Starter Traveller

Starter Traveller
TBD
Author		Marc Miller
Publisher		Game Designers Workshop
Version		Classic Traveller
Edition		1st
Format		Book (Softback)
Language		English
Pages		96
Year Published		1983
Canonical		Yes
Available from		RPGNow
Also See		Lost Rules of Traveller
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Starter Traveller is a Traveller Boxed Basic Set created by Game Designers Workshop.

• It is a rules book, source book, and includes several adventures.
• It's a compilation and update of previous rules dates and materials written for Classic Traveller.
• It is a different product than the Deluxe Traveller Boxed Set.
• This publication has the following errata file: Errata Basic Traveller 1981 Edition

Description (Specifications)

Box contains 2 booklets, two-sided map, two dice.

Table of Contents

Classic Traveller Edition: Starter Traveller Boxed Set
Rules Book
Section	Page/s
Introduction	5
Characters	8
Personal Combat	19
Travel	27
Starship Economics	29
Computers	38
Space Combat	39
Worlds	43
Animal Encounters	46
Encounters	50
Trade and Commerce	52
Equipment	52
Vehicles	55
Psionics	57
Basic Traveller Activities	61
Referee's Guide to Adventuring	62
Into the Subsector	63

Charts and Tables
Section	Page/s
Characters	2-3
Personal Combat	4-7
Travelling	8
Starship Economics	9
Starship Design and Construction	10-11
Space Combat	12-13
Worlds	14-17
Animal Encounters	18-19
Encounters	20-21
Trade and Commerce	22
Personal Equipment and Vehicles	23
Psionics	24
TAS Form 2 (Personal History)	Inside Front Cover
TAS Form 6 (Subsector Map Grid)	Inside Back Cover

Library Data Entries (Public)

1. Type A class Free Trader
2. Type C class Mercenary Cruiser
3. Type K class Safari Ship
4. Type L class Laboratory Ship
5. Type M class Subsidized Liner
6. Type R class Subsidized Merchant
7. Type S class Scout/Courier
8. Type T class Patrol Ship
9. Type Y class Yacht
10. World class Battle Tender

Meta-history & Background (Dossier)

The Classic Traveller core rules actually exist in three different rulesets. Logic would suggest using the most recent released edition; but in this case, there are rules elements of interest to the collector which would not be included.

The original 1977 release of Traveller contained three books – Characters and Combat, Starships, and Worlds and Adventures. This set of rules contains everything needed to play Traveller. However, in 1981, GDW took advantage of a need to reprint the core rules to also address and clean up the rules. This "second edition" actually adds quite a bit to the rules, but there are also some items dropped from the rules. This second edition also incorporated errata printed in Book 4 – Mercenary for the original 1977 edition.

This cleaned up "second edition" would be used for producing The Traveller Book in 1982, along with some additional material, including a special introduction for new players, two adventures, and additional details on what was becoming the Official Traveller Universe (OTU). Some additional rules did slip into The Traveller Book that appear nowhere else.

Finally, in 1983, GDW released Starter Traveller, intended at giving a younger audience a streamlined and simpler set of Traveller rules. This release dropped some of the more complicated rules, but added a different starship combat system (using range bands, much like the personal combat system, as opposed to vector movement) which many consider a great improvement on the original. Except where noted, Starter Traveller uses the 1981 edition rules.

Finally, other minor Classic Traveller rules appeared in other releases (notably Mayday, Snapshot, and the Alien Modules) which some referees and players of the Classic Traveller rules will find useful without adopting the game models in those products. This document presents a collection of rules elements for purchasers of FFE's The Classic Books 0 - 8 to give them access to these lost rules not available in the Classic Reprints collection.

Credits (Primary Sources)

Credits (Primary Sources)
Credit	Authors & Contributors
Design	Marc Miller
Developer	John Harshman
Development Contribution	Paul R. Banner, Frank Chadwick and Loren K. Wiseman
Box Cover Artist	David R. Deitrick
Box Design	Chris Purcell
Art Director	Paul R. Banner
Interior Artist	Donna Barr, Liz Danforth, David Deitrick, William H. Keith, Jr., Bob Liebman and John M. Morrison

External Link/s

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REVIEWS:

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