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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. [1]
Traveller is an Origins Award winning science fiction role-playing game published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1977. It is a time when interstellar travel has become possible and Humaniti has met other starfaring races.
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 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 the August-September 1981 edition of White Dwarf (Issue 26), Robert McMahon reviewed the revised second edition and gave a thumbs up to the revised ship-building system, but complained, "The only criticism I have of this book is that it had to be brought out at all. In future, I hope GDW will get it right the first time."
Bob McWilliams reviewed Library Data (A-M) for White Dwarf #28, giving it an overall rating of 9 out of 10 for the novice (and 7 for the expert), and stated that "this is an important reference work for all Traveller players and referees who use the official Traveller campaign as a background for their adventures." [3]
Tony Watson reviewed Scouts in Ares Magazine #17 and commented that "Scouts adds much to Scout characters and especially to the generation of star systems and worlds. These latter rules and great detail to star systems, and a correspondingly greater cost in time and effort to create subsectors.
Library Data (N-Z) was written by John Harshman, Marc W. Miller, and Loren K. Wiseman for Traveller, and published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1982 as a digest-sized 48-page book. [2] Thirteen Traveller supplements were published. [3] A single collected volume was published by Far Future Enterprises in 2000.