Arm patches

[parmasson]

Any plans by QLI to produce embroidered arm patches. I have the ones Mr. Wiseman “found” and sold off a few months ago but I hesitate to put pin to fabric because of their rarity.

I stumbled across a sci-fi arm patches website a bit ago and was musing that no Traveller products were available. Is it really that obscure? I am bad one to ask because all my friends in school played and we all had a few books so it seemed like everybody knew about CT. But then again I am big geek, the school secretary confirmed it just yesterday.

 

[archhealer]

Yeah, much as i hate to say it, Traveller in any form is pretty obscure; most of my gamer friends had never even heard of it till I brought it to their attention.

As for arm patches... I'd totally buy them!

 

[Chuck Anumia]

Welll...
We need someone to design Traveller Patches
(We need some for each edition, CT, MT, TNE, perhaps even a QLI or Far Future Enterprizes patch).

We need a sponser to make and sell them.

We need to advertise in websites and conventions.

OK then, who is going to volunteer for leading these assognments?

Anyone? Anyone? Behuler?

 

[The Hinterworlds Rambler]

EZ! Most T-Shirt production places will do custom embroidery on hats, patches, etc. And they use Illustrator files, jpegs, gifs, anything, and the process is pretty inexpensive...

The machine is neat to watch, too...

 

[jfetters]

Cool! Someone needs to send the basic "faction symbols" out and have them done up:

Red sunburst
MT factions
TNE "factions" (Norris, RC, Guild, others)
MegaCorps

 

[parmasson]

Designing them is one thing. I have no doubt that our COTI “staff” could whip them out over the weekend with fantastic quality.

The problems include getting them approved, licensed, and then finding a manufacturer who can do it for a cost that we will be willing to pay and that QLI can live with. My guess is that the Imperial logo in red/gold/whatever and a few of the favorite alien races might sell but I am sure this is not the first time the idea has been floated. Perhaps there is some history here we are not aware of.

 

[parmasson]

Still, I would love to have them...

 

[Black Globe Generator]

Just as an aside, back in the day my merchant captain character would produce uniform patches for our crew - one with the ship's logo, one with the trading company logo (I would keep the speculation capital separate from the ship operating fund), and a series of different patches for "cruises" - the cruise patches might be for trading with a particular alien culture, or a voyage along a significant main or cluster. I would draw up the patch designs and give them to the other players in our group - while I'm not a great artist my any means, the "patches" became a valued collectible in our group, especially as new players were introduced and wanted to earn their own patches for their "uniform jackets."

 

[Chuck Anumia]

I really want these patches!

the more I think about them, the better I like the idea.

I have a vest I wear that has all the Patches I earned as a leader in the Boy Scouts on it. I would love to get another and place all the patches from Traveller on it.

I would pay BIG $$$ for them...
(well, $5 to $10 USD {and maybe More} anyways )

 

[Merxiless]

My pride and joy is an embroidered 25th anniversary of Traveller Short-Sleeved Shirt.

I wear it when I run Traveller at game conventions in the midwest US.

As I recall, it was ordered from Mssr. Miller from eBay, some years ago.