Author’s Notes
for Sting (Sword Wolds 0705)
This write-up is based on campaign notes reaching back over several years. As I am an MT player rather than GURPS I have not used or any of the new GURPS:Traveller stuff … and may even contradict minor points in GURPS:Traveller products like Behind The Claw. This is not a comment on GURP:Traveller or any of its supplements.
Because it is from my campaign, it uses MegaTraveller rules (where applicable) and is set in the ‘classic’ era. Although it is set ‘IMTU’ I have tried to match all canon sources I could find (see note about GURPS:Traveller in the paragraph above). Other info comes from TNE and Rob Eaglestone’s trade rules (available at Downport.com).
Other influences are:
- The political situation in “Castle Keitel” (an adventure for the Lace & Steel RPG)
- The VMV situation on Joyeuse comes from the Star Rebel books by FM Busby
- The Council of Counts reference comes from the Miles Vorkosigan books by Lois McMaster Bujold
- The food ideas are a mix of “Dining On Babylon 5” and the “Viking Campaign Sourcebook” (for AD&D 2nd Ed).
Oh, and a German-English, English-German Dictionary. I wanted Icelandic but couldn’t find one in my local shop, so I had to make do.
Politics
In 1106 Baron Hermann Karlstad met and married the Lady Tasha Hemorven, an Imperial refugee from a civil war on her own world (Hazel/Trin’s Veil). The Lady Hemorven, now Baroness Karlstad, brought with her a fully grown son … Reina (now Reina Hemorven-Karlstad). It had been assumed that Pitr would be the one to inherit control of House Karlstad, but the appearance of the Lady Tasha and Reina has changed that (and of course there are tensions).
References
| Stats | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | UPP | Source |
| 1105 | B645896-A B GG Sw --- | Supplement 3 |
| 1107 | B645896-A M 302 Bw M0V | Spinward Marches Campaign |
| 1117 | B645896-A M 302 Bw M0V | Regency Sourcebook |
| 1202 | B645887-B M 402 Re M0V | Regency Sourcebook |