I wrote this up in 2021 and I always wanted to add to it.
I decided to do that today.
Give it a shot!
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Does your ship have a Pet? (revised)
I decided to do that today.
Give it a shot!
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Does your ship have a Pet? (revised)
That's neat! You should write that up.Standard chargen deal I have, each player chooses a pet or used robot, an ex-love interest, and closest relative for each character.
Not sure what that is...I would prefer either a Hoobat
Which forum and what format/content would you like to see?That's neat! You should write that up.
Muffit was the best!
A Hoobat figures in Andre Norton's Solar Queen series, and plays a prominent part in the second book, Plague Ship, in ridding the Solar Queen of a particularly dangerous pest.That's neat! You should write that up.
Muffit was the best!
Not sure what that is...
Plague Ship can be downloaded at Project Gutenberg. It make for excellent reading on how I envision a Free Trader operating, and the interaction between Free Traders and established lines.a nightmare combination of crab, parrot and toad, wearing a blue feather coating and inclined to scream and spit at all comers.
I think an “animal with a translator” would be regarded legally (and probably culturally) more like a robot with animal-2 skill for behavioral + care analysis attached to the animal than the animal itself speaking.On the pet front, I am assuming we have at least learned to talk to animals so there are translators, maybe even surgeries to make them capable of human vocalization.
Side effect is they sometimes get lawyers, people have a hard time with eating animals that can talk so a lot more carniculture for protein, a lot of land use has moved off from feeding herds at higher techs, and animal sitcom holoshows are a thing.
I also have NuPets of the genetically uplifted sort, but that’s really expensive and problematic.
Some people just get normal pets because they don’t want to deal with actually talking to them.
On bots, I use primarily LBB8 and the idea is that the ten year ‘lifespan’ of robots means quite a large used bot market. That means people can afford depreciated robots which they use for various personal assistants or in some cases as the primary creditwinner.
Since they are older, the bots are picking up quirks which allow for the sort of second storyline hijinx I mentioned.
And either have an innate reflex to, or be very easy to train to, seek shelter or a suitable pressure suit if they notice a drop in air pressure.shipboard pets probably would be small, not use a lot of food/water/oxygen and possibly capable of hibernating if those got low.
I think it should go in:Which forum and what format/content would you like to see?
By format I mean content and structure.I think it should go in:
In My Traveller Universe
or
Referee's Lounge
Format? Text is probably best, I think. Maybe PDF.
Telepathic would be cool!
Telepathically linked and will rip your face off if you mess with his human.That is one creepy fur thing.
Which ever you feel comfortable with. I mean, it's a House rule, right?By format I mean content and structure.
Article? Hard rules? Casual like my above post or tightened up to semipro? Lists of things sample pets? Gen tables?
Very -- but somewhat suspect in a late Third Imperium context...Telepathic would be cool!
... which raises the question of what sort of pressure suit we're talking about here*.a suitable pressure suit