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Traveller is highly regarded for its production value, sophisticated character generation system, and consistent rules. It has received positive reviews across various editions, with some critics calling it the best science-fiction RPG. Traveller has won multiple Origins Awards and was inducted into the Origins Hall of Fame in 1996. While the ...
GDW was a boardgame publisher long before it published Traveller, and as a result it published eight Traveller boardgames. [1] FFE published all eight as a single volume in 2000. [4] G0 Imperium [BOX SET: Rules booklet, 2 combat charts, terran/imperial counters, board/map], by Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick and John Harshman (1977)
J. Andrew Keith, and his brother William H. Keith Jr., responded to ads in Journal of the Travellers Aid Society for authors to write for Game Designers' Workshop (GDW); Loren Wiseman started them with freelancing for GDW in the late 1970s and the three of them set up much of the early material for Traveller.
The game system used revised versions of the Classic Traveller mechanics with ideas first developed in the Traveller's Digest (and later also adapted to Traveller: 2300). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] DGP's final publication, The MegaTraveller Journal #4 (1993), featured a huge campaign for MegaTraveller set in the Gateway sector, authored by William H. Keith ...
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 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 ...
In the August 1980 edition of Dragon (Issue 40), Roberto Camino welcomed the addition of large starships to the Traveller game, but noted a design decision that he called questionable: that the number of minor weapons do not increase at the same rate as the ship's surface area, so larger ships, which should have more firepower, actually have ...
Miller designed the computer game Challenge of the Five Realms which was published and released by MicroProse in 1992 and the card game Super Deck!. [3] In 1996, Miller purchased the rights to Traveller, Twilight: 2000, and 2300 AD, and he formed a new company named Far Future Enterprises.