Recent content by RogerCooper

Actually, far enough out, it will not be flat, because of the gravitational influence of Galactic Core (not to mention extra-galactic factors). My original question, was how large will the influence of extra-solar factors be. Some have commented, that answer should be, whatever the referee...

I don't like handwaving if I don't need to do it. And the 100 diameter limit creates some other problems. For example, ships have mass. Does the presence of nearby ships interfere with jump drives? Creating specific points has some interesting effects. You can use more realistic drives than...

One of things that bothered me about Traveller was the arbitrary 100 diameter limit for activating the Jump Drive. Shouldn't it be based upon the gravity field in some fashion. The only non-arbitrary point would be the point where all gravitational fields balance. For example for the Sun/Earth...

1-Man is not necessarily a dictatorship. If combined with democracy it could be interpreted as a highly-centralized but still democratic state. Modern Britain has such a government, with no separation between legislative and executive branches, a judicial branch with limited independence and...

The odds are 1/3 each for 1-Man, Narrowly-Based, Broadly-Based.

These are covered in the notes sheet, but I will put some info here. Zone Modifier is simply the position within the habitable zone. It affects temperature. It is a random interpolation of the modifiers listed in the book. You can usually ignore it, but extreme values (less than -3 or more than...

I have created a spreadsheet that generates worlds randomly for Traveller. http://www.rogercooper.com/WorldGenerator.htm It generates from scratch, not using existing UPP's. The rules from Mongoose Traveller are the basis, but other publications have been used as well. I have eliminated some...