On 6/5/2021 11:34 AM, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk (via
tml list) wrote:
> Hi there
>
> On Wed, 2 Jun 2021, 16:41 Thomas Jones-Low, <xxxxxx@gmail.com
> <mailto:xxxxxx@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     To answer your questions
>
>
> Huge thank you for the response.  Very helpful.
>
> (My apologies for the slow reply but I wanted to answer with books in hand
> rather than quickly on a bus or something.)
>
>
>     Species Spectra is derived from the Primary Star of the home world (e.g. G2 V).
>     The Vision senses table (Book 1, p191) gives the range bands for this.
>
>
> Ah, I wondered if it was to do with star but couldn't find the connection.  Will
> try that again.
>
> OK,
> looking at 1/191 and 3/28 (and the box on 3/225) I must have the components of
> what goes in the box but it's probably my lack of understanding of The Senses
> pages that limits me quite getting this.  My ignorance I'm sure.  So I'm still
> not quite clear what goes in the Fill Form.  I rolled G7 V so close enough I
> assume to G2 V given on 1/191 so 'Green' or should it have something of a range,
> e.g. Purple to Cerise.  Hmmm, no, that's just visible light.  Perhaps a range
> focusing on what water dwelling creatures would have (better in UV??) but that's
> where my ignorance give up.  Will add: 'look up cephalopod vision' to my to do list.
> (This is where a bit more explanation and/or an example or two would have been
> really useful.  Perhaps I can persuade Mr Eaglestone to offer such - clearly I'm
> not the person to offer!)
> (The example of the Amindii in #6 doesn't seem to cover this).
>
	This is one of these things you need to look at two widely separated charts to
understand what is going on.

	Start on chart 10B (Book 3, p. 232) The "Star" column gives a range of stars.
You have to know that a G7 star is in the range of G2 - K0, which gives the
bands RGB.

	Now go back to the Overview of Colors chart (Book 1, p. 191), and note that the
Bands R= Red, G = Green, and B = Blue. Vision covers three adjacent bands of
colors. This is described, but not explained on the previous page (p.190) noting
that a vision constant will have three bands of colors as primary.

>
>     The Voice is the type of vocalizations the Sophont makes. As you note table
>     D on
>     page 234 has the results you need to enter.
>
>     Poice is on the same table.
>
>     Table D on page 232, the difference between these terms is defined on p 214
>     (Wiseman guide to sophonts).
>
>
> Doh!  How did I manage to miss that which I've read several times!  Thank you.
>
>
>     For the senses in general I recommend reading through the senses chapter in
>     book
>     1 (p188-199), which described in better detail what each of the senses is and
>     what they can do.
>
>
> Yes, I really need to get my head round this.  I really tried in an effort to
> give Gvoudzon better smell but something about it just seems to make my brain
> melt.  I don't understand why.  Will give it another go.
>

	The are two parts to giving a creature a "better" sense of smell. The first
would be to increase the constant. Each sense has "constant" which serves as the
target number to succeed as sensing things. The number of dice to roll for this
is determined by the range to the source of the sense.

	For example, the human constant for the sense of smell is 10. The K'kree the
constant is a 24, and are considered the generally best with their nose. So if
the Gvoudzon have a better sense of smell than humans, set their smell constant
to something between 10 (about human normal) to 20 (much better).

	Most of the scent description is about the gradations of scents. A smell is
rarely just one thing, but consists of different parts some more subtle than
others. The Sharpness defines how many of these subtler parts you can distinguish.

	Keep in mind that in actual play you will rarely if ever need to know this
information. Having players make sense rolls is a good way to aggravate them or
derail a plot.

>
>     I have sat down and re-organized the entire beast/sophont creation rules
>     from T5
>     to make them flow better and be more readable. I'm hoping to publish it.
>
>
> Ooooh, yes please!  As you might be able to tell, I'd lap anything like this up.
> Am really hoping that you include:
> a) good textual explanations along with the tables
> b) examples!
> (and ideally c) designer's notes on why!)
>
> Will look forward to it.
>
> Thanks again for the help.  Sorry to be so slow with it.
>
> tc
>
>
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