I learned this morning that Margaret Weis Productions have effectively stopped production on any new "Firefly RPG" products. It's not clear whether this is a permanent change or a temporary hiatus, but it does mean that there's unlikely to be anything new for the game for at least a year.
Which is a real shame, as I very much enjoyed those books.
That said, I'm not sure there's really all that much that could be added: more adventures, of course, but beyond that?
Though, actually, there are at least two products I would have liked to see: a big, extensive 'atlas' of the The 'Verse, going into a lot more detail about the various worlds (although that's tricky to do, since ideally it should include material both from Firefly and Serenity, while the license only allows MWP to do the former), and a book on "Patrons, Fixers, and Pimps" (my title) about people who might want jobs done, people who are able to get jobs done, and the people who bring the two together. At present, the setting has Badger and Mingo and Fanty, but is otherwise somewhat lacking, so an expansion in this area would be welcome.
But the truth is I should be okay: by my count I have nine pre-gen "Firefly" episodes still unused, plus four (I think) "Serenity" episodes that I can convert. So that's enough material for more than a year of gaming even without adding any of my own episodes. And that's plenty.
But, still, it would have been nice to have a bit more to play with...
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