Steve I didnt see the SFU: Product Posters that you had at Origins last year on the list. I know these werent really a product line item but you sold them and I bet would sell more if available.

I hope you have more this year as I will pack a few extra bucks just in case you do. I would like to have one of CL:17 if you ever get around to custom ordering these.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 05:17 pm: Edit

Posters. Problems here are that you can print a few or a lot.

If you print a few, they cost about twice as much as anybody is willing to pay for them. We used to auction them off at the end of Origins and found people paying 1/3-1/2 of what we paid. That would tend to make short-run posters a dead horse.

The other option is to print a bunch and try to sell them through stores. Problem here is a ton of money sunk into a product that we don't even know the distribution chain it would sell through.

We're thinking about doing calendars but I think I'm going to let a certain other company do them first. If they lose their shirts, I won't try it the next year.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 05:41 pm: Edit

Didn't see "Cardboard Heroes" for GPD.....


Garth L. Getgen

By Daniel G. Knipfer (Dgknipfer) on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 07:41 pm: Edit

TonyB,

No but I do have a digital camera. I may post some pics later in the F&E section if I have time.

By Ken Burnside (Ken_Burnside) on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 10:08 pm: Edit

"Futures That Never Were - Alternate Histories of the Star Fleet Universe."

This covers roleplaying, alternate F&E scenarios, generates new variants of ships for SFB.

By michael john campbell (Michaelcampbell) on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 11:58 pm: Edit

There was talk of an RPG book of monsters.
With a flip side for SFB monsters.

By Stephen E. Parrish (Sep) on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 08:57 am: Edit

What about Omega 7? Paravians, Nucians, Zosman, Jindarians, Echarri, and Scon.

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 10:20 am: Edit

What about the Nicozians?

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 12:00 pm: Edit

How about a variant to "F&E Web War" where instead of Tholians it is the Selts coming to invade the galaxy (or instead of the Andromedans...which is what the basis of the F&E Web War was.)

In some ways, the Seltarians are more dangerous than the Tholians.

By Andy Palmer (Andypalmer) on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 12:17 pm: Edit

Jeff. Um...how are the Selts more dangerous than the Tholians?

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 12:24 pm: Edit

I said in some ways...

I did not mean to say or imply in all ways.

I'm only suggesting that the Tholian Web is a defense system more than (if you'll pardon the jest)an 'offensive' system.

By Loren Knight (Loren) on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 01:02 pm: Edit

Jeff: You are both right and wrong and saddly I can't tell you why just yet.

Boy am I a jerk or what?

By Christopher E. Fant (Cfant) on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 01:50 pm: Edit

No, just annoying every time you do that.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 02:00 pm: Edit

Loren, its not the first time and unlikely to be the last but I understood Andy's point.

The Tholians represent (IMO) a local threat due to being "based on" a single planet (jokes about mobile homes and travel trailers asside) there are only so many planets that the Tholians can afford to haul around like they did the Holdfast.

There is a qualitative difference in using the Tholian Web in an offensive way a to enhance the defense of new bases as the tholians attack the GAlaxy (as in F&E Web War).

With the Selts having the Hive ships and the ability to produce more ships... they are positively more potentially dangerous than the Tholians due to the ability to increase their ship building abilities beyond a single capital hex/major ship yard facility.

Depending on whatever production limits that selts end up with in such a variant... its like having a starbase ability to produce size class 4 hulls without having to build (or pay for) the starbases.

Its the old 'Quality verse quantity' argument...where quantity has a quality of its own... the Selts combat ability per ship is not the issue... its the possibility that they can establish so many different production facilities around the galaxy that they will eventually out produce and drown all opponents with swarms of ships.

Its not a conventional threat like the Klingons or Romulans... its a "death of a thousand insect bites" thing.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 02:03 pm: Edit

Oh Gee, Loren annoy's Cfant.

Joy!

Loren score today +1

Cfant=0

sounds about right!