 Cover by William H. Keith. | |
| Designers | |
|---|---|
| Publishers | Game Designers' Workshop |
| Publication | 1983 |
| Genres | Science-fiction |
| Systems | Classic Traveller |
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 .
The Traveller Adventure is an campaign of linked scenarios in the Aramis subsector involving the crew of the March Harrier subsidized merchant vessel. [1]
GDW created Traveller in 1977, and it quickly became popular. GDW subsequently released a large number of expansions, modules, and adventures including the campaign book The Traveller Adventure, written by Frank Chadwick, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, and Loren Wiseman, with a cover by William H. Keith. It was designed to be a companion volume to the previously published The Traveller Book .
Craig Sheeley reviewed The Traveller Adventure in Space Gamer No. 70. [1] Sheeley commented that "I was pleasantly surprised by The Traveller Adventure [...] it is reasonably price. It is, on the whole, one of the best products ever made by GDW." [1]
Stephen Nutt reviewed The Traveller Adventure for Imagine magazine, and stated that "I rate [The Traveller Adventure] in the top five best role-playing products that have ever been placed on the market. In the context of Traveller it is the best thing GDW have ever produced, simply a must for anybody running a Traveller campaign." [2]
Andy Slack reviewed The Traveller Adventure for White Dwarf #57, giving it an overall rating of 9 out of 10, and stated that "this is a superb campaign capable of entertaining a group of up to 8 players of any experience for up to a year." [3]
In his 1990 book The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games , game critic Rick Swan highly recommended this as one of the best Traveller adventures, albeit for "ambitious referees", calling it "a 150-plus-page campaign involving a devious interstellar smuggling operation and a memorable villain." [4]
Star Frontiers is a science fiction role-playing game produced by TSR from 1982 to 1985. The game offered a space opera action-adventure setting.
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.
Traveller Supplement Adventure 8: Prison Planet is an adventure published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1982 for the role-playing game Traveller
Traveller Supplement Adventure 9: Nomads of the World-Ocean is a 1983 role-playing game adventure for Traveller, written by J. Andrew Keith and William H. Keith, Jr., published by Game Designers' Workshop. Nomads of the World-Ocean deals with attempts to gather evidence of corporate wrongdoing on an ocean-covered world.
Traveller Starter Edition is a boxed Tabletop role-playing game, written by Marc W. Miller, and published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1983 for Traveller. Traveller Starter Edition is a major revision in style and packaging for the Traveller system.
Tarsus: World Beyond the Frontier is an adventure published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1983 for the science fiction role-playing game Traveller. It is the first of five publications in the Traveller Modules series.
Traveller Supplement Adventure 11: Murder on Arcturus Station is an adventure published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1983 for the science fiction role-playing game Traveller.
Traveller Supplement 13: Veterans is a 1983 tabletop role-playing game supplement, written by Tim Brown for Traveller published by Game Designers' Workshop. Veterans is a compilation of 234 pregenerated Mercenary characters. Thirteen Traveller supplements were published. A single collected volume was published by Far Future Enterprises in 2000.
Traveller Alien Module 1: Aslan is a 1984 role-playing game supplement for Traveller, Written by J. Andrew Keith, John Harshman, and Marc W. Miller, cover by David Deitrick, and published by Game Designers' Workshop. Part of the classic Traveller Alien Modules series.
Traveller Adventure 12: Secret of the Ancients is a 1984 role-playing game adventure for Traveller, written by Marc W. Miller, published by Game Designers' Workshop.
BeltStrike: Riches and Danger in the Bowman Belt is a 1984 tabletop role-playing game adventure, written by J. Andrew Keith, with a cover by David Deitrick for Traveller published by Game Designers' Workshop. One of the classic Traveller Modules series.
Traveller Alien Module 2: K'kree is a 1984 role-playing game supplement for Traveller, written by J. Andrew Keith and Loren K. Wiseman, cover by David Dietrick, and published by Game Designers' Workshop. Part of the classic Traveller Alien Modules series.
The Drenslaar Quest is an adventure, written by J. Andrew Keith, and William H. Keith, and published under license by Gamelords in 1983 for Game Designer's Workshop's science fiction role-playing game Traveller. It utilized the rules from The Undersea Environment by the same author.
The Desert Environment was written by J. Andrew Keith and William H. Keith Jr. for Game Designers Workshop's Traveller role-playing game, and published under license by Gamelords in 1984. The book provides Traveller gamemasters with in-depth information about the desert, allowing them to accurately present adventures in the desert wastes of alien worlds. A companion adventure, Duneraiders was written by the same author.
Northern Mirkwood: The Wood-Elves Realm is a 1983 fantasy role-playing game supplement published by Iron Crown Enterprises for Middle-earth Role Playing.
Traveller Alien Module 3: Vargr is a 1984 tabletop role-playing game supplement, written by J. Andrew Keith, John Harshman, and Marc W. Miller for Traveller published by Game Designers' Workshop. Part of the classic Traveller Alien Modules series.
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 Book 6: Scouts is a tabletop role-playing game supplement, written by Marc Miller for Traveller, and published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1983.
Traveller Alien Module 6: Solomani is a supplement published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1986 for the science fiction role-playing game Traveller.
Traveller Alien Module 7: Hivers is a supplement published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1986 for the science fiction role-playing game Traveller.