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Our Next Stretch Goal

Update #8 · Jun 14, 2012 · 5 comments

I want to thank all of you for your support on this project. Every day, your posts and tweets are bringing in new people. We appreciate it.

We just hit the Beowulf Stretch Goal, and we are all very happy about that. A nice Beowulf Deck Plan set to go with the Scout will make a lot of game play easier and more fun.

We have posted an annotated Chapter List at www.traveller5.net as a PDF. You can scan through a detailed description of the rules content there.

We have some long-term and some short-term Stretch Goals, and they all depend on the numbers we reach. The current top asks from our poll are Color Plates in the Book, a TAS card, and the Player's Book (both print and PDF). Each suggestion is a stretch for us, but certainly rewarding in the outcome.

The longest lasting of these would certainly be the Color Plates, and so we’re setting that as our next Stretch Goal: If we can reach/ when we reach $150,000 in Pledges, we’ll commit to expanding the Core Book with a signature of Color Ship Images by Jesse DeGraff!

 

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      Creator David Jaques-Watson on June 29, 2012

      RAFM still sells their 15 mm fig, originally done for Trav. Humans, Aslan, Vargr & Droyne; a few robots. No K'kree or Hivers, tho'. Try their site.

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      Creator John Phalon on June 15, 2012

      Someone should "Kickstart" Martian Metals 15mm miniatures for Traveller too...

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      Creator Kairam Ahmed Hamdan on June 14, 2012

      I believe there are many backers who'd be glad to pay a bit (or even a lot) more to have any of their creations included in the T5 canon. Be it a weapon,vehicle, armor, starship, sophont, robot, beast (and plant) or some piece of equipment (even a star system or world). Of course, all backers' input would be subject to Marc's approval.

      What do you all think? Marc?

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      Creator Donny Phillips on June 14, 2012

      Dear everyone, I have mailed as many as my old friends (we are old) as I can remember. I also got an extra book for my kid who I have hooked on playing. I feel like a pimp :-( Lets push it the next 16 days and see how many more we can inform !! :-D Rah ! Rah!!

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      Creator Kairam Ahmed Hamdan on June 14, 2012

      Great Chapter List.

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