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State of the Base

January 5, 2023 BeRKA Leave a comment

Welcome, gentlesophonts, to the State of the Base!

Are you waiting for the Zhodani Base awards? You just have to wait a little longer.

So, what happened at the Zhodani base in 2022?

The big thing is that Berka got addicted to AI. Berka now generates lots of images for adventures, for other ideas, or just for fun, mostly using Midjourney. Even for this post, Berka generated me.

Unfortunately, this means that Berka has less time for everything else that should be done.

Berka has also generated adventures using chatGPT, and generated many images for the Cepheus Journal.

Other than that, the year started out with a lot of silly memes.

Later, The Zhodani Base got its own YouTube episode at page 121.

Then, some programming was done, and now you can add routes in the subsector maps when using the subsector editor.

What else? Berka got a new job in September. Hopefully, that will not affect the Zhodani Base too much.

Please follow the Zhodani Base at Facebook or Mewe, for fun and interesting stuff that will not be posted here at the Zhodani Base website.

You must also have a look at the Zhodani language classes that you can find on Lulu. Berka made the Zhodani font for these books.

Looking forward to 2023. Let’s hope it will be a good year!

And remember, All your base, are belong to us.

Mapping, Rules, The Base

You can now add routes

May 12, 2022 BeRKA 2 Comments

You can now add routes when using the Traveller RPG Subsector Editor. Just follow the instructions. (This also works at the Cepheus Engine and Hostile subsector editors at the Cepheus Journal website.)

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Then this happened

Video March 31, 2022 BeRKA Leave a comment

So much love.

Two other thinks to look at while you are here are all the Free Adventures and the Subsector Generator and Editor.

Adventures, Rules, Starships, The Base, Traveller

Zhodani Base Awards 2021

January 1, 2022 BeRKA Leave a comment

Welcome to the Zhodani Base Awards 2021! 2021 has been a strange year. For Traveller products it was another good year. Lots of new stuff from the small publishers (and Mongoose).

The first category is “Best Cover“. The nominees are:

The winner of the “Best Cover” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2021 is: Hostile Rules from Zozer Games.

There were lots of Traveller products with nice covers this year. I really like the Droyne on the cover of the Wagner Incident, but Hostile Rules is so green and stylish. Lots of love for all nice covers.

Next category is “Best Fanzine or Online Magazine“. The nominees are:

The winner of the “Best Fanzine/Online Magazine” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2021 is: Freelance Traveller.

Freelance Traveller has once again proved that they are the best fanzine by publishing bimestrial issues with lots of good contents for free.

Freelance Traveller has won this category every year since 2011!

Next category is “Best Adventure“. The nominees are:

The winner of the “Best Adventure” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2021 is: Deepnight Revelation from Mongoose.

There were lots of fine Traveller Adventures for different settings published. I really liked the price of Death Station, but Deepnight Revelation is just amazing.

Next category is “Best Ship or Deckplan“. The nominees are:

The winner of the “Best Ship or Deckplan” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2021 is: Rivington Class Medium Transport from Moon Toad Publishing.

There were lots of fine ships for Traveller published this year. I like the idea of a Carrier, since then you can run Space: Above and Beyond games, but the coolest and most useful design was the Rivington Class Medium Transport.

Next category is “Best ATU Product“. The nominees are:

The winner of the “Best ATU Product” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2021 is: Cepheus Deluxe from Stellagama Publishing.

This category always make me happy since you can always find so many cool ideas, settings, and useful books.

Next category is “Best OTU Product“. The nominees are:

The winner of the “Best OTU Product” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2021 is: Traveller: Explorer’s Edition from Mongoose.

Mongoose continues to churn out good quality products for the OTU. What I really like about the winner is the price.

A final bonus category this year is “Best Free or Pay What You Want Traveller Product“. The nominees are:

The winner of the “Best Free or Pay What You Want Traveller Product” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2021 is: Death Station from Mongoose.

There were a lot of great free products this year. In 2021, I am happy that a great adventure from Mongoose is free.

Now, go and download all of the free Traveller Products. Why? They are free!

Mapping, The Base, Traveller

Subsector editor

March 26, 2021 BeRKA 4 Comments

With the new mapper for the Random Subsector Generator, I could also build a Subsector Editor and Mapper.

The editor still has some limitations. It is very picky with the format. I may figure out a way to add routes and borders later.

Mapping, The Base, Traveller

New style for the Random Subsector Generator

March 21, 2021 BeRKA Leave a comment

The Random Subsector Generator has been updated. It now outputs an image in PNG format instead of ASCII.

Old and New Style — Old style to the left | New style to the right

The new style outputs a quite large image, 2066px × 2922px. The hexes are big enough include UWP and Trade Class. I have used a purple colour for UWP and Trade Class so that this extra information won’t stand out to much.

For the new style there are 10 types of planets. These are the same types that are used in the Traveller Universe program.

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