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NOTE: 25% discount sale does not include Career Book 3. 25% discount applies only to products purchased from DriveThruRPG.com and its sister sites, and excludes print editions available from Spica Publishing’s Lulu store.

Spica Publishing is pleased to announce that Career Book 3 is now available to download from DriveThruRPG.com/RPGNow.com for $9.99!

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Career Book 3 (CB3)

SP 0106
ISBN 978-0-9560893-6-6

Spica Publishing is pleased to announce that the third and final volume in the highly successful Career Book series, Career Book 3, will be available from 29 February 2012!

Career Book 3 brings Referees and players 14 completely new career options for Traveller character generation. Inside Career Book 3 you’ll find:

ALTERNATIVE BENEFITS TABLES
Tired of having your characters muster out with an equal number of starships and blades? These alternative benefit tables weight the benefit away from high-credit options, providing a more realistic benefit distribution. Tables are included for all careers in the Traveller core rulebook as well as all three Career Books from Spica Publishing.

PHYSICAL FEATURES
Need to know if your character is too tall to make it through that hull breach? Career Book 3 gives you rules for determining a characters height, mass, skin tone, hair and eye colour, allowing anyone to quickly determine what their character looks like.

FAMILY BACKGROUND
Everyone comes from somewhere, and this system provides details of a character’s family, including parents and siblings, as well as how their Social Standing affects their livelihood. A Family Events table is included to help fill in what happened to a character before they turned 18.

NEW CAREERS
Fourteen new careers are presented including:

• INHERITOR: The survivors of the end of the world fight their way back to the stars.
• MARINER: Mariners are sea-going people, making a living working in, on, or under the ocean.
• PRIVATEER: Private companies and planetary governments need to protect their assets; with a Letter of Marque, privateers are mercenaries with space ships.
• WASTELANDER: You live and work in the dangerous places where most people fear to go.

PRE-GENERATED CHARACTERS
54 pre-generated characters, created using the careers in Career Books 1, 2, 3 and the Traveller core rulebook, are presented for when you need non-player characters in a hurry!

Click here to see a sneak-peek of what’s inside Career Book 3!

Requires the use of the Traveller core rulebook, available from Mongoose Publishing. ‘Traveller’ and the Traveller logo are Trademarks owned by Far Future Enterprises, Inc. and are used with permission.

We’ve taken 50% off the price of nearly all* of our products for the next seven days (from Sunday 20 November 2011), so you pay less for more Traveller goodness!

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*: 50% discount sale excludes the Outer Veil book and Outer Veil sector map. 50% discount applies only to products purchased from DriveThruRPG.com and its sister sites, and excludes print editions available from Spica Publishing’s Lulu store.

 The Outer Veil Sector Map is a full colour, high resolution, A1 size, complete map of the entire area of space of the Outer Veil setting. The map includes travel and communications routes, area boundaries and much more!

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Requires the use of the Traveller Core Rulebook, available from Mongoose Publishing. ‘Traveller’ and the Traveller logo are Trademarks owned by Far Future Enterprises, Inc. and are used with permission.

Product code: SP 0200
ISBN: 978-0-9560893-9-7
Format: PDF format, 156 pages.

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Thanks John!

Spica Publishing is pleased to announce that Outer Veil will be released on 30 October 2011!

THE YEAR IS 2159 AND THE FRONTIER NEEDS YOU.

Written by Omer Golan-Joel with Richard Hazlewood, with art by David Reddington and Michael Thomas, Outer Veil is a completely new game universe for Traveller, set in 2159 AD in the space around Sol.

As mighty as they are in the Core Worlds, the Federated Nations of Humanity government and the Megacorporations cannot act directly on the Frontier, which is a month or more away even for the brand-new Jump 2 couriers. To exert their power to these distant stars, they need you to go there on their behalf and act as their eyes, ears, and hands away from home. The FNH government needs reliable administrators who can think on their feet, loyal military officers to project its force, and determined Justice Commission agents to uphold the law where the colonial authorities cannot.

The Megacorporations want results and want them now and demand people who can get results fast, by any means necessary. They also need researchers, explorers, and workers for their projects on the frontier and spies and mercenaries for the darker side of inter-corporate competition. The locals need you, too: as a professional, a hired gun, an explorer or as a fellow colonist. You need the Frontier, too: opportunities and adventures abound there for both the hireling and the freelancer.

The Frontier is large, deep, and wide open. Humanity’s young sphere of interstellar space is surrounded on all sides by unexplored space. At the edge of this tiny sphere lies the Outer Veil, a partly-explored, sparsely-settled region of space separating the known and the unknown. Despite its best efforts, the Core has little influence in these dark reaches, and nearly anything can be found there: unsanctioned colonies, pirate enclaves, secret laboratories, alien ruins, isolationist groups, strange worlds and colonies scraping out a living on the edge of the Great Unknown.

The space beyond the Outer Veil is unexplored, unknown and undisturbed by human exploration, habitation or influence. The future of Humanity lies beyond the Outer Veil, where untold opportunities, riches and dangers await the trail-blazing explorer. The present human institutions hold little or no power amongst these far stars; whatever lies beyond the slowly expanding Outer Veil is an enigma waiting to be explored and colonised: a new opportunity for Humanity to begin anew and build new civilisations.

Authority is scarce and your bosses, if any, are weeks of Jump travel away from you. The Core can only give you general guidance and standing orders; when trouble strikes, you have to make your own decisions. If you are the captain of a patrol frigate, the commanding officer of a Marine detachment, a colonial governor or a Justice Commission agent, you are the government. If you are a trouble-shooter or a local exec for a Megacorporation, you are the company. And if you are a freelancer, you truly are independent.

In the Outer Veil you are on your own.

Outer Veil includes background and historical information on the Outer Veil universe, eight new, setting-specific careers, statistics for 20 new starships and smallcraft, rules for asteroid mining and belting, a complete sector of space with UWPs and subsector maps, Referee’s information on the Outer Veil setting, patrons and ‘Brotherhood & Justice’, a complete introductory adventure ste in the Outer Veil universe.

Outer Veil will be released on Sunday 30 October 2011 as a PDF download from Spica Publishing’s publisher page at DriveThruRPG.com, price $14.99.

Product code: SP 0200

ISBN: 978-0-9560893-9-7

Format: PDF, 156 pages.

A selection of preview pages from Outer Veil from Spica Publishing are presented below.

Outer Veil is © Spica Publishing 2011. All rights reserved.

Requires the use of the Traveller Core Rulebook, available from Mongoose Publishing.

‘Traveller’ and the Traveller logo are Trademarks owned by Far Future Enterprises, Inc. and are used with permission.

The Outer Veil Sourcebook

First off, here’s David Redington’s fantastic cover image for the Outer Veil sourcebook, by Omer Golan-Joel.

The Outer Veil is a complete game universe for the Traveller SF RPG. Set in the not-so-distant future, this sourcebook will allow players and Referees to adventure in the area of space close to Earth at a time when mankind is taking its first steps out into the galaxy! The Outer Veil sourcebook includes detailed background history and information, new setting-specific careers, starships and small craft statistics and deckplans, and a complete sector of space close to Earth! The book also includes ‘Brotherhood & Justice’, a complete, ready to play introductory adventure , rules for belting and asteroid mining and patrons for use in adventures! Interior art is also by David Redington.

Career Book 3

Career Book 3 (CB3) by Richard Hazlewood is the third and final book in Spica Publishing’s highly successful Career Book series!  CB3 includes alternative Mustering Out Benefit tables for all the careers in the Traveller Main Book and Career Books 1, 2 and 3, 14 new careers for your Traveller game and 54 pre-generated characters. The cover art is also by Erich Von Hase.

The art work for the Assistant career in Career Book 3 from Spica Publishing © Spica Publishing 2011.

The art work for the Inheritor career in Career Book 3 from Spica Publishing © Spica Publishing 2011.

Watch this page for more updates on Outer Veil and Career Book 3!

]]> http://spicapublishing.co.uk/index.php/2011/10/07/outer-veil-career-book-3-art-previews/feed/ 0 http://spicapublishing.co.uk/index.php/2011/02/21/field-manual-now-available-from-drivethrurpg/ http://spicapublishing.co.uk/index.php/2011/02/21/field-manual-now-available-from-drivethrurpg/#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:41:28 +0000 EDG http://spicapublishing.co.uk/?p=487 Spica Publishing is pleased to announce the release of its latest product for Mongoose Traveller – FIELD MANUAL!

Written by Bryan Gibson, who has provided art, conceptual designs and illustrations for Traveller for nearly thirty years, and Daniel W. Hammersley, who has written one sourcebook and five adventure modules to the Traveller TNE: 1248 line, Field Manual looks at the life and work of mercenaries both in and out of the Third Imperium.

FIELD MANUAL
From time immemorial there have been warriors. Men who fought not from need or as conscripts but as their trade.
Warriors are not a phenomenon unique to man; virtually every culture has warriors, from the Ancients to the Vargr and Aslan.
And where there are warriors, there are those who fight, not for clan, nation, race or creed, but rather for pay.

They are the mercenaries.

Field Manual provides Referees and players with all the information needed to run Mercs in a Traveller game or campaign, including:

* Everything you need to know about mercenaries in Traveller: what makes a mercenary; how they behave, and why they do what they do; why they are what they are; and how they engage in their very dangerous trade.
* The daily affairs of mercenaries: what makes a good contract and why; a Merc’s daily life and routine; how they operate within the Third Imperium; and why many are just as happy to operate outside its borders.
* A look at the different types of mercenary units: including detailed write-ups of Merrick’s Rangers, The Dark Angels starmercs, and more.
* A first glimpse of Urnian subsector in Foreven sector: the sector’s political entities and events, and a detailed look at its history.
* The Inanye, a new alien species!
* A Change of Management, a complete mercenary adventure, including a planetary summary with planetary and local maps.

FIELD MANUAL is available to download as a PDF from Spica Publishing for $9.99 at DriveThruRPG.com!

Check out the PDF Preview, and don’t forget to take a look at our other products if you haven’t done so already!

The Traveller Core Rulebook is available from Mongoose Publishing.
“Traveller” and the Traveller Logo are Trademarks owned by Far Future Enterprises, Inc., and are used with permission.