World & System Data

[cooks]

Will the new T20 system be using the UWP for summarising planetary/system data and if yes how detailed are you intending to make it, ie Book 6 Scouts, MT World Builders Handbook or TNE World Tamers(?)

My main reason for asking is that my players and I make great use of Stuart Ferris's Heaven&Earth software and I wondered if it'll still be helpful to me when I get T20 and the Ley Sector sourcebooks.

For info IMTU I use MT rules even though it's set in TNE.

Also in a kinda related question will you be using the other summary profiles UPP/UCP/URP etc..

 

[tjoneslo]

T20 will be using the UWP, and be generating systems on a level slightly less complex than book 6. Some of the details have been simplified, but it's largely compatible with the book 6 generation system, and using H&E in book 6 mode should work fine. And since T20 is Traveller, as long as you understand the (from your example) MT system generation, everything is compatible.

The other summary profiles are not used. They were discussed during the playtest, but were decided not to be used. The Personality profile does not fit well with the D20 system. The Robot profile also doesn't fit because the robot design system uses the vehicle design system, which requires more descriptive stats that are allowed by the string of digits.