1999's "What's New" at Pentapod's World of 2300AD

December 15th, 1999

Mainly general housekeeping ( updating email or URL links).

David Nilsen's two Challenge articles, and the three starship control sheets ( SCS) based on his designs have been updated with his new email address.  Also the SCSs for the Retief and HD-9 now show their minimum and maximum speeds ( based on how much fuel remains aboard).

Updated two pages in the Name lists for characters and ships with forgotten disclaimers.

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November 11th, 1999

Pentapod's World of 2300AD is three years old, today!!!

October 3rd, 1999

David Malesevich's Trade Profit Planning Worksheet is now available on the Best of the 2300AD Mailing List page.  Thank you David!

October 2nd, 1999

A revised version of Naka's 64-page mega-article titled An African Names resource for 2300 is now online.  Bundled with it is Naka's new 8-page article on Central African Names.  You can find a zip file containing these documents ( in Corel's WordPerfect format) on the Name lists for characters and ships page.  Please give Naka feedback.  Thank you Naka!

October 1st, 1999

Economics of cargo starships in 2300AD is now available on the Best of the 2300AD Mailing List page.

September 22nd, 1999

A brief first glimpse at the Tirane Sourcebook Project, lead by Scott Ash, is now online in its own section.  More articles will follow as the project group completes them.

• Both a small and large version of David Malesevich's global map of Tirane.  Thank you David!

Hull & Armor Formulas in Classic SC: Clearing Away the Confusion and Cube Root Formula (CRF) for Armored Hull Points in NAM2 are now available on my Main Homeworld Spaceport page.

August 26th, 1999

David Malesevich's American Army TO&E (Table of Organization and Equipment) Guide is now available in Word Perfect format ( you need WP 6, or higher, to view them) for downloading on my America in 2300AD page.  Thank you David!!

Some revised starship control sheets are now online on my Main Homeworld Spaceport page.

• The Bismark-class battlecruiser has had the number of fighters carried reduced to four, because of feedback/discussion on the mailing list ( Thanks Bryn!!). 
• The Aconit-class frigate now shows her two speeds.  When she is carrying just 3.54 days worth of fuel, she moves 4, when carrying more than that (up to her maximum 14 days worth of fuel), she moves 3.

August 25th, 1999

The Bad News

My computer's hard drive failed three Wednesdays ago ( on the 4th of August), just as I turned it on that evening to upload my latest update.  In addition to losing the three previous evenings of work on that update, I also lost two months ( or more) of work on some projects, thanks to the failure of some backup media.

I also lost my email message archive of all my personal correspondence between June 15th and August 4th.  If you contacted me, or I wrote you during this timespan, I would really appreciate it if you could please forward copies of both yours and my private messages to me.  Thanks!

The Good News

An article with maps ( and other data) on the Beta Aquilae Cluster is now available on the Best of the 2300AD Mailing List page.

The Man-made Stutterwarp Discharge Points - Why they are impossible article has been updated with figures for water/ice, as well as additional clarification of how to use the formulas yourself.  See the Best of the 2300AD Mailing List page.

A revised starship control sheet for the Bismark-class battlecruiser is now online on my Main Homeworld Spaceport page.  It now includes the reduced movement speed during combat situations ( when power is "borrowed" from the drive to instead run all the weapon turrets, the active sensor, and the military shield).

July 24th, 1999

Early this month, Yahoo!- Geocities has surrendered to the public boycott campaign against their unreasonable June 26th Terms-Of-Service revision, and released a new far more reasonable TOS.

I have decided to return my site, from its temporary home at Xoom, back to here, since this is where everyone ( and all those URLs across the web) expect it to be located.

Thank you, all my visitors, for your patience and support in this matter.

June 28th, 1999

I have moved my site to over to Xoom, as I do not like Yahoo!-Geocities new Terms-Of-Service ( TOS).  A mere skeleton will remain here to direct people following old links to the new site.

June 15th, 1999

For those interested in downloading the rough draft of Naka's 64-page mega-article titled An African Names resource for 2300, you can find a zip file containing the document ( in Corel's WordPerfect format) on the Name lists for characters and ships page.  Please give Naka feedback.

June 14th, 1999

Gun Laws of America and Texas in 2300AD, by Steven Charlton, is now available on the America in 2300AD page.  Thanks Steven!!

June 8th, 1999

I am having technical troubles with my computer ( my monitor is failing), but expect to have it replaced in a couple of days ( waiting for new one to arrive).  Then I will tackle getting my backlog of waiting articles ( especially the Tirane ones) online, as well as replying to the email ( both on the list and personal) that has piled up over the last several days.

May 18th, 1999

I received a pleasant surprise Sunday night.  William Miller, a visitor to my site, sent me PDF versions of both of David Malesevich's equipment guides.  The American Army Equipment Guide PDF is now available on the America in 2300AD page.  The Marine PDF will follow later this week, as David wants one change made to it first.  Thank you William for doing the PDF conversions!!!

Apr 28th, 1999

Another Challenge article, Clare Hess' The American Marines, is now online!  You will find it on the 2300AD magazine articles page.  Thank you Clare!!

I have started a new section Core and Arms as a home for articles on the "forgotten" nations, colonies and outposts.

Note: Scott Ash's Korea in 2300 AD has been moved over to the Core and Arms page.

The Links to other 2300AD sites page has a new look.

Apr 14th, 1999

Several new articles are available on the Best of the 2300AD Mailing List page.

1. Scott Ash's Korea in 2300 AD is under the heading BACKGROUND, HISTORY AND SCIENCE .  Thank you Scott!!
2. There is a new group of articles on accelerating RPG combat under the heading DIRECTORS AND PLAYERS .  At the moment, there are two versions of my Quick Fragmentation Tables for unarmored Humans and Kafers.  One version uses a D10, the other a D20 ( this is the more accurate one).

Apr 12th, 1999

As the "creating a man-made stutterwarp discharge point" thread has appeared once more on the list ( IIRC the fourth or fifth time), I have just placed Man-made Stutterwarp Discharge Points on the Best of the 2300AD Mailing List page.  It should clear up, once and for all, the reasons why they are impossible for humanity to create in the year 2300 AD.

Mar 22nd, 1999

There has been some confusion over which articles from Jay Adan's old website are official ( approved by GDW).  All the pages from Jay's website, that I now archive, use the blue background with his logo down the left edge.

The official GDW-approved articles which appeared in Clare and Jay's official 2300 Resource fanzine now, as of today, have a new label near the top of the page:  "In 1990, GDW approved this article as official material for 2300AD."

All the other articles from Jay's site, without this label, are unofficial fan creations, and were not reviewed by GDW.

Mar 21st, 1999

An article about a new American foundation is now online.  See David Malesevich's The Ronald Reagan Society located on my America in 2300AD page.  Thank you David!!

Mar 20th, 1999

The rest of Andy Slack's 2300 AD material, which used to be on his Halfway Station website, is now online in the Gold Quadrant section, located under the Archives heading on the main menu page.

Mar 19th, 1999

Updated Stutterwarp Navigation and Speeds on the Best of the 2300AD Mailing List page.  Added the orbital velocity ( in kilometers per second) and orbital period ( how many hours one full orbit takes) for a starship discharging its drive in the Sol system.  Fixed a calculation error in the Kennedy insystem speed example ( I had multiplied by 0.645 twice, instead of just once).

Mar 11th, 1999

As the official site for hosting his work, I am pleased to announce that, David Malesevich's American Army Equipment Guide, and his American Space Marine Corps in 2300AD are both now available in Word Perfect format ( you need WP 6, or higher, to view them) for downloading, on my America in 2300AD page.  Thank you David!!

I realize that not everyone has Corel's Word Perfect, but it is best at preserving David's desired format for high quality printing ( any printouts are for personal use only!).  RTF and HTML versions will be available here shortly for those without WP6+.

More of David's work will be appearing here in the future!

Mar 3rd, 1999

Clare Hess' Thorez-class courier article, now has its deckplans.  See the 2300AD magazine articles page.  Note that these are revised deckplans, including details mentioned in the article's text but left out of the original deckplans which appeared in Challenge magazine.  Also, Andy Slack's Stowaway adventure is now cross-linked to this article, since it uses the deckplans.

Mar 1st, 1999

More of Andy Slack's 2300 articles from his website ( now officially archived here) are now online.  Orbital Colonies and Le Baroud: What Every Soldier Knows are now available on the Best of the 2300AD Mailing List page.  The last two of his Challenge adventures, Bioadversity and Stowaway, are now available on the 2300AD magazine articles page.  Thank you, Andy!!

Feb 22nd, 1999

Another Challenge adventure article, Michael C. LaBossiere's Into the Depths, is now online!  You will find it on the 2300AD magazine articles page.  Thank you Michael !!

A new military tilt-rotor is now available on the Best of the 2300AD Mailing List page.  The author, Jerry Boucher, is also a terrific artist; the profile color view of the plane is spectacular.  Thank you, Jerry!!

Accelerating Starship Combat: Faster Dice Rolling and Spin-Gravity Formulas are both now online on my Main Homeworld Spaceport page.

Feb 8th, 1999

Andy Slack has decided to refocus his own Halfway Station website on SJG's GURPS Traveller.  He has asked me to host all of his 2300AD articles here on my site, and of course I said "yes"!  Two of his player handouts ( The Big Dark: What Every Spacer Knows, and Tradecraft: What Every Field Agent Knows) are now on the Best of the 2300AD Mailing List page.  Two more of his Challenge adventures, Cache and Carry and Repo Men, are now available on the 2300AD magazine articles page.  Thank you, Andy!!

I'm trying out another new background for the menu pages.  Please let me know if you like or hate it.  I'll be trying out a few more over the next couple of weeks.

Jan 22nd, 1999:

Another Challenge adventure ( almost a campaign setting) article by Clare Hess and Mike Bozulich, A World Invaded, is now online.  You will find it on the 2300AD magazine articles page.  Thank you Clare and Mike!!

I've moved Jason's The US Army in 2300 AD to the Best of the 2300AD Mailing List.  His overview of a weaker US Army did not fit well with the other articles on the America in 2300AD page ( those envision an America which is as strong, or even stronger, than GDW ever stated).

Jan 19th, 1999:

First new background image trial starts.

Jan 18th, 1999:

An excellent article by Nate Birkholz is now available on the Best of the 2300AD Mailing List page.  It is about a mysterious organization.  Even though it is mainly background material, I filed it under "Adventures and Campaigns" since it just begs every gamemaster to slip it into their ongoing campaigns to add some mystery.  Thank you Nate!!

Another old article from Jay Adan's 2300 Resource Website is now online: The US Army in 2300 AD by Jason R. Weiser.  It is available on the Best of the 2300AD Mailing List page.  Thank you Jason!!

Jan 1st, 1999:

Happy New Year!

There may be a slightly new look to this site, as I'm thinking of updating the graphics and layout.  Nothing too fancy, or too large which would slow downloading.  Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

1998's "What's New" entries are now here.

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