Cold Dark Grave is now available
We're really pleased to announce that Cold Dark Grave is now available here at DriveThruRPG as a PDF.
Being a Belter...
...is a risky line of work at the best of times.
Ernsteyn Industrial Materials is a family-run asteroid mining operation which has hit hard times.
The sharks are closing in...
...and there's not much a small company can do when one ship is grounded needing expensive repairs and your other Seeker might as well stay in dock because suddenly the decent mining grants aren't coming your way.
There's a job (isn't there always?)...
...which could save the company. It's a simple salvage operation and the patron is well known to EIM, but surely there must be a catch (isn't there always...)?
Cold Dark Grave was first published as the BITS tournament adventure From a Cold Dark Grave for Gen Con UK 2005, making it perfect for a one-shot adventure as it includes pregenerated characters. This edition expands the original adventure but it is still easily usable as a one shot; alternatively, it could be included in an existing campaign. The adventure includes details on the Yres system in the Regina subsector of the Spinward Marches.
Written for Mongoose Traveller, suitable for all Traveller rulesets through the included BITS Generic Task System and BITS Generic NPC System.
This third printing has been modified as necessary to update it for Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition, and to space some bits out a bit more nicely. The second printing had a few minor corrections due to too many late nights working on the first printing (which was only printed, stapled and cropped on the afternoon of taking it down to Conception 2007 where it was launched for sale).
Please do check out the rest of our BITS products here.
Foot notes:
1) TravCon UK 2025 folks, we will resolve PDFs for you once we have 'Delta 3 is Down is out'.
2) We can't release this in print without using the Traveller Compatible license which will remove the canon material from the book. Our apologies, but that's a limit of the TAS licence we've been asked to use.
Adventures coming back into print
If you read the entry on TravCon 2025, you may have noticed that the reports mentioned that we published a very limited run of a Double Adventure version of our scenarios Cold Dark Grave and Delta 3 is Down. These have been converted to the latest edition of Mongoose Traveller. We're in the final stages of getting them ready to release, and we'll share more when that happens.
Travcon 09 and Concrete Cow
Should be pretty much over as I post this, and it sounds like it has gone well. I’ll be uploading the reports and pictures once the team get them through to me.
Meanwhile, over in Milton Keynes, Concrete Cow was running as well. Graham Spearing ran “Cold Dark Grave” at the con, and got some good feedback from one of the more demanding players and refs over there. You can find out more here, on the report on UK Roleplayers.
More soon, hopefully.
Dom
Cold Dark Grave and Power Projection: Escort now available in the USA
Limited Number of copies of 'Cold Dark Grave' available from our Webshop
If you do happen to buy a copy and like it, please feel free to review it at one of the online RPG sites like RPG.net.
Here's the quick description I posted in the comments when I first announced the release:
Cold Dark Grave is set in Yres, in the Regina subsector, one of the two systems involved in the last battle of the Fourth Frontier War. The characters all work for a belt mining company which is struggling through the post Fifth Frontier War depression. A job offer they can't afford to ignore comes along and events ensure.
This is a predominantly space based adventure set in the Classic Era. The scenario has been one of our most popular at cons over the last two years.
'Cold Dark Grave' released [updated]
The latest book from BITS was released at Conception 2007 this weekend. The photo above is by Neil Ford (thanks Neil!), and shows some of the physical copies we received in time for the show. News on distribution and availability to follow. 'Cold Dark Grave' is an adventure set in the Spinward Marches after the Fifth Frontier War.
UPDATE: The copies shown here are the initial smaller run we do before the main release, so we only have a limited number as yet. I'll update here as soon as I have more.