MrB-Douglass
Mongoose
Has anyone ever seen (or done) a conversion of the Traeki / Jophur races from David Brin's Uplift Universe?
Traeki / Jophur?
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shammond42
Cosmic Mongoose
It's been a while since I read those, but as I recall the rings had specific skills or capabilities, right? And there was some ability to change rings as the individual's role changed, as I recall. I think I would roughly equate a ring to a term. That is a ring has a set of capabilities that is close to what a regular character might obtain during a term of service. A Jophur old enough to have 5 rings would be equivalent to a character who had served 5 terms.
If you are using Jophur as NPCs, then you can just hand wave the modularity. I'm not sure what I would do for a PC Jophur other than to make spare rings hard to find.
I think the original 3 books are coming back in print this week, I think. Looking forward to rereading them.
If you are using Jophur as NPCs, then you can just hand wave the modularity. I'm not sure what I would do for a PC Jophur other than to make spare rings hard to find.
I think the original 3 books are coming back in print this week, I think. Looking forward to rereading them.
MrB-Douglass
Mongoose
Yeah, I was thinking about using the 1 term = 1 ring thing as a quick workaround for a PC. I think that I will say that once you're done with terms, the only way to add new rings is to pay for them (using the cybernetics / biomods stuff from Central Supply).
Thanks for your note!
And, the first three Uplift books elevated Mr. Brin to my personal top 5 authors of the 20th century list. The 2nd trilogy has some great stuff in it, but got way too "woo" for me. He also (deliberately, I think) made his chim unpleasant people. At least, that's how I reacted to them. So unpleasant in fact, that in MTU, the events of planet Kirthrup (the Karrank scream after Charles Dart detonated the nuke) are the source of the the Scream (from Stars Without Number), which is the event that resets the entire galaxy back to square 1.
Thanks for your note!
And, the first three Uplift books elevated Mr. Brin to my personal top 5 authors of the 20th century list. The 2nd trilogy has some great stuff in it, but got way too "woo" for me. He also (deliberately, I think) made his chim unpleasant people. At least, that's how I reacted to them. So unpleasant in fact, that in MTU, the events of planet Kirthrup (the Karrank scream after Charles Dart detonated the nuke) are the source of the the Scream (from Stars Without Number), which is the event that resets the entire galaxy back to square 1.
