General Eventide

[Second Age]

Inspired by my recent purchase of Cepheus Deluxe (CD) I'm embarking on some universe building in a homebrew setting. I'd like to get a nice map and some setting details together to run CD at conventions and maybe an online campaign on Forge/Foundry VTT.

My journey is underway and some more details are on my Blog: http://farhavens.blogspot.com/2021/09/eventide.html

I'm zooming in from a multi-sector overview sketch, down to a Sector and then inot the detail of one Subsector. I'd forgotten what fun this was! If only my Book 6 wasn't lost in the wilds of my store room! I'll beusing something for Stellar data when the time comes, but don't need it just yet.

I have a pre-edit version of Eventide Subsector, out in the Trailing depths of Hinterspace. The fun starts as I start to look at the UWP detail. I'm using a generator that formats into SEC, with an eye to a Travellermap import down track.

What do people use to generate their stellar data?

 

[BackworldTraveller]

The Traveller wiki pages have lots of stellar data tucked away. I use that.

 

[Fovean]

Yeah I’ve bounced around from Scouts to First In to various home-brews to my own house rules… but then I found the wiki pages with all the stellar data listed:

https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Star/data

You can do a simple 2D table for Type and then Class, something like:

2-3: A // D
4-5: K // VI
6-7: M // V
8-9: G // IV
10-11: F // III
12: 1D: 1 O, 2-6 B // 1 Ia, 2 Ib, 3-6 II

That’s a somewhat “realistic” distribution while staying CE-style simple.

If you need the spectral decimal (M0, M5, G2, etc) you can throw 2D-3, minimum 0. It will make the brighter, hotter stars in a Class more prevalent but that’s probably not a bad thing for campaign building.

Hope that helps, or at least gives you a place to start.

 

[Grav_Moped]

The Traveller wiki pages have lots of stellar data tucked away. I use that.

And Travellermap world listings each have a link to that world's TravellerWorlds procedurally-generated world and star system listing at the bottom of the dropdown box.

(The star system data is in the [view] menu in the top bar of the TravellerWorlds page.)

Its developer posts here as "Ojno The Red" (I may have the exact spelling wrong here).

 

[Second Age]

Yeah I’ve bounced around from Scouts to First In to various home-brews to my own house rules… but then I found the wiki pages with all the stellar data listed:

https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Star/data

You can do a simple 2D table for Type and then Class, something like:

2-3: A // D
4-5: K // VI
6-7: M // V
8-9: G // IV
10-11: F // III
12: 1D: 1 O, 2-6 B // 1 Ia, 2 Ib, 3-6 II

That’s a somewhat “realistic” distribution while staying CE-style simple.

If you need the spectral decimal (M0, M5, G2, etc) you can throw 2D-3, minimum 0. It will make the brighter, hotter stars in a Class more prevalent but that’s probably not a bad thing for campaign building.

Hope that helps, or at least gives you a place to start.

A terrific resource, thanks for the pointer!

 

[Timerover51]

. . . . If you areWhat do people use to generate their stellar data?

If you are looking for computer-generated data, Agorski's Sectormaker is very good and what I usd to generate a sector.

 

[Second Age]

If you are looking for computer-generated data, Agorski's Sectormaker is very good and what I usd to generate a sector.

Looks good but I don't have iOS.

I'm gradually unravelling how I'm going to generate things, but also want to nail the presentation, so I can sel-publish, even if only to me! ;-)