Science-fiction adventure among the stars, with characters generated through career lifepaths, trade, and exploration, using 2d6 rolls.
From 33 firsthand play reports in 5 r/rpg threads. The threads alone average 7.7.
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411 r/rpg posts named it, October 2023 to October 2026.
Medium. Hype 3.2 for its age.
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Players mostly describe Traveller as a skill-based 2d6 game, usually Mongoose 2e, with a lifepath character creation. Reports run from a two-person duet to long campaigns of hundreds of hours. Combat is lethal, and the lifepath is the part tables split on most.
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Players and referees of both Classic and Mongoose Traveller report enjoying it. Mongoose is seen as smoother and quicker to pick up, and older adventures run almost unchanged. Complaints are mild: modern books are bulkier and pricier, the pace can slow, and combat and chargen differ in feel from Classic. 12 firsthand · 38 comments
People who have played Traveller, mostly Mongoose 2e, like it a lot: it's a skill-based 2d6 game with a lifepath character creation that players enjoy, and the core book is enough to run it. A few veterans find it big or dense now, and most reports are short endorsements without detailed session accounts. Much of the thread is about other games (Stars Without Number, Cities Without Number, FTL: Nomad, Cortex), which were ignored. 8 firsthand · 43 comments
People who actually ran Traveller (mostly Mongoose 2e, plus Classic conversions and The New Era) report a flexible, lethal, toolbox-style sci-fi game that handles heists, mystery, horror and exploration well. The main friction is at the table: lifepath character creation, a large skill list and sprawling lore can overwhelm players, and groups that want fantasy or big HP pools bounce off it. Much of the thread is advocacy and debate about why the game is niche, which I ignored. 8 firsthand · 361 comments
The OP ran Mongoose Traveller 2e as a duet and says that, apart from fiddly combat bookkeeping, it was amazing and finally worked for both of them. Other firsthand voices confirm that combat is deadly, especially with automatic weapons, and that the skill-based lifepath approach is a draw. Part of the thread is about Pendragon, which is ignored. 3 firsthand · 18 comments
The thread is mostly opinion and design debate about adding point buy to Traveller and Call of Cthulhu, with very little actual play reported. The one clear Traveller account is positive: a lifepath campaign where an odd skill choice paid off, while the original poster's own random-generation sessions left their group unhappy. 2 firsthand · 51 comments