I have been developing basic apps for role playing games since 1981. It is intended as an expanded, advanced, definitive version of traveller. The best handbook ive managed to find is world building. The dcs is an interactive character sheet that helps streamline combat, track inventory, take damage, etc. An industrial and technological powerhouse, iris presents an image of efficient technical expertise. Traveller is a scifi rpg with a unique character creation system. Csource 1 million stars a collection of programs to generate subsectors and maps. Traveller and the traveller logo are trademarks owned by far future enterprises, inc. Landtraveller is a hybrid between a traditional action rpg and a modern indie sandbox combining interesting randomized environments with hand crafted world building. Traveller is very amicable to the use of computer software to generate many aspects of the game. First published in 1977, it continues to thrive and evolve. This ability to travel has lead to humans and aliens spreading out across the galaxy, sometimes warring. Dice rolls determine your characters history, whether it be successful or not so successful.
Addictive narcotics, security programs, tl items, landing only at starport, use of. It comes with things like custom world maps, which you can place markers on to signify. Scabard is a rules neutral rpg campaign manager and planner. Free world building software by shaudawn on deviantart.
See more ideas about sci fi ships, space crafts and rpg. Players share the creation of an overarching storyline, like the rise and fall of an empire, the mythic beginnings of human culture, or a bloodthirsty war between interstellar species. Traveller rpg resources mark lords historical fiction. By paul schirf english trenchant class patrol cruiser tl 12, 400tons. A copy of this licence can be obtained from mongoose publishing. Epic fantasy in a world where science clashes with old beliefs of magic for a life forgotten available now. Doing these three things gives you 3 worlds with breathable atmospheres, an ag world, an in world and a third world that is somewhere in between. The site also provides services for generating custom maps and apis for incorporating maps into other sites. The timeline project is a great program to create a timeline you can easily edit and change. Sb chview the best 3d star mapping program out there.
Based on all the stuff you get in the t20 book ship and vehicle design rules, prior history, star system design rules, cargo buying and selling, creature design rules, space combat, etc. If you would like to make traveller characters, the tcg is for you. Over time i will publish all these programs on this website. Im having trouble finding mongoosecompatible software for shipvehicle creation, world building and trading.
Traveller5 is the 5th version of the traveller rpg designed by the original designer of traveller, marc miller. With different modes of play and online multiplayer, theres lots to explore. Miller designed traveller with help from frank chadwick, john harshman, and loren k. By paul schirf english type t1 patrol cruiser tl 12, 400tons. Im starting a rewrite of the previous version of my fantasy campaign mapping software, with the intent to use it for the new campaign setting im working on. A list of worldbuilding resources worldbuilding stack exchange. There are free pdffiles all over the zhodani base that you can download. Traveller is a science fiction roleplaying game, first published in 1977 by game designers workshop. A writers guide to constructing star systems and lifesupporting planets by stephen l. Freelance traveller does not provide user or technical support for any software listed here. Prepare it like however you do your fantasy rpg module. The traveller core rulebook contains everything you need to create one of these adventurers and begin exploring the galaxy.
Jd project rho the uber site for world building resources. The anatomically correct series of creature building questions. You can travel from star to star, from galaxy to galaxy, landing on any planet, moon. Imperial high landed nobility edit efate, as a member world of the third imperium, holds the estate of three members of the imperial nobility, who are. Spaceports, ancient civilisations, airrafts, cold steel blades, laser carbines, far distant worlds, and exotic alien beasts this is the futuristic universe of traveller, the original and classic science fiction. Computer connection traveller programs and useful utilities for other platforms. Traveller d20 starship construction and combat system. Like many concepts in the book world, series is a somewhat fluid and contested notion.
We currently support two offerings, the digital character sheet dcs and the traveller character generator tcg. A complex relational database with which to organise and store your traveller data, a graphical query and display tool with which to drilldown into and maintain your data, a bridge for sharing data with. By paul schirf english vanderbilt class yacht tl 10, 200tons. Mongoose new traveller question about universe and world building. This is a page to collect them all so that you can download them for free. Creating a realistic world governments money matters for the intrepid traveller list of price of medieval items. It states that the world design examines the single most important world in each system.
An interactive map of the universe of the traveller role playing game, incorporating official data and fan submissions. Ben robbinss microscope rpg is world building in the form of a. Csource sysgen 4 a collection of programs to generate subsectors and maps. Ariel ley sector, ikhnaton subsector, hex 0103 is a significant world in the judges guild produced ley sector on a major route, but not actually core. Mapmaking software for creating tacticalscale battlemaps for rpgs or even some. Now you have a more viable mix with a lot of trade between the various worlds, with raw materials flowing to the in world, food flowing from the ag world and manufactured. Also works with your own artworkbitmaps, via draganddrop. Persephone is a lowpopulation world in the spinward marches. Feel free to suggest additional world building software too.
While i probably wont switch software for my campaign notes, i have been looking for software that will expedite my microscope rpg work, which ive been using to enhance my traveller world building. Anyway, tired of noone else running the damn game ive been picking it up. In the 80s on a trs80 i would make printouts of a hundred random entries of what every type subsectors, animal encounters, npcs, etc scan the list and pick out the ones i would be using. The hardcover version is out of print but it is available in ebook format from reanimus press. Mapmaking software for creating tacticalscale battlemaps for rpgs or even some boardgames, with a large library of readytouse mapping content addons including 10 free ones. Creating traveller style subsector maps in hexographer. Snaiad an excellent fictional ecology on a very alien world. Bits has a selection of software available for traveller for both the windows and mac os platforms traveller universe. Freelance traveller will make an effort to keep all links up to date, but were only human, and may slip from time to time. Microscope is a game that takes many standard assumptions of a roleplaying game and stands them on their head. The world building rules dont really offer any information about the star type and whether the system is a binary, etc. It should be considered beta quality at this point. Anyone know of a good software for making a galaxy map. Sep, 2018 the world building rules dont really offer any information about the star type and whether the system is a binary, etc.
Jan 14, 2011 creating traveller style subsector maps in hexographer posted on 14 january 2011 by joe 2 comments v last months hexographer update and yesterdays included some features to make it easier to create traveller style subsector maps in hexographer. In the pirates of drinax, the travellers play a band of adventurers entrusted by the king of drinax with a letter of marque, permitting. This is a random world generator for the traveller rpg, based on the rules found in the mongoose traveller core rule book. A keyboard only or a game controller are recommended. Mongoose new traveller question about universe and world. Imperial high landed nobility edit efate, as a member world of the third imperium, holds the estate of three members of the imperial nobility, who are charged with overseeing the world. Mar 17, 2005 based on all the stuff you get in the t20 book ship and vehicle design rules, prior history, star system design rules, cargo buying and selling, creature design rules, space combat, etc. Find over 18 traveller rpg groups with 7233 members near you and meet people in your local community who share your interests. If we are advised that a program is absolutely unfit for use or distribution e. Software for describing and generating worlds accrete star system generator. Software for the use with the roleplaying game traveller or its background for unix. An immortal traveller meets the treemother of the saylean forest. The creation of new worlds and new universes has long been a key element of speculative fiction, from the fantasy works of tolkien and howard, to the sciencefiction universes of burroughs and asimov, to the tabletop realm of gygax and barker, and beyond. Im reading in the universe and world creation rules.
Apr 17, 2009 prepare it like however you do your fantasy rpg module. Traveller is the original science fiction role playing game. I really wish they would update it, but for right now the thing serves my purposes admirably. Posts about traveller written by peterssoftwareprojects. Some software originally submitted as being for msdos or windows, such as certain spreadsheetbased ship designers, can now be run on multiple platforms due to widespread support for the spreadsheet format. I spent several years sifting through world building resources before getting my bearings. A good rule of thumb is that series have a conventional name and are intentional creations, on. Traveller5 is also referred to as traveller 5, traveller 5th edition, and t5. Jul 21, 2015 traveller is a scifi rpg with a unique character creation system. Possibly the best campaign ever published a truly massive traveller sandbox, the pirates of drinax is packed with enough adventures and source material to keep even the most dedicated group going for years. Is joss whedons firefly based on the traveller rpg he played.
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