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Traveller Companion

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Now comes with the Companion Update 2024 PDF!

The Traveller Companion is here...

This book is the ultimate toolkit for Traveller campaigns, allowing referees and Travellers to pick and choose the best additions for their adventures and explore the galaxy in greater detail than before. From alternate Traveller creation systems and training to gas giant operations and starports, from the effects of gravity and diseases to animal encounters on alien worlds and the use of transponders, there is a wealth of new rules-based material for all Traveller campaigns, ready to be unleashed on every new world, every starship, and every group of Travellers.

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Janne P February 09, 2024 6:57 pm UTC
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Great to see you making the 2024 update available to past customers! I noticed some inset images in Traveller_Companion_Update_2024.pdf appear to be missing though, showing only their drop shadow. Is it just my copy?

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Geoff W July 27, 2023 3:37 am UTC
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Thanks for the update! Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but this file is suffering from the same thing other Traveller books have where the cover doesn't show in iBooks on iPad. Is there a fix for this?
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Thomas H March 27, 2021 10:33 am UTC
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When do you publish the printer friendly version?
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Dustin C December 06, 2019 1:44 am UTC
Does this book have rules for designing new Alien Races? That and ship creation rules are the only thing I'm interested in this book for.
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Rory H January 03, 2020 5:52 am UTC
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The are basic rules for creating alien animals (for encounters) on the core book, and this is expanded in the Companion, but these are not ‘playable' Aliens. The Ship Creation rules are entirely in High Guard. There are some smatterings of Races in other books, including in the Companion (Bwaps). However, the major alien races books are coming up soon in a three book series - which will cover all the iconic spacefaring alien races in detail - and it may be a good idea to have some rules for generating new alien races in them. There are also a bunch of new alien races (about a dozen, really weird ones) to be found in the Behind the Claw sourcebook.

Personally, I’m waiting for a Robots book too.
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Dustin C January 19, 2020 11:41 pm UTC
The core book specifies "Other universes will detail the aliens that can be Travellers and the Traveller Companion adds more than can be used in any universe." So you're saying that they lied and they don't have race creation rules in the book they said they would? That seems wrong and I don't see why I should buy the book, since that's the reason I wanted it.
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Michael M November 29, 2019 6:47 pm UTC
Some of these new options were included as core 1E, other cotent seem to be errata. While I buy a lot of Mongoose content, I do shy away from reprints and errata that a publisher makes you pay for. Sorry, saving my $ for a Tinath sequel :)
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Roger V February 17, 2019 3:14 pm UTC
Core book promised Alien races would be in this book, its the only reason I wanted this book. So how long until there are more playable aliens? In the mean time are the 1e books Races compatible enough to use.
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Carl A December 27, 2018 2:46 am UTC
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The colonial upbringing career has a graduation benefit that missing some words on page 30: "Gain any two other skills listed above at level or
increase one skill already possessed by one level." Should that say "...at level 1 or increase..." maybe?
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December 29, 2018 9:22 am UTC
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I assume it's level 1. Gain any two other skills listed above to level 1 or any (no matter where gained from) +1 level.
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Pierre S December 25, 2018 6:53 am UTC
Almost 20 cents a page? Forget it.
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Rory H December 26, 2018 9:32 am UTC
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If you get the full sized preview, you can get 13 pages for free. Lucky you!
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Gary M December 22, 2018 8:21 pm UTC
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This is effectively the DMG for Traveller and its an amazing buy. I'm very disappointed by the character creation sections, which I was really hoping for a boost to. I was hoping to see extra additions to the existing character creation, such as rules for awards, medals, influence, fame, new mustering out benefits etc etc. I was also hoping to see more racial additions here as well, such as rules for playing some of the more pronounced races or even racial specific career paths for the existing paths. The two new careers are rather good.
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Allan P December 22, 2018 8:43 am UTC
Does it bring in 3d space?
Other scifi games have it all the way back to Space Opera
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James J December 22, 2018 1:42 pm UTC
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3-D Space was never a big push in Traveller, other than Traveller: 2300AD

Not difficult to make up a coordinate system, though it changes a lot of the feel of the game.
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Rory H December 23, 2018 9:47 pm UTC
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Actually, with the next edition of 2300AD just round the corner, I wonder if they make some approach towards this sort of thing, along with the use of vectors? That would be a cool development.
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Allan P January 10, 2019 4:20 am UTC
Rory; what is this about a new edition, I tried a google search but nothing?
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January 21, 2019 3:22 am UTC
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It's been in the works for some time.
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Allan P January 21, 2019 7:53 am UTC
But no more info?
Who etc?
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Terry M February 12, 2019 1:14 pm UTC
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it is mongoose traveller, 2nd edn. Search mongoose above, and you should get the catalogue
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David D December 22, 2018 4:26 am UTC
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AMAZING! This book single-handedly solves 95% of the problems I've always had with Traveller, suddenly making it (optionally) a much more modern and playable game. Worth every penny! THANK YOU!
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James J December 21, 2018 11:10 am UTC
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Overall I'm liking these options although there are some minor points... page 45 the last word is missing... pretty sure the intent for the last paragraph in the right-hand column is to insert the word "determined".

It's really not clear how disabling wounds should or would interface with the pit locations option are these supposed to be two different systems as optional plugins or how they combine because they seem to use different numbers and values and thresholds.
Similarly what is the intent with respect to using three characteristics.

I'm not trying to nitpick here but D&D 5e laid all these out pretty clearly and Traveller has been around for 40-something years I've been a referee since 1977 so why wasn't this clarified in this book that we've been waiting for months?

I thought the narrative rules were a good nod to things like The Cypher system, I've had players in the past complain that there was no way to affect the narrative other than taking...See more
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