Agreed 100% on the Traveller map! You should also give the game a whirl it is a deep, expressive and enthralling as its universe - and very fun!

Thanks for the great overview of my little site. You did a great job of giving a run-through of the features for players and referees. Hit me up (via contact links on the site) if you've got any questions.

I've known about travelermap for a while, but had no idea the functionality. Thanks for the video.

I'm so glad you took the time to do this video - I hadn't known about some of the functionality such as planetary maps and full star system info. Even better, thanks!

As a Traveler, I love this map.

Traveller Map is _super_ useful. And I _love_ the functionality to download PDF sector booklets like the old style supplements. The links to the Wiki are helpful as well. It may be the best and most useful web resource for any game I've ever played.

You had me convinced 10 seconds in! 😂 I love rolling up my own stuff as much as the next guy but why reinvent the wheel?! 🤷‍♂ Great vid thanks! New sub! 🙌‍

Can't thumbs-up hard enought. It's an immense and unique resource.

It's also possible to put together custom sector data for use with the site and so use all of the same tools with a homebrew setting.

Thanks for this demo and tour!

While lots of RPG´s talking about their specific "Universe" - the Traveller-one really deserves that label by its scope and diversity of information and mechanics

Thank you for finding this!! I haven't played Traveller since the ancient times and the small black books, but I reckon I will be using this as a basis for my next "5 Parsecs From Home" campaign and any/all SciFi games I play and record later on!!

This is what I needed!

I had no idea this existed. What an amazing resource!

This is fantastic! Glad to find your video on today's deep dive: it started with Hostile Solo, the Hostile system/setting, and then led to Traveller.

Awesome!

Although I understand why Marc Miller designed the original mapping systems, there is a flaw that subsequent revisions have not corrected. The original format was used at a time when PC's were not readily available, so the amount of information had to be kept at a manageable level when players were using only paper and pencils. However, rather than representing a single main world/planet, the hex should represent a star system with information on star class, number of planetary objects, and whether there are anything in the interstellar medium such as nebula or uncommon stellar objects. One of the reasons why I think this is a better format is because given the level of technology in Traveller, it is more than likely there would be systems with more than one developed/settled world, not to mention permanent space stations or cities. And this would also be useable for systems without any planets which cannot be represented using the UPP/UWP format.

Been using for couple on months - world map generator and system plan or new to me. Brilliant thanks.

This is great. I forgotten about the world maps from t5 - I want to chk that out more

After many months, I finally finished a novel that I set in the Traveller universe. The Traveller map proved invaluable to me to envision places for my characters to travel to, settings for events and so on. The one thing conspicuously absent from the Traveller map is there's no system that's a religious dictatorship. Something the rules allow for. I needed one for my story. Fortunately, there tons of balkanized systems. It was easy enough to put in a small religious dictatorship in one of those systems. It was also a great frustration to my protagonists dealing with a systems with 200+ legal systems rather than one.

Great video. Can you show how to customize the map next?

My Holowan Sector is there!

Once you generate the planet maps, you can click in the hexes and drill in to 100km 10km and then 1km ranges.

What always bothered me about Traveller's star maps, is the fact that they don't factor in the Z axis of the systems, which make a huge difference in distance. One hex equals about 1 parsec, means about 3.26 light years. Tau Ceti for example is about 12ly away from Earth. It is about 11ly _below_ Sol though on the galactic plane. Only looking at x and y coordinates Tau Ceti would seem about 3.5ly away. On a hex map that's about 1 hex (parsec), while the real distance would be roughly 4 hexes (parsecs) though. I mean, sure, it's simplified for ease of play, but one of the main things in space when it comes to positioning, is the fact that objects are not positioned on a flat plane, but the Z axis is a very important factor for space mapping. Milkyway's galactic plane is quite bumpy and some systems that appear sitting on each other looking on a flat map, are actually 20+ly apart, one being very high on the z axis, the other very low. There. Nerdy rant end. The effort, details and features put into the TravellerMap are actually very impressive though. I love a good map and I am actually a little sad that Traveller as a system comes with flat space maps, so I personally won't use it. :(

The only problem with Traveller map is that you can't plumb a strait line. For example, if your adventure involves an object similar to Muamua. It's going the travel interstellarly, but it is not going to use jump drives. Unless the object travels along the hexes, you are going to need to use a printed map and some string the get its flight path.

I am doing a "Long Night" in the Solomani Rim. The only thing I did was create more multi-world confederations.

But can you customize it? Not much practical use to most GMs if we can't get their Home-brew stuff in it. Neat though.

I am on a traveller youtube binge. I found this video by searching (traveller rpg astronomy). I was curious how much of our understanding of modern astronomy applies. I was planning a game centered around a very radioactive unstable red dwarf that is a ticking time bomb to explode and the team is racing against time to get the engines back online. anyway...thanks for the video