FSpace Publications
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FSpace Publications is a role-playing game
publisher founded in 1991 under a different trading name (Future Systems) until it rebranded in 1994. It is an active publisher of science fiction roleplaying products.
Focussed originally on publishing a single science fiction roleplaying product. Its original working title was The Federation Science Fiction Roleplaying Game. A small series of articles about the development of the original version of the game appeared in the New Zealand gaming magazine Generals, Dragon and Dice, ISSN: 1170-5787.
As playtesters often referred to the game in public as FED Space, the title was shortened to FSpace, and both the trade name of the company and its product was shortened to that shortened name in 1994.
FSpace Publications also published a fanzine The Meshan Saga for the Traveller
science-fiction role-playing game
beginning in 1995 with the last issue done in 1999. Copies of the publication are lodged with the National Archives, Wellington, New Zealand, both physical copies and digital PDFs on CDROM in their collection under ISSN 1174-8710. They are held in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Serials Collection, Call Number: Per MES. In 2001 Martin Rait obtained a license from Marc Miller for FSpace Publications to publish a small set of commercial books for Meshan Sector during the Classic Traveller period. In late 2002 the project was put on hold, while some minor work continued.
The team worked under contract to Jolly Roger Games to produce boardgame maps for Orcs at the Gates and Chopping Maul.
Role-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...
publisher founded in 1991 under a different trading name (Future Systems) until it rebranded in 1994. It is an active publisher of science fiction roleplaying products.
History
FSpace Publications was originally established in 1991. The founding members consisted of Martin Rait, Aaron Barlow, Michael Kerse and Gary Ammundsen. The group originally published under the trade name of Future Systems.Focussed originally on publishing a single science fiction roleplaying product. Its original working title was The Federation Science Fiction Roleplaying Game. A small series of articles about the development of the original version of the game appeared in the New Zealand gaming magazine Generals, Dragon and Dice, ISSN: 1170-5787.
As playtesters often referred to the game in public as FED Space, the title was shortened to FSpace, and both the trade name of the company and its product was shortened to that shortened name in 1994.
FSpace Publications also published a fanzine The Meshan Saga for the Traveller
Traveller (role-playing game)
Traveller is a series of related science fiction role-playing games, the first published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop and subsequent editions by various companies remaining in print to this day. The game was inspired from such classic science fiction stories as the Dumarest saga series by...
science-fiction role-playing game
Role-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...
beginning in 1995 with the last issue done in 1999. Copies of the publication are lodged with the National Archives, Wellington, New Zealand, both physical copies and digital PDFs on CDROM in their collection under ISSN 1174-8710. They are held in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Serials Collection, Call Number: Per MES. In 2001 Martin Rait obtained a license from Marc Miller for FSpace Publications to publish a small set of commercial books for Meshan Sector during the Classic Traveller period. In late 2002 the project was put on hold, while some minor work continued.
The team worked under contract to Jolly Roger Games to produce boardgame maps for Orcs at the Gates and Chopping Maul.
Role-playing games
- FSpaceRPG - A hard science fictionHard science fictionHard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both. The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell, Jr.'s Islands of Space in Astounding Science...
roleplaying game. First edition came out in 1995 and made its debut at the KapConKapConKapCon is a role-playing convention held annually in Wellington, New Zealand. It is one of the largest gaming conventions in New Zealand, and the longest running, having run every Wellington Anniversary Weekend since 1993. The con is small by international standards, attracting a little over a...
1995 convention in Wellington. - FED RPG - Repackaged version of the simpler development version of the game used prior to its revamp and rebrand