Hi,
This is my first post to TML, and I hope I can offer something of value to the
list. I look forward to the correspondence.
A couple of years ago, I read an article in Challenge called "Lone Wolf". Y'all
may remember it, it was a multi-player 'sink the Bismark' kind of game for Star
Cruiser and 2300AD. I really liked the idea, so I created cross-sections for 27
systems in the French Arm in PostScript format scaled to the template offered
in the article. I fleshed out the systems not detailed in the Colonial Atlas
with the tables in the 2300 Ref's guide, and included that data on each
system's sheet in a table. I was also able to show stellar warp-gradients as
shaded circles, which yielded some surprising insights into how the lay of a
system's worlds, gravity of its star(s), etc. might influence the tactical
thinking of a 2300AD starship captain.
I didn't find any local interest in playing a Lone Wolf game, so the files
have just been sitting on the hard disk here. Eventually, I'll have to get
rid of them.
Would this sort of thing be of any interest to anyone? I created them in
VMS MASS-11. I'd like to share them, but don't know of a way to send them
over the net. I can convert them to ASCII format image files, so maybe they
could be trimmed of mail headers and printed as PostScript files after being
sent as E-MAIL. I haven't tested this. (BTW, Postscript image files are LONG
beasts due to the verbose nature of the syntax.)
Regards,
Brian Sweeny - [email removed]