Advantages and Disadvantages are easy enough to replicate in Traveller. For Advantages, instead of rolling two 20-sided dice and taking the best result, you roll two pairs of six-sided dice and you pick the best result of the two pairs, for Disadvantages, you do the opposite and pick the worst result. So if a Drow wants to fire a laser pistol in broad daylight, he rolls two pairs of six-sided dice nd he picks the worst result, and if the worst result is high enough then he scores a hit. A darkness spell would absorb laser damage, as light can't exist within that radius, if someone tries to shoot bullets into it, since one can't see the target, you get disadvantages to hit. The effect might be similar to a black globe. I would say the Darkness area follows an inertial frame of reference, whatever inertial frame the caster occupied when the spell was cast, afterwards, he can move around within the darkness area and even leave it and the darkness doesn't follow. To make things simple, we'll assume it doesn't go through solid objects. If a Drow is running while he casts Darkness, the Darkness area will continue to travel in a straight line at the speed the Drow was moving until it encounters a solid object in its path and then it stops. If the Drow is falling when he casts Darkness, the Darkness spell will continue to fall until it encounters the ground and then it stops. The darkness area does not fall towards the center of a planet in other words. I think a Darkness spell does not defeat sonar however and a person within that globe is just as vulnerable sonic weapons, assuming you can detect the target within the globe. bullets are the same. The Darkness globe stops all electromagnetic radiation including magnetic fields themselves. Electric fields work just fine, accelerating a charge particle does not produce an electromagnetic wave within this area of effect however.Linwood wrote: ↑Tue Jul 03, 2018 10:29 amI agree with Shawn on this. And I’d look at adding disadvantages to your racial template to balance out the advantages.
As far as psionics goes, you might want to track down one of the Zhodani sourcebooks for some thoughts. And I suggest not trying to mimic the magic spells too closely. The psionic system works a bit differently and would likely require more psi points than you might expect to achieve similar effects.
Can Darriens see in the dark? Drow, I believe can see in the infrared, at least some versions of them can. A darkness spell blocks that ability as well, but in what humans consider darnkess, Drow can see infrared light and can detect body heat signatures. Radiative cooling is not possible within a Darkness spell's area of effect, instead we have thermal cooling there is an atmosphere to carry away the heat. If something hot is caught within a Darkness spell's area of effect, someone who can see in infrared will see a dull glowing globe which indicates the heat signature of the atmosphere leaving the Darkness spell area. If the area is hot enough, the air just outside the Darness area will glow at visible wavelengths to humans, that would be sedondary radiation carried out beyond the darkness radius by molecular motion. Drow would be at home on planets orbiting red dwarfs, which are tidally locked to them, otherwise they prefer to live underground when daylight levels of illumination are present.
I didn't say I wanted D&D in Space, I just wanted to convert some D&D races into Traveller Aliens. I already have Starfinder, and I find it more a weird sort of fantasy setting than a science fiction one. Now what if we wanted to create D&D races for space, but have them conform to the scinece fiction setting while keeping much of their character? For example Traveller has Psionics, so all magic converts to psionics where ever possible and if it does not, we leave it out. I think for example the ability to see in the infrared is scienticfically plausible even though many D&D races have that ability, whether they call it "Darkvision" or something else. Anyway if I wanted to do D&D in Space, Spelljammer is more literally D&D in Space, it does that alot better that Starfinder, which has to create new spell lists that mix magic and technology for that. Traveller is mostly science fiction with little fantasy elements, so I want to stay within that framework. I think some ideas such as Advantages and Disadvantages could also work with Traveller, substituting 2 six-sided dice for a d20 for example. 5th Edition D&D has lost of ideas which could also be carried over to science fiction. In Starfinder for instance, stars aren't even powered by nuclear fusion! Everything is magical when carried down to some level Traveller is "harder" science fiction and could be adapted to a stricly Hard Science fiction setting if we wanted to as well.
D&D is all about killing things and taking their stuff. Traveller is about a whole other thing. The Drow would be treated as aliens, just like how the Darrians are, and given career templates for players to generate Drow Travellers from. Whether or not a Drow gets along with other Travellers will depend on the role-play. Traveller sessions are sandboxes that are character-driven.Tom Kalbfus wrote: ↑Wed Jul 04, 2018 1:33 pmYou have an idea of the Drow, what would they be like in a science fiction setting similar to Classic Traveller?
Ever see the television show Shannara? Well the origins of dwarves, elves, gnomes, halflings, orcs, goblins, hobgoblins, ogres, kobolds, drow,and Lizardfolk are all derived from Terran stock. The dwarves, elves, drow, gnomes, halflings, orcs, goblins, hobgoblins, and ogres are derived from human stock, that is their DNA is modified human DNA, and Elves, Drow, orcs, and ogres in particular can interbreed with humans. An ogre is a giant that stands 10 feet or roughly 3 meters tall, a half-ogre stands 8 feet or 2.4 meters tall. A typical orc stands about 7 feet tall or about 2.1 meters tall on average. Their statistics on average are Str 10, Dex 8, End 10, Int 5, Edu 7, Soc 7 and you could roll their stats this way Str 2D+3, Dex 2D+1, End 2D+3, Int 2D-2, Edu 2D, Soc 2D. Orcs are built much like a gorilla, and have large tusks extending from their lower jaw, unlike gorillas, they walk upright rather than on their knuckes, they tend to have grey to blueish skin. Orcs tend not to be terribly bright by human standards. Their origins is on a future terraformed planet Venus about 5000 years in the future from the standard Traveller campaign. In that future, just one possible future among many, Venus was relocated to an orbit at a distance from the Sun of about 1.15 AU, and a Venusian year in that future is 450 days long, The Venusian calendar is separated into 15 months or 30 days each, which is about how long its moon Io takes to go through its cycle of phases as seen from the surface of Venus.
Did they? I thought that was the Mind Flayers (Illithid).
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