Version List

[RossWinn]

Here’s the version list that I have. Am I missing anything?

1 Traveller 77
2 Traveller 81
3 Mega Traveller
4 The New Era
5 Marc Miller’s Traveller
6 GURPS Traveller
7 Interstellar Wars
8 GRiP Traveller
9 Traveller Hero
10 Action!System Traveller
11 Traveller T20
12 Traveller 5
13 Mongoose Traveller 1e
14 Mongoose Traveller 2e
15 Traveller 5.1

 

[MichaelSTee]

Your number 10 was not a licensed version, so really shouldn’t be included. If you include that, you’d have to also include any other conversion available on the web, like Fudge or Savage Worlds.

 

[RossWinn]

Your number 10 was not a licensed version, so really shouldn’t be included. If you include that, you’d have to also include any other conversion available on the web, like Fudge or Savage Worlds.

I haven't seen any of those. Do yo have any links?

 

[Ildefonse]

Are you only considering "official Traveller" versions? While it doesn't have "Traveller" in the title, there is the Cepheus Engine branch of "Traveller".

 

[RossWinn]

Are you only considering "official Traveller" versions? While it doesn't have "Traveller" in the title, there is the Cepheus Engine branch of "Traveller".

Personally I’d consider the evolution of Cepheus to be a different game. Maybe a footnote. Considering the SRD as a separate variant.

 

[mike wightman]

I personally would add The Traveller Book and Starter Edition after 81 and before MT.

Both contain rule changes. errata or explanations that differentiate them from 81

There were also Deluxe sets.

Isn't GRiP Traveller just a compilation of the three 81 books. if it is included then the CT facsimile edition should be added

As to T5 there are three very different versions. The original T5 monolith book, then the 5.09 electronic only edition, then the 5.1 three book slipcase.

 

[MichaelSTee]

I haven't seen any of those. Do yo have any links?

Don't have the SW links handy, and Google is not helping me today. But I've saved off webpages for a Savage Worlds version from a site called (i think) Traveller SW. Also found this https://phillwebb.id.au/fudge/traveller/ which is a nice Fudge-based version of MegaTraveller.
I think your list should just include GDW/Mongoose & licensees.
I know your connection to Action System Traveller (I sent you the 2 pdfs, remember?), but is wasn't licensed, was it?
Also, wasn't GRIP just a set of rules for playing the game over an online platform of Hunter's? I've never seen it, so I don't know what's in it.

 

[Condottiere]

I saw mention of a fan made variant, which I think was named Mercato.

 

[RossWinn]

I personally would add The Traveller Book and Starter Edition after 81 and before MT.

Done.

There were also Deluxe sets.

Wasn't Traveller Deluxe just published later in 81 with Book 0 added? There was also a Traveller Book Deluxe?

Isn't GRiP Traveller just a compilation of the three 81 books. if it is included then the CT facsimile edition should be added

GRiP had a separate boxed edition, which is why I included it. What Year was the Facsimile Edition made available?

As to T5 there are three very different versions. The original T5 monolith book, then the 5.09 electronic only edition, then the 5.1 three book slipcase.

I forgot about 5.09 -- thanx.

 

[RossWinn]

I saw mention of a fan made variant, which I think was named Mercato.

Mercator, actually a separate game and setting using the same system much like Cepheus.

 

[RossWinn]

Don't have the SW links handy, and Google is not helping me today. But I've saved off webpages for a Savage Worlds version from a site called (i think) Traveller SW. Also found this https://phillwebb.id.au/fudge/traveller/ which is a nice Fudge-based version of MegaTraveller.
I think your list should just include GDW/Mongoose & licensees.
I know your connection to Action System Traveller (I sent you the 2 pdfs, remember?), but is wasn't licensed, was it?
Also, wasn't GRIP just a set of rules for playing the game over an online platform of Hunter's? I've never seen it, so I don't know what's in it.

Traveller Savage Worlds is just a website and hasn't been formatted as a book. I am on the fence, by the way the link is [here](https://sites.google.com/site/travellorsw/).

 

[MichaelSTee]

I saw mention of a fan made variant, which I think was named Mercato.

Mercator, by Paul Elliott (Zozer Games). A re-skinning of CT to a Roman Empire setting. It even says it requires Books 1 thru 5 and Supp 4.

 

[mike wightman]

The first deluxe set was LBB:1-3 plus adventure 0 and a map of the Spinward Marches

The later deluxe set was a softcover Traveller Book plus the adventure and map.

 

[MichaelSTee]

What Year was the Facsimile Edition made available?

According to DriveThru, it was added to their catalog on Apr 26, 2021.

 

[MichaelSTee]

Looking at old threads on this forum, it appears that GRIP-T was just a re-format/print of Books 1-3. Whether any changes were made to the text would be interesting to know. (Would like to see that added to Frank Filz' excellent work of comparing the CT versions.) Also interesting to note that GRIP-T is not listed in Timothy Collinson's Traveller Bibliography or Addenda.
Another unfinished work is "Liftoff" - a failed Kickstarter by 13Mann(I think), an attempt to make a simpler version of the game. Chargen was more like Space1889's, and no spaceship construction rules. Playtest rules were available for a while on their website (I saved several versions of them); don't know if they are still available.

 

[RossWinn]

Looking at old threads on this forum, it appears that GRIP-T was just a re-format/print of Books 1-3. Whether any changes were made to the text would be interesting to know. (Would like to see that added to Frank Filz' excellent work of comparing the CT versions.) Also interesting to note that GRIP-T is not listed in Timothy Collinson's Traveller Bibliography or Addenda.

I wonder what additional material or content might be there. It is the one version I do not have.

Another unfinished work is "Liftoff" - a failed Kickstarter by 13Mann(I think), an attempt to make a simpler version of the game. Chargen was more like Space1889's, and no spaceship construction rules. Playtest rules were available for a while on their website (I saved several versions of them); don't know if they are still available.

Any SF Game that lacks spacecraft rules is a hard pass for me, but I'd like to see how they went about it.

 

[inexorabletash]

Nitpick: it's "5.10" (five dot ten, a major/minor version number with a period as a delimiter) not "5.1" (five and one tenth).

 

[Dulinor]

There were 2 GURPS Traveller editions: one from 1998 and the second in september 1999. They were very similar, though.

 

[mike wightman]

Nitpick: it's "5.10" (five dot ten, a major/minor version number with a period as a delimiter) not "5.1" (five and one tenth).

Nitpick of your nitpick, on the credits page of Book 1 it say, and this is a direct quote:
"Print Edition 5.1"

it is different in books 2 and 3 where it states:

"Print Edition 5.10. PDF Edition 5.10"

 

[MichaelSTee]

Also interesting to note that GRIP-T is not listed in Timothy Collinson's Traveller Bibliography or Addenda.

OK, I was wrong about this. It IS mentioned in the Bibliography, near the beginning of the listings:
A010
BOOKS 1-3: THE BASIC BOOKS
QuikLink Interactive & Far Future Enterprises, 2001
A reprint of the first three little black books of Traveller with a colour cover and four pagination series (maintaining the original volumes’ paginations). See individual titles for contents. Cover title simply: Traveller: Science-Fiction Adventure in the Far Future. Includes a new introduction from Marc Miller and a short piece of Traveller fiction from Martin J. Dougherty also given a separate pagination.

So, I would presume that, like the Big Floppy Book edition, there is no difference in text from the 1981 LBBs. The Facsimile edition uses the same pages, but overwrites some of the text.