Program for Adventures in Space

[grimm182]

Anyone know of a good program to use to track star systems, planets & ships?

I know there are quite a few mobile apps that do something simular with ship combat and trading...but i am really only interested in the layout of a system, its planets and being able to track the players/npc locations.

There seems to be a big increase in VTTs/map makers...but havent came across one that would would for sci-fi!

A sandbox creator type program would be awesome...

[Trenloe]

A sandbox creator type program would be awesome...
Traveller was one of the original sandbox RPGs in terms of the plethora of random generation tables for planets, system, subsectors, etc..

Do a search for "traveller system generator" and you'll get a big long list of generators available for all sorts of things sci-fi. It doesn't matter if some of them are specific to traveller you can make use of them for most sci-fi settings/rulesets.

For example, here is a completely random system generator: https://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/system/

Not sure about "keeping track of ships" - are you wanting to keep track of where a bunch of ships are in the universe or keep track of more details on a ship - such as a merchant and it's trade goods it is currently transporting? If the latter, you should be able to find a Traveller "trade" generator out there that creates a list of what trade goods are available to buy on specific planets, I've seen a program that kept track of what the ship was carrying but can't find it with a quick search - perhaps you might have more success looking...

[grimm182]

Oh yea, the Traveller material is all great stuff! I want something in between Star Control and Freelancer! (i know big request).
Im not looking for a game/rule system, more like a GUI for keeping track of space adventures.

Maybe this is something others need? I smell a kickstarter on the frontier!!
I could see alot of homebrew uses for this. . .

[grimm182]

https://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/system/ Great link BTW.
Is there a place on the forums for these kind of resources? if not there should be. :)

[Griogre]

That is a great site, I've used it for random dungeon map generation and random hex worlds. It really does have some good generators.