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Traveller is a science fiction role-playing game first published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop. Marc Miller designed Traveller with help from Frank Chadwick, John Harshman, and Loren Wiseman. Editions were published for GURPS, 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. Traveller has been featured in a few novels and at least two video games.
Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) was a wargame and role-playing game publisher from 1973 to 1996. Many of their games are now carried by other publishers.
Imperium is a science fiction board wargame designed by Marc W. Miller, and published in 1977 by the Conflict Game Company and Game Designers' Workshop (GDW). It features asymmetrical forces, the two sides having its unique set of constraints. The game came in a cardboard box illustrated with a space battle on the exterior. It included a cardboard-mounted, folding map of a local region of the Milky Way galaxy, a set of rules and charts, and the 352 counters representing the various spacecraft, ground units, and markers, and a six-sided die. A second edition was published in 1990, a third in 2001, and the first edition republished in 2004.
Marc William Miller is a wargame and role-playing game designer and author.
Frank Chadwick is an American game designer and New York Times best selling author. He has designed hundreds of games, his most notable being the role-playing games En Garde!, Space: 1889 and Twilight 2000, and the wargame series Europa and The Third World War, as well as creating Traveller with Marc Miller. He has won multiple awards for his work.
Loren Keith Wiseman was an American wargame and role-playing game designer, game developer and editor.
Timothy B. Brown is an American game designer, primarily of role-playing games. He has been a designer at Game Designers' Workshop, an editor at Challenge magazine, and the director of product development at TSR.
Challenge was a role-playing game magazine published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) between 1986 and 1996.
Lester W. Smith is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Gary L. Thomas is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.
Digest Group Publications was an American game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements.
Imperium Games was an American game company that produced role-playing games and game supplements.
Joe D. Fugate, Sr. is a writer and game designer who has written on model railroading topics and has worked on role-playing games. Fugate is the founder and publisher of Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine (MRH).
Invasion: Earth The Final Battle of the Solomani Rim War is a 1981 board wargame published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW). Invasion: Earth is the sixth Traveller boardgame published by GDW, and the first one released in a bookshelf box. It was republished in 2004 as part of Far Future Enterprises Traveller: The Classic Games, Games 1-6+.
Traveller Supplement 11: Library Data (N-Z) is a tabletop role-playing game supplement, published by Game Designers' Workshop.
The Traveller Adventure is a campaign of linked adventures published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1983 for the science fiction tabletop role-playing game Traveller, and a companion volume for The Traveller Book.
Traveller Alien Module 4: Zhodani is a 1985 tabletop role-playing game supplement written by J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, and John Harshman, Cover by David Dietrick for Traveller published by Game Designers' Workshop.
Traveller Alien Module 6: Solomani is a supplement published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1986 for the science fiction role-playing game Traveller.
Deneb Sector is a supplement for the science fiction role-playing game Traveller that was created as a charity fundraiser in 1984. Although the authors had permission of the Traveller game designer to publish the unlicensed product, official Traveller material was released later the same year that superseded the material in this book.