Howdy,
I just bought a copy of the Flaming Eye Campaign Sourcebook. I haven't had
time to read it in detail yet but it looks pretty good. There are actually
two compaigns in the Cinematic Nugget format. The first is called Search and
Rescue. It deals with the "...extraction of an Imperial intelligence agent
from the restored Vilani empire...". The second campaign is called Gamgilebo
Incident and is about "...the search for two missing starships and their
crews...". This book is designed to be used with the Vilani and Vargar
reference book and you must have that book available to use these campaignes
(or so it says).
The book also include the floor plans (but as far as I can tell no write up)
for a Type A2 Far Trader, the Garu Class. There are a number of World Data
Sheets like those in Knightfall as well.
I was in contact with the Weekend Warrior recently and asked about a copy of
Striker. I was shocked to discover that the purchase price was $50. It
is my understanding that some (most?) of Striker's systems (or at least the
ideas) went into MegaTraveller, is there really a reason for me to buy a copy
or is everything already in the MegaTraveller products I already own? This
goes beyond having a copy just for the sake of having a copy. I want to
know if there is enough stuff in Striker that is not in or different from
MT to justify (to my wife) buying something for $50. Could those of you
with a copy of Striker (or those of you familiar with it) please comment.
I'm at home on my PC so I don't have access to my copies of the recent posts
but I remember reading one in which someone asked about a program to generate
NPC's (I think). I have one that you specifiy the number, race, and service
and it generate NPC's and prints them to the screen. The race and/or the
service can be randomly selected by the program as well. Now for the
strings...I am not (yet) a C programmer and this program was written to help
me learn C. As far as I can tell it works and works correctly but I will
not vouch for the appearence of the code or its style. I am certain there
are better ways to implement things but as I said it works and I am learning
C so my goals are being met. The next problem is there are races not in
standard Traveller (my own basically) but these can easily be removed. The
last problem is not all of the 18(?) possible services are installed. At the
moment I think it does Army, Navy, Marines, Scouts, Belter, Pirate, Rogue,
and Merchant. The program was written so that the extra services can be
easily added, I just haven't had time lately to work on it. If depite all
this anyone is interested in obtaining a copy of what I have, I'd be happy
to send it to you.
Later,
TLH
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