Traveller RPG Worldbuilding Part1

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Traveller RPG Worldbuilding Part1

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RottenMech

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@bluewho4071 2 жыл бұрын

Really nice video! I live in the third world, is hard for me to get the books, but a friend lend me this same version, and this tipe of videos makes it easier. Your voice is definitely an asset.

@robinfitton8078 2 жыл бұрын

Really appreciate you viewing the content. What country are you from, I am intrigued as to where my audience are.

@bluewho4071 2 жыл бұрын

@@robinfitton8078 Greetings from Argentina then! Is really hard to get and be able to afford things from outside, the Dollar-Peso exchange is awful, and for RPG books and such we don't have local publishers (for most of mainstream literature we do have), so once again, thanks for sharing your process. Yesterday i made the rolls for the initial subsector.

@peterfiser 3 жыл бұрын

This video was great fun listening to while painting up some low-stress miniatures. I'll continue on!

@RottenMechGaming 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. I always like it if someone is doing a bit of hobby work while listening in.

@JustinAkkerman 3 жыл бұрын

Love the video. You are spot on that it is vanishingly unlikely that dice were used in the subsector system placement in the Traveller Universe as published.

@rainking4242 3 жыл бұрын

At the beginning of the chapter, it says you can add a -2 or -1 modifier to your roll if you want a less densely populated subsector or +1 if you want a more populated one. It's possible they used one of those methods for that example.

@samuelbastable2028 3 жыл бұрын

OOOH new series with a new TTRPG, this is going to be good especially when it comes to sci fi! Looking forward for future uploads, stay safe for current lockdown (I know its gunna be annoying) but i do hope you can pump out some uploads as you are my fav TTRPG youtuber as your creativity is awesome!

@RottenMechGaming 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for popping in. I have been a bit quiet with work and various other activities. Expecting to be more creative now things are settling down.

@adamfox1669 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Ive never had a chance to explore any of the traveller games/resource books. Im also beginning to 'build' some existing systems in greater depth (for my gaming friends) - this is really helpful. Thanks!

@de_polignac1108 3 жыл бұрын

Love the world building stuff! Ive never played traveller but I have the vast majority of the books mainly because the world is so rich with Scifi detail. Thanks for this

@RottenMechGaming 2 жыл бұрын

Yes great inspiring range of books. I have the various old lbb's and they are fun to read. A great setting.

@beladan 2 жыл бұрын

Trainspottery detail of my own - your header in your system presence chart has 2D6 not D6 :) Thank you so much for the video - getting into Traveller and really appreciate seeing some vets use the systems to help me grok them myself.

@RottenMechGaming 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the and for spotting my chart issue :)

@CommissarMoody1 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting, I want to roll up a subsector as well now. Shame about only haveing one group of pirate's. Maybe that's like a free port of Tortuga, where all the pirates hangout. But they useally spread more far a field... Maybe there is a reason other then the navy that human piracy is not that prevalent?

@RottenMechGaming 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I will factor that into the next phase of detail. There could be other reasons like piracy is supported by the Navy out here and perhaps legitimised so much that they don’t register on the map.

@wacoglee 2 жыл бұрын

This was great fun and very informative.

@RottenMechGaming 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Hope to do more soon.

@wacoglee 2 жыл бұрын

@@RottenMechGaming Excellent. I have a lot of the series to watch yet but I am looking forward to more

@RicksPoker 2 жыл бұрын

If you had a red die and two white dice, you could roll if the system has a planet (red die), AND the star base level (2 white dice) at the same time. I think that 50% chance of a planet is too high. Maybe roll 2d6 and on a 6 or less there is a planet? (41.7% chance of a planet.) Or say that there is a 40% chance of a planet being in the hex, and roll 1d10 and 2d6 at the same time. I would also say that I am allowed to lower 3 star base levels (in out of the corner areas with little trade), and could increase the star base level of one world (in a thick section where there should be a lot of trade). That would in one go, make the map more logical. Don't try to make it TOO logical. Little weird areas are great for getting creative juices flowing. ("Why doesn't this planet have a better space port? Maybe it is on a moon with 20 km thick ice over the ocean and the base is underwater. No one likes the 3 hour trip thru the ice and mining is a pain so they have grown slower.") Pirates could also be a planet with no central government. Two countries fighting, and if you are trading with country 'A', then country 'B' feels that you are fair game, and vice versa. Or perhaps, the pirates have become the government, and there are super high transit fees enforced by war ships. Warm regards, Rick.

@rogue109 2 жыл бұрын

I love your circa 1976 keyboard!😄

@RottenMechGaming 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Zinmar 3 жыл бұрын

Really interesting and thanks for posting this. Do you have this available for someone not to savvy with the computer to download?

@RottenMechGaming 3 жыл бұрын

I am planning on cleaning it up and trying to make something that people can edit on any computer. My Mac software OMniGraffle is not compatible with PC’s, so I am working on something which people can download and edit. Look out for an episode on it in the future.

@michaelc8246 3 жыл бұрын

@@RottenMechGaming Are the icons/graphics somewhere to download? I was thinking of creating a template in OneNote.

@Typhonis007 3 жыл бұрын

An alternate way to do a sector is in Star Without Number. You just need 2d6, a d8, and a d10. Roll 2d6 add 20 to the number and roll the dice to see what goes where.

@RottenMechGaming 3 жыл бұрын

I was going to give that a try soon. I have a copy and wanted to give it a try.

@Typhonis007 3 жыл бұрын

@@RottenMechGaming If you want an even simpler version of Traveller. Look up Cepheus Engine on Drive-through rpg. There is a free version that is only 2 pages long.

@Typhonis007 3 жыл бұрын

@@RottenMechGaming Another thing to get your mitts on is a copy of the 1977 Traveller Rules. They lay out a dice chart on how to do Trade or Express boat routes.

@RottenMechGaming 3 жыл бұрын

@@Typhonis007 Thanks I think I have the 77 World building book because it has a method to dice for jump routes. What book would have the Trade and Express Boat routes? That would be a really nice extra layer for the map.

@Typhonis007 3 жыл бұрын

@@RottenMechGaming The world-building book is the one with making trade routes but I think common sense is also needed. Depending on tech level you want the Class A starports to connect by the shortest route. With the number of connections being the highest jump, a ship can attain. Remember A and B starports are the big ones. The rest isn't as important unless they are along a jump line.

@bad-people6510 2 жыл бұрын

I rolled a barbaric bureaucracy... :(

@Number01 3 жыл бұрын

I looked up omnigraffle and I didn't see a PC version. What would you recommend for creating a sector on a pc?

@RottenMechGaming 3 жыл бұрын

Affinity Designer. Its both Mac and PC. They have started to capture the old Adobe crowd with their products and Affinity has shapes, so you can built hex's. I am looking at shifting my content into it rather than Omnigraffle. Just need to find the time. Also there is one very good deck-builder Traveller fan on the facebook group and he uses it AD for deck designs, so it has some support in the community.

@Number01 3 жыл бұрын

@@RottenMechGaming Thank you! I'll check it out. Hopefully, you'll do a video about AD when you have time. Deck Design would be interesting. I'd love to hand out cards (digitally) for items, weapons etc. Or print them out for adventure planning.