Kickstarter Traveller 5e powered by the DnD SRD in 2026 crowdfunding

[ngenius]

The best science-fiction role-playing game ever, adapted at last to the world's most popular rules! All of Traveller's key activities (character and world generation, personal and ship combat, you name it) fully converted to 5E's exciting, heroic game system.

Spearheaded by GDW and TSR veteran Timothy Brown, with a savvy team of Traveller and 5E experts, and in full coordination with Mongoose Publishing, this new approach goes beyond just the established universe, paving the way for whole new settings. No small undertaking, Traveller 5E is envisioned as combining the key Mongoose Publishing books into new volumes, making a 4-5 book, potentially 2,000+ page slipcase set, with a steady flow of rules, adventures, and entirely new settings to follow.

It's a gateway, a portal, to bring lots of gamers loyal to their favourite game system into the Traveller community.

Traveller 5E, coming from World's Largest RPGs, crowdfunding in March 2026.

 

[Parmandur]

I'll be honest, as somebody who loves Traveller and 5E...this is confusing.

 

[Swanosaurus]

Very confusing ... if you transplant the core activities of Traveller to 5e, even if you are succesful, what do you get but an RPG that people who are looking for a 5e experience wouldn't want to play?
If it would just be a setting adaptation of the Third Imperium that stays true to the core 5e experience, that would make sense. But using the 5e rules to create the Traveller experience sounds both hard to pull off and pointless.

 

[darjr]

I second that. For those that don’t know there is already a 5th edition of Traveller that isn’t 5th edition D&D rules.

 

[Swanosaurus]

By the way, didn't Timothy Brown write the Dragon Kings setting? I actually really liked that one ...

 

[Distracted DM]

I get it, everyone wants a piece of the 5e pie.
There are plenty of people that say "I already know how 5e works, why would I want to learn another ruleset when I can just play different stuff in 5e?"

 

[Dire Bare]

I'll be honest, as somebody who loves Traveller and 5E...this is confusing.

What's confusing?

The Traveller setting using the 5E rules. In the past, Traveller has had a d20 version, a GURPS version, why not a 5E version?

Obviously, it will be different from the core game in important ways . . . but, yeah?

 

[Parmandur]

What's confusing?

The Traveller setting using the 5E rules. In the past, Traveller has had a d20 version, a GURPS version, why not a 5E version?

Obviously, it will be different from the core game in important ways . . . but, yeah?

I mean...sure. But why?

 

[SableWyvern]

What's confusing?

why not a 5E version?

What's confusing for me is that if you are talking about 5e on the Citizens of the Imperium forum, or with anyone else who already knows about Traveller, then they are likely to assume Traveller 5e means T5/Traveller5 -- the "5e version" that already exists.

On a D&D-centric forum, 5e may be taken to mean D&D 5e. On a Traveller forum, however, it typically means T5, just like on an Ars Magic discord server it would mean the fifth edition of Ars Magica and on a Call of Cthulhu subreddit you'd be safe to assume it's referring to CoC 5e.

 

[Swanosaurus]

What's confusing for me is that if you are talking about 5e on the Citizens of the Imperium forum, or with anyone else who already knows about Traveller, then they are likely to assume Traveller 5e means T5/Traveller5 -- the "5e version" that already exists.

On a D&D-centric forum, 5e may be taken to mean D&D 5e. On a Traveller forum, however, it typically means T5, just like on an Ars Magic discord server it would mean the fifth edition of Ars Magica and on a Call of Cthulhu subreddit you'd be safe to assume it's referring to CoC 5e.

Well, I guess that any misunderstandings about that will clear up pretty quickly. There's little risk that anyone will back this not realising it is NOT T5.

However, I do find labelling things 5e as if D&D were the only rpg in the world (or at least the only one with five or more editions) annoying as well. But it's more of a pet peeve of mine ...