The Business: Marc Miller Sells Traveller

A different happening occured.

News seems to have broken that the Emperor, Marc Miller, has officially passed the Traveller torch onto us here at Mongoose.

We have a little Q&A thread running on ours forums if you have any questions:https://t.co/SkGyXE3sr1

— Mongoose Publishing (@MongoosePub) August 28, 2024

That Q&A link is here.

The important thing is here:

Will Mongoose support previous editions?

We will keep previous Traveller editions available in electronic form, but active support is... a lot, and probably not financially viable, if we are being honest.

That said, over time, we hope to return to some of these PDFs and update them, which will then be made available to anyone who picked them up from our website or Drivethru (we will also make them available to Marc, as he is still selling his Traveller CDs from his website). For example, there is a T4 book that was fully laid out but never given a cover - we have already commissioned a new cover for it, and will be putting it up on our website (and sending out a free update via Drivethru for existing owners) in the next month or two.

Beyond that... our passion is for the Traveller universe and the stories that can be told within it rather than a particular set of mechanics, so older editions are going nowhere.

We would like to expand both their mechanics and timelines to the TAS programme (for example) but efforts are going to have to be made to avoid that turning into an unholy mess. We are going to be adding Classic Traveller to the TAS programme (so you will be able to publish and sell your own Classic Traveller titles) first, for no other reason than we think it will be the easiest. Expect to see that happen relatively soon (before the end of the year certainly), and we will see how it goes.

There is only one thing to say about this:

If you do not have copies in your library--and I mean real books, not PDFs--you had better source and acquire them now lest Mongoose (for purely Commercial reasons, not anything to do with the Death Cult; we're dealing with Mammon here, not Molech) decide that they can't even be bothered to offer Print On Demand options going forward.

And if there are only PDF options, then consider getting the PDF and setting up a guerilla POD offering because retroactive editting of publications is a thing now. Get the real thing while you can, then archive it and set up secure routes so others can follow later.