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    Traveller 2300 referee manual Part 1

    Version: 1
    Project: Joe's Half-Baked Ideas
    File Name: 2300_refs_pp1-21.pdf
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    Updated: July 21, 2016 - 7:26am
    Submitted: JCab747
    Description:
    The referee manual for Traveller: 2300 -- aka 2300AD. This game has some good reference materials and ideas that could be translated into Star Frontiers. Part 1 of 4.
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    aemonaylward
    August 13, 2016 - 1:06pm
    		I agree that 2300 is a gold mine for material to use in SF.  I like its random star system/planet generation (contained in the referee's manual that you posted) the best of any such system that I've come across. 

    I also really like the Colonial Atlas that was published for the game.  It describes planets that are not as consistently earthlike as those in the SF canon materials, and there are plenty of interesting flora and fauna to steal as well.  The colonial/frontier theme is a great fit with SF as well – evoking it much better, IMO, than the canonical materials.

    The Nyotekendu Sourcebook and Beanstalk were other highly transferable publications from this game.  The former details an orbital station that mines ice from the rings of a gas giant and shoots slugs of it to a water-poor colony planet closer to the system's star.  The latter describes adventures associated with 'space elevators' on two of the most heavily populated planets in the setting.

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    JCab747
    August 13, 2016 - 1:14pm
    aemonaylward wrote:
    I agree that 2300 is a gold mine for material to use in SF.  I like its random star system/planet generation (contained in the referee's manual that you posted) the best of any such system that I've come across. 

    I also really like the Colonial Atlas that was published for the game.  It describes planets that are not as consistently earthlike as those in the SF canon materials, and there are plenty of interesting flora and fauna to steal as well.  The colonial/frontier theme is a great fit with SF as well – evoking it much better, IMO, than the canonical materials.

    The Nyotekendu Sourcebook and Beanstalk were other highly transferable publications from this game.  The former details an orbital station that mines ice from the rings of a gas giant and shoots slugs of it to a water-poor colony planet closer to the system's star.  The latter describes adventures associated with 'space elevators' on two of the most heavily populated planets in the setting.


    I think I had many of those books but I don't remember if I packed them away or I sold them off. But, yes, it has a lot of things that could be transferred into the Star Frontiers universe with little effort...

    Oh, I remember they had this huge Chinee tank with an articulating front section to assist it in going over uneven terrain.
    Joe Cabadas