Digest Group Publications

Digest Group Publications (DGP) was started in 1985 by Joe Fugate, Gary L. Thomas, Nancy Parker and others. DGP was one of several publishers which produced material for Traveller under a license granted to each by Game Designers Workshop (GDW). Between 1985 and 1993, DGP published for Traveller: 21 issues of the Travellers' Digest, 10 sourcebooks, and 4 issues of the MegaTraveller Journal. For a complete list, see the DGP bibliography.

In 1986, GDW used the exploding production talents of DGP, with Joe Fugate as lead developer to produce MegaTraveller, for which DGP produced the core rules. In addition to writing and editing books for GDW, DGP also produced material for MegaTraveller under their own imprint.

Writing credits for Joe Fugate include Book 8: Robots, the MegaTraveller Core Rules, and Knightfall, all published by GDW.

After the release of the March 1993 issue of the MegaTraveller Journal Four (MTJ4), DGP's last publication, the publisher was no longer allowed to contribute to the Traveller universe. This was due to a rift in the management of GDW in which the leadership of Traveller development shifted from Marc Miller to Frank Chadwick. Chadwick decided to take Traveller in a new direction, and created Traveller the New Era (TNE). Digest Group, which had already worked out an end to the saga of the Rebellion (which was scrapped by Chadwick), was blindsided by this move, and was further insulted by him by not being invited to participate in the development of TNE. It was made clear that DGP's license was not going to be renewed. With its current license to expire relatively soon, and faced with the prospect of supporting a crippled and deadended milieu (which is what MegaTraveller had become when the Rebellion plotline was scrapped), DGP announced in MTJ4 that it would no longer be supporting the Traveller game with new material. The DGP name and intellectual properties (IPs) were subsequently sold to Roger Sanger.