I am looking for the various trade and commerce systems for traveller, mostly for the 6d versions, so I have the mongoose 1st ed, LBB book 2, Merchant prince, Marc Miller’s traveller, Mega traveller, 101 Cargos, so what else am I missing?
And where will I find it?
I also have Gurps, T20, TNE but since these are not for d6 games I am not looking at them to start with.
I suspect that mostly what I am missing is variants from fanzines or magazines, any one want to help?
Traveller
Book 2: Starships (GDW, 1977)
Special Supplement 1: Merchant Prince (GDW, 1982) (in JTAS 12) – became Book 7: Merchant Prince
Book 7: Merchant Prince (GDW, 1985)
Letter of Marque: Rogues in Space (Paul Sanders, 1998) – volume 1 covers commerce raiding and trade wars (cf the Trade War chapter of The Traveller Adventure)
Golden Age Starships 8: Armed Free Trader (Avenger, 2006) includes economics of Free Trader operation
The Traveller Logbook (Judges’ Guild, 1979) has trade and speculation tables
MegaTraveller
Referee’ s Manual (GDW, 1987)
TNE
Traveller: The New Era
Traveller Player’s Forms (GDW, 1993) includes a trade ledger
Marc Miller’s Traveller
Marc Miller’s Traveller (Imperium Games, 1996)
GURPS Traveller
GURPS Traveller (Steve Jackson Games, 1998)
GURPS: Far Trader (Steve Jackson Games, 1999)
Interstellar Wars (Steve Jackson Games, 2006)
T5
Core Rules (FFE, 2013)
Mongoose Traveller 1st Edition
Core Rulebook (Mongoose Publishing, 2008)
Referee’s Aid 8: Traders and Raiders – includes notes on commercial starship operations (legal and illegal), salvage, piracy and raiding
Star Trader (Zozer, 2013) – for solo play
Book 7: Merchant Prince (Mongoose Publishing, 2010)
The Starfarer’s Kit (Hell Creek Sanitarium, 2010) – trade record sheets
Vessel Book 1: Mirador-class (Terra/Sol Games, 2011) includes rules variants for trade within the Twilight Sector setting
Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition
Core Rulebook (Mongoose Publishing, 2016)
Book 2: Spacecraft and Worlds (Mongoose Publishing, 2017) – part of the Starter Set
Jump Station Echo (Gregg Wilson, 2016) – compares various trade features across both Mongoose editions
Cepheus Engine
Cepheus Engine System Reference Document (Samardan Press, 2016)
Clement Sector: The Rules (Gypsy Knights Games, 2016)
Cepheus Light (Stellagama, 2018)
Have not included merchant ships, merchant career generation, trade adventures or maps of trading routes; nor have I listed foreign language material.
The above is pretty exhaustive for monograph material; what follows for periodicals is not as I’ve not finished the work on the fanzines, Freelance Traveller, Stellar Reaches etc. Might at least be worth a search for the word ‘trade’ at Freelance Traveller.
The 11 Billion Dollar Bottle of Wine: the Possibilities of Interstellar Trade
Greg Costikyan. Ares 12, January 1982, pp.[14]-17.
4 pages, large format. Tab., diag.
A scientific look at the economics of interstellar trade focussing on sub-light speeds, costs, standards of living and essentially deciding it will never happen (the travel nor the trade). There is then a specific consideration of whether it might be possible in the Traveller universe with Jump drives.
Adventures in Traveller: Trade and Commerce
J. Andrew Keith. JTAS 20, 1984, pp.20-23 & 36 + cover
5 pages, small format. Illustration
- Notes on integrating trade and commerce with Traveller adventures.
Trade and Commerce
Frank A. Chadwick. JTAS 4, 1980, pp.5-7 & 31
4 pages, small format. Tab., ill.
- Rationale behind trade in Traveller and ‘exchange rate’ rules and tables for trade between worlds with differing tech levels. This article was reprinted in BJTAS, no.1, pp.12-15.
[Interstellar Trade]
[Ryckman, Chuck]. Parasec 2, [no date – 1990?], [pp.1-2].
2 pages, small format.
- editorial discussion about interstellar trade in the Shattered Imperium.
Space Travel, Trade and Commerce in the
Terran Republic
[Harold D. Hale]. TC 13, 1997, pp.38-46
9 pages, large format.
- Five travel permits, six types of passages, and other aspects of space travel.
- Economics of starship operations.
- Currency, exchange rates and the Black Market.
Keeping the Adventure in Merchant Campaigns
Jeff Zeitlin. Freelance Traveller 17, May 2011, pp.14-16.
3 pages, A4, PDF and online.
Rules for better balancing merchant trader and broker skills to avoid ‘easy’ trading.
Economics and Cargo in Traveller
Robert DeVoe. Freelance Traveller 74, March/April 2016, pp.49-51.
3 pages, A4, PDF and online. Tab., bib.
- notes cargoes and trade. Department: Doing it My Way.
Origin-Based Trade for Mongoose Traveller
Jason Barnabas. Freelance Traveller 89, September/October 2018, pp.51-55.
5 pages, A4, PDF and online. Tab.
- Notes on Traveller’s “goods based” trade system compared to Mongoose Traveller’s “origin based” trade followed by a system combining the best of both. Department: Doing it My Way.