Here's a question with regards to starship construction and starship boons - has any thought been given to how much cargo space is actually available when a ship has the Dedicated Cargo Bay boon?

This also kind of raises the question about what, exactly, does ship size actually equate to? I know the boon Capital Ship supposedly covers the issue of super sized ships but, in reality, it doesn't cover everything; the number of boons a ship starts with is based on...its ship size...surely a capital ship should always be based on a default size before the Capital Ship boon is chosen? Then, when said ship takes the Dedicated Cargo Bay boon how much does it get when compared to a regular sized ship?

I know the game is supposed to be quite abstract in the tradition of BoL but, in my gaming experience, whenever Sci-Fi games are played the issue of cargo space and trade/commerce becomes a big issue.

My initial thought is to base the Dedicated Cargo Bay on the ship size - for example Ship Size x 10 tons. If a ship has any unspent boon slots it can have a cargo hold of Ship Size x 5 / unspent boon - this can stack with the Dedicated Cargo Bay boon (which can also be taken multiple times to increase the size of the hold).

Capital Ships with cargo bays should be 10 times greater than the above calculation to reflect their far greater size (I chose the x 10 muliplier to keep it consistent with the combat adjustments).

These are just some very basic ideas and I really haven't thrashed out the math but I thought I'd put it out here for some further discussion.

Thoughts?

Last edited by The GIT! (8/26/2015 4:58 am)

badmojo wrote:

Here is an attempt at a hack of BotV-rules with the setting from the Expanse (Leviathan Wakes). Setting + rules are done for an iBook. Open the link in your email on an iPad or iPhone, choose "open in iBook" and voila.

Called it The Void to not alert players about the Expanse/LW-plot used in the scenario. Good fun. No ship rules yet, however, so refer to BotV for anything missing.

What say ye?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jzem5sigqjkd0f7/The%20Void%20v1.1.ibooks?oref=e

And the Char.sheet
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n8omxhdaecyq1tw/The_Void_CS_2.1.1.pdf?oref=e



/I donate my body to science... fiction.




 

Hi

Sounds great - any chance of getting the book in a pdf format? Personally, I tend to use iBooks for novels etc and I keep my gamebooks separate and use Adobe Reader on my iPad to read. Further, not everyone will be able to read epub as Kindles et al may use different formats such as mobi. A pdf book is, in many regards, far more versatile for gaming purposes because most ereaders can open a pdf and it can also be used on a PC or laptop.

Just my own opinion is all.

OK - so I've loaded the book on my iPad and in iBooks on my Mac. First of all - great presentation! This is a nice book (although it took me a couple of minutes to figure that reading it in landscape format is where it really shines).

I've not had a chance to read it yet; just a quick scan through so far. Can I suggest that you re-utilise the image on page 11? I know the career is for entertainer but that image (great as it is) is really more suitable for an android/robot/cyborg description (which BTW I really think we need to develop for BotV as a race).

Also, as an aside, the image you used for Merchant/Smuggler is the same one I've been using for my Merchant Prince character in the Traveller campaign a friend of mine is running

Last edited by The GIT! (8/26/2015 3:20 pm)

badmojo wrote:

Hi The Git,

Sure, it was done as an iBook as an experiment of sorts, with maps of the Solar System, the star range chart etc for easy player reference during play, and to have the sci-fi images used as illustrations really "pop". 

I was wondering if you have made any updates to your epub docuement since it was uploaded? Personally I think it's aterrific document and I'd love to know how you went about creating the epub.

I was also wondering if you might post some examples of adventures you plan to run in The Expanse setting?
 

badmojo wrote:

Hi The Git,

Sure, it was done as an iBook as an experiment of sorts, with maps of the Solar System, the star range chart etc for easy player reference during play, and to have the sci-fi images used as illustrations really "pop". 

One thing I noticed is that the book is in "ibooks" format rather than epub. This could be a problem as ibooks is very specific to Apple. If you at least convert the file to epub format then people may be able to read the book on a pc using ebook reader software.