11 – our next Traveller roleplaying convention.

TravCon 11 is running over the weekend of 4-6 March 2011 (in the same location as previous years, just off the A1M near Peterborough in the ‘middle’ of the UK).

TravCon is a small, friendly event specifically for Traveller – all gamers are welcome, whether newcomers or experienced players.

We only have space for about 30 attendees and were over-booked in 2010 – current BITS members (as of 1 Sep 2010) get priority but we have a number of new (non-member) attendees each year – spaces are filled on a strict first-come, first-served basis.

Click here for a PDF giving more details of the convention. If you would like to attend, please fill in the booking form as soon as possible (a Word version of the form can be found here) or you can print the PDF, fill it in and either post it to BITS (PO Box 4222, Sawbridgeworth, Herts, CM21 0DA, England) or email us a scan of the filled in form.

Please do NOT send any money with your application – wait for us to confirm that you have a place at the convention.

We are always looking for new referees to run games, so if you are interested in running a game at TravCon (Traveller only, obviously!) please make a note on your form or email.

Pictures from the last TravCon here
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Tweeting about TravCon



Do you use Twitter? If you do, check out the BITS Twitter feed (@BITS_Traveller) for news of BITS, Traveller, SF and Space Science!

http://twitter.com/bits_traveller

We’re using #travcon to talk about TravCon 11...
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In Our Thoughts...

A message from Andy Lilly:

My personal condolences and deepest sympathies go out to Peter Darton, whose wife Claire Darton passed away totally unexpectedly just a few days ago. Claire and Peter were both enthusiastic gamers and convention attendees (most recently at TravCon10), as well as being good friends and long-time members of my weekly gaming group. Claire will be sadly missed by us all.

Our thoughts and sympathies also go out to the family and friends of gamer Chris Brecken who also unexpectedly passed away a couple of weeks ago.

Andy.
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Do you Tweet?



Do you use Twitter? If you do, check out the BITS Twitter feed (@BITS_Traveller) for news of BITS, Traveller, SF and Space Science!

http://twitter.com/bits_traveller
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TravCon 2010

Travcon 2010 went well and we’ll post reports soon. Suffice it to say that great fun was had by all in a little corner of Sawtry.

If you went to the con, why not share your photos with our Flickr Group? http://www.flickr.com/groups/1420819@N22/

Travcon - Dream Beer
A Convention so good it had its own beer brewed by BITS very own Derrick Jones and his local brewery!

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Due to the forthcoming short notice discontinuation of the commenting service on Haloscan and the introduction of a new paid for service as the only alternative, I am temporarily shutting down the comments service on the site. They will return with the forthcoming update to Rapidweaver (the software that the site is maintained with) which will introduce another free-to-use alternative. Thanks for you patience.

Dom
BITS Webmaster

PS Yes, I know that using WordPress would resolve the problem, but at this time I have limited time to maintain the website so it isn’t an option.
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Rebuilt...

Just a quick note to mention that while most of the gang were at Conception last weekend, I rebuilt the website and did a complete upload. That appears to have fixed the glitch (which related to downloading files). Please let us know if you see any more problems.

Update on Conception to follow soon.

Thanks for you patience,

Dom
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Glitches

I’d just like to apologise to people that we have been having a number of issues with the website after rebuilding it after someone had a go at it. There are permissions faults on some files which you mean may not be able to download them. If you cannot access them, please use the contact form and let us know. We hope to have this fixed shortly.

Dom, BITS Webmaster
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Dragonmeet Post-Con Report


Andy meets a Cyberman

Dragonmeet 2009 happened, in its original London configuration, over the last weekend of November. As usual, it was held in Kensington Town Hall, which has good facilities. BITS were there, as we have been since the convention was re-launched, with the trade stand, a demo of At Close Quarters, and a number a scenarios for Traveller including the latest instalment of the Angel’s Share campaign which has nearly reached a conclusion.


The Ad Astra in all her Glory

The trade hall was busy, but noticeably emptied when the seminars were on, and the At Close Quarters game grabbed a lot of attention thanks to Nick Bradbeer’s latest masterpiece model, an Ad Astra liner. This was built from foam board, and looked excellent. Scaled for 15mm, it was perfect for an exciting skirmish game.


Battle commences!

We had a number of worried people looking at the notices of reduced prices and ‘last ever’ for some of the 101 Books and other products, but they went away reassured when we explained that this was tied to a planned PDF release of our back catalogue in 2010. We’ll also hopefully have the first volume of Angel’s Share ready for a full release in the New Year, possibly followed by some smaller adventures, and – if the playtesting works out – something for Power Projection.

The adventures we ran went well, and seemed to be popular, with both Simon Bell and Dave Elrick GMing. Andy and myself manned the trade stall, which was constantly in demand, even in the quiet times.

From a personal perspective, this was my first return to Dragonmeet after a 3 year break for a variety of reasons, and I was really glad to be back. It’s one of my favourite cons, and has quite a frenetic pace, which is unsurprising as it starts at 10:00 and ends around 19:00! The trade hall was buzzing, and there were lots of new and shiny things to look at such as pre-release copies of the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game on the Cubicle 7 stand, the proof copies of Triple Ace Games’ core Hellfrost books for Savage Worlds and the Collective Endeavour’s latest game, Umlaut, in which get to be a rock band.

I was also quite pleased to finally see the Power Projection miniatures by Ad Astra Games and a real (non-PDF) copy of the Power Projection: Fleet book in its US guise. Mongoose Publishing also had a huge stand with lots of Traveller front and centre, both for our much loved setting and for the 2000AD settings such as Judge Dredd and Strontium Dogs.

Finally, it was great just to catch up with the rest of the BITS team, including the people like Simon and Robin who I’ve only met by email. The fires of my enthusiasm for Traveller are well and truly relit, and now I must properly finish my adventure for release in 2010! And I'm happy to report that Andy escaped from the clutches of the Cybermen by the end of the convention.

Dom, BITS Webmaster


All friends now!

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TravCon 10 Booking Open!



The booking forms for the UK's best Traveller RPG convention are now available here. There are discounts to the price if you book before 11th December 2009.


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Mongoose Traveller Open Day


On Saturday September 5th, Mongoose is throwing open its doors for fans of Traveller. Taking place at our offices in Swindon, it is completely free to attend, and everyone is welcome, whether you have played Traveller before or not!

Doors open at 9:30, and games begin at 10am, finishing at 5pm - and we have some special games lined up for you!

Rumble at Bay 13: It's your ship, so no one's going to take it from you. A miniatures skirmish.

Judge Dredd: Enforce the Law in the world's most violent and crime-ridden city.

Masks: Settlers are on a poor frontier planet under the watchful eye of the Imperium. What could possibly go wrong?

Seek and Destroy: Take the part of Elite commandos rescuing hostages on a starliner.

Strontium Dog: Be the first to take part in this new setting for Traveller, where everyone plays a mutant bounty hunter.

Noble Blood: A noble retinue searches for a family heirloom.

Cold Dark Grave: You have one last chance to make enough money to keep your mining company running.

As always, the Mongoose store will be open all day, giving you the chance to pick up the latest goodies for Traveller and our other games.

Directions to Mongoose's offices can be found at;

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/pdf/officemap.pdf

See you there! BITS are supporting this.
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BITS Task System Updated


BITS Task System

We have updated the BITS Task System to include Mongoose Traveller, and you can download it in our Archive Pages. The BITS Task System provides equivalencies between different editions of Traveller, allowing you to use materials for different editions in your game with ease.

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Conpulsion 09 and Salute 09

BITS will be attending two conventions this coming weekend:



In the northern sector in Edinburgh, BITS will be attending Conpulsion 09 on both days running a Mongoose Traveller powered RPG scenario - "Masks" in Slot 1 and on Sunday BITS will be helping out with a game of Power Projection running over Slots 4 and 5. Avenger Enterprises will also be there running games and seminars so it will be a Traveller packed weekend. How can you stay away? Join us at Teviot Row Students Union, University of Edinburgh.



Meanwhile in Southern sector the BITS Trade Delegation will be plying their wares at Salute 09 at Excel London on Saturday . Demonstrations of At Close Quarters using the 25mm scale Starship Excalibur and our starship combat game Power Projection will be on hand to keep you Traveller Happy! Catch us at stand TH15.

Richard Talbot.
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SABRE 2009 Con Report

BITS were asked along to this small con in St Andrews to run some games and I duly attended armed with a scenario or two as I needed something to replace the Traveller fix I would have got from attending Travcon.

SABRE (St Andrews Big Roleplaying Event) is a cosy mini con over 2 days with daily numbers of about 50 held within the confines of the Students Union of that most Ancient University. Apart from RPG's, a mix of CCG's and wargaming seemed to be the agenda for the day.

Invited by local shop-owner, David Wright, himself about to open the new games shop Kingdom of Adventure in nearby Kirkcaldy, SABRE turned out to be a pleasant event with a very relaxed atmosphere.

Built around a single 6 hour timeslot this gave me the opportunity to run some longer adventures and after discussion with the players opted for a session of "Masks", a self written scenario set in the Fifth Frontier War.

The players started off well until the first encounter when the tenets of their religion seemed to be overshadowed by the need to shoot things! Needless to say this put the scenario on a whole new level but with some skilled ideas and a healthy dose of hilarity the players worked their back round to the main objective.

Added to the excellent playing abilities of Sian, William, Caz, Miles, Chris and Emma was the buffet lunch provided with the ticket price of £5.00. Fuelled by the food the players wrapped up the scenario in good time for the close of SABRE at 6pm. If only for the frequent rolling of 1's and 2's on the dice and the demolition of an entire farm by home made nitrate explosives, this session will be fondly remembered.

I couldn't make the Sunday event but will be placing myself in the fray next year at SABRE 2010 for more fun and food!"


Richard Talbot
BITS Demo GM
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Travcon 09 and Concrete Cow



Should be pretty much over as I post this, and it sounds like it has gone well. I’ll be uploading the reports and pictures once the team get them through to me.

Meanwhile, over in Milton Keynes, Concrete Cow was running as well. Graham Spearing ran “Cold Dark Grave” at the con, and got some good feedback from one of the more demanding players and refs over there. You can find out more here, on the report on UK Roleplayers.

More soon, hopefully.

Dom
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Hosting Interruption

Hi all,

The Website may be down temporarily whilst the hosting provider physically changes the location of the servers, which will start around 10:30 pm UK time on Thursday 26th February 2009. We’ll see you when we’re back after the break.

Regards,

Dom
BITS Webmaster
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Dragonmeet 2008 Report

Dragonmeet Logo

A belated (thanks to the death of the computer with the website on) report on Dragonmeet by Richard Talbot:

BITS attended the excellent one day con, Dragonmeet 08 in Kensington, London, with a variety of Traveller related games and and our well stocked trade stand.

The Early Rush
Andy Lilly at the stand as the show opened.

Stalwart GM's Dave Elrick and Simon Bell ran the latest instalments of our long running scenario series Project 1112 involving the crew of the Angel's Share. The plot is thickening as we rolled out the 5th and 6th parts of Dave Elrick's saga – Misjump! and Storm Warning! – to entertain the players. Both games went well with good feedback received from the players back at the trade stand. If you haven't played one of the new adventures come along to one of the cons we are attending. Conception 09 is up next in January!


One of the games.

New to the BITS schedule was an At Close Quarters demo scenario written by Richard Talbot. Set in the docking bay of a local starport, the crew of the mining seeker, Dragon's Luck, come back to their ship after a few well earned drinks to find corporate saboteurs lurking in the shadows. The scenario is only one part of the demo as real-life Naval Architect and BITS member Nick Bradbeer created a 25mm scale model of a Type J 100t Seeker and docking bay. We have plenty of pictures to drool over but the results of Nick's late nights constructing the model were amazing!

Perspective of the Seeker
The Seeker (Perspective)

We used Ground Zero Games Neu Swabian League Troopers for the corporate squad, original Grenadier Traveller figs for the crew and Tablescape industrial scenery for the game aw well as Nick’s scratch built model.

back view of Seeker
Rear detail of the Seeker.

We played through three games with one team just managing to disarm explosive charges with 1 round to go and in the second game clearing the ship of saboteurs in under 6 rounds. Never will penguins be looked on again as passive creatures!

Top view of Seeker
Top view of the Seeker.

We'll be using the model for future cons so look out for updates on the website.
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BITS Webshop Back Online

In case you missed it, the BITS Webshop (hosted courtesy of Ancient Tomes) is back online, free from eBay’s loss-making constraints!




You can order your BITS Traveller products here.

Thanks!

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An Apology

Just a quick note to apologise for the delay in updating the site. After nearly 6 years faithful service, my iMac G4 which is used to build the BITS website died. However, it has now been replaced, but that meant that the web editor (Rapidweaver) needed to be upgraded to a new version, which further delayed this update. However, it should be right now, fingers crossed!

It has also meant that the planned review of the Traveller 5 CD that we hoped to post on the member’s pages has been delayed.

Thanks for your patience,

Dom
BITS Webmaster
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TravCon UK 09 - Limited Space left



TravCon09 is a UK Traveller roleplaying convention being organised by BITS. It will be held near Sawtry (between Peterborough and Huntingdon just off the A1M), on the weekend of 13 to 15 March 2009. There is space for about 30 attendees for a great weekend of Traveller roleplaying.

Residential spaces for the con are becoming scarce with only approx 8 left. With the credit crunch hitting us all Early Bird prices BITS have been extended to January 10th.

Docking fees are free. No Imperial Entanglements, please.

Attendee Prices
• “Lead Character” (Friday night to Sunday afternoon, ensuite room, B&B, with entry to all games) – £99.
• “Secondary Character” (as “Lead Character”, but sharing a room with a “Lead Character” ) – £25.
• “Non-Player Character” (non-gamer, aged 18 or more, sharing a room with a “Lead Character” ) – Free
• “Non-Player Youngster” (non-gamer, aged under 18, sharing a room with a “Lead Character” ) – Free
• “Saturday Stand-In” (gamer, day ticket, for Saturday only) – £15.
• “Sunday Stand-In” (gamer, day ticket, for Sunday only) – £10.

More info and booking
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A good reason to be at Dragonmeet!



If you should happen to be at Dragonmeet, you could get the opportunity to play the BITS Traveller skirmish game, At Close Quarters using this gorgeous model of a Type J Seeker. You know you want to!
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TravCon 09 - Now Open for Bookings



We're really pleased to announce the return of TravCon in 2009. TravCon09 will, once again, be held in Sawtry at Redwing Lodge on the weekend of the 13-15th March 2009. You can download details of the con and information on how to book here on the website.

This is the UK's only Traveller focused convention. You can see pictures of TravCon08 here.

Important information: if you book before 6th December 2008 you can save money! Prices rise after that date; you can find full details on the booking form.
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eBay cause (temporary) demise of BITS Webshop!

Unfortunately, due to the recent significant increases in eBay fees for webshops, we have have been forced to close down with BITS Webshop at Ancient Tomes. This is as we could no longer sell products without making a loss (we have never priced highly compared to other publishers as a deliberate policy) via eBay Shops. We are working on a fix, and should have a new facility up soon.

Thank you for your patience.

The BITS Team.
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Website Glitches

Just a quick apology for the glitches that crept in this week to the website formatting. They should be fixed now, and were a consequence of some work to the site which will be revealed soon, once it's stable.

As a quick update, the team had a successful GenCon UK, and hope to have a short report and pictures up to share soon. Continuum also went well, with a one off playtest for This Fear of Gods, the other scenario being worked up as well as the Angel's Share Campaign.

Dom
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GenCon UK: 28th-31st August 08 - Loren Wiseman as special guest

We are pleased to announce we will be attending Gencon UK 2008 from 28th to 31st August 2008 at Reading University, Reading, England.

As with previous years, we will be running a series of RPG tables using the new Mongoose Traveller ruleset. Our new RPG adventures will be based around the continuing saga of the trader ship Angel's Share in a linked series of adventures set in the Spinward Marches. Parts 1-3 were run at Gencon UK 2007 and Parts 4-6 will be the main feature this year.

As part of the convention, BITS Director Andy Lilly will also be running a special Charity Auction game with Loren Wiseman guest playing and the other 5 places going to the highest bidders.

We will also be running demos of Power Projection: Fleet, our Traveller starship combat game.

More details of scenario times and general convention details can be found at http://www.genconuk.com/

As always find us at http://www.bitsuk.net/ and http://www.powerprojection.net/ for more info on BITS and Power Projection

Thanks

The BITS Team
Supporting Traveller in all forms since 1996...Donations of anagathics always welcome
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Conventions Calendar re-enabled

Thanks to Richard Talbot, we've moved the BITS calendar for conventions to Google Calendar, and have re-enabled the page on the site so you can see where we will be over the next few months.

You can find this information here:
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TravCon 08 - Final Report & Pictures


Neil has sent his final TravCon 08 report:

Saturday night ended with pretty much all the con attendees having a drink in the bar. Did we mention that the bar was open 24-hour? A couple of attendees checked the claim and found that yes the staff would serve until the early hours of the morning.
The TAS 24 hour bar.
The TAS 24 hour bar.

Sunday started a little later than planed with two RPG games being ran. One by Max Kettley who was running his first con game for
BITS.
Another group gave the combat system for the new
Mongoose Traveller rule system a test run.

The afternoon session saw the end of one of the morning games and a short run out for the
BITS classic scenario Family Business.

The Award and Closing Ceremony.
The Awards!

The con was wrapped up with a closing ceremony (posh term for getting everyone in the same room) hosted by our own Andy Lilly. A couple of
awards were handed out including the
Ping, F*** It award. I'll leave the details so as not to get them wrong. With the closing ceremony ending with very long list of thank yous we all then started to thin out and make our weary way home.

Well that was the first of the resurrected TravCons. With a little bit of luck there will be a TravCon 2009, a bit bigger and obviously better.

--
All the best,
Neil

All pictures from TravCon 08 can be found here.
If you want copies of the higher resolution images and you attended TravCon 08, please drop us an email.
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TravCon 08 - Survived! UPDATE 3


As TravCon 08 draws to a close, an update from Andy:

Bloody 'ell, we did it!
Happy
I'm going to have a quiet meal (non-Indian) and drink (non-Carling), relax (non-gaming) and tomorrow hopefully I'll pull together the pictures I took
and post them up.

Should be plenty of material for the next newsletter.
Happy
Thanks to those who made it a success. Missed those of you who couldn't make it.

Andy

Andy Lilly
BITS UK Limited (British Isles Traveller Support)

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TravCon 08 - Traveller and Curry! UPDATE 2



Once again, our fearless drinker stringer reports to TAS on TravCon 08:

Hello again,

We've just got back from another fine curry. The afternoon slot saw another three games of
Traveller. The evening slot is just about to kick in with a couple of games being played. We'll have to see what the morrow brings.

Highlights of this afternoons session were
Cold Dark Grave get another run out and the fine George Wright's beer brought along by Derrick. Yes, Neil was able to find six players who'd never played Cold Dark Grave!

The prediction for Man of the Con goes to Simon who looks to be trying to run the whole of the
Angel's Share saga at the con. All the best, Neil

Happy
Hopefully pictures tomorrow!

(Angel's Share is the new mini-campaign being prepared for publication by BITS.)
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TravCon 08 is underway! UPDATE 1



TravCon08 is underway! BITS' very own Neil McGurk reports:

Hello from TravCon 08 to all who aren't just outside Sawtry.
We're well into the Saturday morning session now. Three games of Traveller played last night. The evening ended with a large game Chez Geek in the 24-hour bar! Won by Derrick, who then continued to drink until 4am.

We've now got three games of Traveller being played, with a couple more planned for this afternoon. Hope to get a couple of updates out during the rest of the weekend. The WiFi isn't free but it is cheap.

All the best, Neil

Hopefully we'll have more news and pictures this weekend.

Dom
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LAST CHANCE for TravCon08



This is your LAST CHANCE to register for TravCon08!

There is less than a week to go until the Con opens this coming weekend...

Demand for places has been good, however...

...we have ONE room left (as work/illness have cut the BITS team attendance) and we also have a number of day tickets available, and would welcome more people who want to play or referee Traveller (of any flavour). Come and take part in the UK's premier Traveller RPG convention, and even try out the new Mongoose Traveller playtest rules!

IMPORTANT: You must pre-register for day tickets, as they are not available on the day. Day tickets are £15 Saturday, £10 Sunday.

Register HERE!
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New BITS Newsletter Available


BITS Members can find the latest edition of the newsletter available in the Member's section.

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Conpulsion 2008, Edinburgh, 22-23 March 2008



BITS
will be demoing 4 linked adventures (1 per slot) at Conpulsion 2008 at Edinburgh University, 22nd-23rd March 2008 for those of you living in that part of the world.

We'll be using the Mongoose Traveller 3.2 Playtest document as the rules unless MGP get the main rulebook out by then.

We'll be running In Search of Angels, The Rock, Ice Work and Ghosts from the Past in sequence detailing the travels of the crew of the Angel's Share in the Spinward Marches just after the Fifth Frontier War.

Conpulsion is an excellent con so if you live in that part of the world come along as there seems to be plenty on:

http://www.geas.org.uk/conpulsion/index.shtml
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TravCon08 Registration now Open to All


BITS is proud to announce TravCon08 UK is now open to registration for everyone after two months as a BITS member exclusive. There are limited numbers of places left, so book soon!

This is the rebirth of the convention we used to run at Hebden Bridge, but this time down south near Sawtry.

Register HERE!

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to you all from BITS!

And what a New Year it promises to be, with Mongoose Traveller and Traveller 5 due out, not to forget the forthcoming TravCon 08!

Speaking of Traveller 5, the bundle of pre-order stuff arrived here so we'll hopefully have some thoughts on it for you soon.

Wishing you all well,

The BITS crew.

Update: 20 Jan 2007
Sorry this is so late going up, but we've been suffering broadband issues.
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TravCon08 Registration open to BITS Members


BITS is proud to announce TravCon08 UK is now open to registration from BITS members. This is the rebirth of the convention we used to run at Hebden Bridge, but this time down south near Sawtry. Details can be found in the BITS members area of the website.

We will open the registration to everyone shortly.

UPDATE (3/12/07): The minor glitch on the electronic registration page is now corrected.
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Dragonmeet 2007 is Today!

Dragonmeet website

We are pleased to remind you that we are attending Dragonmeet 2007 at Kensington Town Hall today (1st December) from 10.00am.

We have the usual trade stand full of new and second hand Traveller merchandise, dice, figures and other fine products manned by BITS Director Andy Lilly. Usual BITS member discounts apply at the show.

The BITS Demo Crew are also be present running a series of new adventures including the Angels Share scenarios (In Search of Angels, The Rock and Ice Work) in both morning and afternoon slots. Throughout the day we will have exclusive previews of the new Traveller Starship miniatures by Ad Astra and will be running demo games of our Power Projection: Fleet starship combat game.

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New BITS Newsletter Available.

BITS Newsletter


BITS
Members can find the latest edition of the newsletter available in the Member's section.

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Dragonmeet 2007 - Yes, we'll be there!

Dragonmeet website

We are pleased to announce we will be attending Dragonmeet 2007 at Kensington Town Hall on 1st December from 10.00am.

We will have the usual trade stand full of new and second hand Traveller merchandise, dice, figures and other fine products manned by BITS Director Andy Lilly. Usual BITS member discounts apply at the show.

The BITS Demo Crew will also be present running a series of new adventures including the Angels Share scenarios (In Search of Angels, The Rock and Ice Work) in both morning and afternoon slots. Throughout the day we will have exclusive previews of the new Traveller Starship miniatures by Ad Astra and will be running demo games of our Power Projection: Fleet starship combat game.

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Newsletter - Final Call for Submissions

This is a final call for articles for submission to the next BITS
newsletter due to be released October 2007.

Articles should be submitted by email in plain text, RTF, MS Word
(10pt Arial) or Open Office (10pt Arial). Formatting should be as
plain as possible.

We are especially looking for artwork to grace the pages of the new
look Newsletter so if anyone wishes to submit artwork as well please
email:

richardtalbotuk@yahoo.co.uk

or alternatively

bits@bits.org.uk.

We are unable to reimburse authors/artists for newsletter articles/art
but full credit will be given. Consideration is being given to a best
article prize so watch this space.

Thanks and anyone with queries feel free to drop me a line.

Richard Talbot
BITS Newsletter Editor
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GenCon UK is nearly here!


BITS will be attending GenCon UK 2007 between August 30th and September 2nd at Reading University (http://www.genconuk.com/).

BITS Director Andy Lilly will be bravely manning the trade stand with a wide range of Traveller merchandise including our own range of Little White Books, with our most recent release Cold Dark Grave by Dom Mooney and Universe software and a good selection of new and second hand gaming products.

On the gaming front Richard Talbot, Neil McGurk and Peter Trevor will be running a range of 3 new Traveller RPG adventures during the 3 timed slots at 9am, 2pm and 8pm.

We will also have a demo table of Traveller: Power Projection Fleet and Escort with games timed during the day at 9.00am and 2.00pm.

All our slots are now bookable via the GenCon website and cost two gaming tickets per game.

BITS are also looking for a brave volunteer to help run some of the sessions so if you are attending GenCon or just even thinking about it, drop an email to richardtalbotuk at yahoo.co.uk or bits at bits.org.uk (or use the contact form on the site here) and let us know! GenCon do provide some benefits for GM's depending on how many slots they run so check out their website for more information.

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TravCon 08 is coming...

TravCon 08 is a Traveller roleplaying game convention held near Sawtry (between Peterborough and Huntingdon on the A1M), currently planned to take place on the weekend of 14-16 March 2008. We have accommodation and playing space for 25-30 attendees for a great weekend of Traveller roleplaying (all are welcome, but initially BITS members will be given booking preference).

The hotel is comfortable, with en-suite facilities in all rooms, has ground floor rooms for a limited number of disabled attendees and a couple of conference rooms for gaming. The hotel provides breakfast; lunch and dinner venues include an adjacent Indian restaurant, small snack shop, or take-away from nearby Sawtry.

To help people plan their days and to give everyone a chance to play in several games, we will be organizing the weekend into a morning, afternoon and evening gaming sessions, with the opportunity to play BITS scenarios or to bring your own adventures to run (preferably having notified us so that we can advertise games to the attendees well in advance of the con). We also intend to run fun competitions of both Power Projection starship battles, and At Close Quarters miniatures skirmishes, there will be the BITS trade stand and a Bring & Buy (for any roleplaying stuff you want to try to sell to other attendees) and more fun stuff as we get it organised.

We’ve organised a deal with the hotel which gets attendees an ensuite room, Friday night to Sunday afternoon, B&B, including full con entry, for just £99 for BITS members.

Watch out for further details as they appear here on the web site.
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New BITS Newsletter Available



BITS Members can find the latest edition of the newsletter available in the Member's section.

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Cold Dark Grave and Power Projection: Escort now available in the USA

Mystic Station Designs have taken delivery of our new adventure "Cold Dark Grave", plus restock of Power Projection: Escort for the North American market. They have also got copies of pretty much everything we've written in the past.

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Power Projection to be printed in the USA

Power Projection Fleet cover

BITS are proud to announce closer ties with yet another game publisher. Following on from our collaboration with Jon Tuffley at Ground Zero Games to produce our much-applauded Traveller starship combat system Power Projection, we are now beginning printing of the Power Projection: Fleet rules through Ken Burnside at Ad Astra Games in the USA.

We continue to have stock of the original UK printings of both Power Projection: Escort and Fleet, but this agreement allows us to produce and distribute the updated version of Fleet more easily in the USA. We will continue to stock and distribute the original UK printing to distributors, mail order customers and at conventions, but will replace these with the US-printed version over time.

We will only be printing Fleet at Ad Astra; though Escort is a useful, and fun, lead-in to Power Projection, the economics of printing meant it wasn't worth producing Escort in the USA: for our first out-source to Ad Astra we wanted to focus on the complete rules set in Fleet and see how it went.

We intend to collaborate further with Ken and his team at Ad Astra on future projects, just as we continue to work very closely with Jon at Ground Zero Games with our upcoming Power Projection: Reinforcements book.

Andy Lilly
http://www.bitsuk.net/
http://www.powerprojection.net/

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Power Projection site updated

I've updated the Power Projection website to a new, more modern format in line with the BITS site, and added a free PDF download of an Escort class ship.

Saberwolf SSD

This is a conversion of the Traveller T20 Saberwolf Block 1 Fleet Destroyer into a Power Projection SSD. If you want the full details on the ship (the blurb and High Guard style stats and picture), you'll need to buy the excellent Traveller's Aide #7: Fighting Ships from RPGNow or QLI directly.

Have fun blowing things up!
Dom

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Delays in Responding due to New Arrival

I may be a little slow in responding to emails to BITS and sending them on to the relevant person, as I became a Dad on Tuesday with the arrival of my first child, a son. Ping me again if you don't hear anything for a week or two.

Dom (BITS Webmaster)
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Scenario Playtest (16th December 2006, Edinburgh)

"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.
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Autumn Newsletter now available

Newsletter cover

We're happy to announce to BITS members that the latest issue of the BITS newsletter, the Autumn issue, is now available for download through the secure Member's section of the site. All members were emailed a username and password yesterday. If you're a member, and haven't seen this email (from the YahooGroup), please let us know via the contact form and we'll try and sort things out.

Dom (BITS Webmaster)

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Changes to the website

I've just upgraded the software that the website is built with from RapidWeaver 3.2 to RapidWeaver 3.5 because the newer version offers some advantages to managing the site (permanent links to blog entries, better functionality for editing and improved themes to name a few of the changes).

This has meant that I had to upgrade the 'theme' which provides the common formatting for the pages, which went smoothly as far as I can see. However, I haven't tested each and every bit of format and function, so I'd like to ask you to let me know here (via the comments to this news entry) if anything doesn't work as expected.

The 'BITS Members' section has been removed as I have completed the initial testing. It will return, and members will be contacted with details on how to access it. Our plan is to make the newsletter available through it rather than requiring YahooGroups membership.

Dom (BITS Webmaster)
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Testing, Testing...

I'm currently testing some new functionality on the site, so please do not be alarmed if you suddenly see new pages or areas you cannot access without a password.

Dom (BITS Webmaster)
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Holidays at BITS Central

BITS Central is closing up shop for a couple of weeks for a well deserved holiday, so if you order anything from the eBay shop, please allow 28 days for delivery as our distribution side is not there to handle your order.

The current security problems for air travel are also proving problematic - there were plans to take a laptop to continue with the new books and updates to current books, but this is changing to hand-written edits. If you've seen hold baggage being handled, you'll understand why the thought of putting the laptop in the hold isn't attractive.

Dom (Webmaster)
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Brave New World

This evening, I finally pulled the plug on the old BITS website files which were on my personal ISP's space. This means that any attempt to use the old http://www.asbf58.dsl.pipex.com/BITS_website/ path will now fail. We're totally committed to the new look, and hope you like it.

Dom
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BITS Member's Newsletter due soon!

Richard Talbot is in the final stages of pulling together the latest BITS newsletter, with a plan to release through the usual route after Cannoncade next week. If any BITS members are struck by their Muse and fancy getting an article or review in the magazine, please contact us through the Contact Form on this website!
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Welcome to the New Look!

Welcome to the updated BITS web site. Webmeister Dom has tried to keep it simple and efficient, so that you can get to the information you want without being bombarded with needless graphics and special effects (somewhat of an analogy to our products - which we fill to the brim with useful stuff, rather than padding them out with needless pictures).

 Needless Picture of Andy!

Just to reassure all our avid followers out there, the "little white books" of Traveller are still in production, with 101 Starcrews being our latest Traveller supplement. However, as each of us on the team grows that little bit older, our time for Traveller becomes necessarily constrained by personal commitments to our partners, children, jobs, etc. Of course, should any of us ever win the lottery, we'd be able to give up our jobs and do this full time. Alternatively, if any of you out there have a few million pounds to spare, please get in touch.
 
Once again, welcome to our site - I hope you find it useful (please send us your comments). We hope to keep it regularly updated with information on our latest work, including new products and our planned attendance at conventions.
 
Andy (Chief BITS Disorganiser)

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Under Construction

This is the new BITS website, and it is still under construction. Please visit the old site at http://www.bits.org.uk/ instead. Thanks!
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