[CT] Spaceman Spiff

[Samules]

Oh here's a "new" scout class for my storyline.


Enlistment: 10+
+1 Intel 10+
Edu 10+
Social 10+
(aww what the heck +1 for every stat above 10)

Survival 9+
+2 if endurance 10+

Reenlist 4+

3 skills per term

automatic skills:survival-1 Pilot-1

(edited by FT: this what you were going for: )

  Personal Development   Service Skills
1 +1 str                 Air/raft
2 +1Dex                  Vacc Suit
3 +2Dex                  Mechanical
4 +1endur                Electronics
5 +1intel                Gun cmbt
6 Gun cmbt               Gun Cmbt

  Advanced edu           8+ edu
1 Vehicle                Medical
2 Mechanical             Navigation
3 Electronic             Engineering
4 Gun cmbt               Computer
5 Gunnery                Pilot
6 Gunnery                Pilot

Thanks far trader

 

[ShapeShifter]

It was a long book only several page spread where susie was a booger being and his mom was a naggon. If you have the C&H complete collection I think its in Volume 2 if you don't have it ,its a ball with a skull and crossbones (in real life it was a water ballon he hit his mom with). Also my storline explains why , despite his tech , he is faced by overwhelming odds, you never see any humans , and he crashlands often because of years of improvised repairs with low tech tools that are inadiquate for something as advanced as his ship.

Hmph. I thought I had all the Spiff-centric strips. Bummer.
Were the "booger being" and "naggon" shown as aliens?
Many of the aliens (that I've seen in the strip) have common salient characteristics. I may come up with a random generation table for alien creation.

LISTING OF SPIFFVERSE WORLDS/STAR SYSTEMS:

AHNOOIE-4
BOG
GLOOB
GORK
GORZARG-5
MOK
MORDO
MYSTERIO SYSTEM, 5th planet
MYSTERIO SYSTEM, 6th planet
PLOOTARG
Q-13
QUORG
X-13
X-351
Z-12
ZARK
ZARTRON-9
Z-K5
ZOG
ZOG(2), likely different than above.
ZOK
ZOKK
ZORG

MENSURATION:

• Megazorks. [Implies also zorks, kilozorks and gigazorks?] Perhaps based on the AU or fractions of a light year?

 

[Samules]

Your not missing much its just a standard ugly alien and giant alien along with blaster and demise-o-bomb nothing you HAVE to see to understand. Also do you know of any grenade rules? I have all the CT rules from far future enterprises. A grenade would be equivilent for a demise-o-bomb.

 

[Samules]

Also maybe you should take out mysterio 5 since it was destroyed.

 

[Samules]

Here are my Spiff stats these are to be tweaked changed and generally screwed up judging by any spiff strips you remember.
(PS this uses my super scout-generator)

7eb99c
Survival-1
Pilot-3
Air/raft-2
(im going to call it the zorcher)-3
Improvised Mechanical-2(this would be without tools or supplies of proper tech level)
Gunnery-3
Computer-1
Navigation-1
Engineering-1

 

[Samules]

I'd like to upload info to travellermap to make a nifty PDF, but it's far too complicated for this earthling's puny cerebellum.

I can just make a map on word and email to you if you like.

 

[ShapeShifter]

Also maybe you should take out mysterio 5 since it was destroyed.

Right! In my notes I state that between the star and Mysterio-6 is a large asteroid belt, and in one hemisphere of Mysterio-6 is a massive impact crater from some recent catastrophy.

I can just make a map on word and email to you if you like.

I've already made one in Word, but figuring out that blasted complicated coding on travellermap.com is driving me insane.

[madman's laughter]Mwa-ha-ha-haaaaaa![/madman's laughter]
*Steps into airlock and opens outer hatch gleefully*

 

[Samules]

Oh you are seriously trying to figure out that stuff? I just use this simpler(but no less sci fi sounding) thing.

subsector number-tens place-ones place

 

[Samules]

Also I'm bored out of my brain over here that's why I keep posting.

 

[ShapeShifter]

Stiff upper lip, Old Man!

As the Wise Ones once said: 'Boredom is the Mother of RPG's!'

:rofl:

 

[FreeTrav]

Stiff upper lip, Old Man!

As the Wise Ones once said: 'Boredom is the Mother of RPG's!'

:rofl:

Then I must have been hearing a truncated version of it, because I always thought they were saying 'Boredom is a mother'. :devil:

 

[Samules]

Stiff upper lip, Old Man!

As the Wise Ones once said: 'Boredom is the Mother of RPG's!'

:rofl:

So true, So true.

 

[inexorabletash]

I've already made one in Word, but figuring out that blasted complicated coding on travellermap.com is driving me insane.

Hey there!

I haven't seen any requests for help via email. What seems to be the problem?

Please describe what you're trying to do, what you're getting as a result, and how that differs from what you expect.

The map site (and I'm assuming you're trying to use the http://localhost/Maps/post.htm page to make a map from your data) takes a plain boring old SEC file (or copy/paste the data). It's not any different than any other Traveller data file you might run across - a bunch of lines of the form:

Name-------------- Hex- UWP------ B TC/Rem--------- Z PBG Al
Raweh              0139 B130300-B N Lo Ni Po De     A 920 Im

Name = name
Hex = hex coordinate in sector (XXYY)
UWP = Universal World Profile
B = bases
TC/Rem = Trade Code/Remarks
Z = Zone (A=Amber, R=Red)
PBG = Population Mantissa, # Belts, # Gas Giants
Al = Allegiance

The site is not persnickety about field widths - it just needs 4-digit hex and 7-1 UWP, at least 10 characters for the trade-codes/remarks, 3-digit PBG.

Let me know if you have any problems.

 

[Samules]

I'm currently trying to stat up the alien ships. Most of them look like modified scouts (pretty simple). But most of them use something that looks like a laser but acts like a missile (ray that explodes). I'm thinking it's something like a missile but leaves an energy trail (more like a photon torpedo rather than Andrew Boulton's missiles) but this still doesn't sound quite right. Any suggestions?

 

[ShapeShifter]

Hey there!

I haven't seen any requests for help via email. What seems to be the problem?

Please describe what you're trying to do, what you're getting as a result, and how that differs from what you expect.

The map site (and I'm assuming you're trying to use the http://localhost/Maps/post.htm page to make a map from your data) takes a plain boring old SEC file (or copy/paste the data). It's not any different than any other Traveller data file you might run across - a bunch of lines of the form:

Name-------------- Hex- UWP------ B TC/Rem--------- Z PBG Al
Raweh              0139 B130300-B N Lo Ni Po De     A 920 Im

Name = name
Hex = hex coordinate in sector (XXYY)
UWP = Universal World Profile
B = bases
TC/Rem = Trade Code/Remarks
Z = Zone (A=Amber, R=Red)
PBG = Population Mantissa, # Belts, # Gas Giants
Al = Allegiance

The site is not persnickety about field widths - it just needs 4-digit hex and 7-1 UWP, at least 10 characters for the trade-codes/remarks, 3-digit PBG.

Let me know if you have any problems.

All I really need is a simple map with system names only. However, I don't need all that profuse "metadata" stuff. When I cleared it out, I received a slap on the wrist. When I looked up "SEC file" (I've never heard the term) it said that its a secure encryption file. Why does the map need securely encrypted information???

 

[FreeTrav]

Actually, SEC files are Missouri Archive SECtor files - a text-based format similar but not identical to the file format for Jim Vassilakos's GALACTIC program. SEC (and Galactic) format is essentially a one-line-per world fixed-field format, the classic UWP listing format that you see in Classic Traveller.

 

[robject]

All I really need is a simple map with system names only.

You can probably just use "filler" data for the fields you don't care about: for example, copy Joshua's example for each world, and just change the data you're interested in.

Name-------------- Hex- UWP------ B TC/Rem--------- Z PBG Al
World One          0101 B130300-B   Lo Ni Po De       920 Im
World Two          0203 B130300-B   Lo Ni Po De       920 Im
World Three        0206 B130300-B   Lo Ni Po De       920 Im
World Four         0304 B130300-B   Lo Ni Po De       920 Im
World Five         0406 B130300-B   Lo Ni Po De       920 Im

 

[ShapeShifter]

You can probably just use "filler" data for the fields you don't care about: for example, copy Joshua's example for each world, and just change the data you're interested in.

Name-------------- Hex- UWP------ B TC/Rem--------- Z PBG Al
World One          0101 B130300-B   Lo Ni Po De       920 Im
World Two          0203 B130300-B   Lo Ni Po De       920 Im
World Three        0206 B130300-B   Lo Ni Po De       920 Im
World Four         0304 B130300-B   Lo Ni Po De       920 Im
World Five         0406 B130300-B   Lo Ni Po De       920 Im

Hm. I'll try it with just the world names. I shouldn't have to insert "dummy data" to fill up anything.

I'm beginning to suspect that Traveller players are mostly PhD-level, child-prodigy, advanced computer programmers who innately relish convoluted systems of rules for the express purpose of befuddling the simian intellects of the rest of the species. (Or perhaps that's just MT!) :rofl: