Tips, Tricks, & Resources for T2k Refs

[Nowhere Man 1966]

Good stuff, Teg & Chalk!

I like to track moon phases for T2k so that I can give my players realistic info re natural lighting at night.

https://stardate.org/nightsky/moon

But what if it's cloudy, you ask There are also historical weather sites.

AFAIK, this particular site provides historical weather data for Poland, but there's one for the USA as well (and probably other countries).

https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/EPWA/date/1940-1-1

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I have/had a Dragon Magazine issue from 1992 about generating weather charts for RPG's, I hope I still have it somewhere

[ChalkLine]

I have/had a Dragon Magazine issue from 1992 about generating weather charts for RPG's, I hope I still have it somewhere

Weather is the ultimate mood setter. My campaigns are notorious for incessant rain.

[unipus]

It's also extremely tactically useful for your typical small team raid behind enemy lines!

[Targan]

I use Harnmaster's weather generation system (and watch sheets).

[3catcircus]

I use Harnmaster's weather generation system (and watch sheets).

I'll have to give that a try. For the longest time, I've been using Weather master (with a hack to get it to run since it's long out of publication so I couldn't transfer the license to my new computer) and it works great.

[Raellus]

v1 Hexmaps and Index

An excellent resource for a v1 European sandbox campaign, C/O Jed McClure.

https://static.squarespace.com/static/5333111ae4b09574e43ca618/53331a78e4b082de9f228e51/53331a7be4b082de9f2290ec/1390775431607/Hexmap_index.pdf

https://static.squarespace.com/static/5333111ae4b09574e43ca618/53331a78e4b082de9f228e51/53331a7be4b082de9f2290eb/1389204231153/European_campaign_hexmaps.pdf

http://www.jedmc.com/ixdd/2014/1/8/an-old-school-polish-sandbox.html

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[Raellus]

Military Acronyms & Slang

Brit found this site with Soviet military acronyms:

https://www.safar-publishing.com/post/soviet-military-acronyms

And here's a pretty comprehensive list of US military ones:

https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/glossary-of-military-acronyms.html

And modern US military slang:

https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/military-terms-and-jargon.html

These could add some realism/flavor to your campaign.

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[Raellus]

Military Maps

The US Army had 1:50,000 maps of just about every place on earth (mild hyperbole). The link below is the index page for its maps of Poland, C/O the University of Texas. If you click back to the site's main index, there are maps for nearly every place else.

https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/poland_100k/

According to this site, Soviet military maps of Poland (and other East Bloc) countries are better (more accurate, detailed, etc.).

https://sciendo.com/it/article/10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0034

That tracks, as Poland was essentially under Soviet occupation from 1945-1991.

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[Raellus]

Random Blood Type Generator

Here's a random blood type generator- helps find a donor when a PC has lost a lot of blood and needs a direct transfusion.

https://perchance.org/bloodtype-gen

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[HaplessOperator]

!

Wow, this is an untapped gold mine.

[Brit]

Urban foraging website:

https://totallywilduk.co.uk/2023/01/18/urban-foraging/