Re: Fantasy Traveller Help
Amber Witherspoon 13 Nov 2017 03:38 UTC
(whoops, dropped part of the message)
So, does anybody have any ideas?
Travel time will be important, since I'm working on tables for the
interstellar travel that makes travel more than a passive "you didn't
misjump timeskip" that many people treat it as.
On 11/12/17, Amber Witherspoon <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> My brain attached itself to a "Spelljammer" type Traveller setting.
> For those who don't know, Spelljammer was an AD&D setting that
> connected all their settings via a fantastic cosmology based on
> crystal spheres that held systems and an ether like substance that
> flowed in currents between them.
> Right now, I'm looking at something similar - magical sailing ships
> traveling between systems on ether currents, with the ether currents
> stacked in layers that occasionally connect (thus allowing 3d space to
> be shown as a series of 2d maps).
> Right now, I'm trying to figure out a mapping system that allows for
> random generation of systems and currents that doesn't create a mess.
> Currently (hah!), I know I want systems on 8+, but the currents are a
> bit messy - I have three possibilities:
> 1: roll for currents first - direction of flow, length, and travel
> time, splits, if it goes between layers, then roll systems with
> off-current hexes having a penalty.
> 2: roll systems first, roll for current off each hex face, then
> length, travel time, splits, etc.
> 3: roll systems first, then connect every system (not sure my tables
> for that yet) with a current and roll travel time for each.
>