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Alternity: Roll 1d20 ("control die") +/- one other "situation" die (d0, 1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 1d12, or 1d20) vs. an ability or skill rank. Roll less than the ability or skill rank to succeed. The lower the roll below the target number, the greater the degree of success; the higher the roll above the...

Any number of general books on sailing and sailing ship history include the kind of comparisons you're looking for. Here's a poster comparison from the later period of commercial sail: http://www.barewalls.com/i/c/507526_Merchant-Sailing-Ships.jpg

Gameplay videos are starting to show up on youtube. Some of them are almost as funny as the sneak peek video.

I hate doing sblocks, but there's no way to talk about much of anything related to this game without spoiling it. And every choice was not a choice because inevitably it just ends, and you start over again. There were a few elements I particularly loved, and I want to go back because I still...

It's in the details, not the overall concept. Parma is an unabashedly Italian Renaissance city with a fantasy overlay. There's nothing particularly creative about the overall concept. And because it's so Italian, it may have limited usefulness for a lot of folks. But I love Euro-styled...

My novel collection has been culled to virtually nothing by the realizations that I very rarely ever reread them within a 10- to 20-year span, and that I can now get them as ebooks if I ever choose to. When we moved the only ones I kept were the special editions of particular favorites. Even...

Alternity's Star Drive Campaign Setting -- This has long been one of my favorite space opera settings, but even if I'm running Star Wars, I find endless inspiration in the gritty political machinations of the Star Drive setting. GURPS 4th ed Basic Set -- I don't get to play or run much GURPS...

How did LUG's system compare with Decipher's? I've always gotten 'em all mixed up.

Yeah, pretty much this. I like doing this with Popular Mechanics and Popular Science from the early- to mid-1900s. Adventure hooks write themselves from that stuff.

Another alternative to fabric is vinyl banners like the kind used for billboards. These have become very cheap; they're very durable, and you can have them printed with any image you want -- such as a star field with a hex overlay! The owner of my FLGS had an astronomy photo of a nebula...

Yeah, it contradicted everything SFB did too. Frankly, I think both FASA's and SFB's are better than a lot of the disjointed universe details that were cobbled together in the wake of TNG.

That's a lot of hexes! What's the movement scale you're hoping to use with this? EDIT: Didn't see the scale in the corner. Two light-years per hex.

This map is all over the web: I'm pretty sure it's originally from the Star Trek Charts Atlas. Check out these guys' work on expanding that. If you're more interested in strictly TOS universe, there's the old Star Trek Maps. I don't know how readily available either of these old products are...

Mark, what size are the hexes on that map?

Litko makes hex shaped flight stands in a variety of sizes.

I'll second Victory Force Miniatures and the David Okum paper ones. Great stuff.