A Farewell to Traveller
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Not guilty in this case, your honour, the players requested thoseBFalcon said:My friend, you are too into your details sometimes...
d****d tables for something their characters wanted to build on
a shoreline. Fortunately one of the characters rammed the group's
submarine into a mountain soon afterwards, killing the entire par-
ty, so I never had to finish these nightmare tables. :twisted:
Perhaps I should prepare an asteroid impact scenario, just in case
the players ask me for a copy of the colony's telephone book or the
career profiles of all of the colonists ... :evil:
Easy solution next time a group does that... each tide on earth is 12.5 hours roughly past the previous... so just use a spreadsheet (or buy one for a real beach).
If it's your own world, then the da***d tide is precisely 12 hours apart - if they don't like it, then "I'll have a planet with 4 moons next time and have high tide whenever I want it" time... :lol:
My response would be "you want me to make up what???" to that request personally... followed by "Tell you what, you do it and I'll see if it's ok when you're done...", particularly if said player had been a pain in the behind in the past (so I could hope to find a fault or two (never at the same time) to make him redo it just to point out how annoying it is). I'm evil like that. :twisted:
If it's your own world, then the da***d tide is precisely 12 hours apart - if they don't like it, then "I'll have a planet with 4 moons next time and have high tide whenever I want it" time... :lol:
My response would be "you want me to make up what???" to that request personally... followed by "Tell you what, you do it and I'll see if it's ok when you're done...", particularly if said player had been a pain in the behind in the past (so I could hope to find a fault or two (never at the same time) to make him redo it just to point out how annoying it is). I'm evil like that. :twisted:
Rick
Mongoose
Presumably the downport could use some sort of deployable floating boom arrangement (think - big inftatable ring sections) set out in a wide ring around it to dampen down the small tides. I would have thought even a small tide at the wrong moment could cause big problems for incoming craft?
BFalcon - whilst I would like to claim the credit for the geothermal-like (hydrothermal?) energy source, it's another 'Hamiltonian' idea! (Well, his is slightly different, lol). I would love a Traveller designer to look through his books and then do a biotechnology sourcebook - I think the results would be rather good (in theory, of course!). :lol:
BFalcon - whilst I would like to claim the credit for the geothermal-like (hydrothermal?) energy source, it's another 'Hamiltonian' idea! (Well, his is slightly different, lol). I would love a Traveller designer to look through his books and then do a biotechnology sourcebook - I think the results would be rather good (in theory, of course!). :lol:
It is not that bad. The floater has a shock absorbing landing pad, andRick said:
the colony's shuttle is a tail lander which comes down vertically and
lands on telescoping and shock absorbing "legs". Besides, Lin Lien -
the colony's shuttle pilot - has already done this dozens of times du-
ring the transport of the colonists and their equipment from orbit to
the floater, so she has become a real ace with her shuttle.
Rick
Mongoose
rust said:It is not that bad. The floater has a shock absorbing landing pad, andRick said:
the colony's shuttle is a tail lander which comes down vertically and
lands on telescoping and shock absorbing "legs". Besides, Lin Lien -
the colony's shuttle pilot - has already done this dozens of times du-
ring the transport of the colonists and their equipment from orbit to
the floater, so she has become a real ace with her shuttle.
You forgot to say that she originally trained as a carrier pilot!! :lol:
ShawnDriscoll
Cosmic Mongoose
So, Rust...
What was the outcome of this? What system did you find? I ask because I've been looking to see what generic sci-fi systems there are besides Mongoose Traveller so that a friend of mine can compare them. He wants to start doing sci-fi RPGing. Nearly everyone I've asked recommends Mongoose Traveller still for generic sci-fi. Some have mentioned Savage Worlds and GURPS but they require buying other books to do sci-fi.
What was the outcome of this? What system did you find? I ask because I've been looking to see what generic sci-fi systems there are besides Mongoose Traveller so that a friend of mine can compare them. He wants to start doing sci-fi RPGing. Nearly everyone I've asked recommends Mongoose Traveller still for generic sci-fi. Some have mentioned Savage Worlds and GURPS but they require buying other books to do sci-fi.
lordmalachdrim
Mongoose
If you can find the books I'll recommend Alternity.
Nathan Brazil
Banded Mongoose
Thousand Suns is good from as a thematic Sci Fi Game. It loves 60's Imperial SF. not number crunchy though...
I decided to use Cthulhu Rising, a science fiction version ofShawnDriscoll said:
Call of Cthulhu, but modified it and eliminated most of the
Mythos stuff (Deep Ones still make nice aquatic aliens ...).
As a d100 system it has the granularity and flexibility I was
looking for, and I had to design most of the technology stuff
myself anyways.
In the near future I plan to move to River of Heaven, a pure
science fiction d100 system by the same author (John Osso-
way), which will be based on the Open Quest d100 system
and should (hopefully) be published soon.
http://d101games.com/books/river-of-heaven/
Prime_Evil
Emperor Mongoose
Then it's worth noting that John Ossoway is also releasing an expanded version of Cthulhu Rising for OpenQuest 2.
