Top 5 Traveller covers

[kafka47]

As I suggested in my reaction to the proposed T20 cover. We ought say what we like (as opposed to whinning). I realize that this puts newcomers against old timers. Therefore, I propose after listing the best Traveller covers have a point after that to list the top 5 covers from any source preferably accessible SF, so as to help Hunter and the rest of the crowd developing T20.

Traveller Covers

1. Rebellion Sourcebook [GDW]
2. Traveller Book dustjacket
3. MegaTraveller Journal#1
4. Traveller's Digest#16
5. Challenge#33

Non Traveller Covers

1. Deep Space (r. Talsorian games)
2. Blue Planet 1st ed. (Biohazzard games)
3. James P. Hogan's Giants Trilogy (Book One)
4. Traveller 2300
5. Fading Suns First Edition (HDI)

Traveller player since 1984, so in between the new and the old. So come on guys, lets provide 396 opinions to help Hunter and rest of them.

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[tjoneslo]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by kafka47:
As I suggested in my reaction to the proposed T20 cover. We ought say what we like (as opposed to whinning).
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Traveller covers:
Challenge #33
Challenge #31
GT:Far Trader
GT:First In
Traveller: The original. The Beowulf mayday call I still find eye catching.

One thing I find I don't like about many SF games is there are no people on the covers. It's one of the reasons I really don't like the T4/Chris Foss covers.

 

[Gallowglass]

For Traveller:

The CT Box set
Starter Traveller (251, Dave Deitrick)
MegaTraveller Imperial Encyclopaedia
MegaTraveller Players' Manual
MegaTraveller Rebellion Sourcebook

Non Trav:

Traveller:2300
Operation:Overlord
Dorian Vallejo's cover for Cherryh's Merchanter's Luck
David Mattingly's cover for Cherryh's Downbelow Station
Michael Whelan's cover for Cherryh's Chanur Saga

OK, so I'm re-reading lots of Cherryh at the moment, but they are excellent books, excellent and RELEVANT covers, in all three cases derived from descriptive detail within the books and capturing the feel of the books very well...

 

[T. Foster]

Top 5 Traveller Covers:

1) Traveller (Beowulf distress call -- all-time favorite rpg cover bar none)
2) Starter Traveller (Dave Deitrick -- as far as I'm concerned, this guy never made a bad cover)
3) World Builder's Handbook (also GDW/DGP MegaTraveller poster)
4) Rebellion Sourcebook
5) Traveller: 2300 (original edition by Steve Venters, not the 2300AD box)

 

[TJP]

Some SFRPG covers I like, in no particular order:

-Nyotekundu Sourcebook (for 2300AD by Steve Venters)
-Arrival Vengeance (for MT by Tom Peters)
-Operation Overlord (for 2300AD by Don Dixon)
-2300AD box (by A.C. Farley)
-Rebellion Sourcebook (for MT by A.C. Farley)
-GT Starports (by Jesse DeGraff)

P.S. Gallowglass, it's always good to read C.J. Cherryh!

The Chanur saga is in my all-time Top 5 in SF literature (it's also just full of material to "rip-off" for Traveller GM's).

 

[Gallowglass]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by TJP:
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P.S. Gallowglass, it's always good to read C.J. Cherryh!

The Chanur saga is in my all-time Top 5 in SF literature (it's also just full of material to "rip-off" for Traveller GM's).<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

If ever there was a setting that begged to be done as a "Powered by Traveller" game using the CT/MT rules, it was Alliance-Union-Compact. In its extended version, where she fits the Mri Wars, Serpents Reach etc etc into the Future History, it has a huge scope as a future history and there really are times when reading e.g. Merchanters Luck where you can almost see how the game supplement would be written. Fabulous writer, excellent books. We'll gloss over the Stations that require ships to dock at the rim of rotation and parallel to the axis of rotation, which has always struck me as deeeply wierd and an engineering nightmare...

And in the DAW editions at least, Cherryh's been fortunate enough to get good covers. Usually SF books get the most bizarrely inappropriate covers, and (until Jesse arrived) there was a tendancy for SF Games to suffer the same way. My personal favourite of Traveller illustraters is Dave Deitrick although I still rate the LBB's and in particular the Beowulf message... but we already had _that_ debate on the T5 strand

 

[Gatsby]

covers:

The TNE cover was good.

I bought my first Cherryh book, Rimrunner, JUST due to the cover...now into Cyteen..

Beowulf Distress Call HAS to be somewhere on the cover, in some format - it is like: 'A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away...'

Gats'

 

[kafka47]

Here is what I meant by Jessie image.

BTW, I am still looking for an answer regarding how I could link an image, if I don't access to the web site or if it is simply a jpeg image?

 

[WendellM]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by kafka47:
BTW, I am still looking for an answer regarding how I could link an image, if I don't access to the web site or if it is simply a jpeg image?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

By using:
{IMG}http://www.vision-forge-graphics.com/jesse/traveller/wilds001.jpg{/IMG}
and replacing the {}s with []s.

Directly linking an image in this manner, however, is sometimes considered improper, since it can put a strain on their server. In a very busy forum it could cause problems for the image host, since every person viewing the thread would cause the image to be loaded. In those cases, it's better to use something like:
{url=http://www.vision-forge-graphics.com/jesse/traveller/wilds001.jpg}Sulieman Wilds picture{/url}

Replacing {}s with []s yields:
Sulieman Wilds picture
which is a nice pic...


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