Difference between revisions of "ToolSet"

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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.

Description (Specifications)

The T5 Core Rules contains ToolSets for the following:

ArmorMaker
CharGen
CreatureMaker (In version 5.09, "BeastMaker")
GunMaker
RobotMaker
ShipMaker
ThingMaker
Traveller Sophont Creation System (SophontMaker)
VehicleMaker
WorldMaker AKA T5 WorldMaker

External Link/s

EXTERNAL LINK: Armor & Gun Maker at Traveller5.net
EXTERNAL LINK: Omni Vehicle Maker at Traveller5.net (Ground Vehicles, Flyers, Watercraft, and Military Vehicles)
EXTERNAL LINK: Plant Generator at Traveller5.net
EXTERNAL LINK: Robot Maker at Traveller5.net
EXTERNAL LINK: Vehicle Maker at Traveller5.net
EXTERNAL LINK: Word Generator at Traveller5.net
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 Mongoose Publishing 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

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 === External Link/s ===
+# EXTERNAL LINK: [http://traveller5.net/tools/makers/gunmaker.html Armor & Gun Maker at Traveller5.net]
 # EXTERNAL LINK: [http://traveller5.net/tools/makers/omni_vehicle_maker.html Omni Vehicle Maker at Traveller5.net] (Ground Vehicles, Flyers, Watercraft, and Military Vehicles)
+# EXTERNAL LINK: [http://traveller5.net/tools/t5plants.cgi Plant Generator at Traveller5.net]
+# EXTERNAL LINK: [http://traveller5.net/tools/robot-maker.cgi Robot Maker at Traveller5.net]
 # EXTERNAL LINK: [http://traveller5.net/tools/makers/vehiclemaker.html Vehicle Maker at Traveller5.net]
-# EXTERNAL LINK: [http://traveller5.net/tools/makers/gunmaker.html Armor & Gun Maker at Traveller5.net]
+# EXTERNAL LINK: [http://traveller5.net/tools/vilanitools.html Word Generator at Traveller5.net]
-# EXTERNAL LINK: [http://traveller5.net/tools/robot-maker.cgi Robot Maker at Traveller5.net]
-# EXTERNAL LINK: [http://traveller5.net/tools/t5plants.cgi Plant Generator at Traveller5.net]
-# EXTERNAL LINK: [http://traveller5.net/tools/vilanitools.html Word Generator at Traveller5.net] ()
 # EXTERNAL LINK: [http://traveller5.net/tools/worldbuilder/ World Builder at Traveller5.net]