There are supposedly a few books in the works. We know about Gatecrashing, which looks like it will be a settings book much like Sunward, but based on the Exoplanets. One of the writers on RPG.net hinted that it has quite a few bits of gear, but not that many new morphs. We also have an as of yet unnamed general Sourcebook, which hasn't really been discussed much outside of the occasional interview and podcast. Not really sure on the contents but a chapter on Uplifts has been mentioned, and I imagine AGI might get the same treatment. An Outer System (I am calling it Starward until we get a release name) is almost certainly in the works, again like Sunward/Gatecrashers but for the Outer System. Other than that we don't really have all that much. I forget when it was, but I believe one of the devs stated that they hope to do four books a year, but that they got bogged down a lot this year because of the Catalyst stuff and having to bootstrap PS+ up to its own independant company. It might of been in the podcast Adam did at GenCon. Edit: One thing, so far the Devs have been very careful about announcing release dates and such. They are very much of the mind that announcing and constantly pushing dates back is a "Bad Thing", and so much prefer to have a set date in stone before telling us.

I would haphazard a guess that that might be either an Adventure, or contained within the "Catch-All" sourcebook. The Devs have stated that there is going to be a metaplot (although one with multiple, seperate arcs) so it could be that the *SPOILER* Thing the TITANs are making under the Antarctic ice sheet will be detailed in one of those arcs.

Well I hope that metaplot will be in form of seeds-that is ideas and hooks that you can use to determine how the world was shaped by them, rather than changing the world officially.

Extrasolar Angel wrote:

Well I hope that metaplot will be in form of seeds-that is ideas and hooks that you can use to determine how the world was shaped by them, rather than changing the world officially.

There was a quote a little while ago (during Origins maybe?) from one of the developers mentioning a modular metaplot structure. Meaning there would be metaplot elements but that instead of stacking on each other, they'd be independent. So you could use one but ignore another without breaking canon. I have no idea if that's still the plan, but it's intriguing.

The current plan as far as big books is to release Gatecrashing, followed by "Hotfix," which is a companion book to some of the cultural & technological stuff detailed in Core, digging further into several topics. The writing for these books is in the can but not yet edited. I wrote two of the chapters for "Hotfix," and I hope you'll all be getting to see them soon. The other thing the guys're working really hard on is getting the modules from the last two seasons of cons out in PDF. This much I know I can say because we've stated it on these forums before; it's just that the whole mess with Catalyst delayed things a lot. The nice thing about the delay is that it's given us more time to test stuff out in our own campaigns. We also did make a statement about metaplot in the seminar at Gen Con, which I can repeat here: Yes, metaplot will be modular. You can use it if you want, but all books will be written as if they started in the untouched "base" setting described in Core. Metaplot will be presented as sidebars telling how a given metaplot point would change the stuff being described from the base setting. So it's there if you want it, but if you don't, it won't mess up your campaign. Win win. :)

Extrasolar Angel wrote:

"Hotfix" sounds very general as you described it-could you give any specific example what will it deal with?

Somewhere someone mentioned writing a chapter on uplifts, I think. I imagine this is something that will probably be part of Hotfix (since it doesn't seem like it'd be part of one of the other books). EDIT: I think there was some other mention of habitat tech appearing in a future book too.

Is it likely we'll see an outer system book after Hotfix and the modules, or is it too early to tell?

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I guess it's simply a question that the more time I spend developing my own version of the Titanian Commonwealth the more it is likely to diverge from the RAW as I come up with my own answers.

I am developing my version of Jovian Republic, it would be nice to see your notes on the Titanian Commonwealth. While I would love to see the Outer System, EP fortunately isn's very canon dependent, and with the amount of time I dedicated ot my vision of JR I guess I would stick to my version.

could you provide us a direct link to your stuff, please? I got your profile, I think, but not the text themselves