Classic Traveller has a moderately arcane combat system to modern eyes. For the most part though, it is not too bad. This is an example of how it can be interpreted. If you want to do things differently, there is no reason to assume that this is the only way it should (or can be interpreted to) work. In general though, I think that the following example is mostly sensible and will not cause too many feathers to be ruffled. (This is another thing that is being posted to here as a more permanent home than various discord messages and a file on my PC, but which was written a while back.)

Someone told you that Traveller is a cool SF TTRPG, and you heard that Classic Traveller (CT) is a good version of it. So, how do you start? This was a (relatively) brief guide that I wrote in August/September 2023, with some edits in December. This is a more permanent home for it than a PDF uploaded to various discords.

Contents

• Choosing a Core Book
• Additional Books and Supplements
  • Books
  • Supplements
  • Other
  • Conclusion
• A note about those letters
• Core Mechanics
• Character Generation
• What do players do?
  • The Ship
  • Patrons and NPCs
  • Travel
    • Implications for Bounty Hunting
  • Adventures
    • Piracy
• Getting a Sector
• Additional Resources

Choosing a Core Book

First of all, there are a few different versions to choose from: