Firefly RPG resources
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mike wightman
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The rpg is pretty shiny.
Nice system IMHO, and the ship as a character section is crying out to be adapted to Traveller...
Nice system IMHO, and the ship as a character section is crying out to be adapted to Traveller...
Low-G Vagabond
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My Serenity RPG book should arrive on Monday...cant wait to get a look at it.
If its as good as the movie I saw last night, Ill be on cloud nine...lol.
Hey Sigg, by the way, been using some of your CT+ house rules...I thought I would let you know and give you a hardy thanks.
Raelian
If its as good as the movie I saw last night, Ill be on cloud nine...lol.
Hey Sigg, by the way, been using some of your CT+ house rules...I thought I would let you know and give you a hardy thanks.
Raelian
mike wightman
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<grumble><grumble> still have to wait four more days for the movie...<grumble><grumble>
Thanks Raelian, the CT+ project was the effort of many people, it is nice to know it is getting some use.
Any feedback on the rules in play etc. would be greatly appreciated
Thanks Raelian, the CT+ project was the effort of many people, it is nice to know it is getting some use.
Any feedback on the rules in play etc. would be greatly appreciated
Just FYI, there is a Neverwinter Nights mod that will let you run a Firefly campaign using T20 rules.
http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=modules.Detail&id=4030
Can't vouch for it myself, but reaction from people who've used it looks pretty good.
It's almost enough to get me to go out and buy Neverwinter nights just to see this mod in action.
http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=modules.Detail&id=4030
Can't vouch for it myself, but reaction from people who've used it looks pretty good.
It's almost enough to get me to go out and buy Neverwinter nights just to see this mod in action.
The main difference, Tech wise at least, between Firefly and Traveller is the drive system. Firefly using a "pulse drive" and ships are rated for speed and range (in hours). So, if you want to run a Firefly style game using Traveller rules or if you want to use Traveller ships in the Serenity RPG, it is not that hard to convert them over.
By doing a little comparison of the rules I think Serenity ship tonnages are (roughly) 4 times larger than Traveller tonnages (this is based on digging into the description of crew quarters, witch reads almost the same as LLB2 in a couple of key sentences except that minimum space for a crew member is 8 tons rather than 2[double occupancy cabin]).
So, here is my formula for those who want to turn a Traveller jump drive into a Firefly 'Verse pulse drive.
Take the jump number and multiply it by 2. This will give you the ship's Firefly speed class.
Next, to figure out the ships operational endurance in hours, you have to work though the following formula:
Traveller fuel tonnage x .8 = Firefly fuel tonnage
(I know I said that Firefly tonnage was 4 time Traveller tonnage, but Firefly fuel tanks are also 5 times larger than the actual fuel tonnage they carry.)
Next:
Firefly fuel tonnage / Speed Class
---------------------------------- = Endurance mod
Firefly hull tonnage / 100
Next:
Endurance Mod x 600 hours (which seems to be the base standard in the game).
This gives you the number of hours of flight endurance for the ship.
The Serenity RPG measures distances in time and has a table that gives you time ranges for travelling between moons and planets, planets in the same system, and planets in adjacent systems, all rated in hours of flight time for a Speed Class 1 ship.
Running the numbers on a Book 2 Type S gives you 1,200 hours of flight time, and on a Type A it's 900 hours.
Just though I would share...
By doing a little comparison of the rules I think Serenity ship tonnages are (roughly) 4 times larger than Traveller tonnages (this is based on digging into the description of crew quarters, witch reads almost the same as LLB2 in a couple of key sentences except that minimum space for a crew member is 8 tons rather than 2[double occupancy cabin]).
So, here is my formula for those who want to turn a Traveller jump drive into a Firefly 'Verse pulse drive.
Take the jump number and multiply it by 2. This will give you the ship's Firefly speed class.
Next, to figure out the ships operational endurance in hours, you have to work though the following formula:
Traveller fuel tonnage x .8 = Firefly fuel tonnage
(I know I said that Firefly tonnage was 4 time Traveller tonnage, but Firefly fuel tanks are also 5 times larger than the actual fuel tonnage they carry.)
Next:
Firefly fuel tonnage / Speed Class
---------------------------------- = Endurance mod
Firefly hull tonnage / 100
Next:
Endurance Mod x 600 hours (which seems to be the base standard in the game).
This gives you the number of hours of flight endurance for the ship.
The Serenity RPG measures distances in time and has a table that gives you time ranges for travelling between moons and planets, planets in the same system, and planets in adjacent systems, all rated in hours of flight time for a Speed Class 1 ship.
Running the numbers on a Book 2 Type S gives you 1,200 hours of flight time, and on a Type A it's 900 hours.
Just though I would share...
The conversion should be roughly 5:1. Serenity uses register tons of 100 cubic feet; 14 cubic meters (a dton in CT) is just a hair under 500 cubic feet, while a dton in GT is 500 cubic feet exactly. The "roughly" part is because Serenity assumes a 1:1 density ratio, but then doesn't distinguish between long tons, short tons, metric tonnes, etc.
It is. Reaction drives had an actual Isp for planning purposes, which was ~50,000s if I remember correctly (don't have my notes here).
Pulse drive ~ 500 km/s * speed class. The table on p. 105 is fairly rough, mostly due to rounding. </font>[/QUOTE]Thanks for clearing that up. That's what I get for not having any GURPS stuff. That makes the conversion process even easier; Traveller fuel tonnage is the same as Firefly fuel tonnage (which makes sense if I had thought about it more).
That means that those of us that designed Serenity as a 450 dTon ship were pretty close to the mark. In the Serenity RPG she's 2,400 tons, which works out to 480 dTons in Traveller.
