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The Traveller Canon

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GAME SETSBasic Traveller (1st edition)Basic Traveller (revised)Starter TravellerDeluxe TravellerThe Traveller BookThe Traveller Adventure

BOOKSIntroduction To TravellerCharacters and CombatStarshipsWorlds and Adventures

MercenaryHigh GuardScoutsMerchant Prince

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S9

S10S11S12

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SUPPLEMENTS1001 CharactersAnimal EncountersThe Spinward MarchesCitizens of the ImperiumLightning Class Cruisers76 PatronsTraders & GunboatsLibrary Data (A-M)Fighting ShipsThe Solomani RimLibrary Data (N-Z)Forms & Charts

Veterans

ADVENTURESThe Imperial Fringe

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The Traveller Can

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THE JOURNALAnnic NovaVictoriaAsteroidsGazelleImperiumImperial interstellar Scouts

Champa StarportBroadswordWarPlanet-BuildingStrikerMerchant PrinceHivers

Laws and LawbreakersAzunSusagAtmospheres

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GAMESMaydaySnapshotAzhanti High LightningFifth Frontier WarInvasion: EarthStriker

ImperiumDark Nebula

CHALLENGE MAGAZINE

Fleet Escort LisianiContact: The Prt'Grandfather's WorldsContact: The SabmiqysScientistsimperiumHazardous Cargoes

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BOOK 1. Characters and CombatBOOK 2. StarshipsBOOK 3. Worlds and Adventures

The three original books in the Traveller package were first releasat the Origins Wargame Convention in Staten Island, NY in 1977. Arevised second edition was produced in 1981; the revised edition is theone in this compilation.

Books 1, 2, and 3 were not marketed separately; they came bundlas Basic Traveller (three books in a 6 x 9 inch box) or Deluxe Travell

(three books, plus Book 0 and Adventure 0 in a larger 9x12 box).

BOOK 4. MercenaryMercenary was the first of the supplementary rules systems to

appear for Classic Traveller.  It appeared in 1978.Mercenary set the stage for Traveller's continuing emphasis on th

military. It was a natural expansion of two character types: Army andMarines, and led ultimately to the Traveller miniatures rules set: Strike

BOOK 5 High Guard

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The Traveller Books (0

TitleBasic TravellerBasic Traveller revisedBook 4 MercenaryBook 5 High GuardBook 6 Scouts

Book 7 Merchant PrinceBook 8 RobotsBook 0 IntroductionThe Traveller BookDeluxe TravellerStarter Traveller

Print Runs128

23176

327

369

Production64,320

72,410103,849100.63825.584

12.15611.78548.707

39,93237,88234,041

First Publis1977

1981

197819791983

198519861981198219811983

Basic Traveller included Books 1, 2, and 3 in a box.Deluxe Traveller included Books 0, 1, 2, and 3, Adventure 0, a m

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The short adventures for Traveller were created with the specificintent of providing easy-to-play situations that players could game outover the course of an evening. Because a short adventure took up only20 pages or so, the immediate problem was creating a structure ortemplate suitable for short scenarios; one answer was the sometimes

confusing Double Adventure format. Another was the Short Adventure,included in other products, as a magazine article, or as a tournamentadventure.

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

The production information given here was compiled from the originproduction records in the archives of Game Designers' Workshop,

Signed Designer Copies. GDW had the general practice (notalways observed) of segregating the first ten copies of each new produc

Yet More About The Traveller Universe

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The Traveller Short Adventures (1Print

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567

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Title RunsShadows / Annic NovaMithril / Bright FaceArgon Gambit / Death StationMarooned / Marooned AloneChamax Plague / HordeDivine Intervention / NightA Plague of Perruques (tournament)

Stranded On Arden (magazine)Memory Alpha (tournament)Merchant PrinceExotic Atmospheres

76

4

2

221

21

1

1

Total Pub26,41421,150

21,32014,35212,68314,567

10

6,000208,6118,520

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Across the Bright Face forces the group to escape from a workers'revolution. It provides a new vehicle (with a drawing by Paul Jaquays).

Both adventures make use of the geodesic world hex maps,

Double Adventure 3- Death Station

Double Adventure 3- The Argon GambitDeath Station is an adventure on a haunted space station (and wa

strongly influenced by Alien). The Argon Gambit introduced Travellerplayers to the Solomani (and to an FGMP-15)

Double Adventure 4- MaroonedDouble Adventure 4- Marooned AloneIn a continuing effort to provide new adventure ideas, Loren

Wiseman created this Double Adventure addressing castaways on aworld: as a group and individually.

Double Adventure 5- Chamax PlagueDouble Adventure 5- Horde

A preliminary scenario (Rescue) sets the stage and introduces theparticipants to the situation and thereafter they encounter the Chamax

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THE SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS

Three Special Supplements were published in the Journal of thTravellers' Aid Society. These Supplements were also printed sepin limited quantity for distribution at game conventions.

Special Supplement 1- Merchant PrinceThe first of the Special Supplements adapted the Mercenary ch

generation system to the merchant character class. This system wlater adapted to Book 7- Merchant Prince, It also appears in Journthe Travellers' Aid Society No. 11.

Special Supplement 2- Exotic AtmospheresThis Special Supplement discussed a variety of scientifically bas

explanations for the Exotic Atmosphere category of the Universal Profile. It also appears in Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society No

Special Supplement 3- MissilesThe third Special Supplement dealt with space combat missiles

basic Traveller system. It originally appeared in the Journal of theT ll ' Aid S i t N 17

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The Universe of TraveWelcome to the exciting universe of the far future! 

Who knows what the future holds? With   Traveller,  you can find out as you personally journey far into the depths of interstellar space and to the surface of alien worlds.With   Traveller,  you can choose your own destiny and attempt to fulfill it in a life of adventure, power, and fortune. With   Traveller,  the universe of the future is yours.

So begins the box back for Basic Traveller, leading the player tthree books (Books 1, 2, and 3) that were the basis for the Travellescience-fiction role-playing game.

The original Traveller game rules were known as the Little Blac

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