Rules Modifications & Hard Science Discussions

House Rules

• Thrusters in Traveller - discussions on Hard SciFi and how it might work...
• Fusion Reactors in Traveller - an article by J. Duncan Law-Green
• Snapshot for Traveller: The New Era
• Alternate Materials for Fire, Fusion, and Steel
• Alternate World Generation Rules
• Expanded Trade Rules (Alternately, Rob has his own Traveller page with the Expanded Trade Rules)
• Hit Location Rules - by Glenn Grant
• Realistic Income Model - by Mark Ayers
• Guidelines for building realistic aliens - by Earl Wajenberg
• Alien Building Charts - by Jeff Kazmierski
• World Building: Atmospheres & Chemistry - by Thad Coons
• Tim Peters T4 career: Military Intelligence
• Marathon Weapons for Traveller - by Roderick Darroch Elliott
• Extended System Generation, an extension on to the original extended system generation rules - by Leroy Guatney (Leroy maintains his own copy at http://ouray.cudenver.edu/~lwlguatn/SF/egs.html.

T4 - Marc Miller's Traveller

• Definitive Sensor Rules designed to be used with FFS2, by Bruce Alan Macintosh <bmac@astro.ucla.edu>
• Sensor Options and Exotic Sensors, an addenda for T4 FF&S, by Bruce Alan Macintosh <bmac@astro.ucla.edu>
• Using Sensors for Survey or Science by Bruce Alan Macintosh <bmac@astro.ucla.edu>
• bmac@astro.ucla.edu>

• Quick Ship Design System to be used in T4 for basic ship design. A PDF copy of version 1.5 is available in the archive. QSDS is being maintained by Guy "wildstar" Garnett.

• David Golden (goldendj@pcisys.net) corraled the work with Imperium Games to develop a more detailed system for starship design - published in Starships. The Simple Ship Design System here is the original development work made available in PDF format.

  NOTE: Both SSDS & QSDS are based upon Fire, Fusion, and Steel with minor changes. They are not perfect (some errata is available, but not yet collated) and not 100% compatible.

Traveller Beta

• Small Craft Design, by Greg Porter. This is the "beta" release of the design sequence. Please send any comments to Greg at BTRC@AOL.com.
• Finished with SSDS, David Golden (goldendj@pcisys.net) is now editing a online project to create the Naval Architect's Handbook, a complete listing of formula's and tables where formulas are not possible that is whole based off Fire, Fusion, and Steel - developed by GDW.
• Basic Ship Combat System version 0.5 by Merrick! Send comments to Merrick at merrick@Rt66.com.
• Role Playing Space Combat System being maintained by Guy "wildstar" Garnett
• Vehicle Design System (Look, no crazy acronyms!) that's going to be published in the Central Supply Catalog. Created by Greg Porter (BTRC@aol.com) with nits and picks from the GDW-beta crew.

Related or interesting Science Fictions pages

• Alien Planet Generator maintained by John Bray
• Fractal Worldmap Generator created and maintained by John Olsson
• 3D starmaps being maintained by Winchell Chung
• Dani Eder's Canonical List of Space Transport and Engineering Methods, version 0.75 dated 28jun1994

Pieces from the sci.space/sci.astro Frequently Asked Questions

• Astro/Space Frequently Seen Acronyms
• Space FAQ 01/15 - Introduction
• Space FAQ 03/15 - Data Sources
• Space FAQ 04/15 - Calculations
• Space FAQ 06/15 - Constants and Equations
• How long can a human live unprotected in space?