Reynard wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 11:15 am
First thing I was thinking when I said Light sensitivity creates Banes. 5e and 2e are fairly easy to convert.
We need orcs next. Traveller already has tabaxi, wolfweres, centaurs and kobolds.
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.
There is a gate built by the Ancients which connects this future Venus with present day Prometheus, orbiting Alpha Centauri A Prometheus and this Venus share the same kind of atmosphere, and these 12 races live on the same planet. The tech level of Venus except for these Ancient artifacts is at a maximum of 2. Venus is also home to dinosaurs that have either been brought back through genetic engineering, or perhaps transported from ancient Earth itself through a time portal.
This is the map of that world.

The Earth and its Moon can be seen in the sky of Venus as a morning star. No one has yet traveled to this future Earth, as the gate which connects Venus to Prometheus is 3 meters wide, which means it is large enough for an ogre to step through, no spaceships have yet been sent through back to future Venus, some exploratory groups have attempted to pick up radio transmissions from this future Earth and have failed to find any. Spectroscopic analysis of its atmosphere confirms that it has a standard atmosphere however. Mars has also been looked at, and similar analysis can confirmed that in this future setting it has a Thin atmosphere and about 30% water coverage. Some artificial radio transmissions have originated from Mars, but the signals have yet to be translated.