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To foil spammers, I'd already made it so hard to join these forums that only a dedicated Tri Tac fan could jump through the hoops.  But during the last three days, porn spammers have broken through again.  I'm giving up.  At the request of people who want to keep the archived posts available, I'm not taking the forums down.  But I'm breaking the option to register.

Tri Tac Spotlight on Incursion and FTL: 2448 is live!

Spotlight on Tri Tac Games is a newsletter that focuses on one or more of the many Tri Tac Games RPGs. It typically has two or more adventures, some new gear for the game, background information on people or places within the RPG setting. Each issue of the newsletter will focus on one of Tri Tac Games’ products: Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic®­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­, Incursion, Fringeworthy®­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­, Hardwired Hinterland, FTL: 2448, and others.

With this issue, the Spotlight is on Incursion and FTL: 2448­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­, Richard Tucholka’s ground-breaking adventure games of interstellar travel and future humanity.  Content centers on a brief introduction to the history of Incursion and FTL: 2448, previously unpublished starship art by Tri Tac artist Doug Blanchard, and a new FTL: 2448 mini-adventure by Q.W. McConnell.  (48 pages in total.)

Spotlight 1.4 is on sale for $4.95 at https://tritacgames.sellfy.store/p/tri-tac-spotlight-4-incursion-and-ftl-2448/.  Purchasing from our in-house store gives you access to download a 72dpi file suitable for viewing on phones, a 144dpi file for larger screens, and a 300dpi file suitable for printing.

The PDF is also for sale for $5.95 through our DriveThroughRPG store:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/362809/Tri-Tac-Spotlight-on-Incursion-and-FTL-2448.  The Print-on-Demand version of the magazine will cost $9.95, and should be available for purchase in a few weeks.

In terms of FTL:2448, not that many and not that close to humanity's tech level. Based on this article on Centauri Dreams, Lost in Time and Lost in Space, to get the density of "close in tech" that's present in the game, Every Star In The Galaxy would have or have had, a native population. Most would be over a Million Years Old.

For the most part, they would either be Angels or Apes. There's a great description of how hard it would be for aliens to encounter us during from Atomic Rockets:

Consider the history of Planet Earth. Let the height of the Empire State building represent the 5 billion year life of Terra without Humanity. The height of a one-foot ruler perched on top would represent the million years of Humanity's existence. The thickness of a dime will represent the ten thousand years of Humanity's civilization (i.e., "apes"). And the thickness of a postage stamp will represent the 300 years of Humanity's technological civilization. An unknown portion above represents "pre-Singularity Humanity", the period up to the point where mankind hits the Singularity/evolves into a higher form/turns into angels. Say another dime. Then they leave Terra to go to better things. Above that would be another Empire State building, representing the latter 5 billion years of Terra's lifespan without Humanity.

If you picked a millimeter of this tower at random, what would you most likely hit? One of the Empire State buildings, of course. So, assuming only one civilization develops on a planet, chances are the first-in-scout starship Daniel Boone will discover mostly planets that are currently empty of alien civilizations (but they might have an almost 50% chance to discover valuable Forerunner artifacts or other paleotechnology).

If you only use the section with an alien civilization, you have a ruler and two dimes worth of apes and angels, and a postage stamp edge worth of near Human civilization. If you pick a millimeter at random chances are you ain't gonna pict the edge of the postage stamp. Ergo: apes or angels, but not humans.

Something to consider.

I went in and did some cleanup on the site.  Is it any easier moving around and posting in the forums? 

Also, our hosting site has been doing upgrades, and that's caused odd goings on in the past.