Ah, Traveller 2300. I owned many of the titles in the series, but never had the opportunity to run it back in the day. I really should snag this just for a reading opportunity.

Traveller 2300 is currently on sale as a bundle on Fanatical. For $1, you can grab the core rules and the Ranger supplement. Your $8.99 gets you a total of 21 releases in the Traveller 2300 line (a much better deal than the average Humble Bundle ;)

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Deal of the Day - Clement Sector Roleplaying Game Core Book

Looking for a Traveller-style game WITH a complete setting all in one neat package? Look no further than today's Deal of the Day, the Clement Sector Roleplaying Game Core Book. It's on sale for $7.50 until tomorrow morning (usually $25).

Clement Sector Third Edition is the ultimate version of one of the fastest growing space opera games out there.  Powered by the Cepheus Engine, this book contains everything you need to run a Clement Sector game.  This new edition contains all of the setting information you need as well as an entire rules set.  

Clement Sector contains a history of the sector and humanity's expansion in the sector.  It has detailed maps showing all 16 subsectors of Clement Sector as well as subsectors from the nearby Ariel and Tranquility Sectors.

Clement Sector also details the Zimm Drive, the method of stellar travel in this setting, and showcases six commonly seen starships.  Deckplans, art, and statistics are provided for the Rucker-class merchant ship, Luxury-class yacht, Trailblazer-class scout, Atlas-class freighter, Starlight-class merchant, and Farragut-class destroyer.  This book also contains the detailed character generation for which Clement Sector is known as well as a handy NPC generator.  

Clement Sector is also filled with campaign and adventure seeds to allow you and your players to jump straight into the action.  

Welcome to the ultimate edition of Clement Sector!  Adventure awaits you!

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Bundle of Holding - Free Trader Beowulf (History of Traveller RPG)

I own a physical copy of Free Trader Beowulf, and it has been a pleasure to peruse. At 7.95 for Free Trader Beowulf in PDF, it is a bargain!

Traveller! For a limited time, Mongoose Publishing is offering This is Free Trader Beowulf, Shannon Appelcline's comprehensive "system history" of the Traveller tabletop science-fiction roleplaying game, for a special promotional price.

From the author of Designers & Dragons, which told the story of the entire roleplaying industry, comes the intimate, detailed history of a single roleplaying game. This is Free Trader Beowulf tracks Traveller from its inspirations in the early '70s to its initial publication and across seven distinct editions of its original 2d6 gaming system. It tells the stories of Traveller's major publishers, its many licensees, its Long Night, and how it rose again like a phoenix. Now you can get a non-watermarked, DRM-free .PDF ebook of the complete full-color 298-page This is Free Trader Beowulf (retail value $30) for just US$7.95!

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Free Traveller - Traveller Starter Pack

As far as I can tell, the Traveller Starter Pack is only available on the Mongoose Publishing website. Similar to the Traveller: Merchant's Edition ($1.00 in PDF at DTRPG), it contains much of the same information except for class-related information.

Note, if you only want Traveller: Explorer Edition, it is available for $1.00 at DTRPG. The Starter Pack includes Explorer Edition AND two adventures for free. The adventures are free at DTRPG.

Note: The Explorer Edition includes rules for Scouts and Scientists.

This package of free PDFs is an introduction to the game for newcomers that provides all of the tools you need to kick off a campaign that will take you across the stars. Adventure and wonder await in classic tales of science fiction.

This free bundle includes...

Traveller Explorer's Edition: All core rules for Traveller are in this book, plus a universe creation system that allows Referees to create new star systems on the fly for their Travellers to visit and explore…

Death Station: An orbiting laboratory ship has gone silent, and the Travellers are hired by a local company to find out what has happened. However, they will soon discover that they are not alone...

Stranded: A remastering of a classic Traveller adventure, the Travellers find themselves marooned on a glacier with nothing more than the contents of their survival kits. They must master the wilderness and find civilization without the technological tools they are used to.

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Traveller: Merchant's Edition ($1.00)

There is a lot to be said about offering free or hugely discounted rules to encourage players to try new rulesets (although there is also an argument that giving rules away for FREE makes some folks think they are worthless)

The Traveller: Merchant's Edition isn't free, but it is only a single buck. Not bad for a major RPG ruleset from one of the larger publishers.

Traveller is the science fiction roleplaying game of the far future. The Traveller Merchant’s Edition is an introduction to the game for newcomers that provides all of the tools you need to create adventures or even an entire campaign. Create bold exploratory traders and merchant princes who travel into the unknown aboard their trusty Type-A2 Far Trader, a rugged merchant ship perfect for frontier space.

Dock your ship at advanced starports, visit strange worlds, encounter alien beings and animals, and make a fortune as you cross the galaxy.

The universe awaits. Welcome to Traveller!

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Bundle of Holding - Faster Than Light – Nomad Bundle

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I'm still trying to find the "perfect" sci-fi ruleset that isn't too complicated. Until now, White Star has filled that niche for me, but everything I've read about Faster Than Light – Nomad has made me think it could have competition. Based on the SRD of the Traveller rules, this 2D6 system has been well received by reviewers at  DTRPG.

You can get the entire Faster Than Light – Nomad bundle for 12.95 (the core rules alone are 19.99 at DTRPG).

Adventurer! This FTL Nomad Bundle presents Faster Than Light: Nomad, the high-adventure science fiction tabletop roleplaying game from Stellagama Publishing. An evolution and expansion of Stellagama's Quantum Starfarer, Nomad's streamlined and approachable old-school rules support any kind of future space setting from cyberpunk to space marine firefights, free-trader interstellar travelling to mecha melodrama, and the galactic escapades of far-future star heroes.

Nomad roleplaying gameFor just US$12.95 you get all five titles in our Nomad Collection (retail value $56) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Faster Than Light: Nomad corebook, plus the free Quickstart; three supplements – Mecha, Spacecraft Go!, and Synthoids; and Adventure 1: The Customs Job.

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Free RPG - Classic Traveller Facsimile Edition

I was searching around DTRPG when I stumbled across the Classic Traveller Facsimile Edition, priced for Free (and only 9 bucks in Print). Everyone should have a PDF of Classic Traveller, especially at this pricing! ;)

This is the original text of the 1981 edition of Classic Traveller based on page image Scans.

It includes Books 1-2-3, with errata and corrections inserted (where possible; and additional material in an errata appendix). This text is essentially an errata corrected edition faithful to the original Classic Traveller of the early 1980's.

The PDF has been OCR'ed. Margins are upgraded to 6x9 (from 5-1/2 x 8-1/2) for better margins.

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Bundle of Holding - Mongoose 2300AD 2E

I played some of the original Traveller 2300AD RPG back in the early 90s from Game Designers Workshop, and it was a fun game and an interesting setting. I'll admit I haven't thought much of it since then. So many games, and so many choices.

Bundle of Holding is currently offering a Mongoose 2300AD 2e  Bundle. The Starter Collection is 14.95 and includes the Traveller Core Rules 2022, 2300AD Mongoose 2E, and 2300AD Tools for Frontier Living. For approximately 30 bucks, you add 2300AD Project Bayern, Ships of the Frontier, Vehicles of the Frontier, and Aerospace Engineers' Handbook.

Traveller! This Mongoose 2300AD 2E Bundle presents the 2021 Mongoose Publishing Second Edition of 2300AD, the tabletop science fiction roleplaying game about humanity discovering the stars. Three hundred years from now, humanity is claiming worlds far from Earth. Despite nearly destroying itself in the Twilight War, despite all the wars since, humanity has held on and kept its dream alive. Campaigns in 2300AD are about interstellar exploration – war on the far frontier – new colonies on hostile worlds – discovering and understanding alien species – even espionage in the gritty megacities of the Core worlds. Using the Mongoose Traveller 2E core rules, expect a grittier experience – less Space Viking, more Aliens.

This new offer presents the entire 2300AD 2E line, plus the current Traveller Core Rulebook, for an unbeatable bargain price. For just US$14.95 you get all five Mongoose Publishing titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $122) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Mongoose Traveller 2E Core Rulebook Update 2022 and the Mongoose 2300AD 2E core rules set (2021), the equipment catalog Tools for Frontier Living, and the 2300AD 2E Referee's Screen.

Second EditionAnd if you pay more than the threshold price of $29.66, you'll level up and also get our entire Bonus Collection with four more titles worth an additional $135.50, including the massive Project Bayern campaign set, Ships of the Frontier, Vehicles of the Frontier, and the Aerospace Engineers' Handbook.

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Bundle of Holding - Traveller4

Traveller! We've resurrected our September 2019 Traveller4 Bundle featuring the 1996 Fourth Edition of the star-spanning tabletop roleplaying game Traveller. Originally published in 1996-97 by Imperium Games, Marc Miller's Traveller is set in "Milieu 0," the earliest years of the Third Imperium interstellar empire. This revived T4 offer once again gives you everything you need to venture out from Core Sector in your scout ship (or your battle squadron) to recontact the Pocket Empires lost in the Long Night.

For just US$14.95 you get all six titles in this revived offer's Starter Collection (retail value $70) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete T4 Marc Miller's Traveller core rulebook (plus the Traveller4 Game Screen); the T4 equipment book Central Supply Catalog; the T4 versions of the ship-design system T4 Fire, Fusion, & Steel and the Naval Architect's Manual for ship interiors; and Milieu 0, a setting guide that describes the brave new Third Imperium, a thousand years before Classic Traveller.

And if you pay more than the threshold price of $26.05, you'll level up and also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with seven more titles worth an additional $70, including the weapons guide Emperor's Arsenal; the Pocket Empires guide that lets you own and operate your own star system; the fleet action guide Imperial Squadrons; Psionic Institutes; the two-part adventure Long Way Home and Gateway; and the nine-scenario collection Anomalies.

These PDFs are decent image scans of the original 1990s hardcopies. Text is always clear and usually copiable, though a few books have background graphics that interfered with the OCR (optical character recognition).

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Bundle of Holding - The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society

The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society is an amazing resource for Traveller fans. Each volume runs around 128 pages and the current bundle at Bundle of Holding offers you the first 12 volumes of The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society from Mongoose for 24.95.

Traveller! This all-new Mongoose JTAS Bundle presents the first 12 volumes of the Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society, the guides for the Traveller tabletop science fiction roleplaying game from Mongoose Publishing. JTAS features articles covering all aspect of the Third Imperium and the Charted Space universe. From strange creatures on distant worlds and playable alien species, to new spacecraft, detailed worlds, patrons and full adventures, the Journal can boost your Mongoose Traveller campaign like a Jump-4 drive.

For just US$24.95 you get all twelve complete volumes of the Mongoose Publishing Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society in our JTAS Collection (retail value $180) as DRM-free ebooks. Here are links to the DriveThruRPG product pages that list highlights of each volume: Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society Volume 1, JTAS V02, V03, V04, V05, V06, V07, V08, V09, V10, V11, and V12.

 

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Free RPG - Classic Traveller (Facsimile Edition)

Yep, it looks like I'm diving neck-deep into DTRPG's Free Games Section. Not sure when I'll get a chance to come up for breath ;)

Today's Free RPG is none other than Classic Traveller, Facsimile Edition. Yep, the very game you could die in character generation, yours for the amazingly cheap price of FREE! :)

This is the original text of the 1981 edition of Classic Traveller based on page image Scans.

It includes Books 1-2-3, with errata and corrections inserted (where possible; and additional material in an errata appendix). This text is essentially an errata corrected edition faithful to the original Classic Traveller of the early 1980's.

The PDF has been OCR'ed. Margins are upgraded to 6x9 (from 5-1/2 x 8-1/2) for better margins.

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Bundle of Holding - Mongoose Traveller 2e

I had a blast with the original Traveller rules back in the day when dying during character generation was a thing. Now, with Mongoose Traveller 2e, it's not a thing, but the soul of the game has been refined and improved. Not sure I could convince my current group to play a Traveller campaign, but it would surely be fun. 

For just US$17.95 you get all three titles in our Player Collection (retail value $100) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Mongoose Traveller 2E Starter Set, with the rules and the Fall of Tinath campaign; the versatile Traveller Companion rules expansion; and the newly released Central Supply Catalogue Update 2023.

 

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Bundle of Holding - Hostile (Cepheus Engine/Traveller Horror RPG)

If you are going to push a horror RPG, September is the month to do it as we ramp up to celebrating Halloween at the end of October. Humble Bundle has Trail of Cthulhu and Bundle of Holding already has a bundle or two up for Delta Green. So, we have 1930-era horror and modern-day espionage horror, but where is the sci-fi horror? Well, Bundle of Holding has it with Hostile, a stand-alone sci-fi horror RPG built on the Cepheus Engine (itself built off the Mongoose Traveller SRD).

You can get the Starter Bundle of Hostile for 9.95, or for a hair over 20 bucks, you can get it all in the Bonus Collection. 

Adventurer! Name notwithstanding, this Hostile Bundle, resurrected from April 2022, is a friendly offer of the tabletop science-fiction roleplaying game of deep-space alien horror, HOSTILE from Zozer Games. Based on the Cepheus Engine rules (closely modeled on Classic Traveller), HOSTILE is a gritty retro-future setting inspired by movies like Outland, Blade Runner, and Alien – a universe of harsh planets and toxic atmospheres – claustrophobic space freighters and brutal industrial colonies – ancient horrors entombed on icy moons – killer ETs, perfectly evolved to survive at any cost. Whether you're a combat-weary veteran or a miner on a grungy corporate star tug deep in the Extraction Zones, HOSTILE pits you against deadly hazards in an unforgiving void where no one can hear you scream.

This revived April 2022 offer gives you a new chance to get much of the HOSTILE line for an unbeatable bargain price – an obviously generous and well-meaning gesture. For just US$9.95 you get all five titles in this revived offer's Starter Collection (retail value $48) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete standalone HOSTILE Rules and Setting core books, the Gunlocker weapons guide (it'll come in handy, trust us), the Cepheus Handouts, and the Referee's Screen.

And if you pay more than the threshold price of $20.04, you'll level up and also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with eight supplements worth an additional $56 that let you build out your pitiless universe:

• Three guides to survival on bad worlds that don't want you: Explorers, Dirtside, and Colony Builder
• Two bestiaries about entities that really, really do want you: Alien Breeds and Synthetics
• Two hardware and vehicle guides: Gunboats & Shuttles and Marine Corps Handbook 2215
• A campaign framework well described by its title: Crew Expendable

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Humble Bundle - Traveller by Mongoose Publishing

I enjoyed the original Traveller rules - the only rules I knew of at the time where your could die during character generation. I remember rolling Traveller characters during breaks between classes in High School.

Today we have the latest Mongoose Traveller Rules. For as little as a buck, you can snag the Traveller Explorer Rules and an adventure. For 18 bucks, you get that, the full Traveller RPG Rules (updated in 2022), adventures, setting material, soundtrack, and fiction. A total of 16 different pieces of digital Traveller material for you to enjoy.

Set out on a journey into the unknown in Traveller, the science fiction role-playing game of the far future! This starfarers’ bundle features over a dozen digital rulebooks, sourcebooks, and character & campaign resources for the latest edition of the iconic tabletop RPG. Plunder the galaxy in the Pirates of Drinax campaign and Drinaxian Companion, expanding the setting with new possibilities for adventure. Gear up with weapons and equipment using the Central Supply Catalogue and Field Catalogue. Get everything you need to craft and play your own sci-fi saga, and help support Cancer Research UK with your purchase!

 

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Kickstarter - Scoundrels of Brixton (Traveller/Cepheus Engine)

A sci-fi setting of crime and conflict compatible with Cepheus Engine.

First, let me get the disclaimer out of the way. Jeff Jones, the main man behind Scoundrels of Brixton, did the layout for Torchlight Zero and Torchlight #1, as well as the forthcoming Continual Light digest-sized edition. To say I know Jeff may be a bit of an understatement. Jeff also publishes some of the most professional Zine in our corner of the universe, to the extent that our very own Bad Mike says it may be a disservice to refer to them as "zines".

Earlier tonight, Mike & I had Jeff and Adam Kovac on Talking Crit Live!, to discuss Scoundrels of Brixton and other projects, as well as going off-topic in many different directions. Give it a watch, you won't be disappointed.

Scoundrels of Brixton is funding on Kickstarter for another week. You can snag it in Print plus PDF for 15 bucks (plus shipping), or as little as 3 bucks in PDF. There is even a POD version available to help those who live outside the States.

Are you a referee looking for a gritty science-fiction setting? Do your players crave mayhem? Scoundrels of Brixton injects player characters into a seedy civilization in the far future. A role-playing environment where there's no shortage of action and moral dilemma. A setting tailored for space-going heroes driven to fight injustice, or interstellar villains seeking to launch a criminal empire.

Contents Include:

• 20 Dynamic NPCs to immerse the party.
• 5 Factions/Gangs to complicate the characters' lives.
• 8 Major Corporations exerting influence in the Brixton system.
• 6 Distinct Districts to experience in Sky City.
• 8 Diverse Settlements on the planet Deluvia.
• 7 Explorable Planets to support a variety of genres. 
• 5 Star Systems that set the political backdrop.
• All wrapped within a concise but detailed setting that's loaded with crime and conflict.

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Bundle of Holding - FASA Traveller

Back in the Way Back, in the early days of roleplaying games, Traveller was the first Scifi RPG of any note, and FASA was one of the early licensees.

My collection of FASA Traveller releases is very incomplete, and a current Bundle of Holding has FASA Traveler for the taking in PDF, starting at 9.95.

Traveller! This all-new FASA Traveller Bundle presents .PDF ebooks of the early 1980s Classic Traveller supplements published by FASA Corporation. Later known for BattleTech and Shadowrun, FASA started as a Traveller licensee, publishing starship deck plans and adventures, many by the prolific designer J. Andrew Keith and his brother William. Still admired today, these modules represent old-school Traveller design at its best. Now you can get .PDFs of almost the entire FASA Traveller line for an unbeatable bargain price.

(These adventures and deck plans require one or another version of the Classic Traveller rules, such as our Little Black Books Starter Pack in the Bundle of Holding Store.)

For just US$9.95 you get all eight complete titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $66) as DRM-free ebooks, including 15mm-scale deck plans for the luxury spaceliner King Richard, along with its accompanying module Action Aboard: Adventures on the King Richard; five Classic Traveller adventures – The Harrensa Project, Ordeal By Eshaar, Rescue On Galatea, The Stazhlekh Report, and Uragyad'n of the Seven Pillars; and the large map set for a towering Starport Hotel Complex.

Traveller deck plan for the Aslan Hero starship Engineering DeckAnd if you pay more than the threshold price of $22.57, you'll level up and also get our entire Bonus Collection with twelve more titles worth an additional $104, including the much-admired Sky Raiders module trilogy by J. Andrew Keith and William H. Keith; the FCI Consumer Guide equipment book; four sets of starship deck plans – Leander, Fenris and Valkyrie, Tethys, and Vlezhdatl; and four collections of ship plans in FASA's Adventure Class Ships series.

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Deal of the Day - Cepheus Deluxe Enhanced Edition (OGL Traveller)

Are you fond of the Traveller RPG? Warm memories of dying during character generation 40+ years ago? Interested in seeing what the core rules can become when given to the gaming community under an SRD and an OGL? Cepheus Deluxe Enhanced Edition is what you are looking for.

Normally 9.99 in PDF, until tomorrow morning @ 11 AM Eastern, Cepheus Deluxe Enhanced Edition is on sale in PDF for 4 bucks.

Starships riding fire across the sky. Heroes and villains exchanging laser fire. Desperate spacers struggling against an alien monstrosity. Vast planetary vistas, flying cities, moonscapes, mad robots, and first encounters. In short: high-action science-fiction adventure that stimulates your sense of wonder. Cepheus Deluxe: Enhanced Edition puts you in the shoes of an adventurer visiting distant stars and encountering the unknown. Whether you are a seasoned player looking for a rules-light game, or a new gamer wanting to experience what science-fiction role-playing games are all about, Cepheus Deluxe: Enhanced Edition opens your way forward.

Cepheus Deluxe is a set of rules for playing classic science fiction games. It includes rules on creating characters, resolving actions, fighting other creatures, and engaging in space battles, generating worlds, handling the risks of interstellar speculative trading, exploring new worlds, and many other activities. While designed for fast, action-packed play rather than an accurate simulation of reality, Cepheus Deluxe: Enhanced Edition encompasses a wide variety of rules and materials for building a science-fiction universe and playing in it.

Cepheus Deluxe: Enhanced Edition draws its inspiration from old-school science-fiction roleplaying games. It shares many similarities with these games. Material from older rules sets and those created with Cepheus Deluxe: Enhanced Edition, the old Cepheus Light, the Cepheus Engine Core, and old-school sci-fi roleplaying games, are easily compatible with only a moderate amount of adjustment.

The future awaits!

What's new in the Enhanced Edition compared to the original Cepheus Deluxe?

• New and better layout.
• Full color book.
• Rules clarifications.
• Correction of all Cepheus Deluxe errata.
• Many more, high-quality, full color illustrations.
• Deck plans for all thirteen included star ships!
• And more!

 

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Deal of the Day - Rider (A Cepheus Engine "Old West" RPG)

The American "Old West" as many of us know it, is, in many ways, our equivalent of European Fantasy. It builds upon history as it was, and morphs it into a history that "may have been". Larger than life. Legends.

I've yet to find an RPG that I felt had a manageable game system along with a setting that felt rooted in the fiction, mostly TV and "Spaghetti Westerns". I'm hoping the Cepheus Engine, which is built off the Mongoose Traveller OGL, will fit the bill with Rider.

Until tomorrow morning, Rider is marked down in PDF from 19.99 to 6 bucks. Clocking in at 356 pages, I have high hopes :)

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Bundle of Holding - Mongoose Traveller Explorations

The original Traveller was my first "hard science" RPG. I started with the Traveller Starter Boxed Set, which was really the 3 LBBs repackaged into a single book. I ran a handful of adventures but spent many an hour turning character generation into a game of its own.

Mongoose Traveller Explorations is currently up at Bundle of Holding. It uses the rules for Mongoose Traveller 2e (currently updated in 2022) and is as current as you can get.

For just US$12.95 you get all four titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $97) as DRM-free ebooks, including Mongoose's complete Traveller Core Rulebook (in its current 2022 Update version) and the sector sourcebooks Behind the Claw (covering Deneb and that much-Travelled playground, the Spinward Marches) and Sword Worlds. 

And if you pay more than the threshold price of $35.02, you'll level up and also get our entire Bonus Collection with eight more sourcebooks and adventures worth an additional $147, including Aliens of Charted Space Volume 1 and V2; the Sword Worlds campaign Skandersvik; two Spinward subsector sourcebooks, The Bowman Arm and The Lunion Shield Worlds; two Marches Adventures, 1: High and Dry and 2: Mission to Mithril; and Deneb Adventure 1: The Lost Duke.

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