Classic Traveller

Classic Traveller is the original edition of the Traveller Roleplaying Game and related board games and war games published between 1977 and 1986. This article refers to specific information about this edition, for information about the game in general please refer to the main article on Traveller (role-playing game).

This edition is know for its little black books, most of the rules and supplements came as A5 mostly black with a single offset colour.

The game system introduced a unique character generation system which helped it to stand out from other Role-playing games of the time. Players took their characters through a career development path (usually in the military) where the character rolled for different assignments and gained extra skills, rank and retirement benefits. Leaving a character in service for longer before the game would lead to more skills and beginning cash but could also mean that basic attributes (such as strength) would begin to degrade with old age.

At the beginning there was only some very basic background material as to the Traveller universe. It appeared that like most other RPG games of the time that individual game masters would develop their own universe to adventure in. As more adventures and supplements were developed the rich character of the standard traveller universe began to evolve.

Most of the Classic Traveller books are available in compendium volumes from www.farfuture.net - Marc Miller's Far Future company, who are the current copyright and trademark holder of all forms of the Traveller game.

Classic Traveller was replaced in 1986 by a new version of the game called MegaTraveller which not only radically revised the mechanics of the game (notably a task based system) but also the format of publication (now in A4 books) and the background setting (timeline was advanced several years with a shattered Imperium fighting a civil war).

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