On 5/27/2019 6:38 PM, Postmark (via tml list) wrote:
> It can’t be done.
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> If you assume that the Type S is a flat triangle about 3m thick with sloping side pods holding the fuel, then the deck plans from S7:Traders and Gunboats work fine.
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> The problem is trying to make it look like a scaled down star destroyer from Star Wars - the sloping roof just does not work and a J2 ship does not have enough fuel tank volume to fill the gaps, so all the interior space ends up with sloping floors and ceilings at the edges.
Bingo. That's about what I figured.
Sloping ceilings - or even decks - are okay. You can put a bunk there and it would still be a usable furnishing item, so long as you didn't try to also use as a sofa. My problem is with deckplans that put a desk and chair (or a counter or anything else requiring semi-normal clearance) along that edge. And I'm also okay with a "bridge" that's a slightly-enlarged cockpit with a cramped center aisle, whose flooring lifts up to reveal a really cramped crawlspace accessing the avionics.
But most floorplans seem to believe that even a very small ship must be laid out like a liner. Maybe it's an effect of "old school" dungeon maps (and their modern descendants the 5E/Pathfinder battle mats), which tend to oversize everything because the artists feel that realistically-scaled depictions are just too cramped?
BTW, the text of the Supplement 7 entry for the Type S says "[t]he staterooms [####] are large and spacious, an essential consideration when the crew may be forced to spend long hours together."
Uh huh. :P