Deck plan websites

[Kevin Livingston]

I have asked this in the T20 General section so forgive me for repeating it here. Are there any good websites that have a lot of deck plans? If a site has all of the ones that are mentioned in the T20 book that would be best. Thanks for any help in this!

 

[Ellros]

Try this webring for a start. SOme of them are no longer working, but a lot of them do have a good selection.

Traveller Deckplan Webring

 

[GypsyComet]

Many of the T20 versions of standard ships don't yet have internal plans. There are probably enterprising souls working on them, though, as their campaigns require.

Got a specific need?

 

[Kevin Livingston]

Originally posted by GypsyComet:
Many of the T20 versions of standard ships don't yet have internal plans. There are probably enterprising souls working on them, though, as their campaigns require.

Got a specific need?

Not so much a "need" as much as a "nice to have". I figure that I could use some of them for boarding scenarios, etc.

 

[Kevin Livingston]

Of course if anyone knows of any "BOOKS" featuring said "deckplans", then I could look for them from various sources.

 

[Kevin Livingston]

Don't everyone jump in at once!

 

[PVernon]

I beleive that there are no deck plans for the T20 ships yet. By T20 ships I mean the ones used as Illustrations in the T20 book. That said I am working on an Free Trader based on the Illo in the play test rules. And I believe Hunter was trying to get people together to do some plans, but I don't know if anything has come of it yet. At the moment most of the plans avalable are based on the CT ships.

 

[far-trader]

Originally posted by PVernon:
I beleive that there are no deck plans for the T20 ships yet. By T20 ships I mean the ones used as Illustrations in the T20 book. That said I am working on an Free Trader based on the Illo in the play test rules. And I believe Hunter was trying to get people together to do some plans, but I don't know if anything has come of it yet. At the moment most of the plans avalable are based on the CT ships.

I don't know what ever became of Hunter's call for architects. I submitted a sample (Free Trader as it happens

), as did some others but since then there's been no news. A few weeks ago M.J.Dougherty put out a call for some Travellers Aide material including deckplans. I answered and promised work on some IISS material, including the Type S as I envisioned and described here. There is also a link there to an early deckplan for the Type S.

Then I went and caught some bug

and now I'm trying hard to catch up on that promise and RealLife(tm).

I thought somebody did a version of the Mercenary Cruiser? At least I stopped working on my own for some reason last fall

Hey PVernon, did the illo from the playtest make it into the final book and on what page is it if it did?

 

[Kevin Livingston]

I am not looking so much for T20 plans as I am looking books featuring any plans. There is a comic store in my town that'll find me most anything and I was wondering if anyone had an opinion on what books to purchase.

 

[vutpakdi]

Steve Jackson Games makes a good set of deckplans for various ships in the Traveller universe that each comes with a set of their Cardboard Heroes. I believe that the deckplans are for:

Scout/Courrier
Far Trader
Far Trader
System Defense Boat
Modular Cutter
Armored Cutter


If I recall correctly, the deckplans come with hexes on one side (GURPS) and squares on the other side.

Another product from Steve Jackson Games that has deckplans is their _Modular Cutter_ supplement that has deckplans and specs for different modular cutter modules.

Ron

 

[Swordsage]

If your looking for a book on deckplans I believe one came out for Alternity just before WotC stopped suporting that game. I believe it was simply called Alternity: Starships. It had somewhere around 18 deckplans which could be used for Traveller as well. Hope this helps.

 

[PVernon]

Originally posted by far-trader:


Hey PVernon, did the illo from the playtest make it into the final book and on what page is it if it did? [/QB]

I don't know, I will see if I can find it over the week end.

 

[far-trader]

Originally posted by PVernon:
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Hey PVernon, did the illo from the playtest make it into the final book and on what page is it if it did?

I don't know, I will see if I can find it over the week end. [/QB]</font>[/QUOTE]No worry, just curious and thought you might have noticed. Thanks in advance if you take the time

 

[Kevin Livingston]

Originally posted by far-trader:
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Hey PVernon, did the illo from the playtest make it into the final book and on what page is it if it did?

I don't know, I will see if I can find it over the week end. </font>[/QUOTE]No worry, just curious and thought you might have noticed. Thanks in advance if you take the time [/QB]</font>[/QUOTE]"illo"? Is that an acronym?

 

[far-trader]

Originally posted by Kevin Livingston:
"illo"? Is that an acronym?

Sorry for the confusion, it just slanglish (slang english) for illustration, least as far as I know

 

[Scarecrow]

Originally posted by Ron Vutpakdi:
Steve Jackson Games makes a good set of deckplans for various ships in the Traveller universe that each comes with a set of their Cardboard Heroes. I believe that the deckplans are for:

Scout/Courrier
Far Trader
Far Trader
System Defense Boat
Modular Cutter
Armored Cutter


If I recall correctly, the deckplans come with hexes on one side (GURPS) and squares on the other side.

Ron

Sadly, these deckplans are unnecesarily twice the scale of the included cardboard heroes and despite this have no more detail or visual interest to them than plans printed in a rulebook.

My advice is to not waste your money - Buy yourself an A2 artist pad and draw the plans out yourself with a marker - they'll be just as good. Alternatively, get plans free from the internet courtesy of good folks like Mr Vutpakdi here.

I am in the midst of making full colour 25mm plans for a couple of ships for Traveller but have only produced deckplans for one so far. You can find them under the RPGs section of my web site:

Crow's Nest

Regards

Crow

 

[Kevin Livingston]

Okie dokie. Anyway thanks for all of the input so far!

 

[PVernon]

Originally posted by far-trader:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by PVernon:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by far-trader:


Hey PVernon, did the illo from the playtest make it into the final book and on what page is it if it did?

I don't know, I will see if I can find it over the week end. </font>[/QUOTE]No worry, just curious and thought you might have noticed. Thanks in advance if you take the time [/QB]</font>[/QUOTE]I have looked through T20 and it looks like it did not make it in . If you have or can get a copy of the play test it's on page 156. It's realy just a small piece of clip art, fairly low resolution, about 1" by 2.5". May be Hunter has posted it someware on the site . In any case I should have my plan of it up on my site next week some time.

 

[far-trader]

Originally posted by PVernon:
I have looked through T20 and it looks like it did not make it in . If you have or can get a copy of the play test it's on page 156. It's realy just a small piece of clip art, fairly low resolution, about 1" by 2.5". May be Hunter has posted it someware on the site . In any case I should have my plan of it up on my site next week some time.

Thanks for looking, I just missed out on the whole playtest thing "by that much" so no luck there and I don't recall anything posted that would fit. Oh well, I can look forward to seeing your work

 

[GypsyComet]

Originally posted by PVernon:
I beleive that there are no deck plans for the T20 ships yet. By T20 ships I mean the ones used as Illustrations in the T20 book.

Only the Scout/Courier, the plans for which are floating around this site somewhere.

For other editions of Traveller, look at the already mentioned large-scale plans by Steve Jackson Games for Gurps Traveller. These are mostly derived from CT-era plans, as found (these days) in the Classic Reprints books from Far Future Enterprises (should be very orderable through your local store, though the ships are scattered throughout the old stuff. The highest concentration will be found in whichever of the reprints has "Traders and Gunboats".

Generally don't bother with the T4 book "Starships", as the plans are almost entirely unuseable.

The ships book for Alternity was called, appropriately enough, "Starships". May be tricky to get one these days.

The other very out-of-production book you may want to find is for the old West End Games version of Star Wars, called "Stock Ships".

There is a book with the same name for Space Master (from Iron Crown) which you can safely avoid, as all of its artwork is on the covers...

For a wild and wooly index of old Traveller ships in print, check my site (http://member.aol.com/gypsycomet/index.html) under Shipyard, and look at the texty bits at the top of the page. Gotta link to a BIG table...