whats peoples favorite non gdw ct supp, and do people use them?

[VonPickles]

So its hard to go past Sorag, it is almost a pre-cursor to the talshiar and almost reminiscent of the federation (blakes 7) really tempt me to do a zho campaign. What other suposed do people recommend, or suggest steering clear of?

 

[Trouble]

The Sky Raiders Trilogy is excellant. I also like Startown Liberty. Some people dont like the Judges Guild stuff but once you get past the sorry production values it was probably worth what I paid for it used back in the day.

Trouble

 

[shield]

Darathon Queen has some one off disaster movie value. Its just airport 77 (or any other disaster movie in space) options are aspace monster, bombing or inept hijacking or possibly all three.

The crew and passengers are a good selection of all those neurotic people you find in disaster and horro movies

 

[ShapeShifter]

JG480: Fifty Starbases is great! Pages 3-17 are gold, but the rest of the product consist of typically JG blank, ruled pages, quirky and poor hex-maps.

 

[tbeard1999]

3 way tie -- SORAG, the Judges Guild Starships and Spacecraft or FASA's the Desert Environment.

Honorable Mention -- JG Referee's Screen (despite needing to be taped together and being the most atrocious shade of green), FASA's other "Environment" books.

 

[Dragoner]

I mine all sort of data and ideas from the non GDW stuff; a long time ago, the FASA adventures and ACS were my favorite (skyraiders, 7 pillars, etc).

 

[aramis]

For me, it's a toss-up...

Undersea Environment, by the brothers Keith...
or...
the 4 sectors by Judges Guild, which were slightly more useful than the GDW sectors... and a cohesive domain-sized block.

 

[AndreaV]

Most useful? FASA's starport hotel floorplans, I've used them in virtually every campaign I've run.
Favourite? FASA's double adventure, Harrensa Project/Stazhlekh Report.
Steer clear of? A highly personal opinion, but the four JG sectors.

 

[ShapeShifter]

I'll second those "Environment" books. Very useful, very crunchy material. Shame they didn't publish a "Forest/Jungle Environment" book.

 

[BlackBat242]

Scouts & Assassins, Merchants & Merchandise, Vanguard Reaches Sector, Beyond Sector, Drexilthar subsector (and the rest of the Reaver's Deep material), all of the FASA "environment" books, DGP's Grand Survey & Grand Census.

A lot of the Traveller articles in The Space Gamer, as well as a lot of the fanzines.

To a lesser extent the Judges' Guild "crunch" supplements (50 Starbases, all 4 sectors, ship's papers booklet), FASA's Adventure class ships (vols I & II), and so on.