ledlogic: 12/2020

Character creation demo

Resources:

Character Sheet | PDF | JPG
Ship Sheet | PDF | JPG

Ships (p. 7):

Row	Class	Description
1	Ancient Tech	Built by an unknown species, these ships are rare and often unique. This class of ship holds many secrets and may be highly sought after by many factions, including warlords, governments, and crime syndicates.
2	Envoy	Built for luxury, these ships are typically decked out with the finest interiors for maximum comfort and style. This class of ship is often used by diplomats and the wealthy, so they’re the prized target of pirates.
3	Freighter	Built for transporting goods, these ships are relatively bulky. This class of ship is typically favored by smugglers and often targeted by pirates.
4	Prototype	Built for a specific purpose, this ship is the only known one of its kind. As a result, it may be highly sought after by many factions, including warlords, governments, and crime syndicates.
5	Science Vessel	Built for deep space voyages, these ships are equipped with the tech and tools to perform all manor of scientific research. This class of ship is typically funded by corporations or governments.
6	Scout	Built for short-range or long-range reconnaissance, this smaller class of ship is typically arrayed with strong sensors and is used by corporations and governments to gather intelligence in unknown regions.
7	Stealth Vessel	Built for covert missions and espionage, this smaller and less noticeable class of ship is often used on missions by governments or military.
8	Warship	Built for battle, these ships fl y faster, have stronger shields, and wield a variety of weaponry. This class of ship is often part of military or peacekeeping forces but is also common among pirates and crime syndicates.

Species (p. 73):

Row	Species	Description
01	Abysseans	Water-breathing humanoids who explore space in exoskeletons.
02	Ananos	Bulky, mole-like creatures tantalized by the treasures found below-ground.
03	Benthosa	Sentient bodies of water composed of the consciousnesses of the life forms within them.
04	Calceans	Mechanical recreations of an extinct species.
05	Cephalons	Gelatinous, tentacled beings that share a symbiotic relationship with their host bodies.
06	Chimaven	Bird-like beings obsessed with the sky.
07	Cimexeans	Insect-like humanoids who share a hive mind.
08	Cumulusareans	A friendly, cloud-like species of artists.
09	Espereans	Psionics advocating for intergalactic peace.
10	Frigoreans	Resurrected humanoids who value equality.
11	Herbaceans	Sentient plants who rarely leave their collectives.
12	Humans	The restless explorers of the cosmos.
13	Informeans	Gelatinous spheres who poop fuel and are super nice to everyone.
14	Loricatoreans	Tiny humanoids who travel the galaxy in android exoskeletons.
15	Mystarians	Nomadic, all-female mystics who wield The Bind.
16	Neozo	Animals given human qualities and, generally, bad attitudes.
17	Pantheros	Once worshiped as gods, now sought for their ability to create energy.
18	Proeleans	Warlike humanoids who seek galactic domination.
19	Pugnarean	Tricksy, technologically-advanced shapeshifters.
20	Quillarians	Tiny bio-organic engineers, healers, and fuzzy hug monsters.
21	Raskog	Sleeping hominids, frozen in time.
22	Reptilnae	Small, reptilian creatures with 360 vision and a flair for blending in.
23	Skitchlings	Mouthless, gangly beings often hired for covert missions or their skills at dance.
24	Sollemneans	Serious, emotionally-cold humanoids.
25	Squillians	Bipedal shrimp originally bred for consumption.
26	Therinians	Intelligent bears who live in peaceful, rule-driven collectives.
27	Throggofel	Diminutive, often-cyborg tinkerers obsessed with technology.
28	Viscoseans	Symbiotic gels looking for a willing host.

Stats (p. 23):

Stat	Description	Verbs
Brains	This stat determines how book-smart a character is, as well as how well they understand and solve intellectual problems.	calculate, confuse, learn, remember, repair, solve
Fight	This stat determines how good a combatant a character is with whatever weapons or fighting skills you decide your character knows. While a character with a high Fight stat won’t be able to pick up a blaster and use it effectively having never fired one before, this stat will make them good with weapons that they have experience with. Also, they’ll be able to learn how to use new weapons and fighting skills more easily if given the proper training.	blast, cut, hit, shoot, parry, punch, wrestle, restrain
Flight	This stat determines how fast a character is on their feet (or whatever they have to move them around the universe). Most importantly, it determines how good they are at piloting ships and all other manner of vehicles.	drive, fly, maneuver, pilot, run, steal
Charm	This stat determines how socially adept a character is and how good they are at reading the emotions of another creature or group of creatures. Characters with a high Charm will be able to talk themselves out of tough situations and into good ones with relative ease—within reason.	convince, entice, lie, seduce, talk, trick, persuade
Grit	This stat determines how hard it is to break a character emotionally or physically. It also determines how much physical damage they can take before feeling it. Characters with a high Grit will be good at rolling with, dodging, and even taking the punches. Finally, Grit also determines how “street-smart” a character is.	brace, dodge, endure, haggle, resist, take a hit, track

Dice (p. 24):

Die	Explanation
d20	Superb
d12	Impressive
d10	Above Average
d8	Below Average
d6	Bad
d4	Terrible

Stat Checks (p. 26):

Difficulty	Explanation
20+	A task at which only the most incredible could even possibly succeed—but if they succeed, it will be one of the most impressive things a creature has ever done. This is a nearly guaranteed failure.
17-19	A task where success would be incredible and impressive. This, too, is a nearly guaranteed failure.
13-16	A task where success is extraordinary—but decidedly possible for those who are truly skilled at it.
10-12	A task where success is impressive—but completely expected for those skilled at it.
7-9	A task where success is certain for those very skilled at it—but not for those who aren’t.
3-6	A task where success is likely for all but those who aren’t skilled or have a low stat in that field.
1-2	A task where success is nearly guaranteed except in extreme cases.

Failure or Success (p. 28):

Result	Guidelines
10 or higher	The character succeeds smoothly and easily.
+5 to +9	The character succeeds quite impressively.
+1 to +4	The character succeeds, but not impressively.
0	The character succeeds but just barely.
-4 to -1	The character fails, but not too badly.
-9 to -5	The failure is bad but not a disaster.
-14 to -10	The failure is profound.
-15 or lower	The failure is staggering and catastrophic.

Tropes (p. 108):

Row	Trope	d20 d12 d10 d8 d6 d4
01	Captain	Grit Brains Flight Charm Fight Brawn
02	Diplomat	Charm Flight Brains Grit Brawn Fight
03	Do-Gooder	Charm Brawn Grit Brains Flight Fight
04	Dreamer	Flight Charm Brains Grit Brawn Fight
05	Engineer	Brains Grit Brawn Flight Fight Charm
06	Exiled Royalty	Flight Brains Charm Fight Brawn Grit
07	Experiment	Fight Brains Flight Grit Brawn Charm
08	Explorer	Grit Flight Brains Brawn Fight Charm
09	Face	Charm Flight Brawn Brains Fight Grit
10	Flyboy	Flight Fight Brains Grit Charm Brawn
11	Hitchhiker	Flight Grit Charm Fight Brains Brawn
12	Lone Survivor	Grit Fight Flight Brawn Brains Charm
13	Medic	Brains Grit Flight Brawn Charm Fight
14	Merc	Fight Grit Brawn Flight Brains Charm
15	Missionary	Brains Charm Grit Flight Brawn Fight
16	Newbie	Flight Charm Brawn Fight Brains Grit
17	Profiteer	Brains Charm Flight Grit Fight Brawn
18	Scholar	Brains Charm Grit Flight Brawn Fight
19	Scoundrel	Charm Grit Flight Brains Fight Brawn
20	Ship-Born	Flight Grit Brawn Charm Brains Fight
21	Soldier	Brawn Fight Grit Brains Charm Flight
22	Tech Wizard	Brains Charm Flight Grit Fight Brawn
23	Traveling Celebrity	Charm Brawn Brains Flight Fight Grit

FTL (p. 9):

Row	FTL Technology	Description
01	Fuel	Convert some kind of incredibly dense or powerful fuel into energy to propel the ship at incredible speeds.
02	Mystical	Draw from some mystical force that binds the universe together to power the engine and propel the ship at incredible speeds.
03	Fold	Fold space itself through some scientific or mystical means.
04	Gates	Travel through “gates” that are set up around the universe for ships to travel through. These gates could have been created by society, could have just mysteriously appeared, or could have existed for as long as anyone can remember.
05	Fictional	Exploit weird, totally fictional loopholes in physics that definitely wouldn’t work, like traveling through a black hole or using the gravity of stars to propel them. As long as you’re having fun, the science doesn’t matter.
06	Unknown	Push a button and have it work—who cares how!

Tao Zero: Fuel (hydrogen scramjet).
Star Trek: Fuel (Anti-matter+matter / deuterium).
Dark Matter: special PCI-E bus card: assumed Fictional
Star Wars' hyperspace: a type of folding space (jumping to another space/dimension).
Babylon 5: gates, but some ships also have gates.
Dune: folding

Math:

Ties: Ties go to the defender.
Exploding dice: If you roll the maximum possible number on a die, it allows you to reroll and add the result.
Modifiers do not explosed.
Planned action: use one-half the die.

Using IP to enhance stats (p. 17):

Enhancement	IP Cost
+1	1
+2	1 + 2 = 3
+3	1 + 2 + 3 = 6
+4	1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10

Glossary:

IP: Improvement Points (p. 17)

References:

What I tire of in new technologies, is when examples are made that are supposedly so simple, but then you go to run them and they fail. For example Spring Boot in Action, if you run this example on Windows using Java 1.8.x, it will fail. There is an error. I really wish documentation could live on its own without requiring access to Professor Snape's comments regarding how to actually perform the experiment. Spring in Action (page 28):

1. Java version

>gradle bootRun
> Task :compileJava FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':compileJava'.
> Could not target platform: 'Java SE 11' using tool chain: 'JDK 8 (1.8)'.

Which is weird, since on the gradle site, the instructions state that install should only be run on Java 1.8+. Spring boot also mentions 1.8 solution. https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/1.3.0.RELEASE/reference/htmlsingle/ Running any of the help options doesn't present solutions. If you look at the build.gradle it has only:

group = 'com.example'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = '11'

So modifying the build.gradle, including a new parameter for targetCompatibility, and setting both the sourceCompatibility and targetCompatibility to 1.8, then it worked.

sourceCompatibility = '1.8'
targetCompatibility = '1.8'

Later I installed Java 11 for eclipse 2020-09 compatibility.

2. Java version

Later on, on page 35, it discusses running

mvn dependency:tree

But nowhere have we been instruction to install maven yet, and it fails.

3. Implicit maxlength

Chapter two example, the booklist has a hidden issue, there is apparently a maximum length on the description field, although there is no automatic validation to let the user know that. I tried entering the specs for Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change and it will fail with a non-descript message, below.

Whitelabel Error Page
This application has no explicit mapping for /error, so you are seeing this as a fallback.

Sat Dec 12 11:27:21 CST 2020
There was an unexpected error (type=Internal Server Error, status=500).

It is not clear where this gradle-launched tomcat is storing its logs so at least I could look up the exception that occured. But trial and error made me convinced there is an arbitrary length limit on the description field. This string is only 506 characters, is there a 255 limit OOB? Anyhow, change the input to onl the first sentence, it works.

The software development ecosystem is constantly changing, providing a constant stream of new tools, frameworks, techniques, and paradigms. Over the past few years, incremental developments in core engineering practices for software development have created the foundations for rethinking how architecture changes over time, along with ways to protect important architectural characteristics as it evolves. This practical guide ties those parts together with a new way to think about architecture and time.

4. Remove Junit errors

If you upgrade sprint boot... such as I did to try to get a good version of spring that I could run in eclipse, I updated to spring-boot-2.4. I needed to add this the maven pom:

  <dependency>
    <groupId>junit</groupId>
    <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>

5. Remove deprecation warnings

Follow the instructions on baeldung.

6. Thymeleaf warnings

To remove thymeleaf html namespace warnings in the sample code, append Thymeleaf namespace attributes to the html tag:

  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org"
    xmlns:sec="http://www.thymeleaf.org">

7. BR and HR element warnings

  <!doctype html>

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