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The Zhodani Base

Free pdf-files, free traveller rules.

• Cepheus Engine (pay what you want)
• Mongoose: Book 0

There are free pdf-files all over the Zhodani Base that you can download. They may be difficult to find. This is a page to collect them all so that you can download them for free.

• Chanjitl Light Fighter  (10 tons) by: Bleddyn Wilson
• Aanz Class System Shuttle (50 tons) by: Bleddyn Wilson
• Kroie Class Tug (100 tons) by: Bleddyn Wilson
• Diefr Class Belter (150 tons) by: Bleddyn Wilson
• Vozjien Independant Trader (200 tons) by: Bleddyn Wilson
• Vargr Corsair Aeogz Class (400 tons) by: Bleddyn Wilson
• Chonzde Frontier Merchant (400 tons) by: Bleddyn Wilson
• Shivva II Class Patrol Corvette (600 tons) by: Bleddyn Wilson
• Dranzhrin Class Consular Corvette (650 tons) by: Bleddyn Wilson
• Dienjzhiae Fleet Intelligence Corvette (700 tons) by: Bleddyn Wilson
• Bra’la Class Corvette Transport (750 tons) by: Bleddyn Wilson
• Banya Class Light Fleet Corvette (800 tons) by: Bleddyn Wilson
• Berka Class Heavy Fleet Corvette (800 tons) by: Bleddyn Wilson
• Ipltsiedle Class Light Fleet Frigate (1200 tons) by: Bleddyn Wilson
• Vlezdre’ Class Light Cruiser (8000 tons) by: Bleddyn Wilson
• Imperial treasure ship (deckplans) by: Andy Bigwood
• Sacnoth Small Arms Cooperative by: Bleddyn Wilson
• MKS 87 Grav AFV by: Bleddyn Wilson
• Foreven Sector Maps
• Foreven LBB style Maps
• Eire Subsector (Supplement PO4) by: BeRKA, Randy, Friz and Facebook fans
• Uksoulez Subsector

Sourcebooks

• Mnemosyne Sourcebook by: Dylan Lee
• Gvurrdon Sector Campaignbook by: Roger Malmstein
• Zhodani Commandos Revisited by: Bleddyn Wilson . (updated 23-Nov-05)
• Prize Money and Privateering in the Traveller Universe by: Walter Whimpenny .
• Traffic Control and Navigation by: Neil Lucock
• Mercenary Company Generator by: Andy Bigwood
• The Derelict by: Ben Overmyer
• The Green Pirates
• Coreward by: Paul J. Drye
• Jewell (Spinward Marches 1106): by Roger Malmstein
• Freefall webcomic RPG : by Matt Frisbee

Free forms at SignalGK

• TAS Form 2 — personal data and history.
• TAS Form 3 — ship’s papers (commercial)
• TAS Form 5 — sector description
• TAS Forms 6, 7 — subsector map grid and world data
• TAS Form 14 — cargo manifest
• TAS Forms 65, 66 — deckplan grids, small and large
• Imperial Navy Form 3 — ship’s data
• Imperial Navy Form 10 — ship design worksheet
• Imperial Navy Form 11 — small craft design worksheet
• Imperial Scout Service Forms 6, 7 — xboat message forms
• Imperial Scout Service Form 7 — star system data
• Imperial Scout Service Form 8, 9 — world map grid

At other sites you can also find some useful pdfs. I’ll try to list the most useful ones here. Please help me with this list!

Free pdfs @ Other Sites

• Free Traveller Downloads @ DriveThruRPG
• Facebook Traveller RPG Group (Only for Members)
• Cepheus Journal (fanzine)
• Colonial Times (fanzine)
• Freelance Traveller (fanzine)
• Imperium Staple (fanzine)
• Into The Deep (fanzine)
• Signal-GK (fanzine)
• Stellar Reaches (fanzine)
• Third Imperium (fanzine)
• Tiffany Star (fanzine)
• Darkest Stars (fanzine)
• Asteroid Mining
• Traveller5 Forms
• CotI File Library
• Universal Game Mechanic by: Kenneth Beardon
• The Galaxiad Intro (from Traveller5)
• Argonaut Adventure by: Nick Jenkins
• Intercept (Space Combat rules)
• Galaxy Magazine
• Starlog Magazine
• Heavy Metal Magazine
• Ares Magazine
• The Space Gamer Magazine
• Planet Stories
• Peter’s Software Projects
• Into the Neutral Zone
• Mercator (Trading Adventures in the Ancient World)
• Starship Geomorphs (for deckplans)
• Fire with Fire ( Charles E. Gannon )
• On Basilisk Station ( David Weber )
• Encyclopedia of Dagudashaag (Sector Sourcebook)

13 thoughts on “Free pdf-files”

The Intercept 3.3 link is a bit old. Linking to the Intercept downloads would be better as I always keep that updated to any new versions etc. https://vectormovement.wordpress.com/downloads/

Fixed that.

Wish there was some more ways to find striker books-IDK if there are any pdfs out there, but if there are, it would be helpful. Basic Traveller books too. I arrived about 35 years late to the game…. 🙁

• Classic Traveller

Could you please link my free Traveller software (Explanator and more):

https://peterssoftwareprojects.wordpress.com/category/traveller/

the traveller wiki is not a useful place? not deserving of a link?

The Traveller wiki already has a link at the front page. This page is mostly pointing to pdf-files.

Traveller TIMES (fanzine) Don’s Traveller Page (errata and other stuff)

These two links are dead and gone. I’d really like to find a complete set of the Tidewater/Traveller TIMES issues.

Ok, removed from list.

Does anyone know where I can find a copy of DSL Ironworks’ Bastards of Foreven Fleet books? The author died in 2017 and I think he stopped selling them on DriveThru RPG when Mongoose pulled the Foreven Free license. I can’t find them anywhere. I’ll pay!

The only DSL Ironworks’ stuff I can find are on DriveThruRPG .

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Classic Traveller

Traveller , sometimes referred to as Classic Traveller, is the original edition and was published between 1977 and 1986. This edition is known for its " little black books "; most of the rules and supplements came as mostly black with a single offset color. The Adventures and supplements for this edition start in 1105 and advance through 1115 .

This article refers to specific information about this edition, for information about the game in general please refer to the Versions of Traveller .

• 1.1 Overview
• 1.2 Additional Books, Adventures, Supplements, and Modules
• 1.3 ‎Popular Artists & Authors
• 2.1 Meta-history & Background
• 2.2 Bibliography-Ludography (Published Products)
• 2.3 External Links
• 3 References & Contributions (Sources)

Description ( Specifications ) [ edit ]

The game system introduced a unique character generation system that helped it to stand out from other role-playing games of the time. Players took their characters through a career development path (usually in the military) where the player rolled for different assignments and gained extra skills, rank and retirement benefits. Leaving a character in service for longer before the game would lead to more skills and beginning cash but could also mean that basic attributes (such as strength) would begin to degrade with old age.

Characters could die or be injured before a player finished rolling them up. The game became known for this character generation system.

Overview [ edit ]

The Classic Traveller core rules were published in three different rulesets.

The original 1977 release of Traveller contained three books – Characters and Combat , Starships , and Worlds and Adventures . This set of rules contains everything needed to play Traveller. In 1981, GDW took advantage of a need to reprint the core rules to make revisions. This "second edition" both added and removed details and incorporated errata printed in Mercenary for the original 1977 edition.

The second edition was repackaged in a folio edition The Traveller Book in 1982, along with additional material including a few added rules, a special introduction for new players, two adventures, and details on what was becoming the Official Traveller Universe (OTU).

Finally, in 1983, GDW released Starter Traveller , intended at giving a younger audience a streamlined and simpler set of Traveller rules. This release was published as a boxed set with the three main little black books . This version used most of the text from the 1981 edition but simplified some of the more complex rules, including a simplified space combat system that uses range bands instead of 2D vectors.

Additional Books, Adventures, Supplements, and Modules [ edit ]

Between 1979 and 1986, GDW released five more rule books in the same little black book format using varying colors in the covers to set them apart. These gave more detailed rules on character generation along with more detailed design rules for warships, star systems and robots.

During this same period, GDW released 13 numbered adventure books as little black books . They also released 6 numbered "Double Adventure" books in a similar format but bound back to front; the reader would have to flip the book over to read the second adventure. These adventures were intended to be standalone issues, not necessarily part of an overall campaign. In 1983 GDW published "The Traveller Adventure" , a full campaign in the same format and in the same style as The Traveller Book .

GDW also released 13 numbered supplements in a similar format to the adventures, with a different color scheme on the cover of each. Some of these are intended to reduce a referee's workload by providing adventure hooks, pregenerated characters, and predesigned ships, but others include the first details published about the Official Traveller Universe (OTU), including two full sectors.

In addition, GDW published 8 Alien Modules, each detailing a different race. The last three of these were published in 1986 and 1987, putting them well within the MegaTraveller time period.

The complete Classic Traveller would include all of these works.

‎Popular Artists & Authors [ edit ]

• David Deitrick
• Jennell Jaquays
• Marc Miller
• Loren Wiseman

History & Background ( Dossier ) [ edit ]

Classic Traveller was replaced in 1986 by a new version called MegaTraveller which not only radically revised the mechanics of the game with a standardized task based system, but also the format of publication in folio-sized books with full color cover art. The background setting ( timeline ) was advanced several years into a shattered Third Imperium fighting a Civil War ).

Meta-history & Background [ edit ]

Etymology: The word Traveler and its British English orthographic variation Traveller refer to individuals who travel . In practice this refers to tourists, nomads, gypsies, exiled or expatriate peoples, and the like. In the Traveller RPG universe , it refers to sophonts who travel the stars , a special group of beings with an adventurous spirit.

At the beginning there was only some very basic background material to the Traveller universe. It appeared that like most other RPG games of the time, individual game masters would develop their own universe to adventure in. It was originally intended to be a flexible, multi-purpose, general ruleset. As more adventures and supplements were developed, the rich character of the standard Traveller universe began to evolve.

Most of the Classic Traveller books are available in compendium volumes from www.farfuture.net - Marc Miller's Far Future company, who are the current copyright and trademark holder of all forms of the Traveller game.

Bibliography-Ludography (Published Products) [ edit ]

This edition is best known for the following products:

1001 Characters

20-ton Launch Deckplans

30-Ton Ship's Boat Deckplans

30-Ton Slow Boat

40-ton Pinnace deckplans

40-ton Slow Pinnace

600-ton Subsidized Liner Deckplans

A Fistful of Credits

A Pilot's Guide to the Drexilthar Subsector

Aboard the Death Ship

Across the Bright Face/Mission on Mithril

Action Aboard/Adventures on the King Richard

Adjutant: Air Cushion

Adjutant: Aircraft, Rotary & Fixed Wing

Adjutant: Exotic

Adjutant: Grav

Adjutant: Infantry Weapons

Adjutant: Orbital Assault and Landing Craft

Adjutant: Track Laying

Adjutant: Waterborne

Adjutant: Wheeled Combat

Adjutant: Wheeled, Service & Support

Adventure - Memory Alpha

Call of the Wild!

Adventure Class Ships Volume 1

Adventure Class Ships Volume 2

Adventure Class Ships Volume 3

Adventure Class Ships Volume 4

Alien Realms

Amycus Probe

An Introduction to Traveller

Animal Encounters

Ares Dragon Deckplans

Argon Gambit/Death Station

Ascent to Anekthor

Atlas des Imperiums

Atlas of the Imperium

Azhanti High Lightning

Best of the Journal 01

Best of the Journal 02

Best of the Journal 03

Best of the Journal 04

Challenge 25

Challenge 26

Challenge 27

Challenge 28

Challenge 29

Challenge 30

Challenge Magazine (25-77)

Characters and Combat

Citizens of the Imperium

Classic Traveller CD ROM

Classic Traveller Facsimile edition

Corsairs of the Turku Waste

Crash on Cunnonic

Crucis Margin

Dark Nebula

Darkling Ship

Darthanon Queen

Deluxe Traveller

Deluxe Traveller Boxed Set

Die Chamax-Pest/Schreckenshorde

Die Spinwärts-Marken

Disappearance on Aramat

Divine Intervention/Night of Conquest

Doom of the Singing Star

Dra'k'ne Station

Duneraiders

Encounters in the Corelian Quadrant

Encounters in the Phoenix Quadrant

Encounters in the Ventura Quadrant

Evening Star

Exotic Atmospheres

Expedition to Zhodane

FCI Consumer Guide

Far Traveller 1

Far Traveller 2

Far Traveller 3

Fate of the Kinunir

Fate of the Sky Raiders

Field Manual

Fifth Frontier War

Fifty Starbases

Fighting Ships

Five Small Craft of the Imperium

Flight of the Stag

Forms and Charts

Forschungsstation Gamma

Gateway Domain Cluster Book 2: Starfall

Gefängniswelt

German Traveller Core I Basic Rules

German Traveller- Core II - Söldner, Scouts und Handelsprinzen

Glimmerdrift Reaches

Boats and Pinnaces

Grand Census

Grand Survey

Hellion's Hoard

High Passage 1

High Passage 2

High Passage 3

High Passage 4

High Passage 5

I.S.C.V. Leander

I.S.C.V.: King Richard

I.S.P.M.V Tethys

I.S.P.M.V.: Fenris / S.F.V. Valkyrie

IISS Ship Files

Imperial Calendar

Imperial Data Recovery System

Imperium Map Poster

Imperium Staple 01

Imperium Staple 02

Imperium Staple 03

Imperium Staple 04

Imperium Staple 05

Imperium Staple 06

Imperium Staple 07

Imperium Staple 08

Imperium Staple 09

Imperium Staple 10

Imperium Staple 11

Imperium Staple 12

Infodata A-Z

Into the Deep 1

Into the Deep 2

Into the Deep 3

Into the Deep 4

Into the Deep 5

Invasion: Earth

Journal of the Travellers Aid Society CDROM

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 01

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 02

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 03

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 04

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 05

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 06

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 07

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 08

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 09

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 10

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 11

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 12

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 13

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 14

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 15

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 16

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 17

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 18

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 19

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 20

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 21

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 22

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 23

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 24

Kauffahrer und Kanonenboote

Lee's Guide to Interstellar Adventure

Letter of Marque

Library Data (A-M)

Library Data (N-Z)

Lightning Class Cruisers

Looking for ASTRA

Lost Rules of Traveller

Lost Supplements Collection

Luna: A Travellers Guide

Maranantha-Alkahest Sector

Marischal Tenth Anniversary Poster

Marooned on Ghostring

Marooned/Marooned Alone

Merchant Prince

Merchants & Merchandise

Missiles in Traveller

Mission to Zephor

Murder on Arcturus Station

Nacht der Entscheidung/Ein Gott greift ein

Navigator's Starcharts

Nomaden des Weltenmeeres

Nomads of the World Ocean

Ordeal by Eshaar

Pen-Latol's World

Personal Data Sheet

Pilot's Guide to the Caledon Subsector

Planetary Data Sheet

Port Xanatath

Prison Planet

Reaver's Deep Sector Sourcebook

Referee Screen

Regelbuch III - Roboter

Rescue On Galatea

Research Station Gamma

Rogue Moon of Spinstorme

SGS: Research Facility

SS Merchant Prince

Safari Ship

Safarischiff

Salvage Mission

Schlachtkreuzer Kinuir

Scouts & Assassins

Secret of the Ancients

Security Leak 01

Security Leak 02

Security Leak 03

Shadows/Annic Nova

Ship's Papers

Simba Safari

Special Delivery

Patron Encounters

Special Supplement 5: Short Adventures

Starport Module One: Hotel Complex

Starport Planetfall

Starship Geomorphs

Starship Log Entry

Starships and Spacecraft

Starter Traveller

Startown Liberty

Stazhlekh Report/The Harrensa Project

Stranded on Arden

Striker III

Striker Rule Book 2

System Data Sheet

The Arctic Environment

The Chamax Plague/Horde

The Classic Adventures

The Classic Aliens (1-4)

The Classic Aliens (5-8)

The Classic Books

The Classic Games

The Classic Short Adventures

The Classic Supplements

The Compleat Starport

The Desert Environment

The Drenslaar Quest

The Imperial Fringe

Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society (1-12)

The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society (13-24)

The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society (25-33)

The Kinunir

The Legend of the Sky Raiders

The Mountain Environment

The Newcomers

The Science Fiction In Traveller

The Solomani Rim

The Spinward Marches

The Spinward Marches Campaign

The Trail of the Sky Raiders

The Traveller Adventure

The Traveller Book

The Traveller Logbook

The Traveller Periodical Bibliography

The Traveller's Aid Society Alien Encyclopedia

The Travellers' Digest 01

The Travellers' Digest 02

The Travellers' Digest 03

The Travellers' Digest 04

The Travellers' Digest 05

The Travellers' Digest 06

The Travellers' Digest 07

The Travellers' Digest 08

The Undersea Environment

The Universal World Profile

Theta Borealis Sector

Third Imperium 01

Third Imperium 02

Third Imperium 03

Third Imperium 04

Third Imperium 05

Third Imperium 06

Third Imperium 07

Third Imperium 08

Third Imperium 09

Third Imperium 10

Third Imperium 11

Tierbegegnungen

Traders and Gunboats

Trading Team

Trillion Credit Squadron

Twilight's Peak

Understanding Traveller

Uragyad'n of the Seven Pillars

Vanguard Reaches

Volentine Gambit

Wanted: Adventurers

World Displays

Worlds and Adventures

Z.I.S.M.V. Vlezhdatl

External Links [ edit ]

Here are some additional links:

• Classic Traveller Bibliography
• Publications
• Wayne's "The Little Black Books" - Classic Traveller
• "Traveller Section by Section Comparison"

References & Contributions ( Sources ) [ edit ]

• Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
• Articles at intermediate completion state
• Pages using DynamicPageList parser function

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