IanBruntlett
Emperor Mongoose
I'm not an expert on graphics programmes but... surely there is a free/open source graphics programme out there that is better than Paint?Condottiere said:
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middenface
Cosmic Mongoose
IanBruntlett said:
Gimp for raster graphics and Inkscape for vector.
One of the things mentioned above is that you provide a decent enough map so another artist can follow it.
I have done one, a 'Privateer' which I think is for this,.
AndrewW
Emperor Mongoose
middenface said:
Agreed I make use of both of those myself, along with some other graphics related programs but probably nothing that would be used for this purpose.
http://www.gimp.org/
http://www.inkscape.org/en/
FallingPhoenix
Mongoose
msprange said:
When you say "it may take a while", how long do you mean? For example, I submitted something back in October and haven't heard anything yet. What length of time is good to send a follow-up email or something?
FallingPhoenix said:
If you have been waiting that long, drop me a line, but it is probably still in the processing stage.
phavoc said:
Like next year, but we may pop number 4 out before the end of this one - depends how things go, as there are a lot of exciting things going on with Traveller right now!
Techno-Guru
Mongoose
Haven't been on this in a while, was busy earning my Associates in Medical Billing. Is Mongoose still looking for freelance submissions? And do they still need pirate submissions in particular?
Yup, still looking for articles!
Tom Kalbfus
Mongoose
i just drew up plans for a 1200 ton lab ship, it is three times the diameter of the lab ship in the core rule book, with the grav modules off it can rotate once in just under 20 second to produce a centrifugal force of 1 g, and it is 98 meters in radius, it has about 42 staterooms, three labs, 4 air/raft hangars, and a 95-ton cargo shuttle docked to its central docking ring. There are two versions of this spaceship. One is the Standard Tech Level 15 version for the 3rd Imperium setting, the other is a Tech Level 8 version for my triplanetary setting. I was making up a bunch of TL 8 versions of the Common Spacecraft that shuttle between Earth, Venus, and Mars in my setting, and I decided that since there was no artificial gravity for this setting, I'd create at extra large version of the Lab ship which could rotate at a full g of centrifugal force, since this would be the only ship with onboard gravity, everything else has zero g environments for the trips between the planets, as the reaction engines only provide acceleration from 1% to 6% of Earth gravity. Since I am doing all this work, I would like to submit it. I'll have the stats for this ship ready in a day or two. So if you are interested, how shall I submit it and where?
The 3rd Imperium Version will have a Thrust of 2g and a Jump of 2 parsecs. the shuttle will be used to skim gas giants, as the lab ship can't land.
The 3rd Imperium Version will have a Thrust of 2g and a Jump of 2 parsecs. the shuttle will be used to skim gas giants, as the lab ship can't land.
Tom Kalbfus
Mongoose
I sent mine in by the way, check the e-mail, it includes a map, the basic stats, and room descriptions.AndrewW said:
Just to warn everyone, there is every chance we won't get back to you before Christmas (too much on!). However, we _do_ get back to _everyone_ in the end!
Do you need adventure locations/campaign Ideas like the Drinax saga you have published? I had a small campaign which is located in the Esalin system where I have detailed an entire system that lies in the border between the Zhodani Confederation and the Third Imperium.
It is a map of the syestem, the mainworld and a few other important places in the system and a small campaign set there in which the players have the possibility to make the system lean closer to either the Confederation or the Imperium.
It is a map of the syestem, the mainworld and a few other important places in the system and a small campaign set there in which the players have the possibility to make the system lean closer to either the Confederation or the Imperium.
Indeed, would love to see something like that!
Tom Kalbfus
Mongoose
My Triplanetary setting is almost finished. Here is an outline
The setting is a Solar System with inhabited Mars and Venus, the third planet is Saturn, which is actually an inhabited wormhole, the neck of the wormhole is filled with 600 meters of water, and some rocks, some of which are large enough to form floating islands. Saturn has a population of about 1 billion, what keeps it warm is sunlight from the star on the other side, a red giant 100 times a luminous as our Sun. That star is off the map on Charted Space, which means a starship from charted space can reach it, and one already has. Venus has the pulp setting of dinosaurs, cavemen and prehistoric animals. Mars is a mostly desert planet with a network of canals distributing water over the surface of the planet from its Northern Ocean and ice caps. Adult Martians are a subrace of humans with an average height between 6 and 7 feet due to the planet's low gravity. The Earth is set in the year 2015, with a timeline which hasn't deviated from our own much, except for interplanetary space travel, and of course fusion reactors that were reverse-engineered from a ship's power plant brought in by a visitor from charted space. Fusion has left the middle east a less important place, for example there were no oil price shocks in the 1970s. A lot of nuclear fission power plants were never built, and instead fusion power plants take their place, otherwise the politics are very similar to our own world. Mars has a "kingdom" of renegade German Nazis left over from World War II.
The setting is a Solar System with inhabited Mars and Venus, the third planet is Saturn, which is actually an inhabited wormhole, the neck of the wormhole is filled with 600 meters of water, and some rocks, some of which are large enough to form floating islands. Saturn has a population of about 1 billion, what keeps it warm is sunlight from the star on the other side, a red giant 100 times a luminous as our Sun. That star is off the map on Charted Space, which means a starship from charted space can reach it, and one already has. Venus has the pulp setting of dinosaurs, cavemen and prehistoric animals. Mars is a mostly desert planet with a network of canals distributing water over the surface of the planet from its Northern Ocean and ice caps. Adult Martians are a subrace of humans with an average height between 6 and 7 feet due to the planet's low gravity. The Earth is set in the year 2015, with a timeline which hasn't deviated from our own much, except for interplanetary space travel, and of course fusion reactors that were reverse-engineered from a ship's power plant brought in by a visitor from charted space. Fusion has left the middle east a less important place, for example there were no oil price shocks in the 1970s. A lot of nuclear fission power plants were never built, and instead fusion power plants take their place, otherwise the politics are very similar to our own world. Mars has a "kingdom" of renegade German Nazis left over from World War II.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
I have an idea for an article for a minor, possibly intermediate, humaniti derived race. Which article/book should I use as a guide for the layout?
Don't worry about the layout at all - that is something we handle (and we prefer documents to have as little formatting as possible!).
In terms of chapter headings and the like, Luriani seems the best match by the sounds of it.
In terms of chapter headings and the like, Luriani seems the best match by the sounds of it.
