GenCon Stream ist live.
Battletech beginnt entweder um 18 Uhr (ich weiß nicht, was da laufen soll) oder um 19 Uhr, da steht es fest im Plan.
#Battletech #GenCon #CatalystGameLabs
https://hpgstation.de/2025/07/27/gencon-2025-catalyst-streaming-zeitplan/
Right, boppers - word from the street is Shadowrun's coming back swinging. Catalyst Game Labs and Black Book Editions drop Anarchy 2.0 this summer, streamlining corporate espionage for when you need less crunch, more running. Can you dig it? https://l.d20.ninja/2p85fvt7 #Shadowrun #Anarchy2 #TabletopRoleplaying #Kickstarter #CatalystGameLabs #Cyberpunk
Crowdfunding Carnival: April, 2025
Welcome to the Crowdfunding Carnival for April! The world outside is crazy, so come on in and take a gander at some quality, handpicked RPG campaigns. We’re seeing some solid activity from major players this month, albeit maybe too much activity from some. And then there are of course a number of fantastic indie campaigns, covering the fae, werewolves, kids with weird powers, and more. Check it out! […]https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2025/04/02/crowdfunding-carnival-april-2025/
IT WASN'T ME!
Yesterday I posted a question on the #catalystGameLabs #battletech forum and just now wanted to see if somebody replied and what am I greeted with?
Table './bgbtl_390irja/cbt_sessions' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed
It's broken! BUT IT WASN'T ME! (I hope)
It's been a rough year, but I'm finally getting back into painting! Last week was the first time I picked up a paintbrush in almost a year - I was a bit worried I'd forgotten how to paint! I've finished up this synthwave Battletech Penetrator I started at Adepticon last year.
SirDoom: „Der große Shadowrun – Ausblick nach 2025“
Wir haben für euch mal alle aktuellen und alle bislang geplanten Produkte für 2025 rausgesucht, damit ihr euch schon mal drauf freuen könnt. 
AKTUELLE PRODUKTE – Durchs Nadelöhr (Hardcover / PDF): Settingbuch zur Grand Tour 2083 mit Hintergründen sowie … Weiterlesen →
Shadowrun's City Edition: Berlin is here, offering updated Sixth World rules and loads of extra content like art and plot hooks. Uncover the cyberpunk fantasy that started in 1989. https://tinyurl.com/27yzmrn2
Any possibility of getting it back or is it just "welp" and a shrug about 20 years of fan contribution?
Last week, BattleTech fell into the crosshairs of another culture war grifter. Followers of a guy who doesn’t even play BattleTech are targeting Catalyst Game Labs, their marketing director, a few fiction authors, and a former demo team volunteer. Some folks who have been active in BattleTech fan spaces are celebrating and encouraging this as part of their own crusades against the company. The harassment campaign is centered on claims that they want fans to save the BattleTech IP from CGL because the company is “woke” and somehow mistreating fans.
This idea that CGL is just a recent licensee of the IP and that “real fans” want them to lose their license is absurd. Yes, the tabletop game has gone through a couple of corporate changes over the years, but CGL has been the company working on the game since 2007. That’s 17 years of BattleTech’s 40-year history which matches the amount of time that FASA published the game.
Then even though there have been changes in the company publishing the game, many of the people actually working on BattleTech have moved over to the new license holder each time.
Loren Coleman, CEO of CGL, had his first BattleTech novel published back in 1997. In the early 2000s, he founded BattleCorps in order to keep the BattleTech fiction line alive. Then when FanPro ceased operations, he founded Catalyst to keep publishing the BattleTech and Shadowrun game lines.
Randall Bills, managing developer at CGL, became the BattleTech line developer at FASA back in 2000. He had been the assistant line developer since 1996. He continued in that role at FanPro. When the license moved to CGL, he took on a broader role in the company, but has remained very active with BattleTech for close to 30 years now.
Mike Stackpole has been writing fiction for the line since 1988. He wrote the core story novels for the Fourth Succession War, the Clan Invasion, and the years between Tukayyid and the Second Star League. He wrote Ghost War to kick off the Dark Age fiction line. And now he is still deeply involved with BattleTech’s story and writing new fiction for CGL.
Those three are just a few examples, and there are even more people currently at CGL who have been involved with the IP for a long time. These are folks who love BattleTech enough that they have kept working on it through the ups and downs the IP has experienced over the years.
This idea that CGL is a recent and poor custodian of the IP is all just a disingenuous grift. BattleTech is in the best spot it’s been since the 90s and possibly has even surpassed that. The folks at CGL are responsible for both keeping the game alive despite corporate turmoil as first FASA and then FanPro collapsed and for its current success.
If you encounter folks spreading those lies, know that BattleTech is thriving under CGL. The renaissance that sprang from the successful computer games and CGL’s ability to revamp the artwork and miniatures has been fantastic to see as a long-time fan of the game. Don’t let outrage merchants mislead you into thinking otherwise.
I had originally posted the core of this post on Mastodon a couple of days ago but wanted to put it somewhere more permanent.
https://scottsgameroom.com/2024/04/22/battletech-catalyst-and-grifters/
So far, the @clockworkcrier project is working nicely! Content from #Paizo (#Bluesky), #KoboldPress (Bluesky, #RSS), #EvilHat (Bluesky), #Chaosium (Bluesky), and #MonteCookGames (Bluesky) is rolling in as designed.
Today, I added #GoodmanGames (RSS) -- makers of Dungeon Crawl Classics [#DCC] -- to that list. I would like to add #CatalystGameLabs [#Shadowrun, #Battletech] and #FrogGodGames [various #DnD5E projects], but I haven't found a decent Bluesky or RSS feed for them.
Hope it's helpful!
It would be very nice if #CatalystGameLabs had a Hero Forge equivalent, where you could punch in the details of your custom #battletech #mech to make a #mini that accurately reflects what is on your mech. Then you pay them like five dollars for an .stl of either the full model on its base or the model by itself, as well as a license for personal use.
It would make a lot of very old or unpopular #mechs easier to get.
Finally finished up the Rifleman! The crystal on the base is from Epic Basing
I also figured out what was going on with the camera on my phone (and fixed it), it's been driving me crazy!
A little bit of a WIP - 22nd Dieron (Kurita) for Battletech
Finished up the Ebon Jaguar / Cauldron-Born that I picked up at Adepticon!
