Traveller Adventure and T20???

[Blustar15]

Has anyone tried running TTA with the T20 rules set? How did it go?

What was the hardest part to convert? The NPC's or the spaceships or T&C or something else?

Does anyone have any converted stats they can post?

Is there a good guide for converting CT/MT characters to T20? How about CT/MT ships?

Thanks,

Blue

 

[Flynn]

It's been done, and I remember reading some work on it here on the COTI boards, but I don't remember who did it.

Search the archives here and you can probably find some good stuff on it.

Best of luck,
Flynn

 

[BetterThanLife]

The NPC's would be more difficult to convert. The T20 ship design is almost a straight port from LBB5.
The Skill levels do not equate and because of the way the CT skills are all over the map for die modifiers, so a conversion there is tougher. It can be done but it is the more difficult proposition.

 

[Hyphen]

Dear Folks -

Originally posted by BetterThanLife:
The NPC's would be more difficult to convert. The T20 ship design is almost a straight port from LBB5.
The Skill levels do not equate and because of the way the CT skills are all over the map for die modifiers, so a conversion there is tougher. It can be done but it is the more difficult proposition.

Speaking of which, is there a thread somewhere or some published guidelines on what CT skill level(s) equate to T20 skill level(s)?

I mean, for example, if you had Medical-3 in CT or MT you were considered to be a doctor (and Dex 9+, a surgeon to boot).

Does T20 have any similar guidelines about its skill levels?

 

[BetterThanLife]

Originally posted by Hyphen:
Dear Folks -

</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by BetterThanLife:
The NPC's would be more difficult to convert. The T20 ship design is almost a straight port from LBB5.
The Skill levels do not equate and because of the way the CT skills are all over the map for die modifiers, so a conversion there is tougher. It can be done but it is the more difficult proposition.

Speaking of which, is there a thread somewhere or some published guidelines on what CT skill level(s) equate to T20 skill level(s)?

I mean, for example, if you had Medical-3 in CT or MT you were considered to be a doctor (and Dex 9+, a surgeon to boot).

Does T20 have any similar guidelines about its skill levels? </font>[/QUOTE]One of the issues with CT, more so that MT, is the wide disparity of what one skill level represented. In some cases it was a Plus 1 per level, in others more. I seem to remember one skill was a +4 per level. Your best bet is to look in the T20 skill list and see what it takes to accomplish a task. Figure the more difficult tasks require a 30+ (on a D20) So for a 50% chance of success rate, an "Expert" should have a skill with 10 ranks. Though a +4 in CT or MT is close to an automatic success. Which is why it is so difficult to translate skills.

 

[Valarian]

Originally posted by BetterThanLife:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Hyphen:
Dear Folks -

</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by BetterThanLife:
The NPC's would be more difficult to convert. The T20 ship design is almost a straight port from LBB5.
The Skill levels do not equate and because of the way the CT skills are all over the map for die modifiers, so a conversion there is tougher. It can be done but it is the more difficult proposition.

Speaking of which, is there a thread somewhere or some published guidelines on what CT skill level(s) equate to T20 skill level(s)?

I mean, for example, if you had Medical-3 in CT or MT you were considered to be a doctor (and Dex 9+, a surgeon to boot).

Does T20 have any similar guidelines about its skill levels? </font>[/QUOTE]One of the issues with CT, more so that MT, is the wide disparity of what one skill level represented. In some cases it was a Plus 1 per level, in others more. I seem to remember one skill was a +4 per level. Your best bet is to look in the T20 skill list and see what it takes to accomplish a task. Figure the more difficult tasks require a 30+ (on a D20) So for a 50% chance of success rate, an "Expert" should have a skill with 10 ranks. Though a +4 in CT or MT is close to an automatic success. Which is why it is so difficult to translate skills. </font>[/QUOTE]Under normal, non-adventure conditions, an expert would be able to take all the time they like in performance of a difficult task and Take-20. Thereby, an Expert with skill level of 10 (including bonuses) would automatically succeed in a task of difficulty 30.

 

[BetterThanLife]

Which isn't exactly the same. I never said it was impossible, just quite a bit more difficult to convert the characters and NPC's and keep them with the same feel than any other aspect of any of the classic adventures.