Suggestion for someone returning to GURPS

KarlKost · 06-17-2022, 06:40 AM

Worldbuilding Gurps Space.

Step 1: declare the system will have 1 habitable planet.

Step 2: roll the dice for the remaining planets of the system, if you want more random diversity for them.

Besides, I dont know what some people are complaining about "boring empty worlds". An ice desolated or volcanic world need NOT be empty in a Sci Fi setting. Here in our Solar System, in the spam of some decades - one century or two, we may end up colonizing all rocky bodies of our proximity, from Mercury, Venus, Moon and Mars all the way to Pluto, excluding only the gas giants.

"Unhinhabitable" worlds can still have the classic "Domed" colonies, specially if they have some special resource, or if it has some scientific, military, religious/cultural or touristic value.

Those "boring" sterile worlds certanly can be made more interesting if they are made into a military/spy base at the edge of the space with a hostile empire, or if it's a big world with too much gravity or too little, making permanent residence for humans(humanoids) not very pleasing, but instead being a mining/scientific colony of robots (that may be displaying some weird malfunctions lately), an empty and dead ball of dust like our Moon could be the rock that holds the main "Temple of Oof!", therefore there's an endless stream of peregrins and... The agents of an ever concerned Galatic Emperor... An Ice wasteland could be at the crossroads of 5 different Empires, thus being the largest trade hub in the galaxy, or a massive desert world like Mars could mark the place where the Minbari invasion got halted, and thus the central government builds tons of museums and monuments upon it to mark that important moment, turning the world into a massive tourist point, or a desert like Mars could be the site of massive Xenoarcheology excavation sites, or it could be the only planet on a system that is the closest possible safe zone to a black hole, therefore making it the best possible base in the galaxy to study a black hole up close... Anyway, there are limitless pissibilities

06-17-2022, 06:40 AM	#24
KarlKost Join Date: Mar 2017 Location: Brazil	Re: Suggestion for someone returning to GURPS Worldbuilding Gurps Space. Step 1: declare the system will have 1 habitable planet. Step 2: roll the dice for the remaining planets of the system, if you want more random diversity for them. Besides, I dont know what some people are complaining about "boring empty worlds". An ice desolated or volcanic world need NOT be empty in a Sci Fi setting. Here in our Solar System, in the spam of some decades - one century or two, we may end up colonizing all rocky bodies of our proximity, from Mercury, Venus, Moon and Mars all the way to Pluto, excluding only the gas giants. "Unhinhabitable" worlds can still have the classic "Domed" colonies, specially if they have some special resource, or if it has some scientific, military, religious/cultural or touristic value. Those "boring" sterile worlds certanly can be made more interesting if they are made into a military/spy base at the edge of the space with a hostile empire, or if it's a big world with too much gravity or too little, making permanent residence for humans(humanoids) not very pleasing, but instead being a mining/scientific colony of robots (that may be displaying some weird malfunctions lately), an empty and dead ball of dust like our Moon could be the rock that holds the main "Temple of Oof!", therefore there's an endless stream of peregrins and... The agents of an ever concerned Galatic Emperor... An Ice wasteland could be at the crossroads of 5 different Empires, thus being the largest trade hub in the galaxy, or a massive desert world like Mars could mark the place where the Minbari invasion got halted, and thus the central government builds tons of museums and monuments upon it to mark that important moment, turning the world into a massive tourist point, or a desert like Mars could be the site of massive Xenoarcheology excavation sites, or it could be the only planet on a system that is the closest possible safe zone to a black hole, therefore making it the best possible base in the galaxy to study a black hole up close... Anyway, there are limitless pissibilities