OK, so Ken Burnside just posted a new stretch goal on the Squadron Strike: Traveller Kickstarter.
It's ... a stress ball. That's also a learning aid/play aid for the game.
Ken wrote:
-----------When I demo the game at conventions, I have a stress ball that I've hand
colored (badly) with the rings of the AVID on it. I've been told by
everyone who's seen it that "Hey, you should totally sell those. I'd buy
one. They make it immediately obvious what the AVID is."-----------
The guy has a wacky imagination for play aids, but they do work, let me
tell you.
(The AVID is a top-down view of a sphere and it's on a little laminated
card. You put marks on the card to keep track of which way your ship is
facing, along with a few other things. It's that "3D flattened into 2D"
that throws some people.)
Here's what it looks like:
https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/005/500/703/d0dc88000048c707c7cd03f2355856ad_original.jpg?v=1457502156&w=680&fit=max&auto=format&q=92&s=59946bbf56d02fadc9d9739d769b2bf9The thing about these is that production setup costs a fortune (over $4500!), which is why this is such a big stretch goal.