# Anyone remember a role playing game called Traveller

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**Created:** [November 19, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-role-playing-game-called-traveller/331756 "2005-11-19T02:34:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-role-playing-game-called-traveller/331756/21 "2005-11-20T00:42:54Z")

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Played Traveller a fair amount in college. Still have the books. I always preferred it to D&D.

And I still want a FGMP-15 for my birthday.

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**Author:** ![constantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@constantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/constantine)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-role-playing-game-called-traveller/331756/22 "2005-11-20T06:04:14Z")

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> [@The Sonoran Lizard King](#):
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> I remember playing Traveller in the early 80s, there was a close combat module called Snapshot that was a lot of fun, too. You could play it as a separate game, just set up a spaceship hijacking or what have you. We were playing a lot of RPGs around that time, as well as Steve Jackson’s Car Wars.
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> Character creation in Traveller was my introduction to Hexidecimal, as character stats used letters for values above 9. Nice geeky touch.

[/Highjack]: Oh man, Car Wars was awesome. I loved Car Wars, along with Melee and, the best Steve Jackson game of all time, Wizard. [/Highjack]

But back to Traveller. Agree with the poster above who said that rolling up characters was really cool. I remember one time I was at home from school sick, and I just spent the entire day creating Traveller characters.

I also thought it was cool that each book had its own name. Can’t remember all of the names, but I remember that the Navy book was called “High Guard”.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-a-role-playing-game-called-traveller/331756/23 "2005-11-20T18:28:48Z")

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Don’t forget the Psionics Institute.

This game had a real “Andre Norton” feel. Could have been a _Solar Queen_ novel.

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