World Creation Question - Habitable Zones

[duckgoop]

Hey all--

I was looking over the world creation section of the core book and was wondering if anyone knows where it discusses what constitutes the habitable zones (at what point is it the cold/hot edge) for the use of the DMs listed?

I think I saw some discussion over whether or not they should even be used. For the sake of argument (and in fairness to Mongoose for their work) can anyone help me out?

Thanks!

PS...I have Spinward Marches but I want to generate random worlds.

 

[captainjack23]

Hey all--

I was looking over the world creation section of the core book and was wondering if anyone knows where it discusses what constitutes the habitable zones (at what point is it the cold/hot edge) for the use of the DMs listed?

I think I saw some discussion over whether or not they should even be used. For the sake of argument (and in fairness to Mongoose for their work) can anyone help me out?

Thanks!

PS...I have Spinward Marches but I want to generate random worlds.

IIRC, thats a direct port from T5. Basically one rolls 1d6-1d6 (-5 to+5) and if I recall the distribution was somthing like (correction gratefully requested) :

-5 frozen
-4,-3 cold (Hoth)
-2-+2 temperate
+3,+4 hot (Dune)
+5 roasting

Cold and hot were at the inner and outer limits of the Hab zone....Frozen and roasting were outside, above C02 snowing out, but under water boiling (barely habitable)

 

[EDG]

Hey all--

I was looking over the world creation section of the core book and was wondering if anyone knows where it discusses what constitutes the habitable zones (at what point is it the cold/hot edge) for the use of the DMs listed

I doesn't discuss them in the corebook. Hot and Cold are usually presumed to be towards the inner and outer edge of the habitable zone. Roasting and Freezing are generally presumed to be beyond the habitable zone, in the Inner and Middle/Outer Zones.

Any further detail would require you knowing the orbital distance of the planet from the star, and the star type and luminosity - neither of which are provided in the core rules.