http://www.dennisantinori.com/Resources/Ringworld/

Quote from: Tetsubo;386761http://www.dennisantinori.com/Resources/Ringworld/

Fantastic. Thanks for the link.

I like how the stabilizing thrusters fire every now and again.

That is the coolest thing I've seen today!  Makes me nostalgic for the old Chaosium game...need to look on the 'ol eBay for it sometime.

I do like the fact that the continents of the different worlds are in the Great Oval Ocean.

Glad to see someone did the Map Room.

Slight niggle - the ring isn't exactly perpendicular, it seems to slant slightly "upward". Other than that, I'm ready to go!

It rotates around the sun every 7 days? That mother fucker is moving.

Its been years since I read the books, but i do think night falls like a hammer.

I've never read the books (and never played the Chaosium game).

Do you guys think I should read them?

1st book was frickin' awesome. 2nd book was pretty damn good. Didn't read any past that.

And the game rocks too, especially if you read/have read some of Niven's other "Known Space" stories.

I love the known space stories, and I dig the idea of the Ringworld, but I found the first book a little slow, i enjoyed the second quite a bit more.

My experience mirrors Werekoala's exactly.  I read the first book in high school as a suggested pre-requisite for playing the game with a friend who had bought it, and just fell in love with the story.  If I weren't so afraid they'd ruin it, I'd love to see a movie.

The game is old-school BRP iirc...a lot of people used to complain that it didn't include "full" rules for space travel, building ships, etc. and focused on exploration of the Ring itself.  Never bothered me...all the additional tidbits and factoids made it so awesome to me that an entire campaign there seemed perfect.  You could transplant Traveller or another ruleset if you NEEDED all the additional bits and just use the background, but I never felt that necessary.  When we played it back in high school, we ran a "marooned on the Ring" scenario anyway, so we had no real hope of leaving in the short-term.

Like Werekoala I only ever read the first two books, so ymmv with the series, but it was certainly good stuff.  

Dreampark was another one that I thought would make a great RPG. (though the setting wouldn't sustain long-term play, I don't think...)  It would probably make a fine one-off using something like Over the Edge.

Quote from: Cranewings;386813It rotates around the sun every 7 days? That mother fucker is moving.

IIRC, ringworld rotated at about 777 miles per second.

Quote from: kregmosier;386845 Dreampark was another one that I thought would make a great RPG.

Well ... it did!



http://rpg.geekdo.com/rpgitem/47269/dream-park
http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_3118.html
http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_5251.html

Ringworld and The Ringworld Engineers are two of the my favorite scifi books. I re-read them every so often. The sheer scope of Niven's vision is stunning. Everytime you think you've seen it all, something else crops up to make your jaw drop. They're both such slender books, relative to the phonebook-thick books we're so used to today, that it's astounding how idea-dense they are. There are a number of ideas besides the Ringworld itself that would make for interesting books on their own, and in these they're background elements.

Niven's entire Known Space setting is full of wonder and mystery.