Under the megatraveller edition of the game, the system used was more complete and better constructed, but only 2 alien race books were printed as licensed products by a company named digest group publications. The zhodani of zhdant zhodane 2719 are a major human race with a humanoid appearance and technologically advanced sophonts the zhodani inhabit the zhodani consulate, a sphere approximately 70 parsecs in radius about the world of zhdant immediately to corespinward of the imperium, believed to include in excess of 80% of all racial zhodani. Gurps traveller alien races 4 brings 16 strange species to life. Alien races 2 aslan, kkree, inyx, and the devi intelligence. Included are racial and career templates, sample equipment and starthips, ancient artifacts, and much more. Gurps traveller alien races 4 steve jackson games free. Minor race agryx alpha crucis 1520 yes solomani 150. In its original incarnation, the major alien races of traveller were covered in a series of books, with one book dedicated to each race. This book is the ultimate toolkit for traveller campaigns, allowing. Major races the major races are called such because they have all developed jump drive independently, andor forged a multisector domain using it. Gurps traveller 1998 happened because steve jackson is a nut for the original. Minor race unknown world yes trillion credit squadron 115.
Vintage gurps chaos in kansas steve jackson games 1989 rpg book pen. So here is my take on the ship, based on classic traveller book 2 rules excluding the drop tanks. This book is packed full of worlds, politics, playable alien races, ships, and equipment unique to these sectors, along with two huge sector maps. Alien races 1 for gurps traveller has everything you need to set a campaign in the zhodani consulate of vargr. It is a time when interstellar travel has become possible and humaniti has met other starfaring races. Hivers, droyne, ancients, and other enigmatic races, and several more. Cepheus engine has slightly better aliens than mongoose traveller, just by virtue of mentioning the various types right there in the main book. Free traveller rules starter traveller cepheus engine pay what you want mongoose.
This is a compilation and minor revision of the traveller boxed set in one volume. The second book in the gurps traveller alien races series, alien races 2. Minor races can exist at all levels of technology and may have acquired faster than light travel from all sorts of sources from traders, or even reverse engineered ancient technology. Numerous minor races exist, some have been fully developed, some only briefly mentioned, in the traveller background material. See more ideas about traveller rpg, roleplaying game, traveller universe. Takes place during the war that happened when solomani met their neighbours. Referees are guided through the process of generating their own alien species for their traveller campaign settings, complete with detailed examples. Similarly, stars without number has useful building blocks for aliens, but no workedout alien races with actual ingame culture and history. Section pages introduction 4 chapter 1 basic attributes 9 chapter 2 human and alien races 14 chapter 3 homeworlds. Sciencefiction adventure in the far future book 3 worlds and adventures by gdw game designers workshop book 3.
It befriended some, warred on others, and maintained an uneasy distance from others still. Major race is a concept used throughout charted space to identify the six alien races who have independently developed the jump drive. Book 0 there are free pdffiles all over the zhodani base that you can download. Minor race ahetaowa ealiyasiyw 2604 yes alien races 4 1422. Openly cooperative, apparently pacifistic, reportedly cowardly, the starfishshaped hivers dont seem to be empirebuilding material but they hold one in a secure grip. Each volume is a treasure trove of information and game additions for traveller, including adventures, new ships, alien creatures from across charted space, philosophical musings on the big empires, histories, different takes on familiar equipment, new vehicles, characters to be met in starports, playable alien races, and much, much more. Here are a few variants of the firebird xp4 from the mongoose 1st edition book 3. A minor human race is a human population whose ancestors were believed to have been planted on a world of their own by the ancients around 300,000 and who developed separately from other humaninhabited worlds until it was eventually contacted by a starfaring society. The gurps traveller alien races book series by multiple authors includes books gurps traveller alien races 1. Flynns guide to alien creation samardan press cepheus. Flynns guide to alien creation offers traveller referees a complete system for alien species creation, starting with only a universal world profile and two sixsided dice. From the traveller universe, this book covers two major races the psionic human zhodani, and the canine vargr and three minor races from zhodani and vargr territory the saurian drakarans, the arachnoid clotho, and the gas giant mantalike sheol.
Humanity has gone to the stars and found them crowded with other forms of life and other sentient races, and science and technology have advanced vastly over the present day but the essential nature of humanity is unchanged. Traveller 20 2002 is traveller using the d20 system. This is a complete campaign setting with adventures, nominally requiring the mongoose traveller rules for use though theoretically it could be used alongside classic or other traveller systems too with relatively little modification. The universe of traveller is known space several thousand years in the future. Traveller alien and galaxy information rpgnet forums. Alien races 4 ael yael, bwaps, virushi, schalli, and dozens more. This book is packed with information for both players and referees. Miller designed traveller with help from frank chadwick, john harshman, and loren k. Gurps traveller alien races 4 by eds staff 2002, paperback. Alien races 3 offers an expose on the ancients themselves, and examines in detail the biology, homeworlds, culture, and society of the enigmatic hivers and cryptic droyne.
Thats pretty much the history the solomani book lays out too. Aslan, kkree, and other races rimward of the imperium, gurps traveller alien races 3. This thread has given me a hankering to go play my favorite traveller races. Compiled and edited by loren wiseman and steve jackson, this book features the creations of several favorite traveller authors, including phil masters, david pulver, and david thomas. The droyne, which imperial archaeologists are beginning to suspect are identical to the ancient race that scattered humaniti and created the vargr, are among the most pacific of all the inhabitants of the imperium. The fortunate reader of this book will be imbued with knowledge of alien species, descriptions, their ships and place of origin, as well as information on how alien races have contributed to human evolution here on earth. The third book in the alien races series describes two of the most alien races in the traveller universe the droyne and the hivers. However, the major alien races books are coming up soon in a three book. Flynns guide to alien creation the largest rpg download store. It includes starship deck plans and vehicle designs, weaponry, rules and templates for creating player characters and npcs, uptodate history and cultural information, and much more. Types of science sci fi tabletop rpg warp drive alien life forms sci fi games science fiction art just kidding i am game book 1 traveller. Callously viewed by other races as thieves, vagabonds and pirates, the wolflike vargr are a complex and. No assasination, no virus, and he got the original splatbook authors to come back and rewrite the alien races books and adventures. Both alien races are described along with their culture, government, technology, and psychology.
Alien races 3 is a steve jackson games product it is a sophont source book written for gurps traveller description specifications the hivers should worry you. Warehouse 23 offers scenarios, background information, deck plans, and zines, in digital form, for gurps traveller as well as many of our other game lines. Nov 21, 2019 its not organized terribly well but for a quick immersive feel for the 3rd imperium setting theres the library data book. Gurps traveller alien races book series thriftbooks. Book 1 of 4 in the gurps traveller alien races series. The longawaited behind the claw explores the spinward marches and deneb sectors the true frontier of the imperium. Review of the travellers handbook rpgnet d20 rpg game index. Alien module 1 aslan gdw 1984 star wars crafts, sci fi spaceships, capital ship, spaceship concept, sci fi ships, science fiction art, sci fi art, product launch, urban.
Zhodani, vargr and other races of the spinward marches, gurps traveller alien races 2. The first major and the most successful original space opera rpg, traveller features a huge universe, many alien races, starships, various rules for creating planets, interplanetary travel and trade, and much more. Aslan, traveller alien module 7, describes in detail this alien race, its homeworld, and its. On its journey to the stars, it met dozens of alien races. There was some discussion on one of the traveller facebook pages about some of its layout peculiarities. You will also discover the negative aspects and possible intentions of some alien races. Humankind has explored and settled over 11,000 worlds, and inhabits a volume of space hundreds of parsecs across. Human ethnic group drexilthar reavers deep 1826 yes. In 2004, i became friends with an ukrainian guy called petro that i met completely randomly at a bar by the beachi was on holidays and he was there with some friends having some drinks. It is a subjective term used by the most powerful races of charted space based upon political sophontology. Traveller is a science fiction roleplaying game, first published in 1977 by game designers workshop. See more ideas about rpg, travel and science fiction. This document is a comprehensive but not exhaustive list of alien and human races named in traveller.
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