T5 Core Rules
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T5 Core Rules | |||
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![]() Traveller 5th edition Hardback Edition (Kickstarter) | |||
Publisher | Far Future Enterprises | ||
Author | Marc Miller | ||
Version | Traveller 5th | ||
Edition | 1st | ||
Format | Book (Hardback) / CD-ROM | ||
Pages | 658 | ||
Year Published | 2013 | ||
Language | English | ||
Canonical | Yes | ||
Available from | FFE Home | ||
ISBN 978-155878000-2 | |||
Table of Contents | |||
TBD |
The T5 Core Rules book is the 5th of the direct line of the Traveller game system.
- It is ambitiously intended as the ultimate science fiction role-playing system covering nearly everything in role-playing and capable of managing situations across a variety of eras and technology levels.
T5 Core Rules EDITIONS | ||||
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Edition | Hardback | CD-ROM | Electronic | Remarks |
5.00 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Circa 2013 CE. Kickstarter edition. Original production. Possesses typos. Still, great content. Electronic updates available. Please contact FFE. |
5.09 | No | Yes | Yes | Circa 2016 CE. Available to all 5.0 owners in electronic edition. Please contact FFE. Includes an index, updated contacts, and different pagination. No hardback edition exists at this time. |
5.10 | TBD | TBD | TBD | Errata in playtest and review as of 2019 CE. |
NOTES: All pagination on this wiki page is for the T5 5.00 hard back edition.
Contents
- 1 Description (Specifications)
- 1.1 Table of Contents
- 1.2 Library Data Entries (Public)
- 1.3 Selected Corporations
- 1.4 Selected Form/s & Terms
- 1.5 Selected Major Race Polities
- 1.6 Selected Minor Race Polities
- 1.7 Selected Organizations
- 1.8 Selected Ships
- 1.9 Selected Sophonts
- 1.10 Selected Technology
- 1.11 Selected Traveller Versions
- 1.12 Selected Vocations
- 1.13 Selected Worlds
- 2 Meta-history & Background (Dossier)
- 3 References & Contributions (Sources)
Description (Specifications)[edit]
The T5 Core Rules are the ultimate development of the Traveller RPG system, a compilation and grand development of Marc Miller and the ultimate expression of his OTU.
Table of Contents[edit]
Traveller 5th Edition: T5 Core Rules | |
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Section | Page/s |
T5-001 Character Card | IFC |
Coat of Arms of the Third Imperium (Book Plate) |
Signum Imperius |
Definition of Deraabelar | 1 |
Cover Sheet | 3 |
Edition Guide | 4 |
Dedication | 5 |
Title Sheet | 7 |
Contents | 9 |
Introductions | 10 to 21 |
Absent Friends | 10 |
Traveller is About... | 11 |
Traveller is a Role-Playing Game | 12 to 13 |
The Galaxy | 14 |
A Brief History of the Universe | 15 to 17 |
Foundations of the Universe | 18 to 21 |
Basic Information | 22 to 57 |
Dice | 22 to 33 |
Ehex | 34 |
The Ton | 35 |
Range and Distance | 36 to 47 |
Benchmarks | 48 to 51 |
Costs | 52 |
Values | 53 |
Size | 54 |
Hot and Cold | 55 |
Money | 56 |
Humanity | 57 |
Characters and Life | 58 to 209 |
Characteristics | 58 to 67 |
Characters | 68 to 77 |
Careers | 78 to 95 |
Craftsman | 83 |
Scholar | 84 |
Entertainer | 85 |
Citizen | 86 |
Scout | 87 |
Merchant | 88 |
Spacer | 89 |
Soldier | 90 |
Agent | 91 |
Rogue | 92 |
Noble | 93 |
Marine | 94 |
Functionary | 95 to 109 |
Life Pursuits and Experience | 110 to 111 |
Genetics | 112 to 117 |
Clones | 118 to 121 |
Chimeras | 122 to 123 |
Androids and Synthetics | 124 to 127 |
Tasks | 128 to 141 |
Skills | 142 to 183 |
Personals | 184 to 189 |
QREBS | 190 to 196 |
The Senses | 197 to 209 |
Combat | 210 to 303 |
Personal Combat | 210 to 235 |
The Armory | 236 to 239 |
GunMaker | 240 to 260 |
ArmorMaker | 261 to 279 |
VehicleMaker | 280 to 303 |
Starports and Starships | 304 to 417 |
Starports | 304 to 311 |
Starship Design | 312 to 351 |
ShipSheets | 352 to 357 |
Adventure Class Ships | 358 to 359 |
Fuel Benchmarks | 360 to 362 |
How Starships Work | 363 to 403 |
Maneauver | 363 to 365 |
Jump | 366 to 376 |
Power Systems | 376 to 378 |
Sensors | 379 to 385 |
Weapons | 386 to 393 |
Defenses | 394 to 403 |
Starship Combat | 404 to 417 |
Stars and Worlds | 418 to 526 |
Sectors and Subsectors | 418 to 419 |
Charting the Stars | 420 to 425 |
Star Systems and Worlds | 426 to 443 |
Mapping Worlds | 444 to 476 |
Trade and Commerce | 477 to 496 |
Technology | 497 to 513 |
Computers and Consoles | 514 to 521 |
Personalities and Brains | 522 to 526 |
Adventures | 527 to 640 |
Psionics | 527 to 536 |
Sophonts | 537 to 559 |
Robots | 560 to 573 |
BeastMaker | 574 to 585 |
BeastMaker Events | 586 to 587 |
The Beastiary | 588 to 595 |
ThingMaker | 596 to 607 |
ThingMaker Equipment | 608 to 630 |
Adventures | 631 to 634 |
EPIC Adventures | 635 to 640 |
The Traveller's Guide to Starships (Color Insert) |
641 to 656 |
Map of Charted Space | IBC |
Library Data Entries (Public)[edit]
- Adventure Class Ship (ACS)
- Android [1]
- Archeological
- Artifact
- Aslan
- Aslan Border Wars
- Armor
- The Armory
- Astrography
- Battle Class Ship (BCS)
- Beast
- Bureaux
- CharGen
- Charted Space
- Charting the Stars
- Climate [2]
- Console
- Consolidation Wars
- Credit (Cr) [3]
- Cultural Extension AKA Cx
- Dakhaseri [4]
- Deraabelar [5]
- Droyne
- Economic Extension AKA Ex
- Empress Wave
- First Contact
- Flux
- Fuel Benchmarks
- FTL [6]
- Galaxy / Galaxias [7]
- Gas Giant
- Grandfather [8]
- Gun
- Habitable Zone (HZ)
- Hiver
- Humaniti
- Importance Extension AKA Ix
- Inertial Damper
- Inferno World
- Interstellar Wars
- KiloCredit (KCr)
- Kinunir
- Kursae [9]
- Lifters
- Long Night
- MegaCredit (MCr) [10]
- Mileau [11]
- Money
- NAFAL [12]
- Patrol Corvette
- Psionic Supressions
- QREBS [13]
- Rad World
- Resource Unit (RU or Aryu) [14]
- Rule of Man
- Scout/Courier
- Solomani [15]
- Solomani Rim Wars
- Sophont [16]
- Star
- Star System
- Starport Defense Establishment AKA (SDE)
- Starship
- Starship Design
- Starport
- Storm World
- Strange World AKA Strangeworld [17]
- Terran
- Terran Confederation
- Third Imperium
- TNAS
- ToolSet
- Trade and Commerce
- Traveller [18]
- Travellers' Aid Society
- Vargr
- Vilani [19]
- Vilani Empire
- World
- Yaskoydray [20]
- Zhodani [21]
- Ziru Sirka
Selected Corporations[edit]
- Delgado Trading
- GSbAG
- General Products
- Hortalez et Cie
- Instellarms
- LSP (not mentioned)
- Makhidkarun
- Naasirka
- Sharurshid
- Sternmetal (not mentioned)
- SuSAG
- Tukera Lines
- Zirunkariish
Selected Form/s & Terms[edit]
Forms:
- ACS [23]
- ANM AKA (Army, Navy & Marines)
- BCS [24]
- Ehex AKA Expanded Hexidecimal Notation
- Flux [25]
- FTL
- G-Drive
- Ehex [26]
- J-Drive
- M-Drive
- MSL AKA Master Ship List [27]
- NAFAL
- NIL
- P-Drive
- QREBS [28]
- QSDS AKA Quality Ship Design Scheme [29]
- QSP AKA Quick Ship Profile [30]
- Sapient
- SDE AKA Starport Defense Establishment
- Sentient
- Sophont
- Starport Defense Establishment AKA (SDE)
- Strangeworld [31]
- TIJ AKA Time In Jump [32]
- TNAS AKA Travellers' Naval Architecture Society [33]
- TSCS AKA Traveller Sophont Creation System AKA SophontMaker
- Ton [34]
- Universal Personality Profile (UPP) [35]
- Universal World Profile (UWP)
Selected Major Race Polities[edit]
Big Nine (Major Race Polities):
Selected Minor Race Polities[edit]
(Minor Race Polities):
Selected Organizations[edit]
- The Merchant Service [36]
- The Trader's Guild
- Travellers' Aid Society
- Travellers' Naval Architecture Society AKA TNAS
Selected Ships[edit]
- Corsair (P-DA42) [37]
- Corvette (E-EA53) [38]
- Cruiser (C-VS23) [40]
- Far Trader (A2-BS12) [41]
- Free Trader (A-BS11) [42]
- Frigate (G-FB43) [43]
- Laboratory Ship (L-DC12) [44]
- Scout/Courier (S-AL22) [45]
- Yacht (Y-EU42) [46]
Selected Sophonts[edit]
- Aslan (Primarily Aslan Population)
- Droyne (Primarily Droyne Population)
- Hiver (Diverse Sophont Population)
- Imperials (Diverse Sophont Population)
- K'kree (Primarily K’kree Population)
- Solomani (Primarily Humaniti Population)
- Vargr (Primarily Vargr Population)
- Vilani (Primarily Humaniti Population)
- Zhodani (Primarily Humaniti Population)
All Other Sophonts: (Minor & Other Races):
- Abbysal [47]
- Amindii
- Ancients
- Bwap AKA Newt
- Darrian AKA Daryen
- Denizen [48]
- Dushis Khurisi [49]
- Essaray [50]
- Geonee
- Kisthdra [51]
- Kursae
- Llellewyloly
- Mirani [52]
- Plexxan [53]
- Qliq
- Suerrat
- Sylean
- Tahavi [54]
- Tripod AKA Threep
- Virushi
Selected Technology[edit]
- Antimatter Battery (artifact)
- Black Globe
- Brain
- Chimera
- Clone
- Collector
- Computer
- Frozen Watch
- Fusion Power
- Genetics
- Grav Platforms (artifact)
- Gravitics [55]
- Grey Goo
- Jump Drive
- Maneuver Drive
- Mindwipe
- Nanotechnology
- Personality
- Personality Overlay
- Planetary Core Tap (artifact)
- Pocket Universe (artifact)
- Portal (artifact)
- Power Systems
- Psionics
- Reality Manipulation
- Robot
- Shimmersuit (artifact)
- Sensors
- Sophontoid [56]
- Starport
- Synthetic AKA Synthetic Race
- Technology
- Time Manipulation Mastery
- Tool
- Vehicle
- White Globe
Selected Traveller Versions[edit]
- Classic Traveller (CT) [57]
- MegaTraveller (MT) [58]
- Traveller: The New Era (TNE) [59]
- Marc Miller's Traveller (T4) [60]
- GURPS Traveller (GT) [61]
- Mongoose Traveller (MgT) [62]
- Traveller (T5) [63]
Selected Vocations[edit]
- Agent [64]
- Citizen [65]
- Craftsman [66]
- Entertainer [67]
- Functionary [68]
- Marine [69]
- Merchant [70]
- Noble [71]
- Rogue [72]
- Scholar [73]
- Scout [74]
- Soldier [75]
- Spacer [76]
Selected Worlds[edit]
Meta-history & Background (Dossier)[edit]
T5 was developed with huge fan participation and through the use of a Kickstarter.
- It is a living project and still in development even though the core rules have been released.
- As of 2018 CE, errata is in playtesting and review.
Credits (Primary Sources)[edit]
Credits (Primary Sources) | |
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Credit | Authors & Contributors |
Authors | Robert Eaglestone, Don McKinney, and Marc Miller |
Shipwrights | Craig A. Glesner, Andrew Hartman, and Michael Morgan |
External Link/s[edit]
COMMENTARY & DATA ARTICLES:
- EXTERNAL LINK: RPG GEEK Article
- EXTERNAL LINK: RPG NET Article
REVIEWS:
- EXTERNAL LINK: Zhodani Base Review by Jonathan Sherlock
- EXTERNAL LINK: The Douchey DM
- EXTERNAL LINK: Traveller Character Generation… Perfected
- EXTERNAL LINK: Traveller 5 review: second impressions
- EXTERNAL LINK: Is Traveller 5 ship building compatible with Mongoose Traveller?
- EXTERNAL LINK: Traveller 5 anyone?
- EXTERNAL LINK: Traveller 5 Review
- EXTERNAL LINK: Traveller-5: How is it different from Mongoose Traveller?
- EXTERNAL LINK: RPG NET REVIEW OF TRAVELLER5 CD-ROM
VIDEO:
- EXTERNAL LINK: VIDEO How to generate a character in Traveller 5
References & Contributions (Sources)[edit]
This article was copied or excerpted from the following copyrighted sources and used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author.
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
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