Worlds and Adventures

Worlds and Adventures
Book 3
Author		Marc Miller
Publisher		Game Designers Workshop
Version		Classic Traveller
Edition		1st
Format		LBB (Digest)
Language		English
Pages		48
Year Published		1977
Canonical		Yes
Available from		RPGNow
Also See		World
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Book 3 Worlds and Adventures is a Game Designers Workshop product.

• It is a primary source book, a rules book, designed for Classic Traveller.
• It created the UWP, and helped to flesh out the OTU of Classic Traveller.

Description (Specifications)

Book 3 concerns the alien worlds and star systems that can be encountered in the far reaches of the universe. The referee is concerned with that part as he or she generates those worlds before the travellers arrive. Later, the players are concerned with the same data as they explore and investigate the world they have travelled to.

Table of Contents

Classic Traveller Book 3: Worlds and Adventures
Section	Page/s
Cover & Publication Information	1-2
Table of Contents	3
Worlds	4-16
Equipment	17-19
Vehicles	20-23
Encounters	24-27
Animal Encounters	28-37
Psionics	38-47
A Final Word	48

Library Data Entries (Public)

1. Drug
2. Equipment
3. Personal Device
4. Personal Equipment
5. Psionics
6. Shelter
7. Tool
8. Vision Aid

Selected Drugs (Pharmaceuticals)

• Psi-Booster Drug
• Psi-Double Drug
• Psi-Special Drug

Selected Equipment (Non-combat)

"Personal Equipment:"

1. Artifical Gill
2. Cold Weather Clothing
3. Combination Filter Mask-Respirator
4. Filter Mask
5. Oxygen Tank
6. Protective Suit
7. Respirator
8. Swimming Equipment
9. Underwater Air Tank
10. Vacc Suit

"Personal Devices:"

1. Artificial Psionic Shield Helmet
2. Bull-Horn
3. Hand Calculator
4. Hand Computer
5. Handcuffs
6. Inertial Locator
7. Long Range Communicator
8. Magnetic Compass
9. Medium Range Communicator
10. Metal Detector
11. Radiation Counter
12. Short Range Communicator
13. Wrist Watch

"Shelters:"

1. Advanced Base
2. Pre-Fabricated Cabin
3. Pressure Tent
4. Tarpaulin
5. Tent

"Tools:"

1. Carpentry Tool Set
2. Chain Saw
3. Disguise Kit
4. Electronic Tool Set
5. Lock Pick Set
6. Mechanical Tool Set
7. Medical Kit
8. Metalwork Tool Set

"Vision Aids:"

1. Binoculars
2. Cold Light Lantern
3. Electric Torches
4. Gas Lamp
5. IR Goggles
6. Light Intensifier Goggles
7. Oil Lamp
8. Torches

Selected Form/s & Terms

Forms:

• TAS Form 6 Subsector Map Grid

Terms:

1. AFV
2. ATV
3. Cr

Selected Vehicles

1. Groundcraft AKA Ground Vehicles
   1. AFV
   2. ATV
      1. Tracked ATV
      2. Wheeled ATV
   3. Ground Car
      1. Convertible Ground Car
      2. Limousine
      3. Motorcycle
      4. Sports Ground Car
      5. Truck
      6. Unicycle
      7. Van
   4. Hovercraft
2. Gravcraft AKA Grav Vehicles
   1. Air/Raft
   2. GCarrier
   3. Grav Belt
   4. Speeder
3. Primitive Craft AKA Primitive Transportation
   1. Animal-drawn Cart
   2. Beast of Burden
   3. Galley
   4. Riding Beast
   5. Sailing Ship
4. Aircraft AKA Winged Craft
   1. Fixed Wing Aircraft
   2. Helicopter
   3. Primitive Biplane
5. Watercraft
   1. Motor Boat
   2. Small Steamship
   3. Submersible

Meta-history & Background (Dossier)

Books 1, 2, and 3 came together to provide a great, well-developed sci-fi RPG.

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Marc Miller. Worlds and Adventures (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), .Marc Miller, Robert Eaglestone, Don McKinney. Worlds and Adventures (Far Future Enterprises, 2019), .(1977) created the UWP, which was later expanded with "Extended UWP Statistics", and was continued with the following products:

• World Displays (1981), by Ad Astra Products, which provided subsector and world record forms.
• Grand Survey (book) (1986), by Digest Group Publications, which detailed the Imperial Interstellar Scout Service ad the Grand Surveys, which allowed detailed physical characteristics and an accurate map of the world. Grand Survey (book) called the UWP, the UPP or Universal Planetary Profile.
• Grand Census (1987), by Digest Group Publications, which detailed world cultural characteristics, including details of the social structures, government institutions, languages, and technology of the UWP.
• World Builder's Handbook (1989), by Digest Group Publications, which detailed how Imperial Scouts survey and explore new worlds including colonization and world mapping techniques.
• World Tamer's Handbook (1994), by Game Designers' Workshop, which brought even more detail to the survey and colonization processes.
• Traveller 5th (2013), by Far Future Enterprises, which further continues the UWP legacy with many new features.

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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
Original Concept and General Game Design	Marc Miller
Supplemental Design	Frank Chadwick, John Harshman, Loren Wiseman, Darryl Hany
Playtesting	Winston Hamilton, Tony Svajlenka, Scott Renner, Doug Po, David MacDonald, Wayne Roth
Art Direction	Paul R. Banner
Publisher	Game Designers' Workshop

External Link/s

"COMMENTARY & DATA ARTICLES:"

1. EXTERNAL LINK: RPG GEEK Entry
2. EXTERNAL LINK: RPG NET Entry
3. EXTERNAL LINK: Library Thing Classic Traveller

"REVIEWS:"

1. EXTERNAL LINK: TBD

Other Articles:

1. EXTERNAL LINK: TBD

References & Contributions (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science