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Need T20 Translation for a Firefly

POSTED BY: JASONANDREW
UPDATED: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 16:15
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Monday, January 24, 2005 9:23 AM

JASONANDREW


I am running a Firefly campaign in Seattle based on the Traveler D20 rules.

Has anyone else converted a firefly transport to that system that wants to share?

Thanks.


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Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:24 PM

ELIANDI


I use Traveller t20 to run Firefly, but I handwave the ship specifics. The thing about Traveller is that it can get too deep into the technical if you let it...or at least too technical for a Firefly RPG IMO :)

Forrestwolf runs the same, and I think does some calculation of cargo tonnage and fuel loads.

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Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:32 PM

JASONANDREW


I don't plan to go into a lot of detail, I just want enough to fake it.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:15 PM

FORRESTWOLF


Boy, THIS is an old link...only just noticed it, sorry...but I use a 46 ton cargo hold, with a 20 ton shuttle (which I seem to recall is really a launch, technically). A second 'shuttle' would eat up another 20 tons of cargo.

If you look in the T20 rulebook, I THINK that makes it a 400 ton standard subsidized merchant, but I don't have my book in front of me.

At this point, I start to depart from T20, because I go with the 'no-FTL' approach, and Traveller doesn't handle non-FTL games too well (fuel use is very unclear). I gave the ship a 40 ton fuel tank, and then worked out fuel use using the assumption that 40 tons would get you from Londonium to Ariel, using the 'four nearby star systems' idea others have posited. Anyway, I'm getting past the scope of what you asked :)

If you search the web hard enough, you should find the same ship specs for a Firefly I found that someone else had worked out - they used a subsidized merchant.

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