Perhaps you might want to give that a once over and decide if it is worth doing a conversion of a small part of your project to see what sort of quality output you get.ĭo you have anyone in the Subsector-Creation Group Project team who knows how to make websites? Anyone who can code HTML should be able to help make XML files.once they know what tags this Second Survey Data format uses. I'm not totally sure yet, but it looks like if you can transfer your Subsector-Creation Group Project information to SSD format, the automated tools there could create your maps for you. It looks like the standard format for Traveller is called "Second Survey Data" format and that you can add Metadata to some sort of XML file to include the various information about what is going on on the various planets on the map. The first website that Ashtagon linked to has a Using Custom Data page that looks pretty useful. That's where the Piazza comes in - anyone here have any experience with these sorts of maps? It would be nice if we could do colour versions of both. For example, while the Traveller star-map was hex-based and the game used jump.
TRAVELLER RPG MAPS PDF
Vile wrote:Now, I'm putting the whole thing together as a free PDF in LBB-style format, which of course means we should have LBB-style subsector and planetary maps. The Dragons Trove will be happy to sell high end RPG products for you. How do people decide what details (like alien races) to add? Is that done centrally, or are people going there own way and then submitting to peer review?Īre races and adventures eventually going to be evenly distributed, or is it more a matter of getting all the subsectors completed and then people writing additional material if they like an area? This map is designed to be easier on the eye, naturally drawing the eye to systems rather than the grid or other peripheral information. Is it one person randomly rolling subsectors and then handing them out? Or is someone handing out subsectors for other people to randomly roll? A map of the Spinwards Marches Sector for Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition (compatibility with other versions of Traveller may be possible, but I make no promises). That sounds like it could appeal to a lot of Traveller fans, but I looked over there and it was an entire subforum of topics.Ĭould you give a brief summary of how the Subsector-Creation Group Project works? It's ticking along nicely, most of the worlds have been claimed and we even have a few alien races and adventures. As an old Traveller RPG fan this map was a real pleasure to make. This is randomly rolled according to the first, 1977, edition of the Traveller Worlds and Adventures LBB, so pre-OTU. traveller rpg blog The guys at GDW sat around playing D&D at lunch, and then Miller. You may or may not know that we have a little " Traveller 1977" subsector-creation group project happening over at the Ruins of Murkhill blog. Vile wrote:This being the Piazza, home of RPG Cartography Extraordinaire, I though I should come here and ask.