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Honorverse conversions?

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Anyone ever used Traveller rules to create a setting like the Honor Harrington universe? I'm relatively new in my return to Traveller play, but I have thought that Honorverse would be a cool setting and would like to hear if anyone has done some translating. Playing a Treecat character would be sort of fun, I think...
 
Anyone ever used Traveller rules to create a setting like the Honor Harrington universe? I'm relatively new in my return to Traveller play, but I have thought that Honorverse would be a cool setting and would like to hear if anyone has done some translating. Playing a Treecat character would be sort of fun, I think...

Hunter Gordon did... I cannot locate the playtest files anymore.

Was a T20 rework.
 
I think the primary issue is propulsion and endurance; you don't really need to refuel, you can travel any distance, and you can be intercepted in hyperspace.
 
Anyone ever used Traveller rules to create a setting like the Honor Harrington universe? I'm relatively new in my return to Traveller play, but I have thought that Honorverse would be a cool setting and would like to hear if anyone has done some translating. Playing a Treecat character would be sort of fun, I think...

I did create treecats for my CT game - the PCs ended up liberating one from a lab in an orbital station... they were just passing through, and didn't plan on stopping there again anyway.

No one knew where it had come from - it had been brought in by a tramp freighter that had been out "in the boonies" (this was in Reavers' Deep during my extended "post-Interstellar Wars" "cold war" between the Terran Confederation & the Vilani Imperium*), and little was known about the systems in the spinward half of the sector (which is where the tramp said they found** the critter).



* Instead of the 2nd Imperium/Rule of Man, I have the Vilani & the TC reaching a stalemate, with the "Long Night"/collapse of both polities happening after one last big fight coinciding with the canonical collapse of the 2I.

** They had dropped a gas-bomb filled with tranq gas over a section of forest, then went in looking for interesting specimens - the treecat was only one of their take (and no, no one had bonded with it, as they were not that nice of people).
 
Years back there was a thread or two dedicated to Honor Harrington, and a Traveller "total conversion". It should still be up somewhere.
 
Years back there was a thread or two dedicated to Honor Harrington, and a Traveller "total conversion". It should still be up somewhere.

More than a thread or two - a full on playtest.
31 threads, 356 total posts. At least 3 chapters were rewritten - but the files are not longer present, nor are the posts linking to them.

I cannot find the chapter files - I think Hunter removed them when the project was dropped.

Note: He also had a playtest for John Ringo's Legacy of the Aldenata going.
 
Interesting. I guess what I was suggesting was that for anyone so inclined, they could go through all those posts and try to reverse engineer whatever had been proposed.

I do recall the John Ringo discussion, but I never got involved in it.
 
Interesting. I guess what I was suggesting was that for anyone so inclined, they could go through all those posts and try to reverse engineer whatever had been proposed.

I do recall the John Ringo discussion, but I never got involved in it.

No, you can't. Those areas are off limits to all but admins. I'm not certain if the moderators can see them.
 
Wasn't Mongoose going to do a Honor Harrington book for use with their version of the Traveller rules--like they did with Hammer's Slammers?

I'm guessing it never happened?
 
I did create treecats for my CT game - the PCs ended up liberating one from a lab in an orbital station... they were just passing through, and didn't plan on stopping there again anyway.

No one knew where it had come from - it had been brought in by a tramp freighter that had been out "in the boonies" (this was in Reavers' Deep during my extended "post-Interstellar Wars" "cold war" between the Terran Confederation & the Vilani Imperium*), and little was known about the systems in the spinward half of the sector (which is where the tramp said they found** the critter).



* Instead of the 2nd Imperium/Rule of Man, I have the Vilani & the TC reaching a stalemate, with the "Long Night"/collapse of both polities happening after one last big fight coinciding with the canonical collapse of the 2I.

** They had dropped a gas-bomb filled with tranq gas over a section of forest, then went in looking for interesting specimens - the treecat was only one of their take (and no, no one had bonded with it, as they were not that nice of people).

Got the goods on that?
 
Wasn't Mongoose going to do a Honor Harrington book for use with their version of the Traveller rules--like they did with Hammer's Slammers?

I'm guessing it never happened?

I haven't heard anything about that - but I do know that Ad Astra Games (Ken Burnside) has the license for board games.
 
Got the goods on that?

Treecats for Traveller

Home Sector/subsector/world: where you want it; T.L. 0 (shaped stone/wood tools, woven plant fibers)

Carnivore (omnivore); Pouncer (gatherer) [Arboreal]; Communal (Sentient)

Int 5-8 (I.Q. 80-110); Str 2-3; Dex 8-12; End 4-6; Hits: 3d (2d); Move 2x (both on ground and in trees)

Size [Males]: Length 1-1.5m (.5-.75m body); Weight 8-15 kg
Size [Females]: Length .75-1.25m (.4-.6m body); Weight 6-12 kg

6 legs (2 true-feet, 2 hand/paws, 2 true-hands); Prehensile tail; 3 fingers/toes + 1 opposable thumb

Natural Weapons: Claws (~2 cm) 1d+1 (2/4 attacks); Teeth 1d-1

Lifespan: ~250 years [very young 0-25y, adolescent 26-40y, young adult 41-50y]; age rolls @ 150y, 6+ on 2d each 10y

Psi: 5-7 (some females can reach 9): Telepathic (own species); Empathic (most sentient species); can form empathic bond with some humans (those with 9+ Int, strong positive moral sense); Empathic sensing range ~50km (very distant)

Can learn to understand verbal language, but unable to vocalize complex sounds. Can learn to use sign and symbol-based languages.

Appearance: eyes are yellow-green to deep emerald; pointed ears and narrow muzzle; soft, multi-colored fur over entire body; colors are cream to medium brown base, tan to black stripes, patches, etc; rings on tail (form at 5-year intervals starting at 20y).


"All your celery belong to us."- Motto of the Treecat Liberation Army.

I didn't get into the whole "secondary nerve nexus at the mid-pelvis associated with psionic abilities"* bit, nor the "females with exceptional psi are often trained as 'living memory banks'"** aspect.


* An injury there robbed Nimitz of the ability to communicate telepathically with other treecats.

** Memory Singers, who are the closest thing treecats have to clan leaders.
 
I didn't get into the whole "secondary nerve nexus at the mid-pelvis associated with psionic abilities"* bit, nor the "females with exceptional psi are often trained as 'living memory banks'"** aspect.


* An injury there robbed Nimitz of the ability to communicate telepathically with other treecats.

** Memory Singers, who are the closest thing treecats have to clan leaders.

Way cool! Thanks! I can probably swot up some rules about nerve plexus and Memory Singers if the need arises. That, or just ignore my players' whinings about not having a Memory Singer.
 
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