Re: Star Cruiser 2300?

Hi all,

On Sunday, Jun 29, 2003, at 03:09 Europe/London, Karl A. Bergman wrote:

>	I have not seen any yet, and am not very surprised.  I was a
very 
> avid 2300
> AD/Star Cruiser player, and the differences between the two systems
are
> vast. Two that spring immediately to mind being that the maneuver 
> drive used
> in 2300 is the FTL drive, who's speed and performance is affected (in 
> a STL
> vs. FTL manner) by it's proximity to a gravity field.  Second would be

> that
> the primary weapon systems for 2300 were long range detonation 
> missiles,
> with beam weapons assigned a short-ranged secondary mission, which 
> seems
> about the exact opposite of FT.
>
>	I do enjoy the 2300 game system, and do hope that the D20
conversion 
> will
> keep a lot of the flavor of the original.  I also would be interested 
> in
> seeing any FT conversions that might exist, to see how these 
> differences,
> which gives 2300 it's unique flavor, would be handled.

Power Projection has bomb pumped detonation laser missiles in, albeit 
in a Traveller sense. You could use the system as is and just rake back 
the ranges in line with SC. ISTR that the max range was 1 hex for 
lasers.

As to movement, it'd need a good look at.

There again, the existing SC rule could probably be ported wholesale to 
FT. Hmm. Where did I put my copy?

Cheers,

Dom

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