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The Traveller Book is a hardcover book which includes most of the text from the Traveller second-edition basic rulebooks, as well as the more significant parts of Traveller Book 0, a large portion of Traveller Double Adventure 1, some of the entries from 76 Patrons, and information and library data for the universe.
In the October–November 1981 edition of White Dwarf, Andy Slack reviewed the Deluxe Traveller Edition, a compilation of the three original rules booklets, plus Book 0 - An Introduction to Traveller, and an adventure, "The Imperial Fringe". Slack thought this edition was better laid out, and "typos have been rectified."
Traveller Deluxe Edition [BOX SET: Books 0, 1-3, Adventure 0, map], by GDW (1981) The Traveller Book [Compiles books 1-3, plus parts of book 0], by GDW (1982) [2]: 165 The Traveller Adventure, by GDW (1983), A companion volume for The Traveller Book [2]: 165 Traveller Starter Edition by Marc W. Miller, GDW (1983) [3] ASIN B000EFBEMY [2]: 166
In the December 1983 edition of White Dwarf (Issue #48), Andy Slack reviewed the Traveller Starter Edition, the fourth revision of the basic rules, and called it "still the best science fiction role-playing game on the market; it has an almost perfect balance between realism and playability." Slack's only complaint about this edition was the ...
GDW subsequently released a large number of expansions, modules, and adventures including the campaign book The Traveller Adventure, written by Frank Chadwick, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, and Loren Wiseman, with a cover by William H. Keith. It was designed to be a companion volume to the previously published The Traveller Book.
Although this new game, published in 1986, had no ties to Traveller, and used a completely different game system, GDW titled it Traveller: 2300. The game was published as a boxed set that contained: [2] 48-page Player Manual; 48-page Referee's Manual; 8-page Forms Book; 8-page Near Star List; 8-page introductory adventure, "The Tricolour's Shadow"
The book contains a large double-sided folded colour map that also serves as the book's cover. [2] In addition to information about star systems, the book also includes tables of various types of encounters, including space encounters, ships, urban encounters, planetary encounters, animal encounters, as well as rumors.
Mercenary is the fourth Traveller book, intended to be a supplement to the three volumes of the original game. [1] This volume covers how to create a mercenary character for a Traveller campaign, and how the player can try to have the mercenary recruited. The book also updates the Traveller weapons and combat system. [2]