Temperature, Source Books, and TravellerMap

[grauenwolf]

It is really annoying that so many rules are based on the planet's temperature, both in the core book and in supplements, but neither TravellerMap nor the Spinward Marches book actually list temperatures.

Is there a way to fix this? Either by updating those sources or by making temperature entirely derived from the other values?

 

[MongooseMatt]

Putting in a GMST, you mean?

Nice idea but, given the variation we have on Earth, I am not sure how useful it would actually be in play...

 

[FallingPhoenix]

Putting in a GMST, you mean?

Nice idea but, given the variation we have on Earth, I am not sure how useful it would actually be in play...

It seems like it would give you a baseline of "warmer than earth" or "colder than earth" so you could get an idea of what kind of climate would be around your equatorial or 40 degree latitude starport.

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

You have the Climate roll in the CRB, both MGT1 and MGT2. The issue is that prior to MGT, Temperature wasn't rolled as part of the UWP (as far as I know).

So much of the material that was publsihed before MGT (such as TravellerMap) won't have any of that data.

Also, as I have said in other threads, even Mongoose doesn't list it for their Sector and Subsector data. Even within detailed world descriptions, it is not listed. I think that should be fixed.

Using the rules in MGT1 (or MGT2) you can go back and roll for temperature, or you can sometimes dig it out of the detailed descriptions, if they exist.

 

[phavoc]

Putting in a GMST, you mean?

Nice idea but, given the variation we have on Earth, I am not sure how useful it would actually be in play...

I agree with Matt on this one. It's far too complex to model with a dice roll because of the many variables that have to be taken into account. If you gave an earth like planet you can use earth temperatures. The rest just come up with something. There's so many variables like albedo, atmospheric composition, sun output, tidal locked, planetary mass, etc, that it's just crazy to try. Take earth and Venus for example. Venus is an acid hell hole but mirrors earth in many ways.

And let's not forget if there was Terra forming that it would alter the planets temperature where it normally would not have that setting.