Traveller Book 6: Scouts
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| Designers | Marc Miller |
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| Publishers | Game Designers' Workshop |
| Publication | 1983 |
| Genres | Science-fiction |
| Systems | Classic Traveller |
Traveller Book 6: Scouts[1] is a tabletop role-playing game supplement, written by Marc Miller for Traveller, and published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1983.
Contents
[edit]Scouts is a supplement which presents additional systems for character generation related to the Scout Service, and also includes an expanded system for world generation.[2] The Scout Service is a fictional intersteller exploration organization.
Publication history
[edit]An updated edition[3] titled Book 3 Scout, written by Lawrence Whitaker, was published by Mongoose Publishing in 2009.
Reception
[edit]Tony Watson reviewed Scouts in Ares Magazine #17 and commented that "Scouts adds much to Scout characters and especially to the generation of star systems and worlds. These latter rules and great detail to star systems, and a correspondingly greater cost in time and effort to create subsectors. Its value then, depends on how anxious the referee is to include the new information in his campaign."[4]
Andy Slack reviewed Scouts for White Dwarf #53, giving the supplement 7/10 overall and stated that it was "Not as clear as earlier Traveller materials. If you want to generate or GM detailed Traveller star-systems, and have a lot of time to spare, this is the item for you. If you simply want expanded scout characters, then egotism aside Star Patrol is similar and cheaper."[2]
Stephen Nutt reviewed Scouts, Book 6 for Imagine magazine, and stated that "It is hard to say that GDW have done more than half succeed with this one."[5]
Terry Mcinnes reviewed Scouts for Different Worlds magazine and stated that "In spite of [its] complexity, Book 6 is basic material for all Traveller players and is indispensable to gamemasters for planning colorful, scientifically accurate campaigns. Scouts truly adds a new dimension to Traveller adventure."[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Miller, Marc (1983). Traveller Book 6: Scouts. Bloomington, IL, USA: Game Designers Workshop. ASIN B000ERK1GC.
- ^ a b Slack, Andy (May 1984). "Open Box". White Dwarf (53). Games Workshop: 17.
- ^ Whitaker, Lawrence (2009). Book 3: Scout. Swindon UK.: Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1906508005.
- ^ Watson, Tony (Spring 1984). "Games". Ares Magazine (17). TSR, Inc.: 56–57.
- ^ Nutt, Stephen (September 1984). "Notices". Imagine (review). 55 (18). TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd.: 42–43. Bibcode:1984Ostri..55...42T. doi:10.1080/00306525.1984.9634593.
- ^ Mcinnes, Terry (January–February 1986). "Game Reviews". Different Worlds (41): 31–32.