[FT] Re: Ship Names

<And another lurker decloaks and fires a salvo...>

As far as naming ships, I sometimes use Science Fiction authors, too, but I
frequently use the Famous Game Designer class - if I need to name each
ship in a fleet, I pick up a rulebook from my collection and start writing
down names. Examples:

THE GAME DESIGNER CLASS STARSHIP: Tuffley Jackson Irby Zocchi St.Andre Gygax
Arneson Jones Seropian Wells Dever Paige Pondsmith Garfield

(Kudos if you recognize them all...)

I recently did this for a text file that's been growing on my computer -
a collection of all the different ship classes I've made or found on the
'net.
(Useful - if I need a 217 point CAT [Heavy Torpedo Cruiser] I just do a
text search). I needed names for the "Standard" classes that come in FT and
MT, so I opened the books to the credits page and just started writing down
artists, playtesters, designers, or other games mentioned... (Tuffley class
CVH, Copeland class CC, Hellfire class DDG, etc.)

<Cloaking mode reactivated, the lurker vanishes into the ether...>

> William Spencer wrote:

Weber Chadwick Johnson Priestley Turnbull Ward Kuntz Miller