Editing Traveller (role-playing game) (section)

=== Editions ===

''Mongoose Traveller 2nd Ed.'' and ''Traveller<sup>5</sup>'' are the current rulesets. Both rely on six-sided dice and both draw from the original ''Traveller'' rules. Nearly all older versions of ''Traveller'' are available in PDF format.

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|+ ''Traveller'' game editions and publishers
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! Pub. date
! Game
! Abbrev.
! Primary publisher
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|  2022  || Mongoose ''Traveller'' 2nd Ed. Update || {{center|MGT2}}  || Mongoose Publishing
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|  2019  || ''Traveller<sup>5.10</sup>''      || {{center|T5}}   || Far Future Enterprises<ref name="DD70-79"/>{{rp|181}}
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|  2016  || Mongoose ''Traveller'' 2nd Ed. || {{center|MGT2}}  || Mongoose Publishing
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|  2013  || ''Traveller<sup>5.09</sup>''      || {{center|T5}}   || Far Future Enterprises<ref name="DD70-79"/>{{rp|181}}
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|  2008  || Mongoose ''Traveller'' 1st Ed. || {{center|MGT}}  || [[Mongoose Publishing]]<ref name="DD70-79"/>{{rp|181}}
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|  2006  || ''Traveller Hero''             || {{center|TH}}   || ComStar Games<ref name="DD70-79"/>{{rp|181}}
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|  2006  || ''[[GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars]]'' || {{center|GTIW}}   || Steve Jackson Games
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|  2002  || ''Traveller<sup>20</sup>''     || {{center|T20}}  || QuikLink Interactive<ref name="DD70-79"/>{{rp|181}}
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|  1998  || ''[[GURPS Traveller]]''        || {{center|GT}}   || [[Steve Jackson Games]]<ref name="DD70-79"/>{{rp|181}}
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|  1996  || ''Marc Miller's Traveller''    || {{center|T4}}   || [[Imperium Games]]
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|  1993  || ''Traveller: The New Era''     || {{center|TNE}}  || Game Designers' Workshop<ref name="DD70-79"/>{{rp|175}}
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|  1987  || ''MegaTraveller''              || {{center|MT}}   || Game Designers' Workshop<ref name="DD70-79"/>{{rp|169}}
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|  1977  || (Classic) ''Traveller''        || {{center|CT}}   || Game Designers' Workshop<ref name="DD70-79">{{cite book |last1=Appelcline |first1=Shannon |title=Designers & Dragons. '70-'79 : A history of the roleplaying game industry |date=2014 |publisher=Evil Hat Productions |location=Silver Springs, MD, USA |isbn=978-1-61317-075-5|edition=2nd}}</ref>{{rp|158}}
|}

==== Mongoose ''Traveller''====
[[Mongoose Publishing]] published this version both in a traditional format and as an [[open gaming]] [[System Reference Document|SRD]] around which other games may be built.

A second edition was published in 2016 and updated in 2022. It uses a full color production style while resembling the original ''Traveller'' rules in scope.

==== ''Traveller<sup>5</sup>'' ====
A new set of rules made by re-working and integrating concepts from earlier rulesets.

The current version, v5.10, was printed in 2019 as three distinct books: ''Characters and Combat'', ''Starships'', and ''Worlds and Adventures''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Traveller Fifth Edition |url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/traveller5/traveller-fifth-edition |website=Kickstarter|date=19 November 2019 }}</ref> This edition uses Uncertain checks in which one of the dice in certain situations is rolled in secret by the [[gamemaster]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.blackgate.com/2020/05/11/flipping-the-game-uncertain-rolls-in-traveller/|title=Flipping the Game: Uncertain Rolls in Traveller – Black Gate|date=11 May 2020}}</ref>

==== ''Traveller Hero'' ====
A port of the ''Traveller'' setting to the ''[[Hero System]]'', produced under license by Comstar Games in 2006.<ref name="DD70-79"/>{{rp|181}}

==== ''GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars''====
In 2006, Steve Jackson Games released ''[[GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars]]'' (''GTISW'', sometimes ''GTIW'') for the 4th edition of [[GURPS]] from 2004. The timeline was rolled back to 2170, which is several millennia earlier than the usual ''Traveller'' setting, to the early days of Earth's presence in space at the time when Earth first started to send out interstellar ships to include the period just after the Third Interstellar War between the Terran Confederation (Earth) and the gigantic ''Ziru Sirka Empire (Vland)''.

==== ''Traveller<sup>20</sup>''  ====
Published by QuickLink Interactive (QLI) in 2002, this version uses the [[d20 System]] as its base and is set at the time of the Solomani Rim War around Imperial year 990, about a century before the era depicted in the original game. The preferred setting is the ''Gateway Domain'' region of the Imperium. After the company's license to the ''Traveller'' brand and setting lapsed, the purely mechanical elements of this game were republished as the generic ''SciFi20'' system.

==== ''GURPS Traveller'' ====
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Designed by Loren K. Wiseman and published in 1998, ''GURPS Traveller'' uses the third edition of the ''[[GURPS]]'' system and takes place in an alternate timeline in which no Rebellion occurred and Virus was never released.

==== ''Marc Miller's Traveller'' ====
T4 is set in the early days of the Third Imperium (''Milieu 0''), with the small, newly formed empire surrounded by regressed or barbaric worlds.

==== ''Traveller: The New Era'' ====
''[[Traveller: The New Era]]'' is set in the former territory of the Third Imperium after interstellar government and society had largely collapsed. ''TNE'' introduced ''Virus'', a silicon-chip life form that infected and took over computers. The game mechanics used GDW's house system, derived from ''[[Twilight: 2000]], 2nd Ed''.<ref name="WW37">{{Cite magazine |last=O'Brien |first=Brennan |date=July–August 1993|title=Capsule Reviews |magazine= [[White Wolf Magazine]] |number=37 |pages=77–78 |url=https://imgur.com/a/MNARd7S}}</ref>

==== ''MegaTraveller'' ====
The game was set during a rebellion which shattered the Imperium. Supplements and magazines produced during this era detailed the progression of the rebellion from the initial assassination of the Emperor in 1116 to the collapse of large-scale interstellar trade in roughly 1124 (the beginning of the supplement ''[[Hard Times (Traveller)|Hard Times]]'').

==== ''Traveller'' ====
The original version was designed and published by GDW in 1977. The core rules originally came as a box set of three black digest-sized books, and were later compiled into a single volume rulebook. This edition is also sometimes called by the [[retronym]] ''Classic Traveller''.