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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Justin D. Jacobson" data-source="post: 1877063" data-attributes="member: 18946">Thanks for the feedback guys. Well, this is partially correct. Operation Quick Launch (the setting material focusing on Eos) is turning out to be much longer, on the order of 160+ pages. As for the full print version, it will include all of the material for the Helios system. It will be available 1st Quarter of 2005. I'm guessing it will end up at 300+ pages. We are still toying with the permutations, i.e., hard vs. soft-cover, full-color vs. partial color, etc. We'll know more on that front in December. The vaasi are indeed the "darklings." I'll have another look through it as well. Rest assured much more info on the vaasi (particularly their servitor races) are in OQL. A Firefly-type campaign would be very easy to run with DS. That's one of my favorite shows. Obviously, you'd have to tinker with the plot elements to go full bore, but for an unlicensed product, I don't think you could do any better than Dawning Star for that type of campaign. Maps? Got em! Descriptions of regions and points of interest? Got em! Description of other planets and moons? Got em! Ruins and aliens? Got em! With tables and lists? Of course! Heck, we've even got an intro adventure with a weather-modifying relic in it. One of the things I'm happiest about with OQL is the fluff/crunch ratio. Hmmm.... Don't know if I should spill the beans on that one yet. Let's just say, I guarantee you'll be able to afford it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  (Oh yeah, and its 160+ pages.) Yes, all the artwork and layout is by Gary Simpson. I let him write his own credit, so he has no one to blame but himself.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  But I'll tell him to add something to make it clear he did all the art too. Gary's got such breadth as an artist, he's the only guy I could see doing the whole kitchen sink. We've got a list a mile long on supplements for the DS series. A book on Eotian relics and ruins. A book on the saurians, the wolves, etc. A biota catalog for Eos. A starship construction/combat sourcebook. Sourcebooks for some of the other transport ships. And about a dozen others. There's an introductory adventure in OQL. There'll be another/different one in the print version. We have an idea for a regular-sized adventure and plans for a mega-adventure, Shadow War, a full-scale war against the vaasi.It simply wasn't practical. First, a ship that could carry everything would have been much too large. The terraforming equipment alone takes up a full transport ship. And if each ship had been given some equipment, its effectiveness would have been severely compromised. It's mentioned later in the book, but the terraforming process eliminated most of the irritants.Thanks again for your interest.</blockquote>

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