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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 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 Starter Edition is a boxed Tabletop role-playing game, written by Marc W. Miller, and published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1983 for Traveller. Traveller Starter Edition revised both the style and the packaging for the Traveller system.
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.
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"
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.
The 32-page book acts as an introduction to Traveller, and is designed to be read by those who are new to the hobby of role-playing generally, and particularly to Traveller. [1] An updated edition [2] written by Gareth Hanrahan, was published by Mongoose Publishing in 2008, and released as part of Free RPG Day.
In his 1990 book The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games, game critic Rick Swan called this one of the best Traveller expansions, and recommended it. [5] James Maliszewski for Black Gate in 2014 said "Mercenary changed the way we played Traveller forever. Previously, Merchants, Scouts, and Navy personnel were favored, because these careers ...