LBB6 system generation questions

[Fritz_Brown]

Posted this in the CT forum and got zip. It might do better here.

Originally posted by Fritz88:
Three questions to start off:

1) On pages 34-35, it talks about "Planetoids". It mentions that size 0 is a belt in LBB3, then it goes on to talk about placing belts in the from-scratch-extended-system generation. Nowhere does it mention generating the rest of the info as you would do for a regular world. Are you supposed to do that? Does getting a belt in a certain orbit simply mean that you start with a size of 0?

2) Can you get a gas giant as a captured planet? It isn't dealt with, but it would matter in an automated system.

3) Related: can a captured planet have moons? That is also not discussed.

 

[Icosahedron]

Originally posted by Fritz88:
Posted this in the CT forum and got zip. It might do better here.

Originally posted by Fritz88:
Three questions to start off:

1) On pages 34-35, it talks about "Planetoids". It mentions that size 0 is a belt in LBB3, then it goes on to talk about placing belts in the from-scratch-extended-system generation. Nowhere does it mention generating the rest of the info as you would do for a regular world. Are you supposed to do that? Does getting a belt in a certain orbit simply mean that you start with a size of 0?

The sentence that passes over p35/36 suggests to me that yes, it is a size 0. Presumably, you would then generate its stats in the same way as any other world.

2) Can you get a gas giant as a captured planet? It isn't dealt with, but it would matter in an automated system.

3) Related: can a captured planet have moons? That is also not discussed.

The answer to these questions would depend on where the captured planet came from. Obviously the rule-writers were thinking about Pluto. I would think a captured Oort Cloud object would be unlikely to be a Gas Giant - however I would also have thought it unlikely that such an object would have a moon, yet Pluto does!

If I were making an automated system, I'd allow them - on the basis that it's easier to delete unwanted items than create wanted ones manually.

Just my 2p.

PS. I'd really, really love an automated Book 6. especially if it's a spreadsheet format that I can tweak with houserules.

[ December 17, 2006, 04:29 AM: Message edited by: Sigg Oddra ]

 

[Icosahedron]

Oops. part of my reply got mixed up with your quote, there.
If I log in as I reply (I rarely log in unless I'm replying to something) I can't preview my post.

 

[Fritz_Brown]

As you found out, the other thread is actually the activeone. (Go figure!) Reply posted there.