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The Traveller Adventure
The Traveller Adventure is a campaign of linked adventures published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1983 for the science fiction tabletop role-playing game Traveller, and a companion volume for The Traveller Book. Plot summaryThe Traveller Adventure is an campaign of linked scenarios in the Aramis subsector involving the crew of the March Harrier subsidized merchant vessel.[1] Publication historyGDW created Traveller in 1977, and it quickly became popular. GDW subsequently released a large number of expansions, modules, and adventures including the campaign book The Traveller Adventure, written by Frank Chadwick, John Harshman, J. Andrew Keith, Marc W. Miller, and Loren Wiseman, with a cover by William H. Keith. It was designed to be a companion volume to the previously published The Traveller Book. ReceptionCraig Sheeley reviewed The Traveller Adventure in Space Gamer No. 70.[1] Sheeley commented that "I was pleasantly surprised by The Traveller Adventure [...] it is reasonably price. It is, on the whole, one of the best products ever made by GDW."[1] Stephen Nutt reviewed The Traveller Adventure for Imagine magazine, and stated that "I rate [The Traveller Adventure] in the top five best role-playing products that have ever been placed on the market. In the context of Traveller it is the best thing GDW have ever produced, simply a must for anybody running a Traveller campaign."[2] Andy Slack reviewed The Traveller Adventure for White Dwarf #57, giving it an overall rating of 9 out of 10, and stated that "this is a superb campaign capable of entertaining a group of up to 8 players of any experience for up to a year."[3] In his 1990 book The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games, game critic Rick Swan highly recommended this as one of the best Traveller adventures, albeit for "ambitious referees", calling it "a 150-plus-page campaign involving a devious interstellar smuggling operation and a memorable villain."[4] See alsoReferences
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