Spaceships and "jumping"

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Re: Spaceships and "jumping"

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Gizbotvas wrote:I am looking for advice regarding a new spaceship-focused campaign regarding "jumping", "hyperspace","folding space" or whatever you call spaceships teleporting. I thought I would find what I was looking for in the Robotech Sourcebook because they "fold space" in the Tv series, but I found no rules governing this.

Can anyone point me to a resource or quote the rules governing this concept? If no rules exist, have any of you ever GM-ed a space-themed-campaign where you have house rules for this? I am a seasoned Palladium GM looking for advice as I don't normally GM science fiction.


Rifts Phase World has rules for Phase Drives (Aka, Warp), Gravatonic drives (AKA, simply moving FTL by warping the speed/energy relationship), Rift Drives (Magical hyperspace), and some rules for Fold Space if I remember right.
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Re: Spaceships and "jumping"

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Gizbotvas wrote:I am looking for advice regarding a new spaceship-focused campaign regarding "jumping", "hyperspace","folding space" or whatever you call spaceships teleporting. I thought I would find what I was looking for in the Robotech Sourcebook because they "fold space" in the Tv series, but I found no rules governing this.

Can anyone point me to a resource or quote the rules governing this concept? If no rules exist, have any of you ever GM-ed a space-themed-campaign where you have house rules for this? I am a seasoned Palladium GM looking for advice as I don't normally GM science fiction.


I have some questions that could help answer your own.

Why do you need to know this?

Does the specifics really matter?

Currently it's all theory; no one can perform any of the listed travel types you have said. Why not just make something up, like "they have the space travel equivalent of a flux capacitor"?


I do want to know why you want to know though.
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