As I've been delving into Traveller, I've also been working on a little bit of whimsy: a Riphaeus sector booklet on the model of GDW's The Spinward Marches and The Solomani Rim supplements. I say whimsy both because I'm not sure how useful this project will be and because I'm making an effort to reproduce, to the best of my limited abilities, the formatting and layout of the originals. For example, here's the draft page accompanying the map to the Wiseman's Gap subsector.
I'm not very skilled at most technical skills, so it's not been easy to copy the GDW house style as I had hoped. I'm still plugging away at it, in between other projects. My hope is get the thing done sometime this month and release it through Mongoose's Classic Travellers' Aid Society third party license. As I said, this is mostly for my own enjoyment (and perhaps the enjoyment of the players in my old Riphaeus sector campaign), but I also find it helpful to complete a simple, straightforward project as a way to jumpstart other, bigger projects (of which I have many).
Send me an email and I may be able to help.
ReplyDeleteI done some work with the old GDW layout style.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PI6Azkak84UrY0OIelhzq56FA2sX2FgB/view?usp=sharing
As I don't know how to make sectors and sub sectors as of yet, I'll spend some time with your offerings, extra links, and my newly acquired rules to see what I can piece together. Much obliged.
ReplyDeleteLooks like "Aurokrator" is a typo for "Autokrator"?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'm confused by the population figures at the bottom of the page: total 20.9 billion with highest of 20 billion? So only 0.9 billion on the other 17 worlds?
Thanks for correction about the typo. I'll fix that in the original.
DeleteAs for the population figures, they're correct. Only Néa Athína has a population in the billions. All the rest of the worlds have populations of, at most, low hundreds of millions and most have significantly fewer.