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Thanks! BFRPG is a pretty great OSR game too, and like I said, everything is 100% free and even the printed books are at-cost, so it is, without a doubt, the cheapest way to play a table-top RPG.

(The core rulebook is $5, shipped from Amazon.)

You're definitely right, people fits a lot better. Here's an altered text version. https://www.postermywall.com/index.php/poster/view/0e9c0411c6ef0926dd1c4abbbc387d48 And nah, thanks I used the website in the watermark for a template and altered it!

There have been suggestions about using flying cities to colonise Venus, and that's with our tech level; pretech is far beyond us. So once a pretech balloon city was up, making them self-maintaining wouldn't have been too big an issue; Highshine nanites (From Other Dust) were designed to do something not entirely dissimilar, as a disaster response mechanism.

You could then easily have tribes living a T1 existence up there, with the habitat itself not requiring much manual upkeep.

You can self host on your PC, but all players connect via web browser. If it's up, so can you. I've only ever self hosted, but you can cloud host to.

They have an article on your hosting options. It's cheaper than paying Roll20 every month.

https://foundryvtt.com/article/hosting/

Yeah, this. If you want to get a feel for the sort of fictional universe that informs SWN (and also Traveller before it), you might want to read H Beam Piper’s <u>Space Viking</u>, written in the early ’60s.

(And in the public domain in the US, due to quirks of American copyright law. That link goes to a free, high-quality ebook site.)

> I use notes in the website as mission reports it would be really cool If I could link images of places, people and creatures they encounter as I mention them.

Notes within the website support full markdown. If you find an image on the internet, you can add it into the note using this syntax. Links work in a similar way except you remove the exclamation mark. Let me know if you have further questions!

If you're on Android I've used this app . It includes generator for cities NPCs aliens and all sorts. Also has generators for other systems.

This: Also, don't save using the browser's save page gesture. Use the save gesture in the page with Firefox with Tiddlyfox.

Not sure about TiddlyDesktop, never had to use it.

For what it's worth, there's also an android TiddlyWiki editor: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mgsimon.android.andtidwiki&amp;hl=en

I really love Riverdale. The funny thing is I can't put my finger on why I like the show so much. On a very basic level it's just a soap opera focused on teenage drama. Which sounds awful, and it would be, but that's not what you get when you actually watch the show. There's a whole lot more too it. The show has a very dark subtext which isn't surprising since Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa also did Afterlife with Archie. Sorry, I'm rambling a bit. Gotta get back to work.

https://www.shutterstock.com/editor/design/13015802?share_code=9a30cb054405ac7aba78547d088db873
Lopsided HUD display in screenshot fixed too, didn't see until after posted.

Since you asked about other systems on Foundry, Worlds Without Number is also well supported (https://foundryvtt.com/packages/wwn/). Running a campaign with it now and it’s excellent, far superior to any Roll20 implementation.

> I honestly made the sheet before I had any intention of posting it online.

That seems to be a case for a large amount of stuff. If I find more time in the coming months I'd love to go through all the character sheets and print each one so that I can more concretely see how they print. I was already perplexed finding one that was designed specifically for the 'normal' paper size in most non-US countries(didn't really realize how alone we were on US-Paper), which indicates potential other problems.

When the Revised edition releases I would love to somehow make a page that works like Ninite except instead of choosing which media app, you choose which style and content of character sheet and it just spits out the best match alongside other categories like, "added equipment" lists that can be chosen or not. Not at all necessary, but if I keep adding to this document I might end up needing to organize it in a way that people looking at it for the first time don't close it due to simply too much being available. You should have seen it before i separated character sheets from the community made stuff!

John Keay's "The Honourable Company":

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UN703Y/

The opening text in the "Suns of Gold" book is spot on with the attitude of a massively frustrated historical far trader. Or with a quote I read from Winston Churchill re: African colonization, or with stuff I've read about 1800s fur trading in the American West ("Across the Wide Missouri"). The traders are there to get rich and incidentally maybe help the locals. They're capable of being ruthless and oppressive, but the people they're interacting with are neither NPCs nor angels. In India's case the people were poor and living under oppressive overlords already, half of whom want to drag the outsiders into their centuries-old local wars. There was no grand national plan to take over; it happened by a lot of individuals doing brave, kind, stupid, and/or evil things on both sides, sometimes as mavericks or even (in one case) capturing a fort while drunk.

It's a very morally grey situation, but it's unfair to treat it as "mean Europeans butting in on some idyllic, innocent culture"! Challenging stuff, and I'm planning to combine this with some SWN setting concepts for an upcoming science fiction story.

Looks sharp. You should be able to make a mod to change the character sheet (I've seen mods for 5e that do this eg https://foundryvtt.com/packages/5e-ogl-character-sheet ) So it would build on top of SK's (use his data and code), but change the look.

>y someone who started

Yes. I'm talking to him.
We'll work with the developer of https://foundryvtt.com/packages/swnr/

I'm just trying to call more people to develop it.

This is awesome! I am glad you are putting together a larger initiative for this.

There's already someone who started one, and it's listed on the official site: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/swnr/

I also have an unofficial one I've made off of the 5e system, and I've been using it for about 3 months. It's janky, and incomplete, but it works for my 2 campaigns. It's based on the Revised free edition.

It's up on GitLab and if you're interested in looking at it / contributing please send me a PM. I have a roadmap with milestones on it, etc. Between the stuff I've built out plus players managing the gaps manually it works just fine.

I used the solar system map mostly as a background for Roll20 page and as an eye candy for my players. It was also easier for them to plan their actions when they saw all points of the interest in one place.
I used Stellaris to generate it. I know it's an overkill, but back then it was really easy for me to open a solar system, disable UI and save a 'print screen'.

Here is a sample.

Any thought to just rounding out the number of house traits, flaws, and ruler traits to an even 20 each so they can just be rolled with a d20?

House Trait: Secretive Some times known as the 'Left Hand of the Imperium', this house is infamous for their shadowy dealings. They are careful to mask their movements and motivations, and the other houses are constantly wary of their spies and assassins.

House Flaw: This house committed a infamous breach of protocol or etiquette that still casts a shadow over them. Perhaps the ruler married their sibling or a commoner.

House Flaw: This house is the newest one admitted to the Imperium, and is still considered an outsider and distrusted by many.

House Flaw: This house was involved in a past, uncovered plot to betray the Imperium. The house ruler was exiled and the remainder pledged their loyalty, but doubts continue to linger.

House Flaw: Roll twice more and take both results

Ruler Trait: The ruler is a dilettante and is widely believed to be squandering the resources and wealth of their family.

Ruler Trait: The ruler is a respected military leader, and is known for being severe and no-nonsense.

Ruler Trait: Roll twice and take both results

That would round out all three of the last tables. For the house color pairs, I'd also recommend just linking to Adobe's fantastic color pairing tool. Set it to "Complementary" and then just drag any of the circles to a color you want and it picks 4 other complementary colors.

The locations/distances in a star system are are abstract, some a map isn't strictly necessary. That said, since my group plays via VTT, I'm tempted to get http://spaceengine.org/ to make some system/planet visuals.

Hey friend, system movement is now implemented along with local saving.

Click and hold until it turns light blue, drag to a new sector and release. If your destination is another system then the systems will switch places.

Once this happens your sector will be saved. You can exit out of the tab or browser and go back at any time to the main page to load your save.

Thanks for checking it out! The ability to move systems will be coming in the next day or two and then I'm going to work on editing all sector information (names, planet count, world tags, etc.). A general description will probably be after that. I'm not sure.

Adventure hooks and faction assets may be a while down the road but those are great ideas!

Edit: System movement is now implemented. Click and hold until it turns light blue, drag to a new sector and release.

Guten Tag! I made this translation into German not so long ago for my party. BUT: It is not the complete rules book, but only the first 20 pages or so, to allow the PCs to understand how to build a character and what it is about.

Also, the translation is not perfect yet and many parts still need to be corrected, but maybe it helps already a little: https://smallpdf.com/shared#st=d423296d-27cb-45d1-930b-c9effb81413d&amp;fn=Regelwerk-DE-Stars-Without-Number.pdf&amp;ct=1612817084772&amp;tl=share-document&amp;rf=link

>'The Hyperion Cantos' sounds really good.

I jumped onto this thread to recommend these, as well. There are some great concepts, the books are well-written, and some of it is really perspective-changing. Excellent science-fiction.

I'm also going to put in a shameless plug for a book a friend helped to edit, written by H.G. Wells' great grandson, James Wells. https://www.amazon.com/Great-Symmetry-James-R-Wells-ebook/dp/B01113RTF8