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• 101 Cargos (Timothy Collinson) Cargos can make money - or trouble - for player-characters. Here are many ways to do so.
• 101 Governments (Paul Williams) Describing a government in more than just a single letter.
• 101 Lifeforms (Peter Newman) Animals to encounter in play.
• 101 Plots (Timothy Collinson) Over a hundred ways for referees to send players chasing all over the setting.
• 101 Rendezvous (Timothy Collinson) Places to meet and things that can happen there.
• 101 Travellers (Timothy Collinson) Looking at the BITS sourcebook for NPCs.
• Aliens of the Rim (Rob Prior) A look at the Traveller: The New Era sourcebook for the Hivers and their main clients.
• The Beyond (Colin Michael) A look at this sector that is - of course - Beyond the Imperial border.
• Traveller-Compatible Product: Career Book 1 (Allen Shock) A look at Spica Publishing's expanded non-military careers, for Mongoose Traveller
• Career Book 2 (Benjamin Pew) A look at additional careers, from Spica Publishing
• Darthanon Queen (Ewan Quibell) A mediocre ship and some mediocre scenarios to go with it.
• Diaspora Phoenix (Grahame Mulliss) A New Era novel
• The Early Adventures (Ewan Quibell) A compilation of adventure material from DGP's Travellers' Digest.
• Encounters in the Phoenix Quadrant (Ewan Quibell) Another mediocre ship and mediocre characters to man it.
• Escape (Ewan Quibell) Escape from the Aslan!
• Traveller's Aide #9 - Fighting Ships of the Solomani (Martin Lamar) A look at the Solomani fleet and doctrine.
• Gateway to Destiny (Joel Benford) A look at a sourcebook for Milieu 1000.
• Gazelle-class Close Escort Deck Plans (Ewan Quibell) A useful but uninspiring look at a ship with potential
• Travellers' Aide #2 - Grand Endeavor (Mark Urbin) (Mark Urbin) A look at a collection of stories set during the Interstellar Wars or in the Year 1000 era.
• Glimmerdrift Reaches (Joseph Kimball) An early version of a sector on the trailing edge of the Imperium
• GURPS Traveller (Brian Christopher Misiaszek) A review of the core sourcebook for Traveller under the GURPS system.
• The Khiidkar Incident (Timothy Collinson) The second adventure from BITS.
• The Long Way Home (Timothy Collinson) The first BITS adventure supplement for Marc Miller's Traveller.
• Marc Miller's Traveller (Joseph E. Walsh) The core rules for the fourth edition of Traveller.
• Marc Miller's Traveller: Starships (reviewed by Richard Crowley) Starships and rules for designing them
• EPIC Adventure 4: Merchant Cruiser (Ewan D. Quibell) Trading on the Imperial fringe.
• Merchants and Merchandise (Colin Michael) An early expansion of the Merchant career.
• Milieu 0 Campaign (Leroy Guatney) A look at the Imperium in its earliest days.
• Mongoose Traveller (Jeff Zeitlin) A look at the core rules from the Mongoose Traveller line
• Mongoose Traveller - The Spinward Marches (Jeff Zeitlin) A Classic Area of Classic Traveller, for the latest release from Mongoose
• Mongoose Traveller - 760 Patrons (Jeff Zeitlin) Close Encounters of the Random Kind
• Mongoose Traveller - Mercenary (Allen Shock) A look at the expanded Army and Marine careers for Mongoose Traveller
• Mongoose Traveller - High Guard (Jeff Zeitlin) A look at the second expanded career book.
• Mongoose Traveller Supplement 2 - Traders and Gunboats (Jeff Zeitlin) Small Craft and starships up to 1000 tons.
• Mongoose Traveller Adventure 1 - Beltstrike (Jeff Zeitlin) Belters and prospecting and more...
• Mongoose Traveller Supplement 3 - Fighting Ships (Martin Lamar) From fighters to carriers, destroyers to dreadnoughts, a representative selection of ships.
• Mongoose Traveller Supplement 3 - Fighting Ships (Jeff Zeitlin) From fighters to carriers, destroyers to dreadnoughts, a representative selection of ships.
• Mongoose Traveller Pocket Rulebook (Jeff Zeitlin) A compact edition of the Mongoose Traveller Core Rulebook
• Mongoose Traveller - An Introduction to Traveller (Jeff Zeitlin) A minimum usable set of rules for getting your feet wet.
• Mongoose Traveller Adventure 2 - Prison Planet (Jeff Zeitlin) A look at what penalties the PCs might pay for being PCs.
• Mongoose Traveller - Scout (Jeff Zeitlin) A look at the Scout character type
• Mongoose Traveller: The Universe of Babylon-5 (Lorcan Nagle) An extensive review of the first licensed setting for Mongoose Publishing's Traveller line
• Mongoose Traveller - Agent (Nik Kraakenes) A look at the character/career book for a very ... flexible ... character type.
• Mongoose Traveller - Psion (Jeff Zeitlin) On the matter of mind over matter.
• Mongoose Traveller: Babylon 5 - The Trouble With Drazi (Jeff Zeitlin) An adventure set in the Babylon 5 universe.
• Mongoose Traveller - Scoundrel (Jeff Zeitlin) Adding color to ... colorful ... characters.
• Mongoose Traveller - Alien Module 1: Aslan (Doc Kinne) A look at the latest presentation of one of Traveller's Major Races
• Mongoose Traveller Supplement 4 - Central Supply Catalogue (Jeff Zeitlin) What the well-prepared adventurer has sent to him so that he CAN prepare...
• 1248 Sourcebook 1: Out of the Darkness (Bruce Johnson) Continuing GDW's story
• 1248 Sourcebook 1: Out of the Darkness (William Wilson) Continuing GDW's story
• Power Projection: Fleet (Ray Garbee) A game for resolving fleet actions.
• Keepers of the Flame - the Regency Sourcebook (Christopher Griffen) A look at the sourcebook for Traveller: The New Era for adventuring in the remnants of the Imperium.
• Scouts and Assassins (Colin Michael) An early third-party attempt to detail the Scout Service.
• SORAG (Colin Michael) A focus on the Zhodani secret intelligence agency.
• Spacedogs (Timothy Collinson) A look at this BITS adventure for Vargr PCs.
• The Stazhlekh Report/The Harrensa Project (Ewan D. Quibell) Two adventures in one volume, from FASA.
• The Sydymic Outworlds Cluster (Ewan Quibell)
• Tancred (Ewan Quibell) A look at an early planetary setting for Classic Traveller
• Traveller Collector's Edition (Books 0-8) (Colin Michael) A look at the first of the Far Future Enterprises reprints of the Classic Traveller material.
• Traveller HERO (Jeff Zeitlin)
• Twilight Sector Campaign Sourcebook (Richard Hazlewood) A look at an alternative setting for Traveller
• TYPE S (Allen Shock) A look at the first Comstar/Avenger product for Mongoose Traveller
• Vampire Fleets (Jeff Zeitlin) A look at the Virus sourcebook for Traveller: The New Era.
• Vanguard Reaches (Colin Michael) A brief look at this area well outside the Imperium.
• Travellers' Aide #1 - Personal Weapons of Charted Space (Matthew Bond) (Matthew Bond) A look at this first supplement for d20 and Classic Traveller.
• Travellers' Aide #1 - Personal Weapons of Charted Space (Megan Roberton) (Megan Robertson) Another look at this d20 and Classic Traveller supplement.
• Travellers' Aide #1 - Personal Weapons of Charted Space (Mark Urbin) (Mark Urbin) Another review of this supplement for d20 and Classic Traveller.
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