RAW says spike drive jump 'distance' doesn't have to match IRL distance but changing that isn't going to make a difference in play, and straight up parsecs seem to give about the right range of numbers based on a cursory glance.įiguring out how to display the 3d nature of local space to your players is a bit more difficult (which is of course why SWN uses hexes in the first place) but you can do it if you are willing to put the work in. You've got distances between stars, you can just round to the nearest parsec or something and use that number as what the 'number of hexes' would be.

You just need a number ranging from 1 to 6, mostly in the 1-3 range, to indicate the jump range and set travel time and roll difficulty. The hex map is just a simple and easy way to handle distances clearly, but mechanically, spike drive drills are point-to-point and what matters is the length.normally in hexes but it doesn't have to be. You can't really put 3d spaces in 2d without losing, well, depth.īut.if you want to play SWN you don't actually have to use the hex map. You can also look at truncated octahedrons to see it a bit closer. You can think of the hexes as spheres and then look at stacks of cannon balls to see something akin to how they exist in 3d space. OPTION THREE: panic as hexes pushed into 3d dont make a lot of sense to our brains but we can try to get a better sense by looking at hexagonal close packing (hcp). OPTION TWO: Assume that sector maps are not charts of physical space, but rather connective meta dimensional distances. Coming back from that z=(-1) to z=(0) would be standard one. One system that was at z=(1) would mean getting to an 'adjacent' x,y system with a z=(-1) system would require two hexes of travel. This way you see the x/y across the general galactic plane, but can factor in and pretty easily see variance in height.

Then, for travel using z axis i would tend to round down distances (unless you really want to break out each unit of fuel into smaller measurements).

OPTION ONE: I'd do the normal hex map for x,y length / width, and then asign +/- values of 'hexes' to represent z height. However, these releases aren't SWN specific, and contain supplements to various Sine Nomine publications. The following additions are set within the same SWN universe and follow the same lore, but the included books are intended for Other Dust campaigns which are set on earth about 350 years before the events of SWN (but around 185 years after the scream hit).Įvery once in a while, a free journal is published with additional content supplements such as roll tables, items, or new classes. Got a question about rules or lore in your campaign? Feel free to ask it here! ) Welcome to /r/SWN, a subreddit dedicated to all things Stars Without Number!

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