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Re: Are starship deckplans with a 1 inch grid usable? Gryphon is very likely going to be the next poster. If it isn't, then it will will on the one after. Eventually, I hope to have every ship that will fit on a poster, be on a poster - and that easily includes Exeter and Venture/Volatus. Of course the posters are the easy part. Turning them all into miniatures is a bit more involved...

Re: Are starship deckplans with a 1 inch grid usable? I'm still a HERO newbie but I think the write ups look great! Thank you for sharing. I asked the original question about gridded maps when I was considering the feasibility of making real posters out of some of the ships. I did a Kickstarter campaign for a poster of the Clydesdale class gunboat (from the Jo Lynn issue of Future Armada) and it went really well. I'm currently running my second campaign (a poster of the Grendel-class free trader from the Midnight Rose issue) and am looking forward to doing more. Knowing that the ships are getting used out there in real campaigns really inspires me to keep at it. Ryan Wolfe 0-hr.com

Re: Are starship deckplans with a 1 inch grid usable? I'm looking forward to getting them done Two of the three initial ships of the new line are small enough to end up as 24x36 inch posters (like my current Kickstarter). Below is a sneak peek of the third (larger) ship - I don't have beauty shots of the other two ready yet. I'm inthe process of making up my own "generic" descriptions for ship components - I'll check out the StarHERO system and see if I there is anything I can do to make translation easier without making more difficult for other systems. [ATTACH=CONFIG]45135[/ATTACH]

Re: Are starship deckplans with a 1 inch grid usable? Yea, I used "d20 Future" stats because they were freely available under the Open Game License(OGL). I can't say I was ever a fan of the system, but it was what was available at the time. On the bright side, I am launching a new product line that will be game system independent. No game stats, but plain English descriptions of ship components (still in a single page table layout). For what it's worth, I'm glad to put game-specific, fan-created, ship stats on my website if anyone cares to write them up - I just don't have the time or expertise to do it correctly for every system.

I'm too ignorant to even be called a newbie, but I have a question. Does the latest version of HERO still use hex maps? I had heard that it was moving to a more free form movement system, and that would be great news for me. I create starship maps as a hobby/business and for years haven't been able to meet the needs of HERO players because I build the grids into the floors and doing a separate hex floor just isn't feasible (it's built in early in the process and so would mean most of the production pipeline being repeated). If the hexes are gone, then my armada might now be usable for the game! It depends on whether the 1 inch squares in the art make them unsuitable or not. The grid is pretty subtle in most of the deck plans. See the example below - the actual map is at 1 inch = 5ft (there are other examples on my site). My guess is that the grid is superfluous for Star HERO now. My hope is that it is not actually a detriment? Is something like this (and larger ships consisting of several pages and decks) suitable for the newest incarnation of Star HERO? ~Ryan Wolfe http://0-hr.com [ATTACH=CONFIG]45090[/ATTACH]