RE: Full Thrust Celestial Generator

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My default is to fall back on Traveller based Planets and "ground
scale".  But then just about every Space game goes through the Traveller
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Michael Brown

mwsaber6@msn.com



 
> From: devans@nebraska.edu
> To: gzg@firedrake.org
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:04:46 +0000
> Subject: RE: Full Thrust Celestial Generator
> 
> Apologies for not seeing this earlier.
> 
> I think I've seen some schemes for 'terrain generation', but the Full
Thrust books themselves leave size-of-planets so open it's hard to
imagine one size fitting all. In one place, you use half balls on the
table, in another, the table edge is a planet.
> 
> I've always envisioned the battle, even with the ships as pin-points, 
on such a small space as to make terrain, aside from a few rocks to
dodge, as impossibly large, for planets, major and minor.
> 
> I suppose one could assume a battle area moving sufficiently fast
relative to planets, as to have them 'zip' by in one turn.  I just get
this feeling that meaningful game terrain requires a sort of Goldilocks
battle frame of reference.
> 
> Doug
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephan Becker [mailto:stephan.becker@me.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 1:37 PM
> To: gzg@firedrake.org
> Subject: Full Thrust Celestial Generator
> 
> Hi all,
> Is there a generator to set up the play field like there is one for
BFG?
> The BFG generator covers planets with ring systems, moons, asteroid
fields including their movement and sun effects.
> Anything like that available for FT?
> 
> Best
> Stephan
> 
> 
> > Am 26.10.2014 um 16:38 schrieb Roger Bell_West
<roger@firedrake.org>:
> > 
> >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 08:33:06PM +0100, Roger Bell_West wrote:
> >> It does. If Michael's looking for hosting I'd be happy to stick it
on 
> >> a server I run.
> > 
> > And he sent it to me, but it got caught in my spam-trap. So there's
a 
> > copy now at
> > 
> > http://tekeli.li/gzg/Full_Thrust_Scenario_Generator.pdf
> > 
> > Roger
> > 
> > 
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