Sounds awesome!

Share a pic of it hanging on your wall when you get it!

45 minutes ago, Kainrath said:

Sounds awesome!

Share a pic of it hanging on your wall when you get it!

I plan to use it as a play surface - but definitely will share a pic

Updated to v1.8

Added Arbooine

Galaxy Map v1.8

On 5/2/2017 at 10:10 AM, Kainrath said:

It is not, but I will absolutely add it! I know it's near Tatooine in the Arkanis Sector, but beyond that I will have to do some research...

I may end up just having to make an educated guess on where exactly it's located...

Any input would be appreciated!

Sounds like as good of an educated guess as anyone can make Kainrath, Thanks again for all the work you put into this.

On 3.5.2017 at 2:26 AM, Kainrath said:

Updated to v1.8

Added Arbooine

Galaxy Map v1.8

Does this exist in an even better resolution ?

Would be interesting for printing a large 1-2m vinyl print of the map to use as a table cloth or similiar.

2 hours ago, Gelanin said:

Does this exist in an even better resolution ?

Would be interesting for printing a large 1-2m vinyl print of the map to use as a table cloth or similiar.

I'll look at it tonight when I get home and see what I can do...

but I think that's as big as it gets

16 minutes ago, Kainrath said:

I'll look at it tonight when I get home and see what I can do...

but I think that's as big as it gets

The best option for the long term would be to convert it to vectors. The Star field background would be a pain but the rest wouldn't be too bad.

14 minutes ago, robus said:

The best option for the long term would be to convert it to vectors. The Star field background would be a pain but the rest wouldn't be too bad.

I'll look into how to do that (it's not something I know much about)

This thing is more than large enough to print as is, IMHO. I got mine done at Staples at just over 60% and it's still about a third larger than a standard game map/poster. Mine is about 46.5" x 30" (almost 1.2 m x .76m) wide and at full size is 70" x 45" IIRC (about 1.77m x 1.14m). I had to shrink mine down to fit the wall space I had and it's plenty big enough for us.

On 5/2/2017 at 10:18 AM, robus said:

Just ordered a Vivyx ( https://www.vivyxprinting.com/ ) print of version 1.7 (on grommetless waterproof vinyl) (only $14 for 32" x 21" exc. shipping).

Thanks for the heads up on this! I'm trying the vinyl option and that was a great site! Very easy to work with and great prices. I'll post my thoughts after I get it. I also made a playmat sized one with the mouse pad foam that I like but now it needs to be updated and this is half the price and a little bigger.

I'll have it on me at Gen Con on Saturday if you want to check it out- I'll be at the JW room 105 running Edge of the Empire.

On 5/9/2017 at 9:26 AM, Frankosis said:

Thanks for the heads up on this! I'm trying the vinyl option and that was a great site! Very easy to work with and great prices. I'll post my thoughts after I get it. I also made a playmat sized one with the mouse pad foam that I like but now it needs to be updated and this is half the price and a little bigger.

I just realized I never commented on this! The 32"x21" map exceeded my expectations. It looks very clear and the planet names are easily readable across a game table. I recommend this option.

3 hours ago, Frankosis said:

I just realized I never commented on this! The 32"x21" map exceeded my expectations. It looks very clear and the planet names are easily readable across a game table. I recommend this option.

Do you have any pictures of it in action?

I updated the map (added the planet Gigor) and I've finally finished an index of all the planets and their grid coordinates, but I'm not sure how best to implement it.
At the moment I just have it in an Open Office Spreadsheet, but I'd like to either attach the names/coordinates directly to the map (extend the right side and add them there) or have a separate file that lists everything in one place...

Any ideas on how best to do this?

Seeing as how PDFs can contain more than one page, why not an alphabetical list of planets and their coordinates on the subsequent pages.

22 minutes ago, Kainrath said:

<snip> I've finally finished an index of all the planets and their grid coordinates, <snip>
At the moment I just have it in an Open Office Spreadsheet, but I'd like to either attach the names/coordinates directly to the map (extend the right side and add them there) or have a separate file that lists everything in one place... <snip>

7 minutes ago, Kallabecca said:

Seeing as how PDFs can contain more than one page, why not an alphabetical list of planets and their coordinates on the subsequent pages.

Is the map even available as a PDF? I thought it was only available as jpg?

I think that having a nicely formatted PDF (or jpg) of the names/coordinates would be nice as a player handout, but as a GM, I'd be very happy to have a Spreadsheet version that I could sort or add to as my campaigns require.

Thank you very much for your work on this resource!

11 minutes ago, admutt said:

Is the map even available as a PDF? I thought it was only available as jpg?

I think that having a nicely formatted PDF (or jpg) of the names/coordinates would be nice as a player handout, but as a GM, I'd be very happy to have a Spreadsheet version that I could sort or add to as my campaigns require.

Thank you very much for your work on this resource!

I can make the map available as something different than a jpg if that would be useful...?

HERE 's a link to the spreadsheet (openoffice format)

4 minutes ago, Kainrath said:

I can make the map available as something different than a jpg if that would be useful...?

HERE 's a link to the spreadsheet (openoffice format)

I'm happy with the jpg.

Thanks for the link to the spreadsheet! I'm going to see about using that to calculate galactic distances for my house-rules on Astrogation.

3 minutes ago, admutt said:

I'm happy with the jpg.

Thanks for the link to the spreadsheet! I'm going to see about using that to calculate galactic distances for my house-rules on Astrogation.

You’re welcome!

What sort of Astrogation house rules have you come up with?

2 minutes ago, Kainrath said:

What sort of Astrogation house rules have you come up with?

The time and consumables part of Astrogation was bugging me, so I'm looking at adopting a system where each sector (x,y coordinate) of space represents a fixed amount of time to travel within (or across). Looking at Fly Casual, there's a table that indicates it takes 5.5 days to travel from Coruscant to Tatooine using the Corellian Run Hyperspace Lane and a Class 1 Hyperdrive. I'm interpreting the "routes" ("lanes") to just be safer, not necessarily faster, so given that a ship needs to cross through 13 sectors to make the trip, that's approximately 10 hours per sector (given a 24 hour galactic standard day).

So, a class 2 hyperdrive would double that time, a class 3 triple it, and so on.

I'm also approaching the Astrogation check from the perspective of "You make it to your destination within your planned time frame, but at what cost?" (Yes, I won't be changing the time - why derail the plot/story that the players are chasing by telling them they got lost or are too late?)

So instead, on the Astrogation check, once they've exited hyperspace at their destination (that distinction is important), I'm thinking that failure will result in 1 outstanding System Strain (with each uncancelled failure resulting in an additional System Strain), threat would be reflected as Hull Trauma, and each Despair would require a Critical Hit roll.

Yes, there's a real possibility that the ship is incapacitated once it reaches the destination, but the plot/story could go on (with complications) and meanwhile the GM and the players get to add some narration to their hyperspace travel - did something blow on the ship? Did they discover sabotage? A stowaway? Did they drop out of hyperspace for recalculations only to be attacked by pirates?

Also, positive results on the Astrogation check would work to repair outstanding System Strain (uncancelled successes) and Hull Trauma (advantages) and allow rolls to repair Critical Hits (triumphs). All of this should also be narrated, of course.

Meanwhile, having calculated the number of sectors the trip is going to take them through makes it easier to track consumables (which, in my campaigns, will include fuel cells).

So, screwing up an Astrogation roll will automatically increase the credit costs of the journey (RAW, repairs are 500 credits per HT. SS and CH should factor this in). And getting the Astrogation roll right will likely benefit the party, specially if their ship was already in need of some repairs.

This is still in it's infancy, but I've been using a similar setup for wilderness travel in one of my campaigns where the party is exploring a sparsely-populated world looking for lost force-artefacts and it's working well. (Strain, Wounds and Critical Injuries on a personal scale.)

21 hours ago, Kainrath said:

I updated the map (added the planet Gigor)

The previous link that 1.8 was at isn't working, care to post up the new version?

29 minutes ago, GroggyGolem said:

The previous link that 1.8 was at isn't working, care to post up the new version?

Not sure which link you mean...?

the one on my original post appears to be working

Not for me 404 error

31 minutes ago, MonCal said:

Not for me 404 error

Confirm for me which link is not working, cause I’ve tried it on a few different devices and it’s working.

actually, try this one and let’s see if it works

Galaxy Map 1.9

1 hour ago, Kainrath said:

Confirm for me which link is not working, cause I’ve tried it on a few different devices and it’s working.

actually, try this one and let’s see if it works

Galaxy Map 1.9

I'm not that person. For me both this link and the jpeg linked from that site load perfectly.

The new link is working great now, thanks!