For posterity, Mongoose's posters:
- Solomani Rim
- Trojan Reach
- Deneb
- Reft
- Gvurrdon
- Spinward Marches
Also, Corridor gets an 8.5x11" poster in Memory Alpha, in FFE's The Short Adventures.
T5 Deck Plan Set 1 from FFE
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For posterity, Mongoose's posters:
Also, Corridor gets an 8.5x11" poster in Memory Alpha, in FFE's The Short Adventures.
Spaceresearcher
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As I only have PDF's of those sources I'll take your word for it. At least there's 2 more official poster maps out there.
Spaceresearcher
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As mentioned that's an ancillary company, not the main source.
Spaceresearcher
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OH Hell, please no more re-inventing the wheel for already done sectors, that's all I ask with the customisation.
Spaceresearcher
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As mentioned, the Mongoose maps are debated. Whereas core products from GDW and FFE are not(well at least I hope not, getting tired of arguments over this stuff).
Spaceresearcher
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Still I think it was great that Mongoose tried to put together a foundation from which to adventure in. They took Traveller and attempted to put together a polished system from which to game in.(Correct me if I'm mistaken but T20 was going for that goal as well). For that I applaud them. The only trouble is the descrepancies between CT and Mongoose that get's debated and termed a different flavour of the core game. Like most Travellers I grabbed some of there products as they made excellent additions to my main material but ultimately I'd really love to see that happen from the source and thankfully it looks like it's going to happen. If just 10 main sector maps could come about, that would be tops. Personally I'm declaring Travellermap official as it's the most complete map of charted Traveller space I know of.
I also love the ability to print of sectors and the world data.
Recently I did this for all the sectors in 'The Grand Tour' as my gaming group is adventuring in this campaign adding our own twists and the Ref is adding small side adventures from all over the place which makes it really interesting. Best of all you get to experience Traveller in more areas of space than just 'The Spinward Marches'(which are cool by the way I understand the sector is considered the most exciting sector in Traveller but there's a lot more out there and as the name suggests, travel is the main theme of this great scifi game).
I think Travellermap keeps up with canonical edits (and Marc's Big Spreadsheet), as well as or better than other sources.
My deck plans showed up - nice basic set. However - there is no key or descriptions. There are a lot of numbered rooms and areas, but nothing to indicate the purpose.
While I have pretty much these plans and descriptions elsewhere, a page or two per deck plan indicating what is what would have been nice so I don't have to look all over to see what room B4 is supposed to be. Fortunately I've the Kinunir adventure (the real deal
) (as well as the Classic CD) so the big ship at least I can map what the rooms do.
And these are basically laid and and displayed much like the plans from 30 years ago. Nicer paper, and there are some T5 touches with consoles and a few other minor updated legend items. So for nostalgia's sake they are really nice. For real use, though, as the scale is too small for 15 mm, so they can't be used as battle maps directly.
A lack of any descriptive text hurts usability quite a bit.
And there are URLs printed on the plans (www.traveller5.net/DP01.html, for instance) that are invalid. I can hope that the plan is to stick the description there.
So if I had to rate these, I'd give them a 5/5 for classic Traveller appeal, but a 2/5 for real use. Without descriptions, a new to Traveller player would have no idea what anything was.
Edit: must have typed in the URLs incorrectly as they now appear to be working. Alas, still no descriptions of the layout.
To make these really useful (and bump that score to at least a 4), what would have been nice would be to follow one of the Kickstarters: include (or link) a PDF that also has the maps, but scaled to be printed for 25 or 15 mm gaming, along with the descriptions. Maybe even a bit of color (i.e., the PDFs from that give 2 printable maps: black and white similar to these deck plans, but also color with furnishings and stuff).
There are several members here who have already done very similar things, and they looked quite good.
Overall, I am happy with them, but that's mostly from a nostalgia / deck plan addiction point of view...
While I have pretty much these plans and descriptions elsewhere, a page or two per deck plan indicating what is what would have been nice so I don't have to look all over to see what room B4 is supposed to be. Fortunately I've the Kinunir adventure (the real deal
) (as well as the Classic CD) so the big ship at least I can map what the rooms do.And these are basically laid and and displayed much like the plans from 30 years ago. Nicer paper, and there are some T5 touches with consoles and a few other minor updated legend items. So for nostalgia's sake they are really nice. For real use, though, as the scale is too small for 15 mm, so they can't be used as battle maps directly.
A lack of any descriptive text hurts usability quite a bit.
And there are URLs printed on the plans (www.traveller5.net/DP01.html, for instance) that are invalid. I can hope that the plan is to stick the description there.
So if I had to rate these, I'd give them a 5/5 for classic Traveller appeal, but a 2/5 for real use. Without descriptions, a new to Traveller player would have no idea what anything was.
Edit: must have typed in the URLs incorrectly as they now appear to be working. Alas, still no descriptions of the layout.
To make these really useful (and bump that score to at least a 4), what would have been nice would be to follow one of the Kickstarters: include (or link) a PDF that also has the maps, but scaled to be printed for 25 or 15 mm gaming, along with the descriptions. Maybe even a bit of color (i.e., the PDFs from that give 2 printable maps: black and white similar to these deck plans, but also color with furnishings and stuff).
There are several members here who have already done very similar things, and they looked quite good.
Overall, I am happy with them, but that's mostly from a nostalgia / deck plan addiction point of view...
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pendragonman
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I also think a key for the #'d room would be really helpful.
Patron Zero
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I do like the style of the illustrations, a very respectful nod to the original GDW LLBs !
