A nice, practical addition to the game for starship designers. I feel that T5 is best at the starship design game, and I am looking forward to more!

They may be interested in supporting more Traveller gearhead needs: I hope they'll look into it!

Probably one of the best military simulation games out there, although may be challenging for new players used to other d20 systems and the rulebook is desperately in need of some organisation as the layout can be confusing.

The following may help you interest and introduce new players:

• 20 Answers to Quick Rules Questions for Twilight: 2000

• 20 Answers to Player Questions for a Twilight: 2000 Polish Campaign

T5 compatible deck plans are awesome. a very useful accessory to the Traveller 5 Universe.

Essential reading and reference for any Traveller RPG fan, irresepctive of version. Could be expanded but this is undoubetdly an excellent start. The literature of scifi is at this point so large selections of types of scifi are needed for a readable work. Reviews of Traveller novels and other fiction seem fair and honest even while symapthetic. Highly recommended.

Was in Germany when this came out , Was a big hit with many in my unit .

Note this review refers to version 5.09 last updated 7th June 2015 bought 2nd September 2018.

Traveller 5, oh how I wanted to love you.

Background, 1978 - Traveller was the first RPG I bought and I bought a most, if not all of the LBBs over the next few years. We drifted apart as I moved on to FGU's "Space Opera" and I never kept up with all of the subsequent versions.

Fast forward to around a year ago, I have a Sci-Fi loving, Fantasy hating son who's approaching "RPG age" so I decide to introduce him to RPGs via Traveller. I still have my LBBs but digging around on the internet I find out about all of these new versions. My interest is piqued in T5, but ultimately I go for Mongoose 2 because of a special offer on DTRPG but the Traveller 5 itch is still there, so, a few months on, I've taken the plunge.

First impression - Where's the Cover? Why did you not include the iconic Black and Red cover? When I double clicked on the pdf - that's what I was expecting - and not getting that thrill was a major disappointment. Not a good start.

Anyway, to give you an idea of the issues I've encountered so far, scroll through to the Contents page and have a read. Combat, page 210, so you type 210 into Adobe Acrobat and you are propelled over 30 pages into the Combat section. So, the Contents haven't been updated, but the page numbers have, and what's worse, the conversion factor isn't a constant - the further you go into the book, the more innaccurate the contents page is. I think the main reason for the discrepancy is moving the various early sections like Dice, Ehex, ranges and Distance to appendices - which seems to be a good idea. But, because it's not constant that's not the whole story, I feel - although as this is the only copy of T5 I have ever seen I can't be sure - as if section splash pages have also been deleted because the actual start of Combat is pretty abrupt with an unheaded page containing a description of the Combat round, followed next page by the heading "Personal Combat" So, in summary, the contents section is useless, and I have a strong suspicion some pages are missing.

But there is now an index the ommission of which caused much rage upon the release, let's look up "Combat" - Accurate but useless for anything significant. Let me explain; "Combat" has ten lines of page numbers with a mixture of individual pages and page ranges, clearly machine generated but not human-edited so the actual Combat section, the bit you're probably looking for, starts on line three of the combat entry and reads thus: 176-180, 182, 184-188, 191, 200... etc. What about pages 181 & 183? They're about Armor and don't happen to have the word "Combat" on the page, so they're not part of the index entry for "Combat" - logical for a computer. So, to actually find the Combat section you either have to "know" that you subtract 34 from the Contents page entry (210), or you have to "know" by looking at the ten lines of page numbers in the index which are the relevant ones. Good luck with that.

Oh, and whoever generated the PDF either didn't bother or didn't know how to generate bookmarks so you can't navigate that way.

So, in summary, you have a 759 page book with a reputation (according to reviews I've read) for having the content scattered a little haphazardly and there is no way to navigate the pdf... and FFE haven't updated since June 2015 - over three years ago. So, a potentially wonderful reference for Traveller referees regardless of their preferred flavour has been crippled by bad execution. Please guys, regenerate the table of contents and add hyperlinks to the contents page entries, add the Chapters as bookmarks at an absolute minimum, Re-add any missing pages and the iconic cover (which is the thumbnail used to actually sell the thing on DTRPG), and finally, if at all possible, send some brave soul through the index to actually do it properly - for obscure terms, it's great (e.g. "Waterskins" has a single, correct (but unlinked), page reference), for less obscure things, like Combat, it's useless.

With all of the poor editing, poor navigation, and missing cover/pages the general impression is of the sort of thing handed out free to Beta testers; not the full price ninth revision of a book published over five years ago. There is no excuse for this lack of polish at this price. Mongoose do far more polished products, heck, even veritable minnows like Gypsy Knight games display infinitely better commitment to the ongoing support of their products. As I write this, R. Talsorian games seem to be updating all of their Cyberpunk stuff from the early '90s (adding bookmarks) as I'm getting regular e-mails saying that new versions of the books I've bought are available.

Finally, an offer. Send me a copy as a "Word" file and I'll do as much tweaking as I have time for as a labour of love and thank-you for those LBBs back when I was a teenager. Contact me if you want to take me up on it.

I played this game when it first came out. I lost my copy during a move, but was glad to see GDW offer it on Bundle of Holding right now as a way to get it and numerous other titles at a great price. Would love to see an updated version, but until then, I will homebrew some things to mesh with how I think an updated version would look.

A very interesting read for Traveller fanatics (of which I am one). It's a great complement to Jeffro Johnson's "Appendix N" (which reviews the books that inspired D&D) and helps folks understand the roots of this hobby. A bargain for $2.

Welcome to a T5 Starship Book, it's immensely detailed down to which fresher each crew member uses, remember to wash your hands! Simple layout format with oodles of charts, diagrams, workout sheets and deckplans. It's good but clearly for the dedicated Traveller fan. The ship included is a nice design and a classic of this game and 3 configs are drawn out in detail. I prefer the designers own books on ships but that's a personal preference. The good thing is the Gazelle is an interesting ship and not a stock PC vessel for many peoples games. Nice to see that expansion.

One thing I didn't like was the lack of PDF bookmarks which would have navigation a lot easier. In a world where the PDF for many GMs are now the default this seems an odd omission. Worth it if you love Traveller, especially the mess that T5 is.

This is a labour of love. If you are a fan of Traveller and particularly Traveller5, this product comprehensively outlines a classic Traveller ship design. It includes complete references to versions of the design that have come before. This goes beyond a set of ship statistics updated for the Traveller5 ruleset. It contains several excellent initiatives in colourful charts and diagrams to show the ship's capabilities and how it works with fleet operations. Several versions of the crew are included so that a captain knows exactly how to crew the ship based on the capabilities desired. And, of course, deckplans are provided.

A basic guide to the USA (NOT Canada) after the Thanksgiving Day nuclear strikes. This supplement corrects some previously published details in the order of battle of the various surviving T2000 military units, gives a basic overview of the resulting political situation between competing groups such as Civ Gov, MilGov and New America and repeats the information on the location of the nuclear targets from the basic T2000 handbook (with the cop-out that "not all minor targets are listed"). The political info is interesting and useful and easily adapted to any particular campaign, be it T2000, Merc Dark Conspiracy or wharever. The weakness is that the history has been adapted to fit the all later add-ons and adventures for T2000 - for example the guide refers, without explanation, to the "kidnapping" of the Leader of New America, which leads to the collapse of that particular major group, except, since I don't seem to have that particular add-on, rather buggers up the presented time-line. Not a major flaw, just irritating. Worth getting, all the same, whatever version of the game you are playing, wherever set, for answering those irritating questions players ask about the old home town or how Chelsea Clinton came to be president of the United States.

Awesome research and material! Top notch stuff here for the game!

Excellent work. Really captures the tone of the old GDW releases. Love the cover art by Stephanie McAlea. The history runs 1996-2000, and has that just-the-facts-ma'am recounting of the global trainwreck that spread to the Korean Peninsula. Would love to have a print edition.

Loved the new Sourcebook - expanded the glimpses that were seen of the 2nd Korean War in various sourcebooks over the years to provide a cohesive and comprehensive look at an area that was previously overlooked in the Twilight 2000 official canon including new vehicles and weapons and the first official description of the North and South Korean military forces as well as adding Australian and New Zealand units to the canon. Cant wait to see more by Alf. Three new official releases in one year - looks like Twilight 2000 is definitely back to life from the dead games file.

Certainly an improvement from the unedited and flatly impenetrable version originally published from the kickstarter. The index is welcome, while the additional 50 pages or so are mainly used to provide clarification, a slightly tidier layout and a more logical organisation of the book. There is no linkable contents menu, however, which is also pretty vital for a pdf and the cover on my copy was missing still.

Certain rules clarifications that are now included make the accusation of it being ‘unplayable’ an overstatement, but it is still most likely to be an overwhelmingly complex book for casual gamers or those with any sort of aversion to maths. That said, I’m not sure that was ever the market for this game. For existing Traveller fans, there is a lot of material that will undoubtedly be useful for their games.

EDIT: Further to my original comments after reading through more fully (and it does take some reading!), there are some genuine gems within this book. I can see the logic - finally - of using a variable dice pool, roll-under system as opposed to the fixed 2D6 system used in Classic and Mongoose Traveller. Firstly, it meshes more tightly with the Characteristic scores used and secondly, it’s simply more open ended in terms of operating on a universal scale. The probability charts at the end of the book give a clear indication of your chances and, fully developed it looks pretty smooth.

Character generation is more involved than before with the role of education fully integrated and with differing paths for each career. You can also create a genetic legacy, while options for sophonts, clones and robots are fully detailed. The various ‘Maker’ sections have fuller explanations, along with starship and world designs. There are some interesting scientific asides as well as advice for running games throughout the text.

This is not a game for novices, and there are still lots of issues about editing throughout. But for Traveller fans, there is something of worth and investment at the core.