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Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Game overview [ ] Characters typically journey between various star systems and engage in activities such as exploration, ground and space battles, and interstellar trading. Traveller characters are defined not by the need to increase native skill and ability but by achievements, discoveries, wealth, titles and. Key features [ ] Key features derived from literary sources are incorporated into Traveller in all its forms: • Human-centric but cosmopolitan: The core rules focus on human characters, but there is ample support for using and playing aliens. • Travellers travel: is through the use of the FTL (Faster-than-light), which moves a ship through 'jump space' a few light-years at a time. Each jump always takes about one week. Normal-space travel is accomplished through relatively efficient and powerful gravitic drives. • Limited communication: There is no – meaning no,.

Communication is limited to the speed of travel. Decisions are made on the local level, rather than by a remote authority. • No Prime Directive: Planets fight out internal wars, and is the major driving force of civilization. • Sociological: Interstellar society is socially stratified (high, mid, and low passage; SOC (Social Status) is a primary character attribute). Affairs are often managed by independent nobility, who make use of classic titles such as Baron, Duke and Archduke. The typical game shows how being a traveller crosses classes and breaks stratification.

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• Materialist: Rewards are material, rather than Experience Points, Leveling Up, and so on. Also, Newtonian physics tends to be followed. • Diversity within Limits: Career options, ship design, subsector design, and decisions made during character generation limit and frame reality. The definitions create a diverse space (hence library data and anachronistic/atavistic worlds), within limits.

• Mortal: People remain people and continue to show courage, wisdom, honesty and justice, along with cowardice, deceit, and criminal behavior. People age and eventually die.

Many Traveller rules make death during character generation a possibility. Characters [ ] Traveller uses a lifepath-style system for. Traveller characters get their skills and experience in a mini-game, where the player makes career choices that determine the character's life up to the point right before adventuring begins. A character can be human, robot, alien, or of a genetically engineered species. A character can be civilian, military, or noble, a young cadet or a tried-and-true veteran, each with strengths and weaknesses.

Traveller also became infamous in that a character could die during the character creation process before the process was finished. Characters are described by six primary characteristics: strength, dexterity, endurance, intelligence, education, and social standing. These characteristics are typically generated with a roll of two six-sided dice. Other general characteristics also exist, such as psionics and sanity. There are also variant characteristics, such as charisma and caste, which replace a primary characteristic, to add nuance to alien characters. Psionics [ ] Extra-sensory perception, telekinesis, telepathy, and other psychic mutations abilities are organized and standardized into 'psionics'.

Depending on their choice, characters can be psionic. Task systems [ ] Each rule system has its own task mechanic for resolving character actions.

Some systems use two or three six-sided dice, while others use multiple six-sided dice or a twenty-sided die. Target numbers are typically determined by the referee, who takes into account task difficulty, skill level, and a characteristic. Situation and equipment used can provide a bonus or penalty to a roll. Depending on the task, a success may require rolling above or below the target number. Equipment [ ] Equipment in Traveller typically emphasizes wilderness exploration, hazardous environments, and combat. As a result, equipment lists are heavy on vehicles, sensor equipment, communicators, rations,, and weapons.

Low-technology: Since primitive worlds exist near technological worlds, primitive weapons are also typically included, such as swords, shields, pikes, and bows. High-technology: And since high technology is available, cybernetic implants and non-sentient robots typically also show up in equipment lists, as well as artifacts from ancient, vanished technological civilizations.

Hard Sci-fi Flavor: While there are energy weapons in Traveller, there is also a strong presence of slug-thrower weapons such as rifles and pistols. The prevailing theory is that (usually) the most efficient way to stop someone is with kinetic energy (e.g. Starships [ ] Traveller's rules for starship design and combat are like games unto themselves with a complex balance of ship components fitting within certain hull volumes, technology levels, and modifiers based upon characters' skills. It is complex enough to be able to generically represent most starships used in role-playing games, and flexible enough to support custom add-ons to the system. (GDW published several board games allowing Traveller space battles to be played out as games in their own right - using the Traveller rules, Brilliant Lances and Battle Rider using the Traveller: The New Era rules.) Computer programs have been created to model and predict starship combat using Traveller rules.

The most famous case involved applying his heuristic learning program to the scenario in the Traveller adventure Trillion Credit Squadron (TCS), which contained rules for resolving very large space battles statistically. Eurisko discovered exploitable features of the starship design system that allowed it to build unusual fleets that won the 1981 and 1982 TCS national championships.

Worlds [ ] Worlds represent a wide spectrum of conditions, from barren planetoid moons to large gas giant worlds, from uncolonized territory to planets with tens of billions of people. Most worlds tend to be only modestly colonized, though some worlds may be dangerously overcrowded. The world generation system in Traveller is geared to produce a highly random mix of worlds.

Extensions take star system generation into account, and modify the process depending on the fecundity and history of the targeted area of space. Similar to the use of the UPP for characters, worlds are represented by an alphanumeric Universal World Profile that encodes key physical, social, and economic properties of the world.

Adventures [ ] Adventures in Traveller tend to come from a few key themes: Traveller game themes (adventures or plot hooks) # Name Theme Notes 01. Courier Mission The players are transporting a package containing goods or information. Playlist The Very Best Of Suicidal Tendencies Rarlab. Alternatively, they are hired to intercept the package.

Subplots: • Medicine delivery • Valuable goods delivery • X-boat Mail Delivery 02. Enigma (Mystery) Something unexplained is going on, and the players have to find out what it is. Subplots: • Cosmological anomaly • Economic plotting • Political plotting • Precursor (Ancients) ruins 03. Escort Mission The players are bodyguards protecting a person while taking them to their destination. Alternatively, they are hired to kidnap or kill the person or prevent them from reaching their destination. Subplots: • Assassins • Double agent • Kidnappers • VIP Bodyguards 04. Exploration The players are scouts, academics, or adventurers who want to find (or rediscover) uncharted worlds.

There are new cultures to encounter, exotic flora and fauna to catalog, and ruins and artifacts to excavate and study. Subplots: • Lost (Sophont) civilization (Xenoarchaeology) • Precursor (Ancients) site (Xenoarchaeology) • Bestiary find (Xenobiology) • Scientific curiosity • Sophont contact (First contact) • Uncharted world exploration 05. Heist The players plan to infiltrate a secure facility to acquire information or goods. Alternatively the players are hired to guard the facility before the target is acquired or retrieve the target after it is acquired. Subplots: • Infiltration • Security detail (counter-espionage) • Spying (espionage) 06.

Mercenary The players are military veterans who have been contracted to serve in the armed forces of a local or planetary government. Typical tasks would be to create and instruct a training, lead or advise units, or provide a corps of trained and experienced troops familiar with advanced technology. Subplots: • Alien invasion (defense) • Cadre training • Cold war • Dream ticket • Man vs. Machine (Virus) • Open warfare • Rebellion • Striker mission 07. Merchant Free Traders The players travel the stars trading and adventuring along the way in their very own starship. Subplots: • Ally aid • Corporate espionage • Diplomacy • Interstellar trade • Megacorporation mission • Trade brokering (transpolitical) • Trade mission 08.

Patron The players are skilled freelancers hired by a client to perform a job for them that requires their particular skills and experience. Their performance affects their standing with the client and whether the client will hire them for future jobs or recommend them to other potential clients. Subplots: • Consultants • Experts • Specialists 09. Rescue People are lost or stranded and the players are tasked with recovering them. Alternatively, the players are lost or stranded and need to either survive until rescued or make their way to safety. Subplots: • Black hole • Innocent civilian • Lost in Space • Megacorporation kidnapee • Military prisoner • Nova dilemma • VIP rescue 10.

Struggle against Nature The players are pitted against an alien environment, with or without the help of outsiders. Subplots: • Man vs. Nature • Signal MK / SOS • Stranded • Survival 11. World-hopping The players are itinerant workers, interstellar business travelers, or tourists on holiday that are always going to unfamiliar and exotic places.

Subplots: • Banished • Entertainers • Escapees • Galactic Circus • Interstellar tourists • Itinerant workers • Outcasts • Peddlers • Refugees Setting [ ] The original Traveller rule booklets were promoted as rules for running general science fiction role-playing games. Adventures and supplements soon followed and eventually a default setting began to emerge. This is known as the Official Traveller Universe (OTU) or Charted Space. The OTU is also known by the primary political entity in the setting, The Third Imperium. The Third Imperium is the largest and human-dominated interstellar empire in Charted Space. It is a feudalistic union of worlds: local operate largely free from oversight, restricted by convention and obligations.

Humans [ ] There are various descendants of humanity, who are collectively called Humaniti: • Humaniti: • Solomani ('people of,' humans) • Vilani ('people of Vland,' humans that founded the First Imperium, one of the oldest space empires in Charted Space) • Zhodani ('people of Zhodane,' psychic humans ruled by psionically-gifted nobles) Cosmopolitan [ ] Despite the thematic dominance of the human race, with most adventures taking place in human space, the Traveller universe is cosmopolitan, and is divided into a handful of major races (six) and an unbounded number of minor races. These technological species are known as sophonts in Traveller jargon, a term borrowed from earlier science fiction material. Major races: A sophont people that supposedly developed jump technology (FTL Technology) independently. The standard list of major races includes six races: • The honor-bound felinoid Aslan • The winged reptilioid Droyne • The sixfold-symmetric, manipulative Hivers • The centaur-like, militant vegetarian K'kree • The uplifted wolf-hybrid Vargr • Humaniti: humanity Minor races: Sophonts which have not independently developed the Jump Drive. Most have little or no significant background material.

An early publication from Games Designers' Workshop noted that The minor races, of which there are hundreds within the area of known space, will be largely left up to individual referees. GDW's quarterly publication, designed by Loren K. Wiseman, sketched out about one race per quarter, starting with Aslan in Issue 7, with no signs of letting up. Taken together with aliens casually mentioned or introduced in separate scenarios or adventures—often arbitrarily—there is therefore no indication that the number of minor races is limited in any sense. Ancients [ ] The Ancients were a major race in the distant past; their ruins dot planets throughout charted space and their artifacts are more technically advanced than those of any existing civilization. For unknown reasons, they: • Transplanted humans from Earth to dozens of worlds, • Uplifted Terran wolves to create the Vargr, and. • Undertook many projects before destroying their civilization in a catastrophic war.

Publishing history [ ]. Main article: The original Traveller gamebooks were distinctive digest-sized black pamphlets (the so-called 'Little Black Books' or 'LBBs') produced by (GDW). The main rules were detailed in three such booklets, sold as a while the same format was used for early support material, such as the Adventures, Supplements and further Books. Later supplements and updated versions of the main introduced full sized booklets, complete re-writes of the game system and significant changes to the Third Imperium. Editions [ ] Major Traveller game publishers and versions (editions) Pub. Date Game Abbrev.

Primary publisher 1977 Traveller CT 1987 MegaTraveller MT 1993 Traveller: The New Era TNE 1996 T4: Marc Miller's Traveller T4 1998 GT 2002 Traveller D20 T20 QuikLink Interactive 2006 GTIW 2006 Traveller Hero TH ComStar Games 2008 Mongoose Traveller MGT 2013 Traveller5 T5 Far Future Enterprises 2016 Mongoose Traveller 2nd Ed. MGT2 Though nearly all older versions of Traveller are available in PDF format, Traveller5 and Mongoose Traveller 2nd Ed. Are the two current rulesets.

Both rely on six-sided dice exclusively, and both draw from the original Traveller rules. Traveller [ ] The original version was designed and published by GDW in 1977. This edition is also sometimes called, retroactively, Classic Traveller.

The core rules originally came as three distinctive 'Little Black Books', in a boxed set. Supplemental booklets included 'advanced' character generation, capital ship design, robots, and more. Eight boxed wargames were released as tie-in products. MegaTraveller [ ] A major overhaul published by GDW in 1987, but designed. The game system used revised rules developed in DGP's Traveller's Digest periodical. The game was set during the Rebellion era which shattered the Imperium.

Supplements and magazines produced during this era detailed the progression of the Rebellion from the initial assassination of the Emperor in 1116 to the collapse of large-scale interstellar trade in roughly 1124 (the beginning of the supplement Hard Times). Traveller: The New Era [ ] Published in 1993, this was the final edition published by GDW. Set in the former territory of the Third Imperium after interstellar government and society had largely collapsed. TNE introduced the AI Virus, a silicon chip-life form that infected and took over computers. The game mechanics used GDW's house system, derived from, 2nd Ed. The game used a more realism-centered approach to science fiction, doing away with reactionless thrusters, shortening laser ranges to a reasonable distance, etc. T4: Marc Miller's Traveller [ ] Published by in 1996, T4 is set in the early days of the Third Imperium ( Milieu 0), with the small, newly formed empire surrounded by regressed or barbaric worlds.

The mechanics and text resemble a mix of Traveller and The New Era. GURPS Traveller [ ] Designed by Loren K. Wiseman, the game uses the third edition of the system and takes place in an alternate timeline in which no Rebellion occurred and the AI Virus was never released. Steve Jackson Games produced numerous supplements for the line, including details for all of the major races, many of the minor races, interstellar trade, expanded world generation, the military forces of the Third Imperium, and starships. Traveller 20 [ ] Published by Quick Link Interactive in 2002, this version uses the as its base and is set at the time of the Solomani Rim War around Imperial year 990, about a century before the era depicted in the original game. The preferred setting is the Gateway Domain region of the Imperium.

GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars [ ] In 2006, Steve Jackson Games released Interstellar Wars ( GTISW, sometimes GTIW) for the recently released 4th edition of GURPS. The timeline was rolled back to 2170, which is several millennia earlier than the usual Traveller setting, to the early days of Earth's presence in space at the time when Earth first started to send out interstellar ships to include the period just after the Third Interstellar War between the Terran Confederation (Earth) and the gigantic Ziru Sirka Empire (Vland). Traveller Hero [ ] A port of the Traveller setting to the, produced under license by Comstar Games in 2006. Mongoose Traveller [ ] published this version both in a traditional format and as an around which other games may be built. It is adapted from Traveller, with updated careers and technology. It is referred to as 'MgT' or 'MGT' to differentiate it from 'MT', or MegaTraveller.

The core rule book was released in April 2008, with a regular series of supplements following. Traveller5 [ ] In 2013, Far Future Enterprises published a new set of rules by re-working and integrating concepts from earlier rulesets. The Traveller5 Core Rules book is a rules mechanics reference, pulled from Traveller adventures and toolbox material from supplements. It has a 'retro' black-and-white production style. Mongoose Traveller 2nd Ed. [ ] Now in its second edition, Mongoose Traveller has a full color production style while resembling the original Traveller rules in scope, without Traveller 's animal creation and starship design rules.

The second edition core rules include pre-career university and education options. Skills specialisations have been reorganised to reduce skill bloat. Some equipment descriptions have been altered and spacecraft operations and combat now have a different approach. Additional supplements flesh out rules further, including a revision to High Guard to handle all starship design. Reception [ ] Forrest Johnson reviewed Traveller in No. Johnson commented that ' Traveller is the best game of its type, recommended for the sophisticated science fiction gamer.'

Reviewed Traveller in #1, rating it a 8 out of 9. Ritchie commented that 'This game starts off where Dungeons and Dragons left off, but, if there is any justice, will end up being more popular than that venerable relic. For one thing, the Traveller rules are fairly consistent (moreso than is usual for such games). For another, unlike the first generation of role-playing games, this one requires no referee or gamesmaster. Somewhat complex. Variable playing time.'

Traveller (as either Classic Traveller, Mega Traveller, or Traveller: The New Era) was ranked 3rd in the 1996 reader poll of Arcane magazine to determine the 50 most popular roleplaying games of all time. The UK magazine's editor Paul Pettengale commented: 'Although originally intended as a generic science fiction system, Traveller quickly became linked with the Imperium campaign background developed by GDW.'

Pettengale said: 'This background offers a great degree of freedom for individual referees to run campaigns of their own devising, while providing enough basic groundwork to build from, and has proved to be immensely successful. Everything from political intrigue to action-packed mercenary actions, trading or scientific exploration is possible, and a lot more besides.' Pettengale suggested Traveller was ' one of the true classics of the roleplaying hobby.' In other media [ ] Software [ ] GDW licensee produced two video games based on the Traveller universe: • (1990) for, and operating environments • (1991) for Amiga and MS-DOS Novels [ ] Several novels have been specifically set in the various Traveller universes: Traveller game novels # Year Title Series Author Reference and ISBN Notes 1. 1993 Again, Oytritsyu'aby n/a Charles Gannon n/a Novelette (short story) 2. 1993 Count or Country n/a Charles Gannon n/a Novelette (short story) 3.

1993 The Trap of Triton n/a Gary A. Kalin n/a Novelette (short story) 5. 1995 Death of Wisdom Book 1 of 3 Paul Brunette 6.

1995 To Dream of Chaos Book 2 of 3 Paul Brunette 7. 1998 Gateway to the Stars n/a 8.

2005 The Force of Destiny n/a Dale Kemper 9. 2004 Diaspora Phoenix n/a Martin J. Dougherty n/a 10. 2006 Tales of the New Era 1: Yesterday's Hero n/a Martin J.

Dougherty n/a 11. 2010 The Backwards Mask Book 3 of 3 Paul Brunette 12. 2011 The Backwards Mask (Alternative) Book 3 of 3 13. 2012 A Long Way Home: Tales of Congressional Space n/a Terrance McInnes n/a 14. 2014 Shadow of the Storm n/a Martin J.

Dougherty 15. 2014 Fate of the Kinunir n/a Robert E. 2015 Agent of the Imperium n/a Marc W. Miller • In addition, has written several novels set in the 'Concordat' fictional universe he originally developed for his Traveller campaign. Lee's The Laughing Lip series acknowledges the influence of Traveller in the development of the three novels published to date.

Lee also wrote the supplement Lee's Guide to Interstellar Adventure in the early 1980s. • There are two different Backwards Mask books in the Death of Wisdom trilogy. The manuscript by the original author ( Brunette) was lost until shortly after the replacement manuscript (by Carson) was published.

The original was then published for those who wanted it, and Carson's serves as an alternate end to the trilogy. Periodicals [ ] Gaming magazine ran a called The Travellers by from 1983 to 1986.

The strip spoofed Traveller and other space opera settings. Related systems [ ] Traveller: 2300 or 2300 AD [ ]. • Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing.

• Johnson, George (1984).. The APF Reporter. Washington, D.C.: The Alicia Patterson Foundation. MegaTraveller Players' Manual. Game Designers' Workshop...

• ^ Johnson, Forrest (May–June 1980). 'Capsule Reviews'.. • ^ (March 1980).

'A Galaxy of Games'.. Simulations Publications, Inc. • Pettengale, Paul (Christmas 1996). 'Arcane Presents the Top 50 Roleplaying Games 1996'. Retrieved 2014-08-23. Retrieved 2014-08-23.

Retrieved 2008-02-12. Further reading [ ] • (1978).. Game Designers' Workshop. Traveller Book 8: Robots... • Masters, Phil (February 1983).

'Open Box: The Traveller Book'.. • (1980) [1979].. Revised by Marc William Miller, Frank Chadwick and. Game Designers' Workshop. Traveller Book 6: Scouts. Game Designers' Workshop.

• Miller, Marc W; (1984). Traveller Adventure 12: Secret of the Ancients.

Ploytec Usb Asio Driver Cracked there. Game Designers' Workshop. • Miller, Marc W; (1985).

Traveller Book 7: Merchant Prince. Game Designers' Workshop. • Miller, Marc W (1988). Rebellion Sourcebook. Game Designers' Workshop.. • Slack, Andy (February 1983).

'An Introduction to Traveller Part III: Scenarios'. Games Workshop (38): 10–11.. • Slack, Andy (March 1983). 'An Introduction to Traveller Part IV: Scenarios'.

Games Workshop (39): 18–19.. • Slack, Andy (December 1983).

'Open Box: Traveller Starter Edition'. Games Workshop (48): 10.. Imperium Games.. Traveller Book 0: An Introduction To. Game Designers' Workshop.

• Traveller Book 1: Characters and Combat.. • Traveller Book 2: Starships. Game Designers' Workshop. • Traveller Book 3: Worlds and Adventures. Game Designers' Workshop. External links [ ] • • • •.