D20 and T20

[Gadrin]

are the rulesets for these two identical ?

the reason I ask, I have the Future Armada PDF for the Exeter and the Morgan-class shuttle stats are listed in it.

the shuttle has a "Tactical Speed" of 3500 feet. How long are turns for vehicles in D20 or T20 ?

I'm trying to figure out it's speed or see how it compares to some Traveller small craft.

 

[hunter]

No they are not identical at all. Particularly with regard to vehicle and ship combat.

 

[Space Hamster]

Hi there,

I have all of the Future Armada stuff. They are well done. The ship stats are just a tiny part of it. you can just recreate them in T20.

I have not done it as I am still looking for a space combat system that has my flavor with use of miniatures. I may use a hybrid of several different ones but space combat is tough to model with miniatures.

 

[GypsyComet]

The D20 Modern/Future method of dealing with vehicles and starships owes a fair amount to Alternity, though thankfully not all of it (Alternity had issues). T20's ship handling is strongly High Guard derived, but clearly a D20 rendition of it.

As for ship combat with minis, SH, have you looked at Power Projection? I'm also a long-time Mayday fan, but it's mix of hexes and vector seem to confuse people. In an interesting case of temporaly-displaced parallel evolution, the Galactic Knights game from Monday Knight Productions also uses hex-vector, and he tells me he's never heard of Mayday...

 

[Gadrin]

Okey-dokey, I'll just choose an existing Traveller small craft that fits the bill and use that.

Any one know how long a D20 movement round is for a vehicle such as a spacecraft "3500 feet" ?

 

[hunter]

Okey-dokey, I'll just choose an existing Traveller small craft that fits the bill and use that.

Any one know how long a D20 movement round is for a vehicle such as a spacecraft "3500 feet" ?

Under basic small ship/starship combat each round is 20 minutes.

Advanced combat rules each round is 10 minutes at the strategic plot level or 30 seconds on the tactical plot.

 

[steventirey1985]

In Traveller, yes.

In d20 Future (or all other d20 games made by WotC), a round is always 6 seconds.

Since it looks like Future Armada stuff is designed for d20 Future, the round is 6 seconds long. So the shuttle can travel 3500 feet in 6 seconds.

 

[Commander Drax]

D20 Future is extremely weak in terms of ship design and combat, best to ignore the D20 stats and create your own T20 version of the ship in question.