Wednesday, January 23, 2013

XXVc quickie

The formula for making rocketships in XXVc produces necessarily cigar-shaped ships. They are rockets, after all. But what if you want a different shape? I needed a spherical design and, frankly, couldn't figure out how to do it as the left side of my brain had long-since been replaced by potted meat food product.

Enter Mr. Reaper of "I Crapped in Gygax's Bathroom" and D&D Rules Cyclopedia Errata & Companion fame. He graciously came up with an equation that will produce both cubical and spherical spacecraft, and here it is-

http://web.newsguy.com/a_doom/formula2.html

Now, finally, you can create E.T.'s Xmas Ornament Ship or the Death Star (good luck with that) for your Buck Rogers game.

An Soph!

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