Mongoose 2nd: World Builder's Handbook
| World Builder's Handbook | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Author | Geir Lanesskog | ||
| Publisher | Mongoose Publishing | ||
| Version | Mongoose 2nd | ||
| Format | |||
| Language | English | ||
| Pages | 256 | ||
| Year Published | 2023 | ||
| Canonical | Yes | ||
| Available from | DriveThru RPG, Mongoose | ||
| MGP40100 | |||
World Builder's Handbook is a Mongoose 2nd source book from Mongoose Publishing.
The World Builder's Handbook is a toolset for expanding a world or star system into a fully realised place to explore. It includes procedures for determining the type and location of a system's significant stars and worlds, an expansion of mainworld generation and rules for determining the physical and social characteristics of the star system's other worlds.
This handbook is both comprehensive and modular, with procedures designed to allow the Referee to focus on the important aspects of a world or system's characteristics. The World Builder's Handbook includes knowledge gained from the thousands of exoplanetary systems discovered, and covers habitable and hostile worlds, moons, gas giants, twilight worlds and guidelines for the Referee to describe what Travellers can see in the skies above these worlds. It allows a Referee to create star systems from scratch or expand existing information to refine a world's character.
Also included are checklists, forms, examples, and the procedures and equipment used by the Imperial Interstellar Scout Service to survey and record information in the Charted Space universe, and a glossary of astronomical terms.
Credits[edit]
- Author
- Geir Lanesskog
- Developer
- Matthew Sprange
- Layout and Graphic Design
- Sandrine Thirache
- Illustrations
- Shane Watson (cover and illustrations), Quentin Soubrouillard, Gary Trow, Lucas Bonatto Guerrini, Sergio Villa, Mark Graham
- Proofing
- Charlotte Law
Table of Contents[edit]
| Mongoose 2nd: XXX | |
|---|---|
| Section | Page |
| Introduction | 2 |
| IISS Overview | 7 |
| Stars | 14 |
| System Worlds and Orbits | 36 |
| World Physical Characteristics | 69 |
| World Social Characteristics | 147 |
| Special Circumstances | 219 |
| Equipment | 235 |
| Glossary | 244 |
| Checklists | 246 |
| Designer's Notes | 255 |