ToolSet

A ToolSet is a Traveller game mechanic, an organized system for generating game components other than player characters.

• The player character generator is known as CharGen.
• ToolSets exist as hardcopy in-rulebook creation sequences and as automated, online utility programs.

Library Data Referral Tree

Please see the following AAB Library Data files for related information:
Traveller Core Support Sites:

1. FFE Homepage
2. Traveller RPG Wiki
3. Traveller Map
4. Traveller5 World Builder

Description (Specifications)

The T5 Core Rules contains ToolSets for the following functions:

1. ArmorMaker
2. CharGen
3. CreatureMaker (In version 5.09, "BeastMaker")
4. GunMaker
5. PlantMaker
6. RobotMaker
7. ShipMaker
8. ThingMaker
9. Traveller Sophont Creation System (SophontMaker)
10. VehicleMaker
11. WordMaker
12. WorldMaker AKA T5 WorldMaker

External Link/s

1. EXTERNAL LINK: Armor & Gun Maker at Traveller5.net
2. EXTERNAL LINK: Omni Vehicle Maker at Traveller5.net (Ground Vehicles, Flyers, Watercraft, and Military Vehicles)
3. EXTERNAL LINK: Plant Generator at Traveller5.net
4. EXTERNAL LINK: Robot Maker at Traveller5.net
5. EXTERNAL LINK: Traveller5 World Builder
6. EXTERNAL LINK: Traveller Worlds: Maps & Systems
7. EXTERNAL LINK: Vehicle Maker at Traveller5.net
8. EXTERNAL LINK: Word Generator at Traveller5.net
9. EXTERNAL LINK: World Builder at Traveller5.net

History & Background (Dossier)

CharGen and various simulators for making various things across a broad spectrum from NPCs to objects to armor to weaponry to vehicles to starships and more have been a consistent feature of the game since 1977.

Many ToolSets have been converted into online calculators and similar programs.

The Perils of CharGen

Traveller is very well known for the possibility of a character being killed before it leaves CharGen. Some might say infamous...

Goofy Gearheadery

Starship and vehicle generation, in many cases, grew quite complex and became known as gearheadery with the self-obsessed fans becoming known as gearheads.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), 537-630.
• Robert Eaglestone. Xboat 1 (Robert Eaglestone, 2019), TBD. (Xboat 01)
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science