dan2448

Thank you again for these updates: I continue to enjoy following your progress!

Thank you for continuing to provide these updates! I'm very much enjoying following the progress of the manuscript!

Enthused by this news, I went back to Space Gamer #48 (February 1982), which includes that first article by Aaron Allston about his Strike Force Universe for Champions. I still have my childhood Champions 'stuff' from the 1980s, including this article (and the cover), which I had ripped out of the magazine at some point. I know I didn't buy this issue when it was originally published, but likely a few+ years later in a back issue box in a comic book store (in those pre-Internet, pre-ebay days). Rereading it again now, I was surprised by how short it was, and by how it seemed to be, in part, a very calculated back-door advertisement for Steve Jackson Games' Cardboard Heroes product. That said, I remember really liking the cover (by Denis Loubet) and the name "Lightrune," but being underwhelmed by Allston's detailing of the PC's 'low rent' early days, and wishing that Allston had added more details about some/all of the PC's that he merely enumerated in tabular form. Nonetheless, it was definitely enjoyable to revisit.

I just watched (and enjoyed) your recent interview on the BMF Podcast about this project, and enjoyed that as well! I had been hoping since the Kickstarter for Aaron Allston's Strike Force was completed years ago that more might eventually be done with his Strike Force Universe based on the writings he left behind. I had forgotten until you mentioned it on the podcast that this Strike Force Organizations project was originally a stretch goal for that Kickstarter that wasn't met, unfortunately. I remember now being disappointed by that at the time. With every year that passed since then, that seemed to me increasingly unlikely. So this is really welcome news. (That said, it was disappointing to learn from this podcast that Aaron Allston's handwritten notes are apparently impossible for anyone else to decipher. I assumed from that that maybe there was a little less in his posthumous files to 'work with' than I initially hoped/assumed from a distance.) For whatever it's worth (if anything), I think it's an excellent idea to also add stats for Prowlers & Paragons (or any other super hero RPG) to this project to increase the potential audience/customer base. I was also interested to learn that it hasn't yet been decided how/when this Strike Force Organizations project will be funded/published, and that that will be decided by Jason Walters after the manuscript is completed and submitted to him (the goal for that being the next few months, apparently). Having just Googled Aaron Allston's name, I see that the 10th anniversary of his untimely passing will be in February. Perhaps this project may be a way to mark that, and keep his creative work alive.

I'm really happy to see this news. I was a backer of the original Strikeforce Kickstarter (was that really so long ago as 2016?), and look forward to getting this as well!