(whoops, dropped part of the message)
So, does anybody have any ideas?
Travel time will be important, since I'm working on tables for the
interstellar travel that makes travel more than a passive "you didn't
misjump timeskip" that many people treat it as.

On 11/12/17, Amber Witherspoon <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> My brain attached itself to a "Spelljammer" type Traveller setting.
> For those who don't know, Spelljammer was an AD&D setting that
> connected all their settings via a fantastic cosmology based on
> crystal spheres that held systems and an ether like substance that
> flowed in currents between them.
> Right now, I'm looking at something similar - magical sailing ships
> traveling between systems on ether currents, with the ether currents
> stacked in layers that occasionally connect (thus allowing 3d space to
> be shown as a series of 2d maps).
> Right now, I'm trying to figure out a mapping system that allows for
> random generation of systems and currents that doesn't create a mess.
> Currently (hah!), I know I want systems on 8+, but the currents are a
> bit messy - I have three possibilities:
> 1: roll for currents first - direction of flow, length, and travel
> time, splits, if it goes between layers, then roll systems with
> off-current hexes having a penalty.
> 2: roll systems first, roll for current off each hex face, then
> length, travel time, splits, etc.
> 3: roll systems first, then connect every system (not sure my tables
> for that yet) with a current and roll travel time for each.
>