Re: Full Steam

>I'm not saying that the idea doesn't have merit, nor am I saying that
it
>wouldn't be fun, however...
>
>Victorian sci-fi (such as GDW's Space 1889) has a much smaller market
than
>the general sci-fi market to which FT currently caters. FT has the
>advantage that it can also be easily adapted to almost any background
with
>spaceships, and thus can "cash in" on the mass popularity of Satr Wars,
>Star Trek, or B5 by simply having a conversion sheet available at - say
-
>your friendly local website.
>
>Space 1889 floundered do to poor sales (though it might be argued that
some
>support issues were involved as well) because the market was too small.
>
>By all means, make Full Steam available as all the other current
>conversions have been - via the web. I would strongly advise against
>printing it.
>
>I'm not trying to criticise anyone here; I just wanted to point out the
>economic realities of such a venture.

That is why I'm talking about a little low-budget A5 rulebook - the sort
of
thing where we can economically print just a few hundred copies for the
fun
of it!

Jon (GZG)
>
>
>Schoon
>(ex-Sales Manager, Berkeley Game Distributors)