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Re: Traveller Hero, a major announcement Our Traveller license ran out, so now all of our Traveller products are released thru Mongoose as part of their line (including two new products.. Sector Fleet and Crowded Hours). They use Mongoose's Traveller System. We are working on some more support material for science fiction using the Hero System. I do have a few personal copies of the books left if you are interested in getting one. William ComStar uspolaris@comcast.net

Hi all, My goal for a Hero version of the Universe Project will lead, hopefully, to a release over the next several months of the following: 1. Lightspeed Core: This is the popular Lightspeed setting written up for the Hero System. 2. Starships: This will include Cargo Manifest, with a few additional starships for the Hero System. 3. Alien Guide: This will include some material to help create interesting aliens for your campaign, plus 50-60 sample aliens to help populate your game Each of the above will be made available in both print and pdf, and my hope is that it will also include the HD files for free with the purchase of the pdf. Package bundles will also be available. Sincerely, William ComStar

I am trying to get a hold of Bob Greewade... Bob: If you see this, can you send me an email at uspolaris (at) comcast.net Thanks! William

Hi all, In addition to Lightspeed, Final Frontier, Far Avalon, Astral Empires, and our various support materials (we have our first alien book nearly going to editing), I am wanting to get more content for our Universe Project... if you have some ideas for aliens, civilizations, setting materials, etc that you would be interested in possibly selling for publication, please let me know... I can be reached at: up@comstar-media.com Thanks! William

Hi all, I know this is perhaps a strange question to ask, but I am going to be looking for character drawings of superheroes and villains. I can be quite flexible on the exact look... do any of you artistically gifted individuals have superhero/villain drawings that you did up as a hobby that you might be willing to sell? William PS: The characters must not be drawings of copyrighted works...

Re: Question about traveler hero As a minor correction: Avenger Enterprises is a design studio equally owned (partnership) between Martin Dougherty and ComStar. Avenger creates much of the Traveller material that we are putting out thru Mongoose. We are still able to publish Traveller fiction directly, and are considering creating material under the Foreven sector. Translight is a percentile/skill based ruleset (based upon BRP/Runequest) for science fiction. Martin and the Avenger team are finishing up playtest on TL, and also continuing to develop more Traveller material and our own setting called 'Far Avalon' (which had originally been planned for Traveller, but is now going to be released independent of the OTU). Far Avalon will be released as a part of ComStar's Universe Project (which Avenger will continue to also work on developing material for, in addition to some others). The Universe Project will include: Lightspeed, Far Avalon, and Astral Empires (which will be an empire building strategy and tactical game and flavor setting). We will also be releasing alien compendiums (we have two compendiums of 50 aliens each currently being written), and other materials. William ComStar http://www.comstar-games.com

Re: Hero System 3rd Party Products While we await getting our copy of the contract, we will be releasing an entire line of Hero System products as part of our "Universe Project"... William ComStar http://www.comstar-games.com

Hi all, We are going to be converting Lightspeed over to Hero, and I am writing to ask if you would have much use for new skills, disadvantages, etc for the Hero System? We could include some more, or take them out and just make it about the setting, packages and related material (starships, characters, equipment, etc)? William

Hi all, Lightspeed is currently a Fuzion game, but is a setting that many seem to like. For those that have tried it.. what are your impressions? Thanks! William

Re: Traveller HERO: end is approaching Just to clarify to everyone that might be wondering... We are not in violation of licensing with Traveller here. Bookstores and gamestores had purchased copies of the books (as did some collectors... I actually purchased a number of copies over the period the books were available). These stores have the right to sell the books they had previously purchased... ComStar can't sell copies of the books, but the stores obviously can. Don't know if anyone was wondering... but in case you were, now you know... William

Re: Traveller HERO: end is approaching We are hoping to continue to support Star Hero, and the material will be quite usable with Traveller Hero... William ComStar

Hi all, As most of you know, our individual Traveller publishing license expired on November 30th. I just completed the final sales report and am sending it with the royalty check to Hero. I wanted to thank all of you for your help and support on this project! While we will continue to produce Traveller materials for publishing under Mongoose, our efforts to be able to continue Traveller Hero have not worked to date. We will try to support Traveller Hero in other ways, and are hoping to launch a "universe project" that will provide support for science fiction using the Hero System. Thank you again for all your support and help! Respectfully, William ComStar

Re: Traveller Hero Also, ComStar is set to continue to support science fiction role playing using the Hero System... with the "Universe Project". Many of the people that are working in the Traveller Hero Group will also be leading the development of new material that will NEVER go poof... William

Hi all, I just wanted to let you all know that Steve approved of the next 11 Traveller Hero products! We are putting them all up on our site (http://www.comstar-games.com) ASAP, and will be putting out a couple a day over the next several days on other sites (such as RPGNow) to avoid flooding their front page with a huge list of new products (flooding the front page tends to upset people). So, come on by and enjoy! William

Re: Traveller Hero, ComStar Publishing - MJM's New Era 1248 : Update I would say you will definitely see it... if you click here: http://www.comstar-games.com/csg-store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_9 (or copy and paste if that doesn't work).... The first two products are print & pdf bundles of the 1248 sourcebooks... William PS: Wow... if that speedy service doesn't warrant Rep....

Re: Traveller Hero, ComStar Publishing - MJM's New Era 1248 : Update Just to let anyone that is interested know: A couple of bits of additional information is just now being finalized, and will be spelled out on our front page (probably today). You can read it at: http://www.comstar-games.com More to come as it becomes available... William

Re: Traveller Hero and Lulu Lulu is a site that will enable customers to purchase the pdfs as print books instead. Lulu will print and bind them for you. William

Hi all, Due to getting quite a few requests, we are working on completing a Lulu storefront that will carry Traveller Hero stuff that was not currently planned for print. This will include the GAS books, Special Supplements, etc. We have been trying to work out how to combine material to keep the price as low as possible (lower prices = more consumer acceptance). Lulu's cost structure, as you probably know, does not make that too easy. The other challenge we are trying to overcome is that much of the artwork in the pdfs is at maximum screen viewing, but that does not always translate to good print quality. We are trying to get the artwork at a higher resolution. As soon as we have this worked out and the storefront 'open for business', we will be making an announcement of such on our website's front page. [NOTE: For those interested, this will also make some of our other, non-Hero, pdfs available for purchase in print as well.] William

Re: Traveller Hero - the soon to be GONE! Hi there, I just want to stop by to clarify a few things-- 1. We do still have quite a long time on this license, and will be publishing Traveller material for quite some time. 2. We currently have at least one other print product in the plans. 3. We will be discussing future plans with the Powers that Be for Traveller when we get closer to the end of the license... customer demand, if it warrants it, can convince the powers that be to do things that may not currently be the plan. 4. We intend to discuss options for continuing to support Star Hero well into the future with the kind folks at DOJ. Even if this support is not 'official' Traveller, players and GMs of Traveller Hero will find the material to be very helpful for their games. William

Re: Traveller Hero... What's Next? Hi all, I am sorry it took me so long to get in here... but anyone that purchased the THero pdfs early enough to have not gotten the corrected one, you can download the updated version at the store (if you bought it at our website, then it is in your My Account area). If you have any problems with it, please just let us know at customer-service@comstar-media.com Thanks! William ComStar

Re: Traveller Hero - A concern You must be reading our minds... Material that was originally intended for Traveller is being reworked, modernized and (hopefully!) improved... soon we will be unveiling "Far Avalon". William

Re: Traveller Hero - A concern Hi all, We still have over a year on the license for ComStar/Avenger to produce Traveller materials (including for the Hero System). In addition to a number of pdfs, we also still have a very special print book in the works (one that I am personally VERY excited about adding to my gaming library). As we get closer to the end of our license, we will be talking over options with Mongoose. The head of our Traveller line, Martin Dougherty, has a very positive working relationship with Mongoose. We are hopeful that something positive can be worked out, but are making plans in case it does not. Eodin gave a very good explanation... we are hoping to continue our licensing arrangement with Hero Games and to broaden it to include products outside of the OTU. This would allow us to publish materials that would provide great support for Traveller Hero, even if it is not 'officially' Traveller. Right now there are a lot of things that are outside of our control... so, when that happens, we are just going to do our best to focus on the things that we do have some control over (namely to get as much Traveller Hero material to you as possible). William ComStar http://www.comstar-games.com

Re: Our First Traveller HERO Game... Just a quick follow up... we have invited JKeown to join our Traveller Hero Group. He has some great ideas that are going to be making their way to your gaming table soon! William

Re: First Impressions of Traveller Hero Hi Publius, If I knew how to 'rep' someone, I would do it for you! Thank you for pointing this problem out. I contacted the printer, and we are going to repay for set up to get it corrected prior to printing (so the print books will be delayed by just a couple of extra days, but I thought it would be better to have it right in the print book rather than just have people have to check online for a correction). Thanks again for pointing this out... William PS: I am going in to read and respond to the PMs I have gotten... sorry for the delay.

Re: Traveller Hero Core Books Now Available!