New here and a question

[wulfgar]

Hi all,

I've never played traveller, but have been been playing other rpgs for the past 21 years. I find more and more that newer games really don't appeal to me at all and the older games keep calling me back. Anyways, I heard about classic Traveller and it sounds like something I'd enjoy. While I definitely prefer an actual book over pdfs- the CT CD from Far Future Enterprises sounds like a super duper deal in terms of amount of material for your dollar. On the FFE site I can't find a list anywhere that says what is actually on the CD. Can anyone here help me out? Specifically, I'm curious if "The Traveller Adventure" is on there since that sounds really cool, but I'd like to know what else is on the CD too. Thanks in advance for the help.

 

[far-trader]

Specifically, yes, "The Traveller Adventure" is included. There were some threads discussing and reviewing the CD but my links to them are broken.

The complete Classic Traveller Canon on one CD from Far Future Enterprises

Contents:

B00 Understanding Traveller. Freely distributed brochure about Traveller.
B00 The Traveller Book. The complete Classic Traveller basic rules in one volume.
B00 The Traveller Adventure. Epic adventure companion to The Traveller Book.
B00 Starter Traveller. Boxed introductory rules set for Classic Traveller.
B00 Introduction To Traveller
B01 Characters and Combat
B02 Starships.
B03 Worlds and Adventures
B04 Mercenary.
B05 High Guard.
B06 Scouts.
B07 Merchant Prince.
B08 Robots.

SUPPLEMENTS
S01 1001 Characters.
S02 Animal Encounters.
S03 The Spinward Marches. Ultimately, the worlds of the Spinward Marches were mapped on the Spinward Marches Map.
S04 Citizens of the Imperium.
S05 Lightning Class Cruisers. This Supplement was never sold individually; it was available only within Azhanti High Lightning.
S06 76 Patrons.
S07 Traders & Gunboats.
S08 Library Data (A-M). Library Data proved too big to fit in only one Supplement.
S09 Fighting Ships.
S10 The Solomani Rim.
S11 Library Data (N-Z).
S12 Forms & Charts.
S13 Veterans.

SS1 Merchant Prince.
SS2 Exotic Atmospheres.
SS3 Missiles in Traveller.

ADVENTURES
A00 The Imperial Fringe. This introductory adventure was included in Deluxe Traveller.
A00 Imperial Fringe Map.
A01 The Kinunir.
A02 Research Station Gamma.
A03 Twilight's Peak.
A04 Leviathan.
A05 Trillion Credit Squadron.
A06 Expedition to Zhodane.
A07 Broadsword.
A08 Prison Planet.
A09 Nomads of the World Ocean.
A10 Safari Ship.
A11 Murder on Arcturus Station.
A12 Secret of the Ancients.
A13 Signal GK.

DOUBLE ADVENTURES
D01 Shadows.
D01 Annic Nova.
D02 Mission On Mithril.
D02 Across The Bright Face.
D03 Death Station.
D03 Argon Gambit.
D04 Marooned.
D04 Marooned Alone.
D05 Chamax Plague.
D05 Horde.
D06 Night of Conquest.
D06 Divine Intervention.

ALIEN MODULES
AM1 Aslan.
AM2 K'kree.
AM3 Vargr.
AM4 Zhodani.
AM5 Droyne.
AM6 Solomani.
AM7 Hivers.
AM8 Darrians.

MODULES
M01 Tarsus (boxed).
M02 Beltstrike (boxed).
M03 The Spinward Marches Campaign.
M04 Alien Realms.
M05 Atlas of the Imperium.

BOARDGAMES
G00 Imperium.
G01 Mayday. -Rules. -Maps and Counters.
G02 Snapshot. -Rules. -Counters and Maps. -Maps.
G03 Azhanti High Lightning. -Rules. -Deck Plans. -Counters and Charts.
G04 Fifth Frontier War.
G05 Invasion: Earth. -Rules. -Charts and Counters. -Map.
G06 Dark Nebula. -Rules and Charts. -Maps and Counters.
G07 Striker Miniatures Rules. -Book 1. -Book 2. -Book 3. -Book 4.

All in a handsome DVD case styled in the Classic CT LBB format!

 

[Spinward Scout]

The CD contains:

The Traveller Book
The Traveller Adventure
Books 0 through 8
Supplements 1 through 13
Adventures 0 through 13
Double Adventures 1 through 6
Games 0 through 6
Modules 1 through 5
Aliens 1 through 8
Special Supplements 1 through 3

It is well worth the money. I once tried to calculate what it might cost if you bought all of those in book form, and if I remember right it was over $1,000.

Oh, and welcome aboard!

Spinward Scout
EDIT: and Far-Trader beat me to it!

 

[far-trader]

Oh, and welcome aboard wulfgar!

(dang it, Spinward Scout beat me to the greeting )

 

[Johnny_BoomBoom]

Welcome to the forum! I'm a bit of a newbie myself (to this forum...not forums in general nor to Classic Traveller)

Thanks for posting what's on the CD - there's a lot there I've never seen. I just sold off a lot of my original LBB books, supplements, Alien Modules and bought the reprinted books (covering the original 8 books, Alien Modules - remembered to copy the missing page first and supplements and games) - and still was left with money. This CD seems to have way more......think I might invest.....

 

[Foxroe]

FFE also offers a softcover reissue of Books 0-8 if you just want the "core" system (technically, I just consider the "core" to be Books 1-3, but YMMV).

...but $1000 worth of OOP gaming material for just $35 is a hard bargain to resist!

Even though I myself prefer the Classic version of Traveller, I encourage you to spend some time browsing around the other boards here. There's lots of good stuff to be found here, regardless of which version of Traveller floats your ship's boat.

Welcome to the fold!

-Fox

 

[Gray Lensman]

Along the same lines as this thread -- anybody got PDF/CD-ROM versions of the old Digest Group Publications products or are there any plans to do so?

 

[pendragonman]

Let's not forget that most of the content from one of the versions can be pretty easily converted for use in any of the other versions. I have panned lots of nuggets from the some of the other streams

 

[chshrkt]

I just received my CT CDROM and wrote up my experience here:

http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=14904

It does have some issues, but still very worth the price IMHO.

 

[aramis]

Along the same lines as this thread -- anybody got PDF/CD-ROM versions of the old Digest Group Publications products or are there any plans to do so?

No one better have such... the rights holder for DGP is unwilling to let th properties be used for any reasonable price.

 

[robject]

Along the same lines as this thread -- anybody got PDF/CD-ROM versions of the old Digest Group Publications products or are there any plans to do so?

I think the current owner of that product line has no plans to do anything with them.