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Prime Directive: TRAVELLER

Started by jeff37923, June 14, 2011, 06:07:36 AM

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jeff37923

June 14, 2011, 06:07:36 AM
It looks like Amarillo Design Bureau and Mongoose Publishing are joining forces to make a Traveller variant compatable with the Star Fleet Battles universe. Could be a lot of fun, could also suck - I want more information.

Couple of teaser links below (one is the ADB site on Facebook)

http://blog.mongoosepublishing.co.uk/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Amarillo-Design-Bureau-Inc/231728653279?sk=wall
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#1
June 14, 2011, 08:02:41 AM
If you can play a Ferengi Collectable Action Figure Salesman I'm sold!
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Danger

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June 14, 2011, 12:54:46 PM Last Edit: June 14, 2011, 02:14:18 PM by Danger
Love how ADB just churns away there in the background; got their niche and are happy with it (I'm guessing at this last point, mind you).

A Traveller PD could be interesting.

p.s. Now, if we can have a cross-genre fender-bender possible due to rule compatibility, I've got to see a throw down between Starfleet pogues and Judge Dredd.
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#3
June 14, 2011, 04:47:04 PM
i'll grab a copy of PD/traveller (the call to arms/SFB thing doesn't do anything for me).  be neat to see the trek (kinda) universe done up trav-style :)

Silverlion

#4
June 14, 2011, 04:52:33 PM
Quote from: Ian Warner;463944If you can play a Ferengi Collectable Action Figure Salesman I'm sold!

Sadly as I understand the license, they can only use material from the original series.
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Tahmoh

#5
June 14, 2011, 05:16:22 PM
give people enough time and im sure someone will create ferengi for the game.

Ian Warner

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June 14, 2011, 05:16:42 PM
Awwwwwwww man.

The best thing about the original Trek RPG was that you could play Ferengi with absaloutly no use to the party but lots of quality merchadise to sell!
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Simlasa

#7
June 14, 2011, 05:28:28 PM
At this point I prefer the Prime Directive/SFB universe to the official Star Trek one... it feels wilder, less new-age, less PC. I'm glad it's picking up a new branch... even if it is Mongoose.

Ferengi though, they always bothered me... they're like some old stereotype of Jewish people/Roma... in space.

Tahmoh

#8
June 14, 2011, 06:08:24 PM
the original concept for them was the perfect capitalist race, somewhere along the line something went awry though.

Koltar

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June 14, 2011, 06:14:11 PM
Quote from: Ian Warner;464114Awwwwwwww man.

The best thing about the original Trek RPG was that you could play Ferengi with absaloutly no use to the party but lots of quality merchadise to sell!

What the hell are you talking about??

The 'original' STAR TREK  RPG was either in the late 1970s or early 1980s (depending on which publisher or version you prefer)  - before there were any fucking 'Ferengi' created for the STAR TREK universe.

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Creation/writing of the Ferengi race = Summer 1987
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#10
June 14, 2011, 07:23:42 PM
Apparently Mongoose gets use of the SFB universe to make a RPG - Prime Directive-Traveller and a SFB version of Call to Arms.  ADB gets Mongoose's figure manufacturing process, with Mongoose making a whole new line of computer designed miniatures for sale by both Mongoose and ADB.

Sounds like a win-win for everyone.
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June 14, 2011, 07:55:41 PM
Saw this. Intrigued.
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#12
June 14, 2011, 08:29:05 PM
I would really enjoy ACTA using Star Trek Ships.  Holy crap that sounds amazing!  As long as they keep it fast and fun, I'll be hooked like a trout.
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stu2000

#13
June 15, 2011, 12:27:30 AM
I love the Star Fleet Universe and Traveller, and I like ACtA well enough. I bet it'll be great. I think GURPS Prime Directive has been great.

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June 15, 2011, 02:12:19 AM
Quote from: Koltar;464126What the hell are you talking about??

The 'original' STAR TREK  RPG was either in the late 1970s or early 1980s (depending on which publisher or version you prefer)  - before there were any fucking 'Ferengi' created for the STAR TREK universe.

- Ed C.



FASA Star Trek RPG = 1982

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_RPG_(FASA)

Creation/writing of the Ferengi race = Summer 1987

I was thinking of thinking of the one by the same peeps who did a failed LOTR version.
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