Looking at the spinward marches campaign, youd think it was an. Background information on the spinward marches, including subsector by subsector descriptions, and a thorough description of the fifth frontier war, plus ideas for a campaign and information on anumber of organizations within the marches. Spinward is an interesting name for the title character, as there is an expanse of space in the traveller universe and an excellent campaign known as the spinward marches. Which subsector is the most popular one in the spinward marches.
I guess we will have to get the film funded to find out. This map was generated using the sector data, the trade rules from gurps traveller. So, as a modern mongoose traveller gm, is this book worth getting. The traveller adventure provided a massive adventure with multiple episoides set throughout the spinward marches. This sector is one of the most volatile to be found anywhere, with mighty interstellar wars a key part of the regions history and with no clear winner yet. Ctm03the spinward marches campaign classic traveller.
There are complete descriptions of the spinward marches for almost every version of traveller. Net website in september 2011, and in the downloadable pdf of freelance traveller s october 2011 issue. Traveller is an origins award winning science fiction roleplaying game published by game designers workshop in 1977. It abuts several other alien and human empires, making it a pretty cool place to run adventures and campaigns, but it does not represent the imperium as a whole. Standards and assumptions this solo campaign takes place in the year 991, six years after the. Here you can find the spinward marches shared files. Spinward marches the third imperium traveller scifi roleplaying dougherty, martin j. In my last column, i began discussion of the subsectors of the spinward marches, offering advice on which would work best as campaign settings. Fifth frontier war is a traveller campaign game portraying the progress of a farreaching interstellar war and its effect on the. An overview of the book looking at the spinward marches campaign, youd think it was an expansion of the 1979 supplement 3.
This title was added to our catalog on march 30, 2010. He has posted an example of the spinward marches using cosmographer 3 you can also make nice maps. The imperial naval command insisted upon reopening the base in 1082, over the objections of the zhodani. Set within the neutral zone of the spinward marches between the imperium and zhodani consulate, it chronicles the. I agree that mongooses version of traveller has seen a return to the openended spirit of the early classic traveller period. This booklet is a free solo roleplaying campaign for traveller. The spinward marches is a 1979 roleplaying game supplement for traveller published by game designers workshop. The adventure this is the age of the third imperium. As a place of adventure it is unsurpassed within imperial space, with enough special. Mnemosyne sourcebook by dylan lee has been added to the free pdffiles page. One of the earliest locations for traveller campaigns has been the spinward marches. The latest changes to this document after its original release will be marked in blue for easy identification. Despite numerous updates to the bulk of the imperial data thanks to the coti cleanup crew, the domain of deneb has suffered in comparison.
Spinward traveller is based on the award winning roleplaying game. Please see trade map summary for a summary of this and other sectors trade information. Adventures in a warravaged sector traveller miller, marc w. Genie format sunbane joe fugate of digest group publications generated data for the imperium and. The gurps book has a few paragraphs of color on every system in the marches. This is a page to collect them all so that you can download them for free. In the year 1105, the emperor strephon rules over an empire of eleven thousand worlds.
The fourth frontier war began as a incident near quar spinward marches 0808. The subsector map was a jpg generated by using gal actic one of the best mapping programs for traveller. Here is a scaled down version of the spinward marches map and tne data at the dedzone upside down. The spinward marches traveller rpg blog the zhodani base. What happens when you rotate the spinward marches 180 degrees.
This is a complete campaign sourcebook for the spinward marches and the general ideas is that its an area. It is a dos program but it greatest feature is the ability to easily manage an imperium worth of maps and data. The information in this book can, however, be used with other versions of the traveller game, and indeed entirely different rules sets. Freelance traveller critics corner mongoose traveller. The spinward marches, the spinward marches campaign, megatraveller journal. Set within the vilis and jewell subsectors of the spinward marches, it chronicles the adventures of a husband and wife team of naval veterans. In 1987, the megatraveller players manual was published. Launch your imagination into the traveller universe at. This is a campaign premise for the crew of a free or far trader starting out in the autonomous region of the outworld authority. Traveller hero book 1 adventurers in charted space ravellert as a science fiction genre has many sub genres that gms may wish to select from, based on the timeframe of the campaign, the version of traveller that is being played, as well as the gms vision. Far from the major centres of power the local rulers have more practical power than the emperor himself. On the far reaches of the empire lies the spinward marches, the frontier of the third imperium. In 1985, the spinward marches campaign was published including a variety of maps and storyline for this sector. Spinward marches the third imperium traveller scifi roleplaying.
The spinward marches campaign adventures in a warravaged sector, softback campaign for classic traveller this campaign module includes detailed material on one imperial sector the spinward marches and makes it suitable for use in any traveller campaign. The book details the history of the sector and how the various governments interact. For adventures in the spinward marches, the index card referee keeps much material on file for immediate use with little or no modification will find spinward encounters indispensable. Interestingly, their version of the spinward marches supplement provides a detailed description of only 12 worlds per subsector. The spinward marches offer untold asventure for those willing to seek it out. The original setting for traveller, the spinward marches are an area of space right on the edge of imperial territory.
Spinward marches the spinward marches lie on the edge of. There are free pdffiles all over the zhodani base that you can download. Download traveller the third imperium the spinward marches mgp3802. The spinward marches lie on the edge of imperial space, and area that borders rival interstellar governments that directly oppose any further expansion. There has been so much attention paid to this area that there are multiple updates and contradictory canonical and quasicanonical publications supplement 3. The outworld authority is my classic traveller setting called outworld, but reformatted for an a5 printing. It is a time when interstellar travel has become possible and humaniti has met other starfaring races. Referees who dont mind doing a little bit of tweaking and filingoff of serial numbers can. Traveller kickstarter seeks funds for spinward rpg film. The most supported setting in the traveller universe is the spinward marches, a frontier setting on the upper left of the imperium. The role of megacorporations is also discussed with their rivalries causing almost as much conflict as the clash of the mighty empires. The spinward marches includes a description and maps of a region of space, with basic data on hundreds of worlds.
Even the most crudest of maps can still be a very helpful tool in any campaign. Finally two pages of deck plans for the march harrier redrawn by me. To be more specific, behind the claw is a setting book for traveller second edition, going back to the locations that were of greater focus in 1e. This booklet is a solo roleplaying campaign for traveller. Traveller by carlos current year is 1120, and the third imperium enjoys a phase of apparent stability under the leadership of emperor strephon. A great map might even help to immerse the players more deepy into the game. Following the introduction of this format, traveller standard world data expanded to include several new fields such as pbg population multiplier, number of planetoid belts, number of gas giants and stellar data, culiminating in the data published in gdws the spinward marches campaign.
Tl9 civilization when contacted in 598 ti bycaledon, but never showed interest in space. This book focuses on the imperial navy in the spinward marches, with some information on the rival and allied navies of the region. A crossroads for humans and aliens it is a dangerous place, but for those who dare to. Solomani 260, spinward marches campaign 261, alien realms 262. Review of the spinward marches campaign rpgnet rpg game. Archeologists are about to solve one of the deepest mysteries ever faced by humanity. An excellent example of such a map is the traveller spinward marches map by the german oublisher mann verlag. This sourcebook for the traveller game serves a springboard for any new campaign set. It covers background, history, and an adventure plot. The spinward marches campaign is a lengthy campaign constructed to use the wealth of information available about the spin ward marches in a series of several traveller adventures.
The mongoose book has details beyond the basics you can get from for only a few systems. Supplement 3 in the classic traveller series, this book presents background, subsector maps and world information for the entire spinward marches sector. Travelling between the stars in search of adventure is the basis of traveller. Included with the pdf file are a front and back cover. Miller and first appeared in supplement 3 spinward marches the spinward marches sector was the first welldeveloped sector for traveller, and is, to date, the most published and writtenabout sector for traveller rpg adventures there is, to date, more adventures and story material written for the. With peter trevors traveller universe program you can generate nice looking maps. The areas are considered, at best, colonial settlements by humanitys third imperium. This game is also contained in classic traveller on cdrom, the spinward marches campaign, and traveller. David eddings malloreon 4 sorceress of darshiva pdf. Quar was, until the end of the third frontier war, an imperial naval base. Okay, heres a quick and dirty index page for my sectorto pdf perl script and sample output for qlis traveller d20 gateway to destiny campaign sourcebook, as discussed here in their forums. Ctm03the spinward marches campaign the spinward marches campaign.
The spinward marches campaign the shop on the borderlands. The official traveller universe otu is the primary setting for various editions of the traveller game, controlled by far future enterprises ffe. Game designers workshop gdw publisher average rating. Larianz byret spinward marches 2523 mora see spinward marches campaign.
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