Sunday, November 11, 2018

Starship Geomorph book update


The Starship Geomorph book has been updated with the following changes:
  • Miscellaneous spelling and grammar problems. Thanks to Ian Kinney for helping with the proofreading and editing.
  • A few graphic modifications, shading and linework tweaks. Hardcopies printed for miniature use should look better.
  • Fixed a couple of low resolution illustration issues.
  • A good number of geomorphs were tweaked - something I can't stop doing for some reason. Nothing major. There are fewer staterooms without private freshers. The image of crew members roaming the ship wrapped in a towel looking for a shower was getting to me.
I was able to bring editable layers into the PDF but for some reason it was bringing down the graphic quality of just about everything, so I opted to leave out that feature until such time as I can do so  without sacrificing quality elsewhere. My apologies to those who were hoping to have hex grids this round.

Thanks to everyone for your kind words and encouragement. I hope you enjoy this cleaned up version.

The updated free PDF can be downloaded here: Starship Geomorphs v1.1.pdf

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Starship Geomorphs Update and Upcoming Starship Symbols Book

Wow. It's great to see so many responses to the Starship Geomorphs book. Thanks to everyone for their positive feedback and constructive criticisms. I will be re-releasing the Starship Geomorphs PDF in a week or so with corrected spelling (What? You've never heard of Marshal Arts?) and grammar, a few graphic and miscellaneous tweaks to some geomorphs, and the ability to turn on/off individual drawing layers including a second optional hex grid. This will allow you to do things like select square grid, hex grid, or no grid at all, turn off text for player maps, and turn off shading for less ink usage when printing.

Additionally, Marc Miller and I have started talking about making a print version available to those who want it. There are no specifics yet as I want to get the edited PDF version off my plate first. I'll keep you posted as I learn more.

Finally, I'm also working on a starship "symbols" PDF book that would be a collection of individual rooms and room blocks for those who want to lay out ship plans that way. The book will probably include supplemental .DWG and .DXF files.


Traveller Customizable Card Game - Solo Play Example

I just wanted to post a quick shout out to Geek Gamers, who has a solo gaming channel on YouTube. She recently posted an example of solo play for the Traveller Customizable Card Game. I just received my reprinted cards in the mail last week and am looking forward to giving this a try when my free time opens up a bit.

You can check out her video here: Traveller CCG Solo Play Example

I'd be interested in hearing from other Traveller players who have played this, either solo or with others - please leave comments below.
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Update 11/07/2018


Geek Gamers has added a second video reviewing the Trouble on the Mains, Subsidized Merchant, and Empress Marava expansion decks.

You can check out her video here: Traveller CCG Ship and Expansion Decks