Into the Cosmos Street Date is SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2012!
Into the Cosmos ($24.99)
You are embarking on the adventure of a lifetime! The unlimited cosmos stands before you, full of sights and experiences as wild as your imagination. And that’s the key: imagination. Cosmic Patrol is about creating a story and Into the Cosmos gives you more alien races, characters, missions and rocketships to base your galactic adventures on!
Into the Cosmos features:
When in Doubt, Doubt: A new short story of a Cosmic Patrol Intelligence Service agent infiltrating a Hakhaze base!
Gazetteer: A series of treatises detailing new parts of a dangerous cosmos!
Rocketships: Eight ships Patrolmen may use or encounter while cruising the deep black!
Dossiers: New heroes and villains for players to use or fight against. Martians! Hakhaze! Ro-Men! Neptunian Frog Men! Humungulous!
Missions: Twenty-three Mission Briefs to challenge even the most courageous Patrolman!
The cosmos has millions of ways to kill you. When it tries, call the Patrol!
Cosmic Patrol: Into The Cosmos, sourcebook [$24.99; digest size, hard cover, B&W]
You are embarking on the adventure of a lifetime! The unlimited cosmos stands before you, full of sights and experiences as wild as your imagination. And that’s the key: imagination. Cosmic Patrol is about creating a story and Into the Cosmos gives you more alien races, characters, missions and rocketships to base your galactic adventures on!
Into the Cosmos features:
When in Doubt, Doubt: A new short story of a Cosmic Patrol Intelligence Service agent infiltrating a Hakhaze base!
Gazetteer: A series of treatises detailing new parts of a dangerous cosmos!
Rocketships: Eight ships Patrolmen may use or encounter while cruising the deep black!
Dossiers: New heroes and villains for players to use or fight against. Martians! Hakhaze! Ro-Men! Neptunian Frog Men! Humungulous!
Missions: Twenty-three Mission Briefs to challenge even the most courageous Patrolman!
The cosmos has millions of ways to kill you. When it tries, call the Patrol!
GAMING
If you’re looking to play some Cosmic Patrol, outside of the demos we’ll be running in the booth, here’s a complete schedule of games you can try and get it on!
Name [Event # / Date & Time (Duration)]
HQ: All events are in Hall D (Catalyst Area)
The Kahn Protocols Part 1: Crash Landing [1238609 / Thursday 4:00 PM (2)]
The Kahn Protocols Part 2: Abduction [1238610 / Thursday 8:00 PM (2)]
The Kahn Protocols Part 3: Into the Midden [1238612 / Friday 8:00 AM (2)]
The Kahn Protocols Part 4: Final Confrontation [1238613 / Friday 12:00 PM (2)]
Zero Hour at Outpost 310 [1238617 / Saturday 4:00 PM (2)]
MULTI-MEDIA
We’ll have a large-screen TV in the booth showcasing a variety of promotional videos from Leviathans to MechWarior Online, Shadowrun Online to MechWarrior Tactics, and more. Stop on by for a visual feast!
PARAPHERNALIA
Catalyst will also have the usual additional items for sale of patches, faction/corp custom dice, t-shirts, stachel bags and so on!
AND OTHER COOL STUFF!
For a full list of all books & games premiering at Gen Con, as well as other cool experiences, read the full article.
You are embarking on the adventure of a lifetime! The unlimited cosmos stands before you, full of sights and experiences as wild as your imagination. And that’s the key: imagination. Cosmic Patrol is about creating a story and Into the Cosmos gives you more alien races, characters, missions and rocketships to base your galactic adventures on!
Into the Cosmos features:
When in Doubt, Doubt: A new short story of a Cosmic Patrol Intelligence Service agent infiltrating a Hakhaze base!
Gazetteer: A series of treatises detailing new parts of a dangerous cosmos!
Rocketships: Eight ships Patrolmen may use or encounter while cruising the deep black!
Dossiers: New heroes and villains for players to use or fight against. Martians! Hakhaze! Ro-Men! Neptunian Frog Men! Humungulous!
Missions: Twenty-three Mission Briefs to challenge even the most courageous Patrolman!
The cosmos has millions of ways to kill you. When it tries, call the Patrol!
Quick-Start Rules are now available for Cosmic Patrol This “The Kahn Protocol” QSR was part of the Free RPG Day 2012. If you were unable to obtain a copy at your local retailer during Free RPG Day, feel free to download the free PDF!
In Cosmic Patrol the Mission Dossiers are more than just adventures. They really allow for easily and quickly fleshing out additional parts of the universe for players, all while providing the seeds they need for a night’s cosmic adventuring!
Since the Core Rulebook needed, you know, rules and a pile of Patrolmen Dossiers, didn’t leave us that much more for including too many Missions. Into the Cosmos allows us to remedy that, providing over twenty different Missions, covering a wide range of different, cool actions. Here’s a random adventure I grabbed to preview.
One of the few critics we saw when the Cosmic Patrol Core Rulebook was released was something akin to “your game is ‘rockets, rayguns, robots’ and yet no illustrations of rocketships?!”
Well, we heard you loud and clear…and we’re getting in some great Comsmic Patrol-style rocketships, from a variety of races, you’ll see in future books.
Below is an Uth hive ship, once again drawn by the wonderful Leanne Buckley. Basically an asteroid hollowed out and strapped with engines and other mechanical devices…the perfect lair for the Uth to keep all they’ve scavenged from dozens of worlds.
I’ve written/developed a number of quick-start rules over the years. And during all of that time, it’s almost always a case of taking a many hundreds-page rulebook and condensing it into 24 or 32 pages.
While Shadowrun was rather complex, due to all of the sub-rules sets, BattleTech and Leviathans were relatively straight forward, as huge swaths of the rules could be trimmed out without an issue.
As I announced yesterday, Catalyst Game Labs is participating in the Free RPG Day and in addition to A Time of War: The BattleTech RPG and Shadowrun QSRs, we’re creating a Cosmic Patrol QSR.
However, I’m running into an interesting situation where the rules of CP are so light to begin with, it’s far more difficult than I imagined to shave text. In place of cutting off whole sections and pages, the trimming comes in short paragraphs, sentences and even sometimes snipping out words to try and shave it down enough to fit in a printed QSR.
I am enjoying the work, both for the different skill set it’s flexing, but also as it highlights how tight and sweet the Cosmic Patrol rules really are.
Catalyst Game Labs has has recently migrated servers. The new machine is substantially more powerful, which has improved the performance of all Catalyst-hosted websites, forums and the BattleShop store. While we’re confident there are no major issues, if anyone notices any web-related problems, feel free to let us know on the forums.
Once again, thanks for your patience and your passion for our games!
Catalyst Game Labs is upgrading its server to accommodate our expanding websites and communities using those websites. This should decrease load times on all our websites, as well as expand our ability to respond to website issues.
Starting next week, this website (along with the forums), may be down intermittently for maintenance and migration. We hope to keep that downtime to a minimum.
Thanks for your patience and your passion for our games!
