Traveller(role-playing game)

Traveller

Science-Fiction Adventure in the Far Future
Designers	Marc Miller Frank Chadwick John Harshman Loren Wiseman
Publishers	Game Designers' Workshop(1977–1996) Imperium Games(1996–1998) Steve Jackson Games(1998–2015) QuikLink Interactive (2002–2009) ComStar Games (2006–2008) Mongoose Publishing(2008–present) Far Future Enterprises (2013–present)
Publication	1977 (original) 1987 (MegaTraveller) 1993 (Traveller: The New Era) 1996 (Marc Miller's Traveller) 1998 (GURPS Traveller) 2002 (Traveller20) 2006 (GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars) 2006 (Traveller Hero) 2008 (Travellerknown asMongoose Traveller) 2013 (Traveller5) 2016 (Travellerknown asMongoose Traveller2nd edition)
Years active	1977–present
Genres	Science fiction Space opera
Systems	Custom GURPS Hero System d20 Systems
Website	www.farfuture.net www.mongoosepublishing.com/us/

Travelleris a science fictionrole-playing gamefirst published in 1977 byGame Designers' Workshop.Marc MillerdesignedTravellerwith help fromFrank Chadwick,John Harshman,andLoren Wiseman.Editions were published forGURPS,d20,and other role-playing game systems. From its origin and in the currently published systems, the game relied upon six-sided dice for random elements.Travellerhas been featured in a few novels and at least two video games.

Travelleris a tabletop game where characters journey through star systems, engaging in exploration, ground and space battles, and interstellar trading. Players assume various roles, such as humans, robots, aliens, or genetically engineered species. The game is influenced by various literary works and emphasizes commerce, sociological stratification, and a mix of low and high technology. The setting is centered around the human-dominated Third Imperium, a feudalistic interstellar empire. Despite the focus on humans, theTravelleruniverse is cosmopolitan and features various races, including major races like Aslan, Droyne, Hivers, K'kree, and Vargr, as well as numerous minor races. The game's history also features the Ancients, a highly advanced race that left behind ruins and artifacts scattered throughout the universe.

Travellerhas been published in various editions since 1977. The original version, known asClassic Traveller,was published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW). Throughout the years, the game has evolved, with notable editions includingMegaTraveller,Traveller: The New Era,Marc Miller's Traveller,GURPS Traveller,Traveller20,Traveller Hero,Mongoose Traveller,andTraveller5.The current rulesets areTraveller5andMongoose Traveller 2nd Ed.,both of which draw from the originalTravellerrules and rely on six-sided dice. Each edition presents different settings, timelines, and mechanics, showcasing the game's adaptability and enduring popularity.

Travelleris highly regarded for its production value, sophisticated character generation system, and consistent rules. It has received positive reviews across various editions, with some critics calling it the best science-fiction RPG.Travellerhas won multiple Origins Awards and was inducted into the Origins Hall of Fame in 1996. While the game has faced some criticism, such as slow character growth and anachronistic weapons, it remains a classic in the role-playing hobby. Some video games and software have been based on theTravelleruniverse, includingThe Imperial Data Recovery System,MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy,andMegaTraveller 2: Quest for the Ancients.

Design

Traveller is a tabletop role-playing game. Characters journey between star systems, engaging in exploration, ground and space battles, and interstellar trading. One player, the game master or referee, oversees task attempts and guides events as the players explore the setting.

Characters are defined not by the need to increase native skill and ability but by achievements, discoveries, wealth, and so on.

Influences and inspiration

Marc Miller lists a number of books that influencedTravellerand provided its key features:

• Dorsai,Gordon R. Dickson,1960
• Dumarest of Terrasaga,Edwin Charles Tubb,1967-2008
• Envoy to New Worlds,Keith Laumer,1963
• Hammer's Slammers,David Drake,1979
• Retief's Peace,Keith Laumer,William H. Keith,2005
• Space Viking,H. Beam Piper,1963
• The Cosmic Computer,H. Beam Piper,1963

Key features

Some of these key features include:

• Commerce:Commerce is the major driving force of civilization.
• Human-centric but cosmopolitan:The core rules focus on human characters, but there is support for using and playing aliens.
• Limited communication:There is nofaster-than-light information transfer– meaning noansible,subspace radio,or similar. Communication is limited to the speed of travel. Decisions are made on the local level rather than by a remote authority.
• Morals and mortality:People remain people and continue to show courage, wisdom, honesty and justice, along with cowardice, deceit, and criminal behavior.
• Sociological:Interstellar society is socially stratified (high, mid, and low passage; SOC (Social Status) is a primary character attribute). Affairs are often managed by independent nobility, who make use of classic titles such as Baron, Duke and Archduke.

Characters

Travelleruses a lifepath-style system forcharacter generation.Characters get skills and experience in a mini-game where the player makes career choices determining the character's life up to the point before adventuring begins.

A character can be human, robot, alien, or of a genetically engineered species. A character can be civilian, military, or noble, a young cadet, or a tried-and-true veteran, each with strengths and weaknesses. Death during character generation is possible in some editions, a mechanic that became infamous.

Characters have six primary characteristics, generated by a roll of two six-sided dice. Other characteristics also exist to add nuance to alien characters.

Some characters have extra-sensory perception, telekinesis, telepathy, and other psychic abilities, which are organized and standardized into "psionics".

Equipment

Equipment emphasizes wilderness exploration, hazardous environments, and combat. As a result, equipment lists are heavy on vehicles, sensor equipment, communicators, rations,personal armor,and weapons.

Low-technology

Since primitive worlds exist near technological worlds, primitive weapons such as swords, shields, pikes, and bows are included. Characters often have some sort of blade skill for close combat.

High-technology

Cybernetics and non-sentient robots also show up in equipment lists, as do artifacts from ancient civilizations.

Hard Sci-fi Flavor

Along with energy weapons, there is also a strong presence of slug-throwing weapons such as rifles and pistols. The prevailing theory is that (usually) the most efficient way to stop someone is with kinetic energy (e.g. bullets).

Starships

Starships range from small one-person scouts, to giant planetoid colony ships. Design rules balance power, life support, and defenses for consistent ships. GDW published several board games allowingTravellerspace battles to be played out as games in their own right -Mayday,Brilliant LancesandBattle Riderfor example.

Worlds

Worlds range from barren planetoid moons to large gas giant worlds, from uncolonized territories to planets with billions of people. The world generation rules produce a random mix of worlds.

Setting

Early in the adventures and supplements, a default setting emerged, based on in-house play tests done for the game. In this setting, the human-dominated Third Imperium is the largest interstellar empire in charted space, a feudalistic union of worlds, where localnobilityoperate largely free from oversight and restricted by convention andfeudalobligations.

Sophonts

The setting features descendants of humanity who are collectively calledHumaniti.These include theSolomani,humans emigrated from Earth within the last few thousand years, theVilani,humans transplanted from Earth tens of thousands of years ago by the Ancients (see below) who founded the First Imperium, and theZhodani,psychic humans ruled by psionically-gifted nobles.

Despite the thematic dominance of the human race, with most adventures taking place in human space, theTravelleruniverse is cosmopolitan and contains many technologically advancedsophonts,a term borrowed from earlier science fiction material.The setting principally concerns itself with sixmajor racesthat developed faster-than-light travel independently. In addition to Humaniti, the standard list of major races includes the honor-bound catlikeAslan,the winged lizard-likeDroyne,the sixfold-symmetric and manipulativeHivers,the centaur-like militant vegetarianK'kree,and the wolf-hybridVargr.

Additional minor races are numerous. An early publication from GDW notes that "The minor races, of which there are hundreds within the area of known space, will be largely left up to individual referees." GDW's quarterly publication, theJournal of the Travellers Aid Societydesigned by Loren K. Wiseman, sketched out about one race per quarter, starting with the Aslan in Issue 7. Taken together with aliens casually mentioned or introduced in separate scenarios or adventures—often arbitrarily—there is therefore no indication that the number of minor races is limited in any sense.

Ancients

TheAncientswere a major race in the distant past; their ruins dot planets throughout charted space and their artifacts are more technically advanced than those of any existing civilization. For unknown reasons, they transplanted humans from Earth to dozens of worlds, uplifted Terran wolves to create the Vargr and transplanted them to another world,and undertook manymegascale engineeringprojects before destroying their civilization in a catastrophic civil war.

Publishing history

A selection of classicTravellerrule books and supplements, including the core box set.

Format

Main article:List of Traveller Books

The original gamebooks were black anddigest-sized(known as the "little black books" ) produced byGame Designers' Workshop(GDW). The main rules were detailed in three such booklets, sold as aboxed setwhile the same format was used for early support material, such as the adventures, supplements and further books. Later supplements and updated versions of the maingame systemintroduced full sized booklets, complete re-writes of the game system and significant changes to the Third Imperium.

Editions

Travellergame editions and publishers

Pub. date	Game	Abbrev.	Primary publisher
1977	(Classic)Traveller	CT	Game Designers' Workshop
1987	MegaTraveller	MT	Game Designers' Workshop
1993	Traveller: The New Era	TNE	Game Designers' Workshop
1996	Marc Miller's Traveller	T4	Imperium Games
1998	GURPS Traveller	GT	Steve Jackson Games
2002	Traveller20	T20	QuikLink Interactive
2006	GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars	GTIW	Steve Jackson Games
2006	Traveller Hero	TH	ComStar Games
2008	MongooseTraveller1st Ed.	MGT	Mongoose Publishing
2013	Traveller5.09	T5	Far Future Enterprises
2016	MongooseTraveller2nd Ed.	MGT2	Mongoose Publishing
2019	Traveller5.10	T5	Far Future Enterprises
2022	MongooseTraveller2nd Ed. Update	MGT2	Mongoose Publishing

Though nearly all older versions ofTravellerare available in PDF format,Traveller⁵andMongoose Traveller 2nd Ed.are the current rulesets. Both rely on six-sided dice and both draw from the originalTravellerrules.

Traveller

The original version was designed and published by GDW in 1977. The core rules originally came as a box set of three black digest-sized books, and were later compiled into a single volume rulebook. This edition is also sometimes called by theretronymClassic Traveller.

MegaTraveller

The game was set during a rebellion which shattered the Imperium. Supplements and magazines produced during this era detailed the progression of the rebellion from the initial assassination of the Emperor in 1116 to the collapse of large-scale interstellar trade in roughly 1124 (the beginning of the supplementHard Times).

Traveller: The New Era

Set in the former territory of the Third Imperium after interstellar government and society had largely collapsed.TNEintroducedVirus,a silicon-chip life form that infected and took over computers. The game mechanics used GDW's house system, derived fromTwilight: 2000,2nd Ed.

Marc Miller's Traveller

T4 is set in the early days of the Third Imperium (Milieu 0), with the small, newly formed empire surrounded by regressed or barbaric worlds.

GURPS Traveller

Main article:GURPS Traveller

Designed by Loren K. Wiseman and published in 1998,GURPS Travelleruses the third edition of theGURPSsystem and takes place in an alternate timeline in which no Rebellion occurred and Virus was never released.

Traveller²⁰

Published by QuickLink Interactive (QLI) in 2002, this version uses thed20 Systemas its base and is set at the time of the Solomani Rim War around Imperial year 990, about a century before the era depicted in the original game. The preferred setting is theGateway Domainregion of the Imperium. After the company's license to theTravellerbrand and setting lapsed, the purely mechanical elements of this game were republished as the genericSciFi20system.

GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars

In 2006, Steve Jackson Games releasedGURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars(GTISW,sometimesGTIW) for the 4th edition ofGURPSfrom 2004. The timeline was rolled back to 2170, which is several millennia earlier than the usualTravellersetting, to the early days of Earth's presence in space at the time when Earth first started to send out interstellar ships to include the period just after the Third Interstellar War between the Terran Confederation (Earth) and the giganticZiru Sirka Empire (Vland).

Traveller Hero

A port of theTravellersetting to theHero System,produced under license by Comstar Games in 2006.

MongooseTraveller

Mongoose Publishingpublished this version both in a traditional format and as anopen gamingSRDaround which other games may be built.

A second edition was published in 2016 and updated in 2022. It uses a full color production style while resembling the originalTravellerrules in scope.

Traveller⁵

A new set of rules made by re-working and integrating concepts from earlier rulesets.

The current version, v5.10, was printed in 2019 as three distinct books:Characters and Combat,Starships,andWorlds and Adventures.This edition uses Uncertain checks in which one of the dice in certain situations is rolled in secret by thegamemaster.

Reception

In the April–May 1978 edition ofWhite Dwarf(Issue #6),Don Turnbullgave a strong recommendation for the new game, saying, "Altogether, what is here is very satisfactory and much of it is stimulating. The presentation is exemplary, the detail impressive, the treatment exacting and the inventiveness inspired."

In the September 1978 edition ofDragon(Issue 18), Tony Watson complimented the game on the high production value of its components, saying, "Physically,Travelleris first class, a tradition with Game Designer's Workshop. The box lid and covers of the three booklets are done in a simple but highly effective combination of red and white lettering on a black background. The interior layout and printing is also of the best quality; the printing is an entirely professional job. "Watson liked that experience points were not emphasized in gameplay:" It is refreshing to see that the adventures and color of the game's play is reward enough and the players are not channeling their energy into the rather silly chase of ethereal experience points. Too often, this chase becomes more important than actual play itself! "He concluded with a strong recommendation, saying,"Travelleris a unique SF game and probably the best of the role-playing variety. It offers a colorful but consistent future for players to adventure in. "

In the inaugural edition ofAres(March 1980),David Ritchiewas enthusiastic aboutTraveller,giving it an above average rating of 8 out of 9 and commenting, "This game starts off whereDungeons & Dragonsleft off, but, if there is any justice, will end up being more popular than that venerable relic. For one thing, theTravellerrules are fairly consistent (moreso than is usual for such games). "

In the May–June 1980 edition ofThe Space Gamer(Issue No. 28), Forrest Johnson gave a good review, saying, "Travelleris the best game of its type, recommended for the sophisticated science fiction gamer. "

In the November 1980 edition ofAres(Issue #5),Eric GoldbergcalledTraveller"a most impressive achievement from a design standpoint... This mark of distinction is the main reason why I considerTravellerthe finest commercially available role-playing game. "Goldberg didn't consider it perfect, criticizing the game's lack of imaginary vision of technology of the future. Although he liked the" sophisticated and elegant "character generation system, he felt that" All too often, a player will have to spend an entire afternoon rolling dice before he gains a reasonable character. "Goldberg concluded with a positive recommendation:" If you have at least a casual interest in science fiction and role-playing, you should definitely invest in a copy ofTraveller"

In the 1980 bookThe Complete Book of Wargames,game designerJon Freemancommented, "Travelleris the only serious attempt to provide a really comprehensive set of role-playing rules for science fiction: interstellar travel, exploration, trade, combat at all levels, and so on. "Freeman warned potential players," Considering the territory it seeks to cover,Travelleris necessarily complex, and it presumes on the part of the potential referee considerable familiarity with other role-playing games and the literature of science fiction. "Freeman gave this game an Overall Evaluation of" Good ", concluding," For experienced players wishing a truly open-ended, science fiction, role-playing campaign, there is no real alternative. "

In the October–November 1981 edition ofWhite Dwarf,Andy Slack reviewed theDeluxe Traveller Edition,a compilation of the three original rules booklets, plusBook 0 - An Introduction to Traveller,and an adventure, "The Imperial Fringe". Slack thought this edition was better laid out, and "typos have been rectified." Because he believed that this edition was not substantially different than the original set, he only rated this edition a 4 out of 10 for experienced players who already owned the original rule booklets; but for new players, he rated it a perfect 10 out of 10.

In the inaugural edition ofGames International(October 1988), Jake Thornton gaveMegaTravelleran above-average rating of 4 out of 5, saying, "Although there are some typos and omissions, overall,MegaTravelleris a success. If you like your SF on a grand, starspanning scale [...] thenMegaTravelleris the system for you. "

In his 1990 bookThe Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games,game criticRick Swancalled this science fiction role-playing game "the standard by which all others are measured... a brilliant design of remarkable scope... and a milestone in the hobby." Swan felt this game's popularity stemmed from two reasons: "First, many of theTravellerconcepts are so inventive and revolutionary that they continue to ripple through the RPG industry... Second, the sheer volume ofTravellermaterial... ensures that the game will continue to attract attention. "Swan concluded by giving the game his top rating of 4 out of 4.

Chris W. McCubbin reviewedTraveller: The New EraforPyramid#2 (July/Aug. 1993) and concluded that, despite some complaints he had about the new version, "Traveller's still around and that's good. I hope it always will be. "

In the August 1997 edition ofDragon(Issue 238),Rick Swanreviewed the fourth edition ofTraveller,and called it "a masterful effort... the best science-fiction RPG I've ever played." On the downside, Swan thought that "The inclusion of anachronistic weapons like swords and crossbows can turn combat into a bad episode ofStar Trek."He also pointed out that character growth in the game is very slow:" PCs acquire new skills and abilities about as fast as a tree trunk acquires new growth rings. "He also wanted to see more setting information. But he concluded that the fourth edition ofTravellerwas close to perfect, giving it a top rating of 6 out of 6 and saying, "Time-tested and buffed to a sheen,Travellerwill endure as long there's enough plastic to manufacture six-sided dice. "

In a 1996 reader poll byArcanemagazine to determine the 50 most popular roleplaying games of all time,Traveller(as eitherTraveller,MegaTraveller,orTraveller: The New Era) was ranked 3rd. The magazine's editor Paul Pettengale commented: "Although originally intended as a generic science fiction system,Travellerquickly became linked with the Imperium campaign background developed by GDW... This background offers a great degree of freedom for individual referees to run campaigns of their own devising, while providing enough basic groundwork to build from, and has proved to be immensely successful. Everything from political intrigue to action-packed mercenary actions, trading or scientific exploration is possible, and a lot more besides....Traveller[is] one of the true classics of the roleplaying hobby ".

Scott Taylor forBlack Gatein 2013 ratedTravelleras #2 in the top ten role-playing games of all time, saying "Packaged in a plain black jacket with some simple bars of color, there is nothing inherently fancy about Traveller, and yet it has remained a viable source of entertainment to gamers through ten editions and six gaming companies that have controlled its license."

In a review of the Mongoose version ofTravellerinBlack Gate,M Harold Page compared it to what came before and said "The newMongoose Traveller Core Rule Bookis a worthy successor to this tradition. "

In his 2023 bookMonsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground,RPG historian Stu Horvath noted, "Travelleris the first RPG that feels like a distinct game, free ofD&D's direct influence on its design... The originalTravellerstill stands as one of the most significant traditional sci-fi RPGs, thanks in part, to its proximity to the dawn of the hobby, but also to both its scope and the crisp simplicity of its systems. Any game since that involves complex technology... builds on a foundation established byTraveller."

Awards

Traveller: The New Erawon the 1993 Origins Award forBest Roleplaying Rules.

Traveller: The New Erawon the 1994 Origins Award forBest Roleplaying Rules.

In 1996,Travellerwas inducted into the Origins Hall of Fame.

In other media

Software

The Imperial Data Recovery Systemis a computer program published byFASAin 1981 as a play aid to speed up bookkeeping forTraveller,and assist with game aspects such as sector maps, records of characters and ships, and in-game encounters. John M. Morrison reviewedThe Imperial Data Recovery SysteminThe Space GamerNo. 50.Morrison commented that "I would seriously recommend that FASA take this off the market and re-write it from the ground up. There's definitely room for aTravelleraid program on the market, but not this one. "

GDW licenseeParagonproduced two video games based on theTravelleruniverse:

• MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy(1990) forAmiga,Atari ST,andMS-DOS
• MegaTraveller 2: Quest for the Ancients(1991) for Amiga and MS-DOS

TravellerMap is an interactive map detailing the primary setting for Traveller. While it was originally fan-made, it has been made canon by reference,which reference states that what appears in real life on that site is what appears in-universe to users of a certain widely used stellar navigational tool.

Novels

Several novels have been specifically set in the variousTravelleruniverses:

Traveller game novels

#	Year	Title	Series	Author	Reference and ISBN	Notes
1.	1993	"Again, Oytritsyu'aby"	n/a	Charles E. Gannon	n/a	Novelette
2.	1993	"Count or Country"	n/a	Charles E. Gannon	n/a	Novelette
3.	1993	"The Trap of Triton"	n/a	Gary A. Kalin	n/a	Novelette
5.	1995	Death of Wisdom	Book 1 of 3	Paul Brunette	ISBN978-1-55878-181-8
6.	1995	To Dream of Chaos	Book 2 of 3	Paul Brunette	ISBN978-1-55878-184-9
7.	1998	Gateway to the Stars	n/a	Pierce Askegren	ISBN978-0-671-01188-8
8.	2005	The Force of Destiny	n/a	Dale Kemper
9.	2004	Diaspora Phoenix	n/a	Martin J. Dougherty	n/a
10.	2006	Tales of the New Era 1: Yesterday's Hero	n/a	Martin J. Dougherty	n/a
11.	2010	The Backwards Mask	Book 3 of 3	Paul Brunette
12.	2011	The Backwards Mask(Alternative)	Book 3 of 3	Matthew Carson
13.	2012	A Long Way Home: Tales of Congressional Space	n/a	Terrance McInnes	n/a
14.	2014	Shadow of the Storm	n/a	Martin J. Dougherty	ISBN978-1-55878-034-7
15.	2014	Fate of the Kinunir	n/a	Robert E. Vardeman	ISBN978-1-55878-029-3
16.	2015	Agent of the Imperium	n/a	Marc W. Miller	ISBN978-1-55878-037-8

• Gregory P. Lee'sThe Laughing Lipseries acknowledges the influence ofTravellerin the development of the three novels published to date. Lee also wrote theGamelordssupplementLee's Guide to Interstellar Adventurein the early 1980s.
• Jefferson P. Swycafferhas written several novelsset in the "Concordat" fictional universe he originally developed for hisTravellercampaign.
• There are two different Backwards Mask books in theDeath of Wisdomtrilogy. The manuscript by the original author (Brunette) was lost until shortly after the replacement manuscript (by Carson) was published. The original was then published for those who wanted it, and Carson's serves as an alternate end to the trilogy.

Periodicals

Gaming magazineWhite Dwarfran acomic stripcalledThe TravellersbyMark Harrisonfrom 1983 to 1986. The strip spoofedTravellerand other space opera settings.

Music

The concept albumTravellerby heavy metal bandThe Lord Weird Slough Fegis based on the game.

Related role-playing games

Traveller: 2300or2300 AD

Main article:2300 AD

Originally published by GDW as an updated replacement forTraveller,eschewing classicspace operato take inspiration from the grittier contemporaryhard science fictionmedia of the 1980s. The first edition was namedTraveller: 2300,which incited both confusion and criticism since the game carried over neither the rules nor setting of its namesake. The second edition was renamed2300 AD,and added somecyberpunkrules and adventures. It is presented as a future extrapolation of the speculativeWorld War IIIof GDW's popular military role-playing gameTwilight: 2000.In the2300 ADsetting, interstellar travel is relatively new, Earth is still divided into nation-states, and the most powerful nations are competitively exploring and colonizing the fifty light-year sphere of surrounding space. Mongoose Publishing released a sourcebook for the setting in 2012 that adapted it to their version of theTravellerrules.

Cultural impact

Computer programs have been created to model and predict starship combat usingTravellerrules. The most famous case involvedDouglas Lenatapplying hisEuriskoheuristic learning program to the scenario in theTravelleradventureTrillion Credit Squadron,which contains rules for resolving large space battles statistically. Eurisko exploited corner-case features and built unusual fleets that won the 1981 and 1982 championships. The sponsor stated that if Lenat entered and won the next year they would stop the sponsorship, so Lenat stopped attending.

See also

• Striker (miniatures game)

Further reading

• Chadwick, Frank(1978).Traveller Book 4: Mercenary.Game Designers' Workshop.
• Collinson, Timothy (2000).The Traveller Periodical Bibliography.British Isles Traveller Support.
• Collinson, Timothy (2017).The Traveller Bibliography, 3rd edition.British Isles Traveller Support.
• Fugate, Joe D. Sr;Brown, Timothy B.(1986).Traveller Book 8: Robots.Game Designers' Workshop.ISBN978-0-943580-10-4.
• Miller, Marc W(1983).Traveller Book 6: Scouts.Game Designers' Workshop.
• Miller, Marc W (1988).Rebellion Sourcebook.Game Designers' Workshop.ISBN978-0-943580-63-0.
• Miller, Marc W;J. Andrew Keith(1985).Traveller Book 7: Merchant Prince.Game Designers' Workshop.
• Miller, Marc W;Loren Wiseman(1984).Traveller Adventure 12: Secret of the Ancients.Game Designers' Workshop.
• Miller, Marc William(1980) [1979].Traveller Book 5: High Guard.revised by Marc William Miller, Frank Chadwick andJohn Harshman.Game Designers' Workshop.
• Slack, Andy (February 1983). "An Introduction to Traveller Part III: Scenarios".White Dwarf(38). Games Workshop: 10–11.ISSN0265-8712.
• Slack, Andy (March 1983). "An Introduction to Traveller Part IV: Scenarios".White Dwarf(39). Games Workshop: 18–19.ISSN0265-8712.
• Smith, Lester(1996).Milieu 0.Imperium Games.ISBN978-1-57828-124-4.
• Traveller Book 1: Characters and Combat.Game Designers' Workshop.1977a.
• Traveller Book 2: Starships.Game Designers' Workshop. 1977b.
• Traveller Book 3: Worlds and Adventures.Game Designers' Workshop. 1977c.
• Wiseman, Loren K.(1981).Traveller Book 0: An Introduction To.Game Designers' Workshop.

External links

• Traveller (role-playing game)series listing at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database
• Far Future Enterprises
• GURPS Traveller
• Mongoose Traveller
• Travellerwiki
• TravellerMap:(a map of the official setting)