NOW AVAILABLE: Mysteries of the Ancients Module

[Stargrove]

Happy holidays all, my name is James and I am the converter for the Mongoose Traveller adventure module 'Mysteries of the Ancients'.

I wanted to let everyone know that it is now available in the Fantasy Grounds Store:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store/product.php?id=MGP40104TRVMG2E.

It is also available on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2732880.

This is the first full adventure that I have converted so I am pretty excited.

If you decide to pick it up and find anything that needs fixed issues, let me know in this thread and I will update the module.

Enjoy,
Stargrove

[Naplam]

Love it. The maps are especially great and helpful... one thing Traveler VTT has been bad at is battle maps. The story and items are really well done. Reminds of the old DOS game. Now i would really pay for third imperium vtt set!
btw we need full space station battle maps and future city ones

[Trenloe]

Nice one - well done! What's next on the conversion list? :)

[Stargrove]

Trenloe, funny you should ask. If the FG folks can sort out the issues with the next module, then I already have that ready to submit.

[Stargrove]

Thank you. I try to build them as I would like to have the module so I can run it myself.

[anstett]

Awesome to see.

Thank you!

[Elvedui]

Great job. I hope you are able to put out some more modules soon.

[Stargrove]

I had another one done and had started on a third when I was informed by the FG folks that Mongoose was taking the development in-house. So, I will not be doing any more modules for Traveller. :cry:

[anstett]

You should definitely ask at Mongoose. They use a lot of freelancers, you could be the in house person doing FG work.

[peterfdh]

You should definitely ask at Mongoose. They use a lot of freelancers, you could be the in house person doing FG work.

Agree 100%. Mongoose is so prolific that keeping pace on FGU has been a real issue for me - I'm constantly transferring pdfs to FGU.

Putting Mysteries on FGU is such good news - I was literally at the point of starting to do the same so this has saved me an absolute TON of work. Thank you so much.:) I will happily feed back anything I spot on the conversion.

As I was reading through Mysteries, I have been noting typos and errors for feeding back to Mongoose. Have you done this already?

[Stargrove]

I made no list as I you kind of get into the zone when working. I would correct as I went when I found errors and such but I made no running list.

Good luck with Mongoose and getting them to make corrections on their end. I am happy to make corrections to the module I built as I obviously can make them happen. So, feel free to send me a list of anything you find.

BTW...while converting Secrets of the Ancients (yes, I was working on, and actually finished that too) I found errors in the newest version that were in the originally published version from back in 2012 that had not been addressed.

[Elvedui]

Is there word from Mongoose on what their actual FGU plans are? I was really looking forward to Secrets and the Third Imperium book. Plus there are a bunch of base ruleset updates that need to be implemented.

[Stargrove]

I have reached out directly to Matt at Mongoose but have yet to hear a reply. The FG folks are also not sure if Mongoose will also be doing the ruleset.

[Redemption77]

I kind of regret getting this ruleset if its not going to get anymore love from mongoose since they decided to take it over

[Stargrove]

I have finished it, but I haven't heard back from MadBeardMan in a while about whether they contacted the FG folks to let them know I have it done. I will reach out to him to try to get things moving again.

[anstett]

MadBeardMan has posted recently about work he is doing.

He also answered a question in the bug thread today.

Mongoose is moving along, just slower than we want. :)

[Stargrove]

MadBeardMan has emailed Smiteworks about transferring Secrets from him to me. I have all the files essentially ready. It may still take several weeks to be available, but it is coming soon. Hope this helps.

[anstett]

Excellent

[MadBeardMan]

MadBeardMan has posted recently about work he is doing.

He also answered a question in the bug thread today.

Mongoose is moving along, just slower than we want. :)

Yes, and finishing up some scripts I wrote a while ago to meet the latest file formats so I can fix more of the older products/update them and get new products out. But the ruleset updates first.

[adzling]

sweet i am eyeing this for our next campaign as we finish up PoD

[Vackipleur]

Hello,

Is it possible to have a corrected version of the module please? I am referring to the pdf update on Drivethrurpg dated 24 April 2024. Perhaps they've corrected the NPCs Caroline Liou and Dan Epaku, who have the same game stats?

Or is it possible to at least correct the problems with some images that give a console error like:
modules/MGP40104TRVMG2E/campaign/images/A Lake.webp
modules/MGP40104TRVMG2E/campaign/images/Big Ship.webp

Or have an illustration of Ammegash Venden, Blanca, Edkiku Lam, Jonkeereeen Hunter, without their game stats (in fact, all of Callia's NPCs).

There's a problem with the scale of the LOS, which is too large for the following maps:
Map: Inner Base - Player
Map: Machinery Level - Player

There's a problem with the labels or pins on the following maps:
Map: Shelter Canyon Region - Player
Map: Twilights Peak Top Down GM

Thanks in advance :)

[Stargrove]

The only updates to PDFs they made back in March/April of this year were to improve compatibility with Apple-based products. Mongoose very rarely updates our errata for adventure modules.

- I think you mean the NPCs Caroline Lidu and Dan Kepaku: They have graphics, stats, and NPC record entries just like they are in the book. Are the stats for each character the same in the book? Yes, but there is nothing I can do about that. Feel free to create a copy of the NPC record and update the records on your end to suit how you think the stats should be. I have seen this type of error in many Mongoose adventure books, but we have to live with the problem since they rarely update them.

- I have included the two missing graphics you mentioned

- Standalone pics added for the characters you mentioned

- I updated all the maps you mentioned. The FGU folks had me resize some of the graphics to fit their current guidelines, which messed up the scaling.

The updates have been submitted for review and should be available soon.

[Vackipleur]

Thank you very much Stargrove.

I suspected there might be erratas, but you never know :)
I'm following this thread on the mongoose forum on adventure mistakes: https://forum.mongoosepublishing.com/threads/mysteries-of-the-ancients.124163/

And don't worry about Dan Kepaku, I've created my own stats for him ;)

[Stargrove]

The fixes went live today.

[Vackipleur]

Great ! Thank you very much :)