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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Hobgoblin on August 05, 2017, 11:47:44 AM
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Hello,
I'm planning a D&D game with some sci-fi elements (explanation here (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=77384.msg1277627#msg1277627)) and was wondering if anyone had some good suggestion for 15mm starship floorplans. I've has a cursory look around, but given the amount of stuff out there, I thought it would be best to ask for pointers.
Obviously, 28mm stuff can be shrunk in printing to fit. What I'm looking for are alien, so possibly quite baroque, interiors, with an air of dereliction in most sections.
Any help greatly appreciated!
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The original traveller miniatures were 15mm, and many of the floor plans produced for traveller follow roughly that scale. They might be worth a look. There are many many of them on rpgnow.com
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Thanks! I'll have a good look through those. They might be too obviously spaceships or not weird or 'segmented' enough, but I'll have a good delve (there seem to be plenty of them). I'm actually going to be using a fair few of my Traveller 15s in the game - the Droyne as weird flying cave-dwellers or servants of the ship aliens, and various robots as automata lurking in the caverns.
I suppose what I'm thinking of is something a bit like a 15mm Space Hulk, but which would gradually reveal the shape of a ship as the exploration proceeds. I want a eureka moment when the kids realise what the "dragon" that gave Dragonfell its name actually is!
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Here you are: https://woolshedwargamer.com/category/traveller-rpg/ Brian is/was a regular over on TMP & has pasted quite a number of deckplans over the years.
There was an old RPG set upon an enormous starship that functioned as a 'dungeon' - Metamorphosis Alpha. It's based on the original D & D rules mechanisms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis_Alpha It's more or less what you're proposing to do.
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I'm working on a similar project. Spacejacker had an interesting way of making sci if tiles. I can't post the photo here but click on my Flickr album to see an example of what he did. I'm in the middle of a basement Reno so I can't take a pic of my own stuff. Needless to say his is much better anyways.
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From Wargame Vault stuff that I bought:
I was going to suggest GDW's Azhanti High Lightning amongst the Traveller, but it's not an 'iron dungeon crawl.' Original was supposed to be 15mm, but the scans of the maps would take fiddling to get right. DAMN big ship, with all the decks.
Actually, you could get away with most any of the regular stuff, and print at 60%, you know. I'd suspect the Skeleton Key's image simplicity would scale down better, but Fat Dragon and 0-hr stuff is darker, and perhaps more suitable to your plans.
Doug
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A lot of the Future Armada PDF's have printable floorplans for the various ships that can be used easily...you might need to scale the print, but that's about it.
DrivethruRPG has a decent amount of ship floor plans anyway that might be worth a look.
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They did make some for the original Star Trek RPG, USS Enterprise and a Klingon D7 I think.
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Many thanks for all the suggestions! I'll have a good look through - it's very handy to have some names/search terms to start with.
Oldben1 - that tile looks terrific. Does he post on this forum?
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Many thanks for all the suggestions! I'll have a good look through - it's very handy to have some names/search terms to start with.
Oldben1 - that tile looks terrific. Does he post on this forum?
Spacejacker has a seldom updated blog: http://tinysolitarysoldiers.blogspot.se/ (http://tinysolitarysoldiers.blogspot.se/)
He has a lot of content on his Instagram (@spacejacker) as well.
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What an amazing blog! (And what a rabbit hole to vanish down ...)
Many thanks!
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A lot of the Future Armada PDF's have printable floorplans for the various ships that can be used easily...you might need to scale the print, but that's about it.
DrivethruRPG has a decent amount of ship floor plans anyway that might be worth a look.
And that's 'O-hr' as the storekeep. However, I did notice Mr. Hobgoblin seemed to say 'other than' rescale, and Future Armada is definitely 25-28-ish.
Alas, the Skeleton Key spaceship stuff seems to have vanished.
Doug
Edit: Scratch that; Skeleton Key starship is under eFuture; apparently, the list in my library 'evaporated.'
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Give me a couple of days to finish mine off. I made mine much simpler and without all the hirst arts pieces. It took a while but with a few terrain bits it looks pretty effective. It will also look a lot better than 2D tiles.
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Many thanks again for all the pointers. I found exactly what I was looking for via Starjacker's blog and his Star Station Zero (http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=88583) floorpans.
For the denizens of the ship, I have the old 15mm Asgard Orts and Mandiblexes lined up (as soon as they arrive from Alternative Armies). I plan to have them making excursions from the wreck of their ship to trade for minerals with dwarfs - thus giving the PCs an opportunity to sneak in.
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Oh, heck yes!
I'll be adding to my 'wishlist' soon. I'm holding off adding to my considerable library, but I want it there when my resolve fails.
Given up on saying 'if', of course. :D
Doug
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Would these be suitable:
Space Opera: Seldon's Compendium of Starcraft, may not be big enough but should be useful.
Volume 1 - http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/728/Space-Opera-Seldons-Compendium-of-Starcraft-1?it=1 (http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/728/Space-Opera-Seldons-Compendium-of-Starcraft-1?it=1)
Volume 2 - http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/729/Space-Opera-Seldons-Compendium-of-Starcraft-2?src=also_purchased&it=1 (http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/729/Space-Opera-Seldons-Compendium-of-Starcraft-2?src=also_purchased&it=1)
Volume 3 - http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/730/Space-Opera-Seldons-Compendium-of-Starcraft-3?src=also_purchased&it=1
(http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/730/Space-Opera-Seldons-Compendium-of-Starcraft-3?src=also_purchased&it=1)
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MMG! Back among the living! Well, there were rumors... :D
I had those in hardcopy, may still have, but the finding..., and while the depth of thought was excellent, the images are a bit crude for what the OP seeks, methinks.
Doug
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Would these be suitable:
Space Opera: Seldon's Compendium of Starcraft, may not be big enough but should be useful.
Volume 1 - http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/728/Space-Opera-Seldons-Compendium-of-Starcraft-1?it=1 (http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/728/Space-Opera-Seldons-Compendium-of-Starcraft-1?it=1)
Volume 2 - http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/729/Space-Opera-Seldons-Compendium-of-Starcraft-2?src=also_purchased&it=1 (http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/729/Space-Opera-Seldons-Compendium-of-Starcraft-2?src=also_purchased&it=1)
Volume 3 - http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/730/Space-Opera-Seldons-Compendium-of-Starcraft-3?src=also_purchased&it=1
(http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/730/Space-Opera-Seldons-Compendium-of-Starcraft-3?src=also_purchased&it=1)
Thanks for the pointers - and sorry for the late reply! I'd forgotten to check back. These look interesting. I think the Starjacker ones will do the job for me, though: less realistic spaceship and more room-by-room 'iron dungeon'. It's the room-by-room aspect that's going to be the key to this project.