GURPS Spaceships Series

[David L Pulver]

Originally Posted by ericbsmith

All good news, though that pretty much wraps up the current plans for the Spaceships series. Might I humbly suggest a GURPS Spaceships 9: Traveller? Covering both the Interstellar Wars and GURPS 3e Eras would be nice.

A formal, official SPACESHIPS book would be a tricky conversion, though: since every +2 SM is a 10 fold mass (and presumably volume) increase, it's hard to maintain some of the canonical relationships of ship classes. E.g., 400, 600, 800, and 1000 d-ton ships would blur together. This is an issue because the ships have 30+ years of familiarity and people are attached to them (and they're often depicted in extent deck plans) and many adventures and economic edifices have apparently been constructed around their precise sizes and exact costs. On a less formal level, I did do a JTAS article suggesting rule-of-thumb conversions, and others have also taken a stab at it.

It *would* be possible to get much closer using the same system but with a somewhat finer grain of hull sizes, but that would be incompatible with the existing series, though it might make a fine system for a dedicated Traveller revision.