"Traveller" refers to the 1977 (Classic) Traveller system and all of the compatible editions that follow on from it. These systems are designed for playing generic space-opera themed science fiction adventures.
This tag applies to
- (Classic) Traveller (1977, GDW)
- Mega Traveller (1987, GDW)
- Traveller: The New Era (1993, GDW)
- Marc Miller's Traveller ("T4") (1996, Imperium Games)
- GURPS Traveller (1998, Steve Jackson Games), when used with gurps
- Traveller 20 (2002, QLI/RPGRealms Publishing)
- Mongoose Traveller (2008, Mongoose Publishing), when used with mongoose-traveller
- Mongoose Traveller 2 (2016, Mongoose Publishing), when used with mongoose-traveller-2
- Traveller 5 (2013, Far Future Enterprises), when used with traveller-5
so be sure to specify edition in posts.
Originally Traveller was intended to be a system for playing generic space opera-themed science fiction adventures in much the same sense that Dungeons & Dragons was a system intended for generic fantasy adventures. Marc Miller, one of the original designers of the Traveller RPG for Game Designer's Workshop, said that the idea for creating Traveller came about when he said "I want to do Dungeons & Dragons in space." Most published supplements for Traveller deal in some way with a default setting called the "Third Imperium", (sometimes referred to as the Official Traveller Universe (OTU)), but the main rules are generic enough so that a campaign can be played in any setting the referee chooses.
Description taken from Wikipedia.
