Part of the fun of the game is you get to design your own spaceship. The layout of the game is very simple with a single column with art. Although this checklist provides a sequence, steps may be completed in any order. Later, they will become involved in ship design and construction one can find more information here. What follows is my attempt to allow creating new designs to match ships seen in the show.
Captains edition federation master starship book sample file. Their goofy, halfbaked rules and disorganized source books make for an interesting experience wholly unlike the polished rpgs of the 21st. Some of them are ordinary, some are buttugly, and others are quite innovative and sleek. Starship construction 01 the ship fillform charts 22 23 create a blank fillform and use it to record design decisions. Starships is a very worthwhile purchase for narrators that plan on duing heavyduty starship combat in their campaigns. Civilian starships stellagama publishing stars without. When a new starship design is created, a name is assigned to that vessel. A novel idea was floated during the final days of shakedown cruise of the uss galaxy. Starships was a simple buildingblock system for ships of 1005000 tons, with the standard designs provided for playercharacters ranging from 200800 tons. Cthulhu rising starts to get to grips with the problem, but fails to give us a set of starship design. There were thirteen issues in the original fanzine published between 1974 and 1978. This book is complete and ready to play, but the starmada admiralty core. Starships of the galaxy is a sourcebook for the star wars roleplaying game published by wizards of the coast and lucasbooks in december 2001.
Sep 20, 2012 a starship designed to keep its occupants alive for years, decades, or even centuries, would require systems unheard of in current spacecraft. Hey guys, today we speak with andrew probert about gene roddenberrys very own starship design rules and how they are used. You picked up the freaking classic traveller game, do the math. A starship must have a jump drive and a power plant. It was loosely based on the starship design book published by. Are there any ship design rules for star wars ships. It tends to be slightly more mathintensive, but with an appropriate spreadsheet, a ship can be designed, tweaked, and finalized within only a few minutes. Reception edit in the september 1978 edition of dragon issue 18, tony watson complimented the game on the high production value of its components, saying, physically, traveller is first class, a tradition with game designer. Mutiny is the first book in mike resnicks starship series, a military sf series with larger than life characters and a plot that begs you to keep on reading.
Avalon hill redesigned and rereleased a movie version entitled starship troopers. This book has errata for the 1977 and 1981 editions. Gamers being who they are cant resist playing with the rules. All in all, a smallship universe, probably in a cozy campaign setting of a subsector or two.
Above tons, the design rules produce a more complex. Outfit your beloved starship with more than 100 new starship weapons, expansion bays, alternate armors, and systems like drop pods, ramming prows, mines, ablative armor, virtual intelligences, and more. Create ships from scratch or customise sample ships from the core rulebook. A project by fans to develop designs for starships which were mentioned but not seen in the series. Written like a technical documentation of galaxyclass vessels for starfleet personnel of the 24th century, the star trek. In the novel, heinlein describes a futuristic war involving homo sapiens from our earth terrans against a humanoid race nicknamed the skinnies for obvious physical attributes and their cobelligerents, the totally alien arachnids.
The class, however, is named after a legendary earth figure, again showing the powerful influence of the ufp naming committee. It was published by geoffrey mandel, who was later hired to work as graphic artist for several of the movies and later series, including the 2009 reboot. Franz josephs starship designs would seem to be no more in violation of roddenberrys rules of starship design than any canon ship, and any violations can be rationalized with a bit of imagination the same type of imagination that makes fasterthanlight space travel possible in any sciencefiction setting. Players can travel on them using the basic transportation rules, and may find it interesting to engage in trade and commerce in order to make some money. It also provide a points schedule to allow the creation of balanced game. From the minbari sharlin to the empires star destroyers to the borg cube to the heart of gold, aesthetics rule. Since the phoenix, every earth starship and subsequently every starfleet starship has. Here is a list of scifi showsmovies that contains starship designs.
Star trek technical manuals are a number of both official and fanproduced works detailing the technology of the fictional star trek universe. To make practical spacecraft, lessons from current designs failures need to be studied. So with the wealth of data and images collected and compiled by fans on the web, i decided to try put something together myself. It was originally released in 1976 and designed by randall c. Theyre made to elicit that feeling of awe, but a ship designed from the viewpoint of economics 1 and efficiency would be rather boring. Fasa starship recognition manual advanced starship design. It contains new rules for starships and starshipusing characters. Expanding the basic classic traveller starship design system.
This is a significant chunk of the book pages 4870. Automation, life support, stowage, consumables, hyperdrive, ion engines, shields, superstructure, and weapon suite. Star wars starship pricing and alterations created by krapou 2006, based on original starship generation created by grimace 2002, both systems based loosely on the format originally listed in wotcs starships of the galaxy so it seems to be a d6 conversion of the d20 saga reference cited by ahriman. The major number divisions in this checklist correspond to the governing ship design charts. Follow the link above or the banners to find out more about this years events and guests. If i have the time, i will try to translate them into english and post them here. One of them was an star wars adaptation with some nice and simple i. Apollo 2 design by ralph mcquarrie, to be refined by jonah. The alternative drives below use all the same rules as the jump drive mass. See more ideas about star trek, trek and star trek ships. This has been a major failing of brp sf games such as ringworld or future world. Above tons, the design rules produce a more complex and expensive ship.
Speaking of orbital insertion, there are also complete starship design rules that were sorely missing from d20 modern. This document, authored by rob prior, contains descriptions and design worksheets for a wide range of spaceships and starships suitable for use with gurps traveller. In this 245 page of core rules book, you will discover the major threats to pandominion the future utopia both internal and alien. Gamemasters will find this book exceptionally useful for designing starship. Starship weapons and regular pclevel weapons work on different scales and arent meant to interact with each other. This ship is based on one of the phase ii concept models by ralph mcquarrie.
As listed here at bernd schneiders ex astris scientia web site, the rules are as follows. As in the normal design rules, the starship hull can be reinforced to add additional hull points at the cost of maneuverability or engine speed. This 80page rulebook includes the essential starmada rules, 40 starships klingon, federation, tholian, orion, kzinti, and complete rules to bring the star fleet universe alive in the starmada game system. The expanded construction rules really allow your imagination to take full control and create whatever you so desire, and the book provides a plethora of different starships from major galactic powers e. Ive been waiting for years for someone to produce the definitive book on the starships of star trek. Looking for starship design and combat rules you can adapt. The next generation technical manual by rick sternbach and michael okuda gives some insight into starship construction principles and elucidates roddenberrys design rules, although many design issues discussed in the book do.
Maybe there is a canon design for the apollo class, but we may still hope there is none, so we can design one ship of our own instead of accepting an ugly kitbash. Shape, windows, and manned fighters are the easiest and most pertinent changes to make. In order to support life within a starship, it must contain atmosphere for the passengers. Classic traveller starship design rpg indesign hobbyist.
Use this checklist to guide the design of starships. It was designed to be a dreadnought and an explorer. Starship design rules with andrew probert part 1 youtube. Come back and work on your starship at a later date. Nov 09, 2007 it is about time that we had a brp game with starship design and combat rules in it. The game is a hexagonbased wargame for two players. The starship construction manual enables you to design, build. It is a primary rules source book, a core book, designed for classic traveller. Thread of the same name is where you can provide feedbackinput. It contains new rules for starships and starshipusing characters, adventures, and stats and information on a number of starfighters, space. It is fully compatible with the starship combat rules found in other woin products. As most of the starship articles were enhanced when ships of the star fleet came out, i have decided to combine the remaining articles into two volumes. It was loosely based on the starship design book published by star station aurora.
Each ship is defined by a number of factors, including its size, it class, and its nine traits. When youre ready to resume, copy and paste it back in to the json box in the input section at the top of the page. Computer programs have been created to model and predict starship combat using traveller rules. Book 2 starships is a game designers workshop product. Later, they will become involved in ship design and construction. Nov 09, 2007 one of them was an star wars adaptation with some nice and simple i. Oct 19, 2006 in scifi tv, there are numerous types of starship designs. In addition we have guidelines in the form of the design history and the aesthetics and lineage of starships, of gene roddenberrys design rules and of secondary literature such as the star trek. Expanding on the basic starship design rules from the cepheus engine system reference document, the spacecraft design guide provides the tools for a naval architect to design small craft, traders, light naval vessels or massive capital ships. As you can see there are problems with the official starship crafting rules, the nubian design collectives whole vehicle crafting handbook is intended to address that with the minimum necessary departure from raw.
Starship hulls can be modified in several ways to both increase speed, hull points, or add extra space. The odysseyclass was a type of federation starship that was the pinnacle of federation starship design and would carry the federation into a new generation of exploration in the 25th century. If folks are interested in discussing what theyd want to see in a hypothetical mechfacing book andor system, thatd be a great topic for a dedicated thread in starfinder general. Include a stamped selfaddressed envelope with all rules questions, submissions, or other inquiries. The rules for the ships computer date the game, unfortunately.
Starship troopers is based upon the popular novel of the same name written by the dean of science fiction writers, robert a. Babylon 5 the starship designs of earth alliance comprise of mostly windowless boxes, but at least they had character. While the starship rules and some of the new options in this book are conducive to flightbased mech combat, specialized mech rules do not appear in this book. It is about time that we had a brp game with starship design and combat rules in it.
Star trek broke new ground by having a spaceship without fins and rockets, and by consulting with the rand corp. Freelance traveller is also proud to be able to offer, free for you to download, the bits publication 101 starships, seventh edition. Starship troopers board wargame starship troopers wiki. Travellers travel, thats what the book traveller book 2. If characters choose to shoot at a starships with their laser rifles or cast a spell on it while it is on the ground, the gm should treat the starships as an object a particularly massive one, at. From a practical standpoint, most starships in sf are poorly designed. Outfit your beloved starship with more than 100 new starship weapons, expansion bays, alternate armors, and systems like drop pods, ramming prows, mines, ablative armor, virtual intelligences, and. Up to 45 civilians the bader class scout was designed and constructed by aalakor landiss inc, an andorian shipyard.
Specific components in a starships design affect performance. Designing a new starship for the star wars roleplaying game is fairly simple process. The next generation, star trek fans became aware of what are known as roddenberrys rules of starship design. Then there are rules for crews and starship combat. It contains new rules for starships and starship using characters, adventures, and stats and information on a number of starfighters, space. The series was discontinued because in the wake of star trek. Many have noted that there is a significant difference between the design of starships of large mass, and small mass.
It is complex enough to be able to generically represent most starships used in roleplaying games, and flexible enough to support. The stars without number tm science fiction roleplaying game has a wonderfully simple starship design process based on installing fittings into a few standard hull types, but the books lack a comprehensive list of basic ship designs for quick use by a gm or players. High guard is a 1980 roleplaying game supplement for. This book became the first incentive for fans to create new starships by rearranging familiar starship components, long before the official star trek.
Franz josephs starship designs would seem to be no more in violation of roddenberrys rules of starship design than any canon ship, and any violations can be rationalized with a bit of imagination the same type of imagination that makes fasterthanlight. Given the assumed setting of most swn games, it isnt surprising that standard ship designs would not be common. The most famous case involved douglas lenat applying his eurisko heuristic learning program to the scenario in the traveller adventure trillion credit squadron, which contained rules for resolving very large space battles statistically. Sure, there are standard models, in fact, there is a book of them supplement 7 traders and gunboats, but cmon.
Looking for starship design and combat rules you can adapt to brp. Practical spaceship design for writers dan koboldt. This document outlines rules for designing starships for a science fiction roleplaying game. At the time of publication, the gurps system included over 150 books, including gurps vehicles the most complex and complete rpg vehicle design system and the basis of the starship design system in the gurps traveller core book, and gurps space which contains an updated, and more generic, version of the traveller world creation system. You pick the hull, engine, defensiveoffensive systems and youre good to go. Starship is a game of miniature battles fought between giant capital ships. Covering the genesis of more than 30 ships including all seven enterprises, this book is packed with original concept art, showing fascinating. Sections for growing crops or livestock, for example. May 01, 2003 starships is a very worthwhile purchase for narrators that plan on duing heavyduty starship combat in their campaigns. It is heavily influenced by the traveller high guard ship design system, and features a roughly similar level of detail. Blast off into space with the starship operations manual, starfinders latest rules expansion hardcover.
Cthulhu rising starts to get to grips with the problem, but fails to give us a set of starship design rules. A starship designed to keep its occupants alive for years, decades, or even centuries, would require systems unheard of in current spacecraft. Looking for starship design and combat rules you can adapt to. In scifi tv, there are numerous types of starship designs. Sometime just prior to or during the production of star trek. Star trek starship designs the star trek rpg core rules.
Nov 12, 2019 build and level up starships for your starfinder rpg game by paizo inc. Rules for starship design and combat are like games unto themselves with a complex balance of ship components fitting within certain hull volumes, technology levels, and modifiers based upon characters skills. The book covers information on starship design, space station design, and shipyards. Additional supplements flesh out rules further, including a revision to high guard to handle all starship design. Starship troopers is a board wargame by avalon hill based on the novel of the same name by robert a.