Or, What's A Free Trader Doing At Yori, Anyway?
I cocked an eye around the boards, and I couldn't find anything in particular like this - maybe someone's already got one?
I've been thinking in terms of setting up a new spread of encounter tables for my (Non-OTU ProtoTraveller) universe. While I don't want to get much more complex than the table in LBB2, I think I'd like to create a little more detail tailored to the specific system that took into account things like world population, and the minimum jump necessary to get there (without extra fuel tank fiddling about.)
There's a table Leroy Guatney did in JTAS which suggests the number of ships in 'port on a given week, based on port type versus planet population. IIRC, he went on to describe his own encounter tables which he said would follow (they didn't. Yay GDW copy editing!)
The Way Of Madness would decree a separate table for each system. Don' wanna.
The Way Of Practical And Wise Refereeing would decree dispensing with tables and implementing ship encounters by GM fiat as necessary to serve The Story.
But The Way Of Heck All I Do Is Solitaire These Days wants a more interesting set of encounter tables than just LBB2, and wonders if someone hasn't already done something I can model from.
I cocked an eye around the boards, and I couldn't find anything in particular like this - maybe someone's already got one?
I've been thinking in terms of setting up a new spread of encounter tables for my (Non-OTU ProtoTraveller) universe. While I don't want to get much more complex than the table in LBB2, I think I'd like to create a little more detail tailored to the specific system that took into account things like world population, and the minimum jump necessary to get there (without extra fuel tank fiddling about.)
There's a table Leroy Guatney did in JTAS which suggests the number of ships in 'port on a given week, based on port type versus planet population. IIRC, he went on to describe his own encounter tables which he said would follow (they didn't. Yay GDW copy editing!)
The Way Of Madness would decree a separate table for each system. Don' wanna.
The Way Of Practical And Wise Refereeing would decree dispensing with tables and implementing ship encounters by GM fiat as necessary to serve The Story.
But The Way Of Heck All I Do Is Solitaire These Days wants a more interesting set of encounter tables than just LBB2, and wonders if someone hasn't already done something I can model from.