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Leif's DISCONTINUED GURPS Traveller Game OOC01
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Centisteed
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haha. I thought you'd want to make a map, part
of the fun of dungeoning as the dungeon master.
I believe there are some free software tools out
there that can build some maps. I've been hankering
to play with some of them myself (starting with the
free/cheap ones)...
Leif
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Centisteed
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Universe Sandbox
Have you guys seen Universe Sandbox? I think it just
showed up on Steam recently. However, it appears to
be a tool that you can use to design your own star
systems, galaxies or whatever. Could be useful for
some of those aggressive die-hard Traveller GMs out
there.
I think I'd get seriously bored with blowing stuff up,
but what would be really cool, if it's possible, would be
to map out entire sections of Traveller "sector" space,
do the orbits, the planets, star colors, distances, etc.
It would look like it was alive in the simulation. haha.
Have you guys seen Universe Sandbox? I think it just
showed up on Steam recently. However, it appears to
be a tool that you can use to design your own star
systems, galaxies or whatever. Could be useful for
some of those aggressive die-hard Traveller GMs out
there.
I think I'd get seriously bored with blowing stuff up,
but what would be really cool, if it's possible, would be
to map out entire sections of Traveller "sector" space,
do the orbits, the planets, star colors, distances, etc.
It would look like it was alive in the simulation. haha.
Centisteed
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Sounds pretty cool, CS! Why don't you do that for all of the Spinward Marches Sector for me to use with this game?
I have a lot of other books/tools to buy first.
The amount of Traveller materials out there is
overwhelming. It makes me wish I had paid
more attention to Traveller back in the 80s,
but at the time, I didn't know anyone that
played it in my area, nor have a copy of it!
Centisteed
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You ever hear of the Dumarest of Terra Saga?
Apparently that's where a lot of the high passage/
low passage stuff. The guy wrote 33 books for
the saga & it's about the guy, Dumarest, going
from one planet deep in the Milky Way galaxy
& traveling back to Earth. Each book is basically
Dumarest on a given planet or set of planets
traveling through.
That seems to be where the storyline seems to
depart from Traveller. I've finished re-reading Book 0,
1, & 1/3rd the way through 2. With Traveller
you don't necessarily spend so much detail on
one planet at a time (according to advice from
Book 0). However, it could be a different way
of playing it, if one covers the movement from
one planet to the next. Such a game would be
a lot slower to play, but it also gives more of that
effect of STL communication from one planet to
another. Some worlds may not get a lot of updates
from more advanced worlds since the trade would
be slower (not enough product to ship, can't build it
from the planet it's sent to (copyrights, resources,
etc), too heavy/large & so on).
These Dumarest books could be pretty cool. The
first one, even used is pretty dam expensive though!
$10! I would think a book like that should be < $1,
if it came from the late 60s.
Apparently that's where a lot of the high passage/
low passage stuff. The guy wrote 33 books for
the saga & it's about the guy, Dumarest, going
from one planet deep in the Milky Way galaxy
& traveling back to Earth. Each book is basically
Dumarest on a given planet or set of planets
traveling through.
That seems to be where the storyline seems to
depart from Traveller. I've finished re-reading Book 0,
1, & 1/3rd the way through 2. With Traveller
you don't necessarily spend so much detail on
one planet at a time (according to advice from
Book 0). However, it could be a different way
of playing it, if one covers the movement from
one planet to the next. Such a game would be
a lot slower to play, but it also gives more of that
effect of STL communication from one planet to
another. Some worlds may not get a lot of updates
from more advanced worlds since the trade would
be slower (not enough product to ship, can't build it
from the planet it's sent to (copyrights, resources,
etc), too heavy/large & so on).
These Dumarest books could be pretty cool. The
first one, even used is pretty dam expensive though!
$10! I would think a book like that should be < $1,
if it came from the late 60s.
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