Chart a course across Charted Space and prepare your jump drives. Fanatical has teamed up with Mongoose Publishing to launch an enormous digital library celebrating the legendary Game Designers’ Workshop (GDW) eras of the Traveller roleplaying game. Spanning four distinct historical rulesets and settings, this star-spanning digital catalogue packs rulebooks, starship design guides, alien dossiers, and classic sector folios into a flexible four-tier bundle.
Whether you want to witness the fall of the Third Imperium during the catastrophic Rebellion, salvage shattered starports in the grim darkness of the New Era, or explore the frontier at the dawn of civilisation in Milieu 0, this archive preserves decades of sci-fi history. Best of all, every PDF is DRM-free and redeems directly to your DriveThruRPG library.
Tier 1: Core MegaTraveller Starter – £0.90
Start your exploration of the Shattered Imperium for less than a pound. This entry tier delivers 4 products with a total retail value of £32.00:
- MegaTraveller Players’ Manual
- MegaTraveller Referee’s Manual
- Imperial Encyclopaedia
- Rebellion Sourcebook
Tier 2: MegaTraveller & The New Era – £8.85
Expand your frontier operations with essential equipment guides, fleet rosters, and the transition into the post-apocalyptic New Era. Unlocking this tier adds 20 products (total 24 products) worth £184.50:
- Referee’s Companion
- COACC: Close Orbit and Airspace Control Command
- Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium
- Knightfall
- Hard Times
- Assignment: Vigilante
- Astrogators’ Guide to the Diaspora Sector
- Arrival Vengeance
- MegaTraveller Journal 3
- MegaTraveller Journal 4
- Robots
- When Empires Fall
- Survival Margin
- Traveller: The New Era Core Rulebook
- Traveller Referee’s Screen
- Traveller Players’ Forms
- Vampire Fleets: The Virus Sourcebook
- Fire, Fusion and Steel
- Smash & Grab
- Starships 1: Small Merchant Ships
Tier 3: TNE, 1248 & Marc Miller’s Traveller (T4) – £17.75
Take command of deep-space combat, run regional dominions, and explore the earliest days of the Third Imperium. This collection adds 43 products (total 67 products) worth £598.50:
- The Regency Sourcebook
- World Tamer’s Handbook
- Starships 2: Scout Ships
- Aliens of the Rim
- Star Vikings
- Brilliant Lances
- Reformation Coalition Equipment Guide
- Path of Tears
- Early Fallen
- Battle Rider
- The Guilded Lilly
- The Guilded Lilly 2: Belly of the Beast
- The Guilded Lilly 3: Into the Darkness
- Operation Dominoes 1: Moonshadow
- Operation Dominoes 2: The Minds of Idsur
- Operation Dominoes 3: The Isdur Gambit
- Operation Dominoes 4: The Iskyar Metamorphosis
- Regency Combat Vehicle Guide
- Striker 2 Traveller Miniatures Rules
- 1248 Sourcebook 1: Out of the Darkness
- 1248 Sourcebook 2: Bearers of the Flame
- 1248 Sourcebook 3: The Spinward States
- 1248 Sourcebook 4: The Freedom League
- Fire, Fusion and Steel Revised
- Marc Miller’s Traveller Main Rulebook
- T4 Game Screen
- Milieu 0 Campaign
- Pocket Empires
- Aliens Volume 1
- Aliens Archive
- Psionic Institutes
- Starships
- Missions of State
- Anomalies
- Adventure 1: Long Way Home
- Adventure 2: Gateway!
- Adventure 3: Annililik Run
- Naval Architect’s Manual
- Emperor’s Arsenal
- Emperor’s Vehicles
- First Survey
- Imperial Squadrons
- Central Supply Catalog
Tier 4: The Complete GDW & Classic Collection – £29.25
The definitive tabletop space opera archive. Purchasing the top tier secures all previous tiers plus the entire 61-book Traveller Classic RPG Collection, delivering 128 products carrying an immense total value of £943.50:
- Traveller Classic RPG Collection (61 books featuring the original Little Black Books, classic alien modules, and foundational adventures)
- All 67 rulebooks, sourcebooks, and expansions from Tiers 1 through 3
Into the far future: Mechanics, lore, and vibe
Traveller stands as one of tabletop gaming’s most celebrated sci-fi institutions. It eschews magic and chosen heroes in favour of ordinary scouts, weary merchants, and ex-navy officers navigating a gritty, low-fantasy cosmos where communications travel only as fast as starships can jump. System mechanics across these eras rely on intuitive 2D6 task resolution, demanding tactical problem-solving and smart survival instincts over raw firepower. The lifepath character generation system remains legendary: characters gain skills and muster-out benefits through tours of service before play even starts, grounding your crew in a lived-in galaxy.
What makes this specific Fanatical collection so compelling is its timeline coverage. MegaTraveller modernised the classic ruleset and threw the galaxy into an all-out civil war following the assassination of Emperor Strephon. Traveller: The New Era shifted the tone into post-apocalyptic sci-fi after rogue AI “Virus” obliterated galactic civilisation, leaving Reformation Coalition survivors and “Star Vikings” to rebuild amidst quarantine zones. Meanwhile, Marc Miller’s Traveller (T4) dials the timeline back to the foundation of the Third Imperium in Milieu 0, offering sandbox realm-building tools through Pocket Empires.
Hard science aficionados will also appreciate the inclusion of both original and revised editions of Fire, Fusion and Steel. Widely revered as one of the most comprehensive gear-and-vehicle construction frameworks in tabletop history, it offers granular calculations for everything from fusion reactors and spinal mounts to jump corridors. Combined with tactical miniatures rules in Striker 2 and sprawling starship combat in Brilliant Lances, this bundle provides endless fuel for referees running long-term space opera campaigns.
The campaign is live now and runs until midnight Pacific time on Thursday, 12 November. All titles are delivered as DRM-free PDF files, fulfilled via DriveThruRPG keys that remain redeemable through September 2027.
Quick Links
- Fanatical: Traveller Ultimate
