TRAVELLER Is Back!

The brand new edition of the Traveller RPG from Mongoose Publishing has arrived. It's available as a PDF right now, and will be in stores in April. "A brand new edition of Traveller is now available - based on the original but tweaked, finessed and updated through a massive months-long beta playtest by you, the players! Every Traveller book is now printed in full colour and all core rulebooks and supplements are gorgeous hardbacks, fully updating this beloved game for the 21st Century. Traveller contains everything needed to play any science fiction campaign, from desperate battles across the stars against evil empires, through free traders operating on both sides of the law, to mercenary companies desperate to find their next ticket or face bankruptcy - Traveller gives you the tools to explore the universe in a way that suits you."

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There's range of supplements planned for the upcoming year, including:

• Traveller Referee Screen (Pdf available; print in April)
• High Guard (PDF in March; print in May)
• High and Dry (PDF in March; print in May)
• Central Supply Catalog (PDF in April; print in June)
• Vehicle Handbook (PDF in May; print in July)
• Marooned on Marduk (PDF in June; print in July)
• Traveller Starter Box Set (PDF in July; box in August)
• The Pirates of Drinax (PDF in August; print in September)

There's also one the item in September (PDF)/November (print) which Mongoose is not releasing the name of yet, plus a pair of Traveller 2300AD items.

Find the new core rulebook here.

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[Morrus]

There certainly could be a N.E.W. approach to it.

(I say having not actually seen the new Traveller. Couldn't resist the plug!)

 

[TrippyHippy]

For actual day to day gaming though, I am not a super big fan. Don't hate the rules but they could be better by today's standards.

What are "today's standards"?

 

[Derren]

What are "today's standards"?

By the looks of it, not needing to remember/think much (even to the detriment of immersion) and always winning (failing forward). Challenge is old school.

 

[TrippyHippy]

I dunno, it just seems a strange throwaway thing to say.

As if any Traveller style mechanic involving rolling two six sided dice and beating a target number is inherently 'old school', but playing Apocalypse World, which has you rolling two six sided dice and beating a target number is 'cutting edge' or summat...

 

[aramis erak]

Anybody here from the play testing? How backward compatible is it? To mongoose and classic?

Non-extant, in the sense that Matthew made compatibility with any other edition an explicit non-consideration.

Extant only to the point of, it's still atts on a scale of 0-15, generated on 2d6, and skills are about 1-8 skill levels per term of 4 years, averaging under 3 per term.

Ship design is ground up different; it still has the 10% per Jn fuel requirement.

It's not even truly compatible with MGT 1E.

Calling it "Traveller" is a stretch, IMO...

 

[Jeux Fictifs]

Traveller or not Traveller ?