Traveller book 2 starships

Starships was a simple buildingblock system for ships of 1005000 tons, with the standard designs provided for playercharacters ranging from 200800 tons. The classic traveller box set that started the famous little black book series. Traveller bibliography traveller 5 postkickstarter, postgdw sales site. See all formats and editions hide other formats and editions.

There are, however, a few references to carrying, rather than purchasing and. Berka frontiertrader military ships book 5 design by. Sciencefiction adventure in the far future book 2 starships, on librarything librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers home groups talk zeitgeist. The core rules for starship design and operation, interstellar travel, and space combat. Shipyards are where those few make their dreams into reality. Traveller book 8, robots, enables referees and players to confidently integrate robots into traveller campaigns. This also covers starship creation, costs, and outfitting. If you have some books, games, or pretty much anything youd like to sell or trade, tell us about it. In the full vector system, a ship can thrust laterally to run missiles out of fuel or just to dodge them if the ships thrust is high enough. Merchant prince describes on pages 34 through 42 a trade system focused on speculative cargoes. This book is helpful in that it not only gives stats for various ships, but also expanded rules for starship design and combat. Mongoose traveller gurps traveller by steve jackson games.

Starship traveller allows players to control an entire ship and crew, with each member skilled in certain abilities. Movement is through vectors, ships abilities are modified not just by character abilities, but by software packages which may be loaded or unloaded each turn. Fuel consumption is based on formulae related to the size of the jump drive. For classic traveller, the term books has a special meaning. Part of the fun of the game is you get to design your own spaceship.

The size of the ships computer will limit what software may be. This game is also contained in classic traveller on cdrom, traveller deluxe edition 1981, the traveller book 1982, traveller 2000, traveller 1977, traveller 1981, the traveller book 1982, and. High guard is probably the better of the two systems there. Anything you see in these pages is in stock, ready to ship. Starship fuel costs 500cr per ton refined or l00cr per ton unrefined, at most starports. Books run 48 to 56 pages and may be used independently or together, but. You picked up the freaking classic traveller game, do the math. Rules booklet, charts and tables book, adventure booklet, players handout sheet, map. Books present additional rules on specific subjects, expanding on travellers basic concepts. Starships was a simple buildingblock system for ships of 1005000 tons, with the standard designs provided. This document, authored by rob prior, contains descriptions and design worksheets for a wide range of spaceships and starships suitable for use with gurps traveller. Starship sizes are based on the displacement ton one ton is. Modified character sheet for classic traveller and some.

Articles about the role of robots in the traveller universe, types and uses of robots, robot brains. The freelance traveller shipyard is where you can find descriptions and specifications and eventually deck plans and interior pictures, we hope for starships and spaceships for all sorts of missions. Back in the 70s i picked up a copy of the boxed set of the little black books for traveller from the compleat strategist in manhattan. Explore the vast reaches of space, updated for pc, mac and linux. The original traveller rules existed in several variant forms. This book has errata for the 1977 and 1981 editions. The berka shipyard these are some of the ships that can be found in the frontier region.

I fell in love with the look of the game, the promise of tense personal and starship combat, and the promise of traveling from world to world in search of adventure. Earliest edition of the box set had a white reverse side and a gd symbol on the box side panel. Sciencefiction adventure in the far future book 2 starships staple bound 1977. Book 2 starships the far future traveller sciencefiction adventure in game designers workshop. Book 2starships, by gdw 1977 book 3worlds and adventures, by gdw 1977 book 4mercenary, by frank chadwick and marc miller 1978 book 5high guard, by marc miller, frank chadwick, and john harshman 1980 book 0an introduction to traveller, by gdw 1981 book 6scouts, by marc miller and frank chadwick 1983 book 7merchant prince, by.

The page for each model has dimensions and comments on the design. When traveller premiered in 1977, it was printed in the usual threebook format of the period. In addition to rules for designing and rating your own spaceships at both tl9 and tl10, this book contains over 35 predesigned craft, ranging from 10ton fighters to 500,000ton dreadnoughts, described in detail. An automated adventure sheet to keep track of stats and inventory. Freelance traveller is also proud to be able to offer, free for you to download, the bits publication 101 starships, seventh edition. Book 2 of traveller introduces starships and offers a combat system more complex than the character combat system. Price new from used from staple bound please retry. That ability to thrust laterally makes flanking maneuvers very important, if difficult to execute correctly. Sciencefiction adventure in the far future book 2 starships staple bound 1977 4. The little black books classic traveller waynes books rpg. Book 2 starships is a game designers workshop product. Above is a lovely classic traveller character sheet. Over at ancient faith in the far future, robert weaver has an excellent post on book 2 starship combat. Foreven shipyards traveller starship miniatures by.

It is a primary rules source book, a core book, designed for classic traveller. Now, there are reasons for using the vector system found in traveller book 2. Read the book horizontally or vertically on your tablet. Sciencefiction adventure in the far future book 2 starships by gdw game designers workshop book 2. Characters and combat by gdw game designers workshop book 1. Sure, there are standard models, in fact, there is a book of them supplement 7 traders and gunboats, but cmon. From launches to liners, from system defense boats to dreadnoughts, a starfaring campaign requires ships. Expanding the basic classic traveller starship design system freelance traveller issue 6465 aprmay 2015 adding high guardstyle enhancements to book 2 starship design. Unlike later versions of traveller megatraveller and later, armoring a ship was a yesno proposition, with no choice of materialyou simply allocated volume to armor according to a formula, applied the cost formula, and that was that. Books run 48 to 56 pages and may be used independently or together, but all require the basic rules sets. The laser and five missiles are listed in the 1977 edition of classic traveller book 2 as typical weaponry for a type s, the ships cost varies between mcr 28 and 37 depending on which rules you use, and armour ranges from none to 4, again depending on the rules in use.

Book 0 details the ins and outs of playing and refereeing traveller with tips on how to make the most. In addition to rules for designing and rating your own spaceships at both tl9 and tl10, this book contains over 35 predesigned craft, ranging from 10ton fighters to 500,000ton. Gdw twilight 2000 east europe sourcebook 2nd edition sc. Starship construction the rules for construction of starships are contained in books 2 and 5 of classic traveller starship expenses fuel. Presented in full colour with realistic physicsbased dice rolling for battles, automapping, an.

We pay on what wed spend if we saw the same lot up. The imperium, gadgets, vehicles, robots and starships rob bruce, kevin walsh, randy hollingsworth on. This book covers the entire spectrum of space travel in the traveller game setting. This game is also contained in classic traveller on cdrom, traveller deluxe edition 1981, the traveller book 1982, traveller 2000, traveller 1977, traveller 1981, the traveller book 1982, and traveller. This is simple enough to scale up for 15mm 1210 figure use. Traveller hero book 1 adventurers in charted space ravellert as a science fiction genre has many sub genres that gms may wish to select from, based on the timeframe of the campaign, the version of traveller that is being played, as well as the gms vision. Book 1 characters and combat, book 2 starships, and book 3 worlds and adventures. The imperium, gadgets, vehicles, robots and starships the traveller hero sourcebook is a reference for playing star hero campaigns in the. I can safely say after three years of putting this project together the itch has been thoroughly scratched.

Starship traveller has been created using tin man games critically acclaimed gamebook adventures engine featuring. Travellers travel, thats what the book traveller book 2. Ultimately, as we receive additional contributions from you. Traveller starter edition 1983 gdw edition rpgnet rpg. This edition of the rules is now often called classic traveller. Adventureclass ships are a smaller class of starships, typically with a crew size ranging from 1 to perhaps two dozen. There were two ship design systems associated with classic traveller the original system presented in book 2 starships, which covered ships up to 5,000 displacement tons and only turret weapons, and that in book 5 high guard, which was capable of building capital ships. The starship geomorphs book is finally complete and ready for download. Sciencefiction adventure in the far future book 3 worlds and adventures by gdw game designers workshop book 3. Book 1characters and combat, by gdw 1977 book 2 starships, by gdw 1977 book 3worlds and adventures, by gdw 1977. Covers starship design, combat and operations, as well as experience and interstellar trade. Some also include an introductory book 0 by loren wiseman and various adventures. Imperial and alien robot manufacturers, and how to play robots as player characters supplement a complete design. I struggled more than a little to find a happy place with detail in this video, i was really tempted and filmed for a janes player character ships of the imperium style.