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New Fading Suns books in Ulisses Spiele

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 9:56 pm
by Kosh2
My third thread about change in licenser/publishers of FS RPG books
While the original FS books were form Hollistics Design(like the PC game EFS, of course), published form 1996 to 2003, there were later change to the publisher that license form Holisitic

  • First went to RedBrik (2007-2012)
    viewtopic.php?f=7&t=965
    they released 2 core books (main book & technology book) and 4 adventures (later released in one PDF together) and the last Imperial Survey book (all in 2007-2008).
    Third edition was cancelled
    And Noble Armada was licensed to Mongoose
  • Second, RedBrik license ended and the license went to FASA (2012-2016)
    viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1040
    2 core books (player & master guides released in 2012) and one adventure book (2015).
    And one Noble Armada book.
  • Third, since end of 2016, the license goes to the German company Ulisses Spiele (while FASA continues the Noble Armada license)
    Books will be released in English and German
http://www.holistic-design.com/?p=445 (news in HDI)
http://www.ulisses-spiele.de/ (German Ulisses web)
http://www.ulisses-us.com/games/fading-suns/ (English language Ulisses USA web, FS section)

Till now there is no new books released, text-only manuscript draft released in april 2020
*But from November 2017 to December 2018 we have monthly designer diaries by Bill Bridges till December 2018 (12 updates 2017-2018)

* In 2019 updates in Facebook

* 2020 weekly Design diary update in Febriary and MArch
* Later updates

Also in Bill Bridges blog
http://bill-bridges.com/?cat=35
and in Ulisses forum
https://www.ulisses-us.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=35
https://www.ulisses-us.com/forum/viewto ... 36&p=34342

There are 3 free "Town Crier" newspapers in
Updated 2020-06-27
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CURRENT STATE (2022-07-11): Core books released in late 2020
2nd Kickstarter in 2021
3rd campaingn in 2022:
see later post

Re: New Fading Suns books in Ulisses Spiele

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 5:02 pm
by Kosh2
Errors corrected in first post.
Explanation about Noble Armada (FSNA) vs FS RPG licensing by HDI (Holistic)
  • 2007-2012: FS RPG books licensed to Redbrik
  • 2010-2014 FSNA licensed to Mongoose
  • 2012-2016 FS RPG books licensed to FASA
  • 2014-now FSNA licensed to FASA
  • 2016-now: FS RPG books licensed to Ulisses

Re: New Fading Suns books in Ulisses Spiele

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 5:06 pm
by Kosh2
Official forum in Ulysses North America
http://www.ulisses-us.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=35

Re: New Fading Suns books in Ulisses Spiele

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 12:23 am
by Kosh2
New Designer Diary: February 2018
http://www.ulisses-us.com/fading-suns-d ... uary-2018/
About characters creation in FS RPG 4th edition: classes, levels .... There are important differences with previous FS editions
And new Town Crier’s Guild report
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/234227/

Re: New Fading Suns books in Ulisses Spiele

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 5:24 pm
by Kosh2
Polemic with the FS 4th edition changes. Discussion in
https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?82 ... -concerned
and of course in Ulisses forums and FS facebook group

Re: New Fading Suns books in Ulisses Spiele

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:33 pm
by Kosh2
updated first post with February updates in Ulisses web about FS 4th edition RPG
and errors corrected

Re: New Fading Suns books in Ulisses Spiele

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:49 pm
by Eightball Maniac
I've always wanted to try the Fading Suns game system. I picked up a few of the older books over the years (some a week or two ago), but I've never tried to get into a game. A couple years ago I got into D&D via Roll20 and still have most of that same group playing weekly now. Base D&D lacks the interesting setting of Fading Suns, though.

Any idea where one can find a game of Fading Suns? Would be fun to try it out at least.

Re: New Fading Suns books in Ulisses Spiele

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 10:13 pm
by Kosh2
Eightball Maniac wrote:Any idea where one can find a game of Fading Suns? Would be fun to try it out at least.

If you want pre-made advertures you can get one of the 4 the "shards" fron Redbrik (edited in 2007-2008, PDF only AFAIK)
  • A Road So Dark
  • Kraken's Loom
  • Ruinous Folly
  • Dead End
there is a compilaton of all of them in one volume (edited in 2011) it's what I bough
Fading Suns Shards Collection Volume One (there never were a volume Two of course)
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/864 ... Volume-One


Other adventures compilation is the published in 2015 by fASA:
Criticorum Discord
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/152 ... um-Discord

Re: New Fading Suns books in Ulisses Spiele

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 10:57 pm
by Eightball Maniac
I was asking if you had any idea where Fading Suns groups gather to find new players and the like, not about the shards (though reading through those might be a good idea too). Roll20 doesn't support Fading Suns and I don't know where else might be a good place to look for players online.

Re: New Fading Suns books in Ulisses Spiele

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 8:04 pm
by Kosh2
Eightball Maniac wrote:I was asking if you had any idea where Fading Suns groups gather to find new players and the like, not about the shards (though reading through those might be a good idea too). Roll20 doesn't support Fading Suns and I don't know where else might be a good place to look for players online.

Sorry, no idea. Perhaps in Fading Suns Facebook page? or in any forum?

Re: New Fading Suns books in Ulisses Spiele

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:54 pm
by Kosh2
New Designer Diary in Ulisses USA about FS 4th edition RPG books
http://www.ulisses-us.com/fading-suns-d ... arch-2017/

Re: New Fading Suns books in Ulisses Spiele

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 7:13 pm
by Kosh2

Re: New Fading Suns books in Ulisses Spiele

Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 8:09 pm
by Kosh2
Edited first post to add links

Re: New Fading Suns books in Ulisses Spiele

Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 10:47 am
by Kosh2

Re: New Fading Suns books in Ulisses Spiele

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 10:34 am
by Kosh2