Traveller 5E - Where Will Your Interstellar Travels Take You?

The Traveller tabletop roleplaying game was first published way back in 1977 by Game Designers’ Workshop. It soon became, and has maintained for almost 50 years, one of the most influential and popular science-fiction roleplaying games through multiple editions and publishers. Today saw the launch, and instanteous funding, of a new edition of the game by World’s Largest RPGs merging this classic sci-fi game with the current rules set of the world’s most popular role-playing game as seen in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.

All of Traveller’s classic themes remain - free traders chasing profits on the edge of civilisation, m,ercenaries taking contracts in bizarres, alien conflicts, explorers pushing beyond the frontiers, interstellar adventurers jumping from port to port, job to job, making their their mark upon whole worlds, systems, and sectors… and yes, you can still die during character creation!

Traveller 5E comes with four hardcover books. The Core Rules which will teach you how to play and create characters, Gears and Robots which lets you construct robots and equip your character for survival, Starships covering jump space travel and the starships that travel the cosmos, and Worlds and Vehicles which introduces exotic creatures, interesting vehicles, and mysterious worlds, along with rules to create your own.

The crowdfunding campaign, which is being run on Backerkit, offers up not only the four hardcovers (which are also available with special edition covers and a metal slipcase) but also a Deck Plan Book, Metal Dice, Dice Box and Dice Tray, a Magnetic Metal Referee Screen, Void Dice Sets, a Traveller 5E Mystery Bag, and a total of 36 miniatures.

The campaign, which wraps on 15th May, aims to deliver the books by October 2027. You can find more information, and place a pledge, on the Traveller 5E Backerkit page.

Images courtesy of World’s Largest RPGs Backerkit Campaign Page.