The BEST 🛸Sci-Fi 🛸Tabletop RPG Ever?: Classic Traveller RPG History - A Short Overview

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Today, we take a short trip into the past as we begin our look at the Classic Traveller RPG history to begin this new deep dive series on the granddaddy of sci-fi tabletop RPGs.
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VIDEO CHAPTERS
2:20 The Beginning
3:11 The Players
3:50 The Reputation
4:33 The Editions
6:27 The Series
7:40 Applying for Our Traveller Group
8:29 How to Join the Leet Squad
12:02 Question of the Vid

[@Papercut337]

I picked up Traveller a couple years ago and I absolutely fell in love. I made tons of practice characters, and bought a ton of modules. Last week, I finally managed to get some friends together for a one-shot and they want to make it into a full blown campaign!

[@RPGElite]

Awesome sauce! 👍🏿

[@chrisdonovan8795]

I never played Traveller, but it was so much fun making characters.

[@RPGElite]

Well, if you are interested in being in the _Traveller_ mini-adventure wrap up, hit me up in the email I mentioned in the video.

[@rogerb181]

Been playing this game since 1978! Love this game.

[@RPGElite]

Here, here! 👍🏿

[@aragornstrider4732]

Man, I would love to play in this adventure, but I never, ever, played Traveller. I'm 53 now and well outside of playing RPG's, last time had to have been the late eighties. Still love the old fashioned RPG's though, I have Star Frontiers (blue and purple books), Gamma World (all editions), Villain's and Vigilante's (never fail superhero/villain fight trashing a McDonald's), and many more! Heck, I've got a Metamorphosis Alpha book hanging around in a pristine Gamma World box somewhere. Thanks for reminding me of these oldies and still goodies!

[@jacoba191]

I have been waiting for this one very patiently!!!!!!

[@RPGElite]

You have indeed. Thanks for hanging in there. We just at the beginning.👍🏿 Also, thanks for the love that you gave me an encouraging people to click on the links in the description. I saw that but then I couldn't go back and find the comments so I'm glad you were the first one to get to this one. 🙂 Onward and upward! 👊🏿

[@jacoba191]

@@RPGElite No problem. Hands down your content is the best out there. I feel like so many RPG channels have become click bait channels pushing an agenda. Many of them make me feel like they are trying to sell me a narrative that has become so mainstream while offering zero informative content. Also I feel like the old school RPG market has become over saturated with the same old product. I mean really how many ways can we redesign the same game, put new artwork on it and sell it as innovative? The games you cover were and still are great games that are timeless and the philosophy you share is engaging, thought provoking and most of all unapologetically honest! We need this these days and not just in the RPG community but it many areas of our lives especially in our shared faith regardless of our denominations. ( sorry for the rant🤣) Anyway, YES the links where to get these products is so key because I love following along as you discuss the game! Hey man keep up the awesome work! Peace and love! Oh and there is one channel I do like to follow when it comes to OSR fantasy and that is Questing Beast. If you haven’t seen him you should check him out. He offers some informative insightful content often, though not always. In my opinion.✌🏽

[@mrgunn2726]

Shiloh, congrats on your friend living through Traveller character creation and successfully mustering out. 🤣

[@RPGElite]

Yeah. He's an middle - aged merchant with a ship, so that will help.

[@mrgunn2726]

@@RPGElite Welcome traveller, with your subscription to the TAS you get.... 😁

[@WereMike]

I was already on board the RPG Elite wagon...now I'm in for life. Classic Traveler for the win.

[@RPGElite]

Nohting but net! Thanks for the love. 😊👊🏿

[@isolationdisorder]

Fantastic classic game system! Really looking forward to seeing you explore this one!

[@RPGElite]

Dope! Thanks for sticking around. 😊👍🏿

[@davidlee3311]

Great introduction to a wonderful system. One small correction Golden Heroes was not published by GDW it was published by Games Workshop GW.

[@RPGElite]

Double kudos! You are absolutely correct. Good eye and thanks for that. 👍🏿😉

[@majestikunikorn2183]

I found this channel from gamma world and I'm going to stay for the ride. Keep up the good videos!

[@RPGElite]

Danke! And God willing, I have SO much more. Get ready to discover a little sumthin, sumthin. 😉👊🏿

[@majestikunikorn2183]

Can't wait!

[@yourseatatthetable]

At the end of the game, the 'best', is the one that we love to play the most, the one that our friends and associates have the most fun pursuing. Having started gaming in the 70's, and having owned and played dozens of different systems, I've learned that it boils down to perspective and accessibility. What you say? Ok, here's my example. Classic Traveller is a good game, but I couldn't afford to 'buy yet another system', even today I still can't. Can't keep up with the Joneses, so to speak. I bought Space Opera, which is deeper then Traveller. So, a friend invested in Traveller, GURPS, Boot Hill, etc, which we played frequently, while I invested in Space Opera; D&D, and Star Trek (all the originals). This way we were both able to play more systems then we could afford to buy. Gamma World Space Opera Star Trek Star Wars (the WEG version, and then later the d20 corebooks) AD&D (From the Red Basic to 5th and sundry in-between which would also include Judge's Guild) Middle-earth RPG (MERP) Top Secret (a fav of mine) Twilight 2000 (Yeah, it's still a thing I hear) Battletech/Mechwarrior Vampire the Masquerade Shadowrun Numerous war games from Avalon Hill and others. Most of these games I still own, though I did give a few to my oldest son. If you and your friends had fun playing, and are envisioning playing again, then in all honesty, wasn't 'that game' the best?

[@ecbst6]

We had a standing reservation for a conference room at the rec center on Eglin AFB in the late 80's. Mostly it was Traveller. Still have all the old books, or at least copies of them. EDIT: Oh, I should mention, also got to visit Zocchi's while I was there.

[@blankmike4613]

Hi, good episode, nice & clear. 1977 Traveler is why until OSU days B4 "that game", Remember the Satanic Panic, and it is was Oklahoma.

[@0rgaSMM]

I found out about Traveller like 7 months ago and I have been super excited to play the game. It has influenced so much of the content that I love. I will probably play the 2e version though.

[@RPGElite]

Congrats. Keep it locked in. We're just getting this party started. 👍🏿

[@Ravencross06]

I look forward to the character creation overview. It is an interesting way to build a backstory before play begins.

[@RPGElite]

Coming up next week! 🙂

[@RottenRogerDM]

@@gregferguson7737 That rule was chucked out the window the second time the GM's girlfriend died in character creation.

[@michaelwallace6851]

I like Traveller but Star Frontiers became a favorite game the first time I played it. It remains one of my top 3 RPGs of all time! I also enjoy the 1st edition Star Wars D6 game quite a bit. Another sci fi game I like a lot is TSR's Buck Rogers XXVc rpg.

[@shanewinter7251]

Wait, that’s my history of gaming!

[@RPGElite]

I have all of those games. _Star Frontiers_ won't come until probably 2025, God willing. But _Star Wars_ is next year. Already have a GM for that one. Keep it locked.😉👍🏿

[@quantus5875]

Wow -- Buck Rogers XXVc -- I also love that game! -- rarely run into someone that is even familiar with this game.

[@robertdean52]

Sorry I didn’t see theese when they first came out. While I started with the LBBs in 1977, I ended up with a copy of Starter Traveller in 1990, and have spent a lot of time with it over the years since, because of its handy format.

[@n.ludemann9199]

Starter Traveller is easier esp. if it comes to space combat with its bands. No vectors etc.

[@toddzircher6168]

Started with the LBBs, probably too young, now I can totally appreciate elements of the game that I didn't get when I was a teen. 🙂

[@RPGElite]

Keep it locked. This one is going to be sumthin. 👍🏿

[@cathaoir74]

Great pick, and review. I have been collecting traveller since the 80s. But, I never got to play a game until a few years ago. I had an excellent time and loved it. My friends were always into the fantasy games.

[@Mikethemerciless11]

I've been a fan of Traveller since the 80s, and have ran and played it off and on since then. It is hard to find people who want to play because it can be rather different a game than the other fare that's out there. This isn't like D&D, where you make a character, and as you play your character gets marginally more powerful as you progress. Here, it's like you're making a cast-character of a Sci-Fi show, where, by and large, apart from getting new and better gear and ships, your character isn't going to be too marginally better than when you started out. More experienced in certain ways, of course, but not much better. With that in mind, you always have to have a good idea of what kind of campaign you want to play. There are three main campaigns: The Trader, the Scout/Exploration, and the Military. These all speak for themselves, and you can have a bit of mix-and-match of the three. I have a fourth, which I'll get into later, which encompasses aspects of all three. The Trader campaign is the most commonly played, and is generally what Traveller, in any edition, is aimed at. Sure, you can find adventures that is suited for the Military campaign, or the Exploration side, but, by and large, most published material you'll find out there presumes most players are basically freelance traders of some sort. Think Firefly (in fact, rumour has it that Joss Whedon conceived of Firefly from the Traveller games he played in college). If you don't know what kind of game you want to run, have a chat with your players first, so you can get an idea of what you want. The game is so well done that you can make almost anything. You don't even have to have an adventure that has anything at all to do with space. You could easily have the game set in a Wild West kind of setting and the rules work for that, as an example. But this is Traveller, and most people want to play with spaceships and fly around. You can set the game in the OTU at some point in its history. The Mongoose game is set at the near end, "canonically speaking," of the Third Imperium, before the Setting Nuke of The New Era. This setting is huge, so much so that there are plenty of places that haven't been fully fleshed out yet, or partially done, to where you can make up whatever you want. There are plenty of resources out there for new Refs (GMs) to draw from, almost 50 years worth. The OTU is the more popular setting, for one main reason: The characters and culture of the general game are not all that different, apart from the aliens, than people are today; they're just people trying to make a living out there, who like fast food, like pop music, and have lives to live. So, it's easily understood in such a way that players do not have to know anything much about the setting itself to play properly. Whatever is happening to the Imperium vis-a'-vis the Solomani Confederation won't matter to them if they're not near that area; if they're playing, say, in the Trojan Reach, whatever's happening down there isn't going to affect them at all, even if a full-blown war begins (which can take months for news to travel out to the Trojan Reach). A word on aliens. I always start new players playing humans. This is important because the aliens, while understandable, are different enough that if you don't know what you're doing, can cause problems. But if you're going to let someone play an alien, I always recommend either Vargr (humanoid wolf/dogs), or a Bwap (a salamander-humanoid). And I would not let players play a robot until they got their feet wet. Anything else can be a hassle you don't want to have starting out. I highly discourage any player playing the Droyne, which are cool, but to mix them with humans on a human ship poses problems; what kind of weapons can they use, or having a spacesuit for them. They can start with something, of course, but they've been nothing but headaches in all the years I've ran and played the game. You can play the game with just the main Mongoose book, but I highly recommend getting three books: The Main Book, the Traveller Companion, and the Central Supply Catalogue. These are essential. The High Guard book is also essential if you want both more ships and you want to play a Military game. There is a fourth campaign that my players and I love to play: Law Enforcement. As I said, this can draw a lot of elements from the three main campaigns. I've had to write up a lot of in-setting laws and rules of how Star Marshals do their job, which I might one day publish. You get access to combat vessels, weapons and gear, and have a wide variety of adventures to conduct for your players to have fun in, and, most importantly, they get something your average Joe doesn't get: Authority. Let them use and abuse it. It allows me, as the Ref, to make up cool NPCs, especially of the criminal kind. When your players have to deal with a Hiver crime lord, things can get very serious real fast.

[@daleandrade8140]

Running a Traveller game tonight!

[@RPGElite]

I pray it's an RPG Elite session baby. Travel the stars! 😉👊🏿

[@daleandrade8140]

@@RPGElite I certainly hope it will be. Trying to apply your lessons:)

[@howardkingston7901]

Character Generation looking forward to this! Got given the Deluxe edition back in 81 but started playing in 80 this is my all time game and it's the game I introduce to any new ttrpg players

[@RPGElite]

Diggin it. Diggin it. 👍🏿

[@fragfeister2000]

Thanks for covering this. Other chance to play Traveller in high school and passed on it. I might grab some of the books and start world-building.

[@RPGElite]

They have a system in the game to actually build worlds. It'll be a minute before we get to it, but we'll get to it. 😉

[@shadowandson3550]

Oh heck yeah ....One of my top 3 avorite games,been playing since 79 so ya know im gonna love this vid! Keep the hits a coming!

[@RPGElite]

We going DEEP on this one - but that's just how I do thangs, naw mean? 😊👍🏿

[@BuftyFufties]

Just saw your post about bounty hunter and it got me interested in this series 😄 This playlist is gonna be useful

[@jahellen]

Thanks for covering this classic! And if you weren't aware, it's possible to pick up the entire Classic Traveller ruleset plus tons of adventures and other material in PDF on a single CD or USB from Far Future Enterprises for a very reasonable price. I just grabbed a USB to adapt the material to my Mongoose 2nd Edition game.

[@mrjohncrumpton]

Thank you for making this video, really good. Humble bundle has a digital Traveller book bundle on at the moment and this was helpful to understand the game.

[@RPGElite]

My pleasure. 👍🏿

[@DanHigdon]

From what I've seen so far, your grasp on Classic Traveller rules is ROCK SOLID, and I can't wait to see you do character combat. Thanks for doing this!

[@JavaApp]

One of the core skills for any Traveller Ref is how to properly utilize the Universal World Profiles that are used in many supplements and adventures, as they describe a sector of space in the Third Imperium using a nine-digit hexadecimal code. In many cases, especially in the early life of the game, this was the sum total of information available about these systems. These codes include info about the physical nature of the planets (size, atmosphere, how much water is present) and the social nature of the world (law level, form of government, technology level). This requires several skills that usually you only develop after time running the game and reading science fiction, namely improvisation and its close relative, extrapolation, which is the ability of the GM to fill in the gaps of the codes to make a particular world unique. I do hope you can cover this because its really essential skill for referees.

[@PhoenyxAshe]

Ah, I miss playing this game. Started back in the early '80s... and either our GM tweaked the set-up, or the additional races had just been added in. My best friend preferred to play Vargrs, and there was a friendly rivalry with the guy who like playing the Aslans...

[@ottawamonsterpocalypse7729]

This will be fun. I'm very much looking forward to this series as I've wondered about Traveller from some time. Looking forward to your next vid on it!

[@RPGElite]

Keep it locked every Friday. We got bunches, God willing. 🙂

[@gregbillman42]

Back when it first came out, I played a scout, "Yes he survived Character gen." Never had more fun playing a mailman.

[@KhanTrav]

Just found this channel. I love Traveller RPG. Thank you for the content.

[@ericliljenberg6493]

I have eagerly been awaiting this series. Look forward to your thoughts on trade and different styles of missions/campaigns.

[@RPGElite]

Trade! Here, here! 😊👌🏿

[@JuddKarlman]

I'm excited to dig into some Classic Traveller, using the Little Black Box's booklets and making up lots of stuff as we go. Nice overview. Thanks.

[@CMDR_B0B]

My biggest regret in life is that the last time I moved,I decided to get rid of my battered but never used boxed set of Twilight 2000. Nobody wanted to play it back then due to the crunch of the combat system. And I felt none of the new kids were going to ever get on board with a future they weren't raised on like I me. I still don't think anyone would play it , but it would make great swag. Have Fun&Post Dangerous 'The most Almost ship in the Galaxy!'

[@RPGElite]

Thanks for sharing. You may want to look at the new version of Twilight 2000 from Free League Publishing. 👍🏿

[@loucorreia6142]

Played Classic in college (1980ish), then a mix of Mega + GURPS + CT. Now into Mongoose 2e with my son as the GM.

[@matthewesch8758]

I've only heard of Traveller in passing, never picked it up, much less played. I'm looking forward to this series as my intro/tutorial to the system, completely novel to it.

[@RPGElite]

Awesome SAUCCCCE! I love introducing people to these things. Feel free to ask extra questions I don't cover in the videos. I'll get to it as soon as I can. 👍🏿

[@matthewesch8758]

@@RPGElite - absolutely. I appreciate the instruction! My thanks, man. 😎🤙

[@shanewinter7251]

There was also a d20 version called T20, as well as a Hero System version.

[@RPGElite]

Reference me comment to @briansmaller7443. 🙂

[@n.ludemann9199]

@@RPGElite there were two Gurps versions too, Gurps Traveller and Interstellar Wars. In that specific setting there was no Assassination and no Rebellion.

[@FknGrrr]

I bought the boxed set as a kid in 1981, and have played (and loved) it since then. Nice to see Classic Traveller get some love! Subscribing!

[@briansmaller7443]

There is also Hero System Traveller - which I really liked.

[@RPGElite]

Yeah. I was only hitting the major cliff notes. I'm pretty sure that came through between _GURPs Traveller_ and their release of _Interstellar Wars._

[@briansmaller7443]

@@RPGElite They lost their license pretty early on.

[@daves6220]

I have 25, 1st edition original books including 4 basic rules, supplements, adventures, high passage and Striker! I played it for many years.

[@RPGElite]

Played? That sounds like past tense. What's sup? 😋

[@JothanGurr]

I love your videos man! Your love of these games is infectious and the breadth of knowledge of these arcane games is truly impressive!!

[@RPGElite]

Danke! To be fair, I'm learning or relearning some things as I go through these series, so it's an adventure for all of us. Happy gaming! 👍🏿🙂

[@riptide3340]

Can’t wait! My group has been looking for an alternative to the-game-that-shall-not-be-named, and we were wanting to go into a more sci-fi direction as well. This seems great!

[@Panicagq2]

Nice! Traveller's mechanics are really flexible, and you can run it as light or crunchy as your group prefers. My first campaign in '82 was with my AD&D group, and they started out dashing about the sector just like a D&D party - ship mortgage? Berthing fees? None of that sounded fun to them. Once we're 6-7 sessions in, they're happily scouting the startown for cargo and passengers so they can afford a sensor upgrade, knowing there's a chance that both can cause issues. Characters who died during creation were used as npcs or as the reason for the next character to become a Traveller...

[@samuelbastable2028]

Oh wow I am totally going to enjoy this series covering Classic Traveller, I have the Mongoose 2E 2022 updated version but its nice to see the older editions get covered as well. i like the subsector and sector generation a lot though It would be cool to see the LeetSquad sector be made

[@RPGElite]

Even I have been waiting to do this for a good minute. Looks like a lot of peeps are on board for this. Going to work hard to deliver. 👊🏿

[@samuelbastable2028]

@@RPGElite Do you think you could use members of your LeetSquad as like NPCs in the mini-campaign?

[@jonathont5570]

You could make a whole series on just rolling the characters and drinking... been there done that, fun times.

[@TimNutting]

Great introduction, friend! I've been playing Traveller off and on since MgT1e. PoD is my white whale... and I'll chase that campaign 'round petition's flames before I give it up...

[@RPGElite]

🙂

[@TheRealSonBae]

Loved the Top Secret series and really looking forward to this one!

[@RPGElite]

Glad you liked it. THIS one, we gon get busy. 🙂

[@ReustersPlace]

I’m so excited about this series…

[@ReustersPlace]

I believe there was psionics in the original version, so I’m interested in your take on them. If not, combat for sure because it’s deadly.

[@RPGElite]

Yep. Psionics is in this one and yes, I'll be delving into it. You know it. 🙂👊🏿

[@ReustersPlace]

@@RPGElite sweetness! And email sent, Sir!

[@derekburge5294]

I have been looking forward to this one for a while! And, *fine* choice to jersey. They're my home team! Fully intend to throw my hat in the ring for a Traveller game, though timezones are probably going to kill that hope. We'll see! For the question of the vid, I'm honestly most looking forward to the logistics of the game... Shipshares, cargo/passenger hauling, and the planet codes. May be boring to some, but it is my JAM.

[@Bl00dwerK666]

Played TNE, which I love. Been buying the latest edition books but have yet to play.

[@SoloRPGDigitalist]

Just covering Traveller makes it the part I am looking forward to. :)

[@RPGElite]

Ha! Glad I could oblige. 😊

[@Tampahop]

I have a love/hate relationship with Traveller. While I might have grown up with Tolkein, Howard, Vance, and Leiber, I also grew up with the holy trinity of Clarke, Asimov, and Heinlein (and maybe more than a little Andre Norton). I played D&D, but I was waiting for something like Traveller. I already played the miniatures wargame, Starguard! by McEwan Miniatures, loved it, but was hoping for more. Traveller was what I wanted... mostly. In one of my early games, I had a character pull a shotgun on the pilot of a scout and realized that it was impossible to hit at point blank range. The negative modifiers for unfamiliar weapon and armor were too much to overcome. That's when I realized the limitations of a 2D6 system. It only takes a few modifiers to create and auto-success or auto-fail roll. If I could modify it to lessen that effect, I'd probably use a 2D10 roll and make the base roll an 11+ instead of a 7+. Despite what I considered a major flaw in the system, I happily played hour after hour of Traveller and dutifully bought every book or game GDW produced (Mayday, Azhanti High Lightning, and probably others I don't remember). Today though, I have access to a whole host of nice modern sci-fi rpgs. If I were playing today, I'd probably go with something using Fate Core (I can neither confirm nor deny that I have the entire set of Mass Effect Fate Core rules), but I do like the Modiphius and Free League entries into the market. I have played Coriolis and Alien, although, oddly enough, I am having a blast playing co-op Starforged with two other players. It was designed as a solo rpg, but works well with two or three players without needing a gm.

[@abettermind]

I played classic for many years. Great system. I do prefer the newer character creation, though. Dying outright in creation was cool but we have much more fun with the event tables. I ran a 10 session mini-campaign focised solely on the characters allies and nemesis that they gained during creation. System is about perfect. Havent felt the need to look into any newer versions. Currently running Alien, and if you havent checked it out yet, you definitely should. Game is SAVAGE.

[@craigtruesdell9436]

Just found your channel! Love the video, not so much the Steelers but I saw that you had an Indians hat so all good! 🙂

[@RPGElite]

Hey, now. Don't be messing with my Steelers. 🤨😁

[@shadowandson3550]

Id love to be in this game! I mighteven run a Traveller game this year so lets stay in touch... Id also lve to hear your take on books 4 through 8+

[@RPGElite]

Definitely. hit me up in the email. Let's connect. 👊🏿

[@neurolancer81]

Dang, I just found this. Would’ve liked to try this out.

[@davea136]

I truly like FGU's _Space Opera_.

[@RPGElite]

Whoa! Blast from the blast. Good googly moogly. There's a hard one to get a hold of. Nice mention. 🙂👍🏿

[@n.ludemann9199]

2d6 systems are my favorites when it comes to Scifi RPGs, with plain and simple rules. Classic Traveller in its Traveller Book and Facsimile Edition are great, but I also love Cepheus Engine (regardless if it is EE Deluxe, standard, Light, Faster Than Light or Quantum Starfarer), Zozers take on classic 2d6 or Rogue Space from 2012. My prefererred style of play ist Proto Traveller, so the corebooks, Citizens, Patrons, 1001, Animal Encounters, Scouts, maybe Robots. What's your IMTU btw? I am not a big fan of mercantile or military campaigns, but stuff like Patrol, Safari, Scouts, exploration are my style of play :)

[@shanewinter7251]

I did prefer Star Frontiers, but I can be objective. Traveller might. It be the best scifi game ever, but it’s in the top one.

[@RPGElite]

I have 'em both. I'll eventually get to SF. Eventually. 😁

[@DaveTheGM]

I didn't realize the limit on profession terms the first time i rolled up a traveller character, wound up with a 90 year old retired fleet admiral in great health.

[@quantus5875]

Wow amazed -- amazed he made the survival roll for that many terms!! 😂

[@DaveTheGM]

@@quantus5875 Yeah. I probably couldn't do it again if I wanted to.

[@DagerSaber1]

I cut my teeth on a heavily home bread version of CT. I'm looking a getting a copy of the little black box.

[@RPGElite]

Awesome sauce. 👍🏿

[@S0nyb1ack]

Excited for Traveller :D But sadly I'll not be applying for the game, since I'm on the other side of the planet and me actually having time to play (and be somewhat awake) is probably not going to happen. I'll certainly not further cluster your inbox when the chance of me making it are rather slim :) I've been playing the current Mongoose edition and it might be my favourite system. I don't know details about classic Traveller, but I've heard that Mongooses version should be quite close to it in general. Though I've header that the idea of task chains is something Mongoose added (please correct me if I'm wrong on this) and that might be my favourite idea of the entire system, and I've stqrted using the same concept in my other games as well. The idea is that a player can help out another players task, but they'll have to roll their own skill check for the help (sometimes you make it harder to succeed even if your intentions where good) and that secondary roll doesn't have to be the skill of the "main" task. For example: the sensors operator wants to run scans on the nearby asteroids to find out if there is maybe a hidden base on them (Electronics (sensors) would be the skill), and another player gets the idea that they could use their Electronics (Computer) skill to enhance the sensors for this specific task, so they roll their skill check first and their result translates into a bonus (there is a table that translates their result into a modifier ranging from -3 to +3) for the main roll. This chain of checks could even be longer with a 3rd player assisting the 2nd one, maybe the engineer tries to give more energy to the sensors to improve their range and rolls Engineer (power) for that. This mechanism has really gotten my players to consider how they want to do things and if somebody attempts something important, everyone thinks about how they could possibly assist them and they do get to some great ideas :D

[@trekranger]

Just purchased my fir core rule book

[@stanleyteriaca2184]

I would love to see your opinions on Champions and the Hero System.

[@robertsalvia4406]

Just found this channel, YT algo, I would love to learn more about Classic Traveler but if you can mention some of the similarities or differences with the Mongoose 2nd Ed because this is the version I am more familiar with. Thank you much

[@RPGElite]

Welcome, welcome. There's a reason I do classic tabletop RPGs. The explanation is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2WweIqXoN2fpNU Happy gaming! 👍🏿

[@kevinrsmith2947]

Now I'm curious about whether you'll stream character creation for the mini adventure and whether it will be possible for characters to die during character creation.

[@RPGElite]

Yes and yes. Not a stream, but I will record it, though when I rolled mine, I didn't die. But you'll see that on Friday. 😉

[@jasoncox4640]

Heck Yeah!!!!

[@stanleyteriaca2184]

I hear the life path table is rather cool but crazy.

[@josephmurray9585]

How do you do fellow kids.... started playing Traveller in the mid 1980s 🙂

[@trekranger]

I really want to play this game ,but I cant seem to find it

[@RPGElite]

@@trekranger There are links in the description where you can find the game. 👍🏿

[@Cynidecia]

Big fan of Oldschool D&D so i thought this ruleset sounds fun. Is there anything similar to the "Rules Cyclopedia"?

[@IslanKleinknecht]

Have you happened to look into the Traveller "5.10", 3-book set from 2019?

[@HarryWHill-GA]

I still have all the original books and supplements.

[@the_epipan]

Hello! Which version is better or more recommended? The 2E is good? The most realistic in terms of rule system that simulate or represent the most realistic reality and science fiction... is it the New Era of 1992?

[@RottenRogerDM]

What no Traveller T20 Love? Whimper Whine.

[@RPGElite]

Ha! Just hitting the cliff notes. We'll go deep in this one. Got plenty for the new heads to chew on and the old heads to refresh their memories. 🙂

[@stanleyteriaca2184]

What do you think of Traveler Hero, the Hero System edition version?

[@williamhoover6902]

Is this game in person or digital? Down the road in Cincy. Experienced gm but novice to Traveller. Willing to take it on. Prefer in person games.

[@btrenninger1]

Nice but why no coverage of Traveller 5?

[@RPGElite]

Just hitting the cliff notes. Like it says in the title, just an overview and brief history.

[@Ratenef]

So, I'm surprised that one of the rules of the 'Play Traveller' entry isn't 'you must own a copy of the 1st edition rules. One of the reasons that you stated that Top Secret didn't get a one-shot/mini-campaign was because the 1st ed rules are hard to come by. The 1st edition Traveller rules are still being published, so there shouldn't be any excuse, right? And, I'm surprised you didn't provide a link to where the 1st ed Traveller rules can be purchased.

[@RPGElite]

Well then you're not paying attention because it's in the description. Twice. 😏

[@Ratenef]

@@RPGElite My apologies, I very rarely, if ever, read the descriptions of videos, unless directed to do so.

[@TheJDough1]

Why the first Traveller? Hoe does it compare to the current Mongoose one? Calvinist or Arminian?

[@RPGElite]

You must be new. 🙂 Not to worry. This video explains all: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2WweIqXoN2fpNU Happy gaming. 👍🏿

[@MarcGacy]

I always thought Traveller was really a Pirate game with space trappings, but I know I’m in the minority with that opinion!

[@KroMagnum4]

If ever a game that needs a remake to pc.

[@cb3391]

👍

[@cb3391]

1980 ISS Beagle launched... Miss those simple times. Somewhere out there the beagle is out there..... Ty for the video.subbed