This is Free Trader Beowulf: A System History of Traveller - This Friday!

[Mongoose_Matt]

This is Free Trader Beowulf: A System History of Traveller comes out this Friday!

Starting in the days of GDW, this mighty tome charts the real world history of Traveller, its books, its eras, and all the different publishers who contributed to the epic!

 

[schneeland]

Looking forward to this book! I assume, the digital version will be up on DriveThru?

 

[Mongoose_Matt]

Looking forward to this book! I assume, the digital version will be up on DriveThru?

It will indeed! Also, our own website (and if you go for the hardcopy, you get the PDF for free ).

 

[darjr]

This is Free Trader Beowulf: A System History of Traveller comes out this Friday!

Starting in the days of GDW, this mighty tome charts the real world history of Traveller, its books, its eras, and all the different publishers who contributed to the epic!

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Thank you for posting this. I didn’t realize this was being released!

 

[payn]

Noice.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

this mighty tome

Surely it should come in the form of an improbably high number of little black booklets.

 

[Mongoose_Matt]

Starting the tale in 1962, this 296-page book launches into GDW's creation and release of Classic Traveller, along with what influenced those first books of the sci-fi RPG.

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

This just reminds me how many of GDW's board games deserve modernized reprints. Steve Jackson already tackled Triplanetary (which partly inspired his own Star Fist design) and Imperium has had at least one new (and rather divisive) edition from Avalanche, but there are others that would probably do well either as nostalgia buys or simply on their own strengths. Still holding out hope for a modern Asteroid, for ex.

 

[General_Tangent]

Will the book be available in ePub as well? Since my ereader can struggle with complicated documents.

 

[Mongoose_Matt]

Will the book be available in ePub as well? Since my ereader can struggle with complicated documents.

Initially no, but we have already had a request for an audio version, so other formats may be a thing in the future. However, I will say that we have a very efficient PDF compiling/flattening process, so it should flow very easily on a reader.