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Old Spacemaster 2nd Edition Products Release Schedule
« on: August 04, 2011, 02:46:24 PM »
Here is the current projected release schedule for Spacemaster 2nd Edition products. These are all scans so the quality is imperfect. Note that products may be shuffled into weekend releases in order to give priority to rebranded or new products.

8th August - Spacemaster GM Book
9th August - Spacemaster Player Book
10th August - Spacemaster Tech Book
11th August - Spacemaster Companion II
12th August - Action on Akaisha Outstation

15th August - The Cygnus Conspiracy
16th August - Lost Telepaths
17th August - The Durandrium Find
18th August - Legacy of the Ancients
19th August - Disaster on Adanis III

22nd August - Raiders from the Frontier
23rd August - Star Strike
24th August - Armored Assault
25th August - Armored Reserves
26th August - Vessel Compendium #1 - Adventurer Class

29th August - Vessel Compendium #2 - Pursuit Class
30th August - Vessel Compendium #3 - Imperial Ships

10th November - The Spacemaster Companion

14th November - League of Merchants
15th November - Beyond the Core
16th November - Tales from Deep Space
17th November - War on a Distant Moon
18th November - Imperial Crisis: House Devon in Turmoil

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« Last Edit: November 13, 2011, 04:08:09 PM by NicholasHMCaldwell, Reason: updated list »
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Re: Old Spacemaster 2nd Edition Products Release Schedule
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2011, 02:24:51 PM »
Thank you!  Are SpaMCoI and II, and the later adventure modules (League of Merchants, etc.) being worked on as well?

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Re: Old Spacemaster 2nd Edition Products Release Schedule
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2011, 03:28:21 PM »
  IIRC the Spam Co I is not under ICE contract but Spam Co II is. The same goes for all of the other products IIRC.
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Re: Old Spacemaster 2nd Edition Products Release Schedule
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2011, 08:27:53 PM »
Sorry, I'm not reading your response very clearly.  So SpaMCo I is out, but the other adventure modules are in (at some point)?

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Re: Old Spacemaster 2nd Edition Products Release Schedule
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2011, 09:12:46 PM »
Sorry, I'm not reading your response very clearly.  So SpaMCo I is out, but the other adventure modules are in (at some point)?


 From what I remember ICE has scans of all of the products that they can sell and I think the above list is all the SM2 products that they have permission for. So if it is not on the list above they probably do not have the rights to sell the product. From announcements by Thom they are pursuing all possible authors and products they can based on viability and ability to contact author.
 I will send Nicholas HM Caldwell a PM and see he gets an official answer for you.


 So yes as far as I know Spam Co I and League of Merchants is out but might be being pursued or in negotiations, which I know nothing about. But again I am PMing N HM C to get you an official answer. 


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Re: Old Spacemaster 2nd Edition Products Release Schedule
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2011, 09:19:49 PM »
If a product is not on the list, Aurigas and GCP do not currently have permission to sell the product.

We are, however, working to locate lost authors and negotiate agreements with them whereby their work can be republished in return for modest payment. We have located at least one lost Spacemaster author so hopefully we will be able to bring back more products in due course. The same goes for Cyberspace and Rolemaster 2nd Edition.

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Re: Old Spacemaster 2nd Edition Products Release Schedule
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2011, 04:22:53 AM »
Thank you both.

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Re: Old Spacemaster 2nd Edition Products Release Schedule
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2011, 02:50:59 AM »
The original Space Master Companion for 1st/2nd Edition Spacemaster has been released as a scanned pdf via OneBookShelf

http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=96429

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Re: Old Spacemaster 2nd Edition Products Release Schedule
« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2011, 12:16:41 PM »
The original Space Master Companion was only for 1st Edition.  IIRC, all of the content with the exception of some of the detail on MIRCs was included in the 2nd edition ruleset (though you needed Star Strike and Armored Assault to get all of it).

There is also a Space Master Companion (called Space Master Companion I) for 2nd edition rules (blue cover, looks like a cantina).  Space Master Companion II (yellowish cover, robot fight) was also for 2nd edition rules.

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Re: Old Spacemaster 2nd Edition Products Release Schedule
« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2011, 07:13:10 PM »
So, no chance that we'll see a reprint of "Aliens and Artifacts"?  That's too bad....
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« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2011, 09:29:53 PM »
I really hope Aliens & Artifacts gets released as a PDF.  It is hands-down one of the best sourcebooks ever produced for an RPG.

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Re: Old Spacemaster 2nd Edition Products Release Schedule
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2011, 06:40:14 AM »
Working on it per the "Lost authors" thread. . . .Sea Law is also now back for the first time in a long long time. . . .if there's a book you'd really love to see, go look up it's author on the list and find them. . .heh.
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Re: Old Spacemaster 2nd Edition Products Release Schedule
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2011, 09:16:54 AM »
So, no chance that we'll see a reprint of "Aliens and Artifacts"?  That's too bad....

Aliens & Artifacts is in a strange place. David Pulver was never paid for it by Old Ice, it also formally reverted to him courtesy of the Old ICE bankruptcy place. David Pulver never became a lost author, however. Eventually he extracted some of its content, removed the Spacemaster trappings and reused it in GURPS Traveller products. A chunk of the material is Aurigas-owned, a chunk is owned by David Pulver and a chunk is lost forever. So we cannot return Aliens & Artifacts as-is, I've got to make a page and word count of the limbo content, and make David Pulver an offer. If it goes through, we'll then have to produce an abridged version or perhaps it may feature in a future Imperium setting sourcebook.

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Re: Old Spacemaster 2nd Edition Products Release Schedule
« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2011, 10:14:26 AM »
So, no chance that we'll see a reprint of "Aliens and Artifacts"?  That's too bad....

Aliens & Artifacts is in a strange place. David Pulver was never paid for it by Old Ice, it also formally reverted to him courtesy of the Old ICE bankruptcy place. David Pulver never became a lost author, however. Eventually he extracted some of its content, removed the Spacemaster trappings and reused it in GURPS Traveller products. A chunk of the material is Aurigas-owned, a chunk is owned by David Pulver and a chunk is lost forever. So we cannot return Aliens & Artifacts as-is, I've got to make a page and word count of the limbo content, and make David Pulver an offer. If it goes through, we'll then have to produce an abridged version or perhaps it may feature in a future Imperium setting sourcebook.

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 Nice, hopefully a work around can be found. And maybe David or you can say what material was transferred to what Traveller product for easy look up.
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Re: Old Spacemaster 2nd Edition Products Release Schedule
« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2011, 04:10:29 PM »
The schedule has been updated with 5 new never-before-seen-in-pdf Spacemaster modules. All of which should be text searchable (covers excepted). Many thanks to Terry Amthor for scanning books for us, and to Tod Foley and Kevin Barrett for being willing to come to mutually satisfactory agreements with us.

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Re: Old Spacemaster 2nd Edition Products Release Schedule
« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2011, 04:01:58 AM »
The GURPS version of Aliens and Artifacts even reused the cover art! The proportion of re-used data was not insignificant ... but the key would be to work out where the content that was not David's came from ... because that's the section that currently has no hope of being recovered! (David might or might not accept an offer ... but an unknown author is remarkably hard to track down!)

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« Reply #16 on: November 14, 2011, 07:32:03 AM »
The GURPS version of Aliens and Artifacts even reused the cover art! The proportion of re-used data was not insignificant ... but the key would be to work out where the content that was not David's came from ... because that's the section that currently has no hope of being recovered! (David might or might not accept an offer ... but an unknown author is remarkably hard to track down!)

The other third chunk is already Aurigas owned. That is not a problem.

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Re: Old Spacemaster 2nd Edition Products Release Schedule
« Reply #17 on: November 14, 2011, 07:59:53 AM »
The schedule has been updated with 5 new never-before-seen-in-pdf Spacemaster modules. All of which should be text searchable (covers excepted). Many thanks to Terry Amthor for scanning books for us, and to Tod Foley and Kevin Barrett for being willing to come to mutually satisfactory agreements with us.

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Thank you very much to Tod and Kevin.

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« Reply #18 on: November 14, 2011, 08:00:52 AM »
The GURPS version of Aliens and Artifacts even reused the cover art! The proportion of re-used data was not insignificant ... but the key would be to work out where the content that was not David's came from ... because that's the section that currently has no hope of being recovered! (David might or might not accept an offer ... but an unknown author is remarkably hard to track down!)

Would Gurps be willing to license the content they published and "own" to Aurigas, so that the original could be published in full form?

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« Reply #19 on: November 14, 2011, 08:37:03 AM »
The GURPS version of Aliens and Artifacts even reused the cover art! The proportion of re-used data was not insignificant ... but the key would be to work out where the content that was not David's came from ... because that's the section that currently has no hope of being recovered! (David might or might not accept an offer ... but an unknown author is remarkably hard to track down!)

Would Gurps be willing to license the content they published and "own" to Aurigas, so that the original could be published in full form?

We've already discussed that option with Steve Jackson Games and could not reach an agreement that made all parties happy.

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