Deeps of Lyrae Table of Campaign Spaceships 13 Jul 20196 Jul 2019 To keep things organized in my mind, I made a printable table of all of the spaceships I expect to use in the Deeps of Lyrae campaign. This is in…
Deeps of Lyrae… How to Choose Your Maneuver in Basic Space Combat (And: One-Page Move Flowchart) 12 Jul 20195 Jul 2019 It's a free fan-produced game aid! Download the GURPS Spaceships basic space combat Pilot Move flowchart v. 1 in either PDF or Microsoft Word for GURPS 4th edition: Download PDF:…
Deeps of Lyrae Cyclone Light Fast-Attack Fighter (SM+4, TL11^) 11 Jul 20195 Jul 2019 I've been messing around with the format of the information I give to players when they acquire a ship. For the used Sun Dog freighter, I gave them an in-world…
Deeps of Lyrae Combat Test: Sun Dog vs. Lapwing Salvage Vessel (Fourth Space Combat) 10 Jul 20195 Jul 2019 In this space combat test I'm going to continue to teach myself the basic space combat rules from GURPS Spaceships by putting my player ship into combat with another ship…
Deeps of Lyrae Lapwing Salvage Vessel (SM+10, TL11^) 9 Jul 20194 Jul 2019 Continuing my ship design and combat experiments, I decided to pit the player ship against a very similar ship, so I designed this deep-space salvage vessel at the same SM…
Deeps of Lyrae Combat Test: Sun Dog vs. Contessa Liner (Third Space Combat) 8 Jul 20194 Jul 2019 You'll remember that I decided to give the players a ship with a terrible gun and a single missile launcher. Then to teach myself about the GURPS Spaceships basic space…
Deeps of Lyrae Combat Test: Sun Dog vs. Tiger Frigate (Second Space Combat) 7 Jul 20194 Jul 2019 In this combat test, I try to teach myself the basic space combat system in GURPS Spaceships by putting the Sun Dog, my barely-armed player ship, against what I'm guessing…
Deeps of Lyrae Combat Test: Sun Dog v. Xanadu Liner (First Space Combat) 6 Jul 20194 Jul 2019 My task: familiarize myself with the basic space combat system in GURPS Spaceships. I thought I would test how the player's ship would stand up against a "standard" liner from…
Deeps of Lyrae Soapberry Bug Deep Space Transport SM+10, TL11^) 5 Jul 20193 Jul 2019 I designed this frieghter to give me a civilian comparison to the party's ship -- I wanted a freighter at the same size (SM+10), but built for freight and economy,…
Deeps of Lyrae The Party’s Ship (The Sun Dog Unique “Freighter”) 4 Jul 20194 Jul 2019 I've read that the ship itself can be a character in a sci-fi campaign. And I don't mean that the ship has an intelligent AI or that we're using FATE…
Deeps of Lyrae Eos Heavy Interstellar Merchantman (SM+11, TL11^) 3 Jul 20194 Jul 2019 In this post I'll continue building up my arsenal of victim ships for my space pirate campaign by adding what we might call a "totally standard" victim freighter. It's the…
Deeps of Lyrae Loadout: Escape Pod Survival Kit 2 Jul 20194 Jul 2019 What would be carried on an escape pod or group lifeboat in the far future as standard equipment? I came up with this list for the Deeps of Lyrae campaign…
Deeps of Lyrae Econo-Liberator Group Evacuation Lifeboat (SM+6, TL11^) 1 Jul 201928 Jun 2019 Large passenger ships often economize by providing smaller numbers of larger-capacity lifeboats to meet the evacuation requirements found in Imperial space safety regulations. The Liberator-Class is a bright yellow rounded…
Deeps of Lyrae Astro Safari Excursion Shuttle (SM+7, TL11^) 30 Jun 20194 Jul 2019 If you have a flying casino, you'll need a flying bar to orbit it. This ship was designed as a target for the space pirates in the Deeps of Lyrae…
Deeps of Lyrae Contessa Luxury Cruise Liner (a.k.a. The Flying Space Casino; SM+11, TL11^) 29 Jun 20194 Jul 2019 If you are a GM who likes space opera and you like heist movies, at some point you're going to find yourself needing a flying space casino. In the Deeps…
Deeps of Lyrae Two Problems With Traveller Spacecraft (It’s Spaceship Week! and: Spaceships Roadmap) 28 Jun 20196 Jul 2019 It's spaceships week on the blog as I'd like to share some of my designs for the Deeps of Lyrae campaign. Personally as a GM I like to think of…
Deeps of Lyrae… Tonnage: Converting Spaceship “Tons” Between Traveller and GURPS 25 Mar 201917 Jun 2019 A great benefit of a campaign based on Traveller is that there is such a large amount of Traveller material available to draw from – both fan produced and otherwise.…
