Traveller Book 6: Scouts

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Book 6: Scouts
GDW B06 Book 06 Scouts RPG supplement cover 1983.jpg
Designers Marc Miller
Publishers Game Designers' Workshop
Publication1983
GenresScience-fiction
SystemsClassic Traveller

Traveller Book 6: Scouts [1] is a tabletop role-playing game supplement, written by Marc Miller for Traveller , and published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1983.

Contents

Contents

Scouts is a supplement which presents additional systems for character generation related to the Scout Service, and also includes an expanded system for world generation. [2] The Scout Service is a fictional intersteller exploration organization.

Publication history

An updated edition [3] titled Book 3 Scout, written by Lawrence Whitaker, was published by Mongoose Publishing in 2009.

Reception

Tony Watson reviewed Scouts in Ares Magazine #17 and commented that "Scouts adds much to Scout characters and especially to the generation of star systems and worlds. These latter rules and great detail to star systems, and a correspondingly greater cost in time and effort to create subsectors. Its value then, depends on how anxious the referee is to include the new information in his campaign." [4]

Andy Slack reviewed Scouts for White Dwarf #53, giving the supplement 7/10 overall and stated that it was "Not as clear as earlier Traveller materials. If you want to generate or GM detailed Traveller star-systems, and have a lot of time to spare, this is the item for you. If you simply want expanded scout characters, then egotism aside Star Patrol is similar and cheaper." [2]

Stephen Nutt reviewed Scouts, Book 6 for Imagine magazine, and stated that "It is hard to say that GDW have done more than half succeed with this one." [5]

See also

Classic Traveller Books

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References

  1. Miller, Marc (1983). Traveller Book 6: Scouts. Bloomington, IL, USA: Game Designers Workshop. ASIN   B000ERK1GC.
  2. 1 2 Slack, Andy (May 1984). "Open Box". White Dwarf (53). Games Workshop: 17.
  3. Whitaker, Lawrence (2009). Book 3: Scout. Swindon UK.: Mongoose Publishing. ISBN   978-1906508005.
  4. Watson, Tony (Spring 1984). "Games". Ares Magazine (17). TSR, Inc.: 56–57.
  5. Nutt, Stephen (September 1984). "Notices". Imagine (review) (18). TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd.: 42.