T4.1
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mike wightman
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T4.1 morphed into T5.
I used to have some of Marc's draft chargen for T4.1. One page per career, with a quickgen option sidebar.
I also, due to a lapse of sanity, updated QSDS to version 2.0:
* Kept the descriptor "card" and its format.
* Added ship classes to the Mission Selection section.
* Rounded the hull configuration table numbers (that drove me crazy!). I didn't feel like breaking down the hull table into independent configurations.
* Reformulated Jump, HEPlaR, and Maneuver drive tables to match T5, and referred to same for options, upgrades, etc.
* Split the Sensor and Communicator modifiers into options based on TL. This simplified the tables nicely without reducing the number of variations available.
* Weapons. Its main thing is in changing the weapons loadouts to formula for a bit more flexibility without really making it complicated - no more than a High Guard-level of complexity anyway.
* Added a reference to extra equipment, referencing the appropriate pages on Traveller5.09.
Due to the handy referencing of T5 for nonessentials, page count shrunk from 22 to 15 pages. I figure the Big Table of Hulls is still valid, since I didn't fool with the hull table except to reduce the number of significant digits.
I also, due to a lapse of sanity, updated QSDS to version 2.0:
* Kept the descriptor "card" and its format.
* Added ship classes to the Mission Selection section.
* Rounded the hull configuration table numbers (that drove me crazy!). I didn't feel like breaking down the hull table into independent configurations.
* Reformulated Jump, HEPlaR, and Maneuver drive tables to match T5, and referred to same for options, upgrades, etc.
* Split the Sensor and Communicator modifiers into options based on TL. This simplified the tables nicely without reducing the number of variations available.
* Weapons. Its main thing is in changing the weapons loadouts to formula for a bit more flexibility without really making it complicated - no more than a High Guard-level of complexity anyway.
* Added a reference to extra equipment, referencing the appropriate pages on Traveller5.09.
Due to the handy referencing of T5 for nonessentials, page count shrunk from 22 to 15 pages. I figure the Big Table of Hulls is still valid, since I didn't fool with the hull table except to reduce the number of significant digits.
Here's a list of what T4.1 had just before it was noticeably not T4 any longer. The most developed section was chargen and skills. All of the material shows a development towards T5 and away from the elements of T4 that were more like MegaTraveller.
Skills:
128 skills, grouped in clusters AND cascades (different somehow). Each has one controlling characteristic (how old school!). 20 default skills. 46 page chapter.
Chargen:
- Ten careers that look very much like those in T5.
- Process similar to CT.
- Education process ?similar to MT?
- Had an "injury" step instead of "survival".
- Included a "cold sleep" step in it where you determined how long the character had been in cold sleep up to the point of the game's start.
- Included the draft AND a random career selection.
- Aging was similar to CT/MT.
- Random homeworld determination was ?similar to MT or T4?
Skills:
128 skills, grouped in clusters AND cascades (different somehow). Each has one controlling characteristic (how old school!). 20 default skills. 46 page chapter.
Chargen:
- Ten careers that look very much like those in T5.
- Process similar to CT.
- Education process ?similar to MT?
- Had an "injury" step instead of "survival".
- Included a "cold sleep" step in it where you determined how long the character had been in cold sleep up to the point of the game's start.
- Included the draft AND a random career selection.
- Aging was similar to CT/MT.
- Random homeworld determination was ?similar to MT or T4?
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