Honorverse conversions?

[pshrynk]

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...

 

[aramis]

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.

 

[Condottiere]

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.

 

[GypsyComet]

Playing in the timeframe of the books means, for the most part, playing in wartime.

 

[BlackBat242]

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).

 

[Blue Ghost]

Years back there was a thread or two dedicated to Honor Harrington, and a Traveller "total conversion". It should still be up somewhere.

 

[aramis]

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.

 

[Blue Ghost]

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.

 

[aramis]

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.

 

[Supplement Four]

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?

 

[pshrynk]

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?

 

[aramis]

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.

 

[BlackBat242]

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.

 

[pshrynk]

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.