Alathan

Re: Traveller Hero... What's Next? It might be worth it to see if ComStar can hook up with a POD (print-on-demand) service like LuLu (like what RPGNow uses) for their PDF-only products. It doesn't cost a lot more to use a POD service from what I understand, and the quality is on par with other professionally printed products. You might want to pursue this as an option with ComStar as well. I'll also bring it up with them as a suggestion (since I'm working with them on some ship deckplans).

Re: Urban Fantasy Recommendations I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread yet, but I think it was in some other "urban fantasy" threads... The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump by Harry Turtledove And if you want to include movies, you could consider M. Night Shyamalan's movies like The Village and Lady in the Water. (My apologies if these were already mentioned, if so then I missed it.) Admittedly, The Village isn't "fantasy" in the "wizards and dragons" sense, but if that kind of scenario were played out in an urban fantasy world with magic, imagine how much more you could do with it...

Re: Star Hero/Traveller Hero star map request: The following pages show and list all stars within 20LY and 50LY of Sol: http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/20lys.html http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/nearstar.html http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/50lys.html Use these rather than the 2300AD Near Star List if you want accuracy, as the 2300AD list is pretty outdated. In fact, I recommend browsing the whole site (http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com) when you have time... the different views from solar system to galaxy to universe are truly awesome as well as very handy for interstellar sci-fi games.

Re: Interesting Tech Here's a chilling thought... Imagine an advanced alien species with a megascale RF transmitter aimed at the entire Earth... with all that seawater covering it... suddenly... POOF!!!

Re: Character: LV-426 Life Form A truly awesome job, Mike, I love it! Now I just gotta hope Steve doesn't find this thread and decide to give us a little "surprise" in our Traveller Hero game! Rep comin' as soon as I can spread some more rep around...

Re: Suleiman-class Type-S Scout/Courier Deckplans

Re: Suleiman-class Type-S Scout/Courier Deckplans

Re: Suleiman-class Type-S Scout/Courier Deckplans Well, with the CT 1.5-meter square grid maps, if you print them at 444% scale, you should get close to a 1" scale grid. With the TH 2-meter hex grid maps, you'll need to print them at 333% to get roughly 1" hexes. Of course, you'll need to either print them on multiple sheets, crop the edges and tape them all together, or if you have a few bucks to spare, you could take the PDFs down to your local FedEx/Kinko's or equivalent print shop and have them print them out on some large poster paper or something (at the above scales). If someone tries this, please let us know how it worked out.

Re: Suleiman-class Type-S Scout/Courier Deckplans

Re: Suleiman-class Type-S Scout/Courier Deckplans

Traveller Hero Book 2 Clarification This could be considered errata for the Traveller Hero Book 2, but it's really more of a clarification, and since it has to do with this ship, I'm posting it here... The deckplans for the Type R Subsidized Merchant are found next to the stats for the Stellar-class Subsidized Liner, but they should be used instead with the stats for the Type A3 Fat Trader, as the Subsidized Merchant is actually a variation of the Fat Trader. I think I did promise Shadowcat some Stellar-class deckplans, though... I'll have to add them to my list.

Re: Suleiman-class Type-S Scout/Courier Deckplans Thanks! I was suspecting the Far Trader might be in demand... that and the small ships are currently at the top of my list to do. BTW, I've added thumbnails to each of my deckplan posts so people can see what they look like before they decide to download. You can check them out in the threads linked below: Gyro Cadis-class Type-R Subsidized Merchant Deckplans Beowulf-class Type-A Free Trader Deckplans Ueknou-class Vargr Corsair Deckplans

Re: Suleiman-class Type-S Scout/Courier Deckplans For anyone who's been following my deckplans, I'm not sure which ones to work on next. I'm considering drawing up the classic "small ships" (ship's boat, launch, pinnace, modular cutter), or perhaps the Empress Marava class Far Trader, or the Gazelle class Close Escort. Would anyone like to see any of these next? Or does anyone have any special requests? Perhaps for your own TH game, or maybe just your favorite ship you'd like to see some hex-based deckplans for?

Re: Is "Hollywood-style" decompression accurate? Yes, 2001 was pretty accurate in that regard (as it was with pretty much everything else regarding space travel). Like Zeropoint said, unless it was sucking the atmosphere from the entire ship, or unless the Sulaco's life support systems were trying to pump air into the cargo bay as an emergency measure to give anyone in the cargo bay some extra breathing time (at the expense of rapidly depleting the ship's reserve air supply), yeah, the decompression in Aliens should not have taken so long. And then, of course, there's the exploding bodies in the movie Outland... awesome movie, but COMPLETELY UNREALISTIC when it comes to decompression, as is now pretty clear from the above posts.

Re: Gyro Cadis-class Type-R Subsidized Merchant Deckplans Thanks guys! I've made a few corrections since yesterday, as well as a few corrections to all of my other deckplans as well. All of the latest versions are available on my deckplans webpage for those who have downloaded any of them in the past.