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!

Click the link below to visit our DriveThruRPG.com publisher page and grab yourself a bargain!

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Remember: our sale lasts only for seven days (until November 27th), so make like a Hiver running from a firefight and grab yourself a bargain – quick!

*: 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.

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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.

You can go straight to the Katringa Lulu page here.

Please note that the cost for the lulu version is $10.57 (excluding shipping).

Thanks, Daniel!

Spica Publishing is pleased to announce that its latest product for Mongoose Traveller – System Book 1: Katringa – is now available from RPGnow and DrivethruRPG. This 30-page PDF is written by Richard Hazlewood with physical data by Constantine Thomas, and is available for $6.99.

Welcome to Katringa! System Book 1: Katringa is the first in a series of books from Spica Publishing that describes a complete planetary system and its society, and is designed for use with Mongoose Traveller or any science-fiction RPG. Katringa is a former corporate mining colony that is gradually being allowed more independence over time, although corruption still pervades the government. Conditions are harsh in the asteroid belt close to the system’s energetic primary star, but the riches are worth the risk.

System Book 1: Katringa includes: - A realistic planetary system, based on current astrophysical knowledge. - Details of the worlds in the system, including the mineral-rich Idowa Belt, the gas giants Accra and Yendi and their moons, and Olufemi and the Outer Asteroids. - A planetary map of Katringa showing major landmarks and settlements. - A full physical description of Katringa, including a detailed breakdown of its geographical features and timekeeping system. - Katringa’s unique African-influenced society, history and government. - Important NPCs that may be encountered on Katringa, from all walks of life. - Adventure seeds to occupy Player Characters while in the Katringa system. - Detailed asteroid mining rules. Download it today!

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