WorldGen and Native Intelligent Life (NIL)

[mmarquee]

Hi

In the WorldGen chapter of T5, it mentions Native Intelligent Life, on pages 431 and 436. I can't see any probabilities or rolls associated with this. Is it an arbitary choice?

What would it look like in the extended UWP?

Thanks

Mark

 

[Jazzlvraz]

Is it an arbitary choice?

Not so much a choice, as it is just following p.436. Most systems will end up with something, in my experience so far.

What would it look like in the extended UWP?

The way I've done it, stealing from the Traveller Map format, is to append NIL to the "TC and Rem" entry. For example:

"Ni Ag Na [Set]"

One can pretty easily boil all the NIL values down to three-character codes and tuck them in as remarks.

 

[robject]

I don't put them in the UWP! Potentially too much data, and paradoxically, not enough data, at the same time. In other words, clutter.

If one of these critters are important enough to be mentioned, then they should have a bit of text on them, and preferably more than that. If they're not important enough for that, then they're not worth mentioning -- at least not in an interstellar economic sense.

 

[Jazzlvraz]

In other words, clutter.

I agree about clutter, but the extended UWP, in my case, is part of my Excel-based generator, which records everything known about the system per T5 rules-as-written. This then allows the Referee to make his own decisions about what to make public to his players, or where to work up his own more-detailed notes.

 

[robject]

I agree about clutter, but the extended UWP, in my case, is part of my Excel-based generator, which records everything known about the system per T5 rules-as-written. This then allows the Referee to make his own decisions about what to make public to his players, or where to work up his own more-detailed notes.

AH. Well in that case, yes of course. Even Marc's spreadsheet records NIL presence.

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

Indeed.

I agree about clutter, but the extended UWP, in my case, is part of my Excel-based generator, which records everything known about the system per T5 rules-as-written. This then allows the Referee to make his own decisions about what to make public to his players, or where to work up his own more-detailed notes.

and it creates a giant sized file too, but very cool.