The Essential Canon Traveller D20 Carried the Traveller Role-Playing

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The Essential Canon Traveller D20 carried the Traveller role-playing game system into the D20 system, adapting it to the 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons rules set and its iconic 20-sided dice. The rules for the d20 System are defined in the System Reference Document or SRD which may be copied freely. Designed for fantasy-genre games in (usually) a pseudo-medieval setting, the SRD is drawn from the Dungeons & Dragons books. Information from these books excluded from the SRD includes detailed descriptions, flavor-text, and material which Wizards of the Coast considers Product Identity (for example, references to the Greyhawk campaign setting and information on mind flayers). Travellers Characters and Vehicles and Worlds and Gateway To Guidebook Combat Starships Adventures Destiny Sydymic Mahkahraik Revelation Station Referee Screen Linkworlds Cluster Outworlds Cluster TA1-Weaponry TA2-Grand TA3-On The TA4-76 Gunmen TA5-Objects of the Endeavor Ground Mind TA6-Against TA7-Fighting TA8-Through the TA9-Fighting 20-TA0-Yiarn Gravity Ships Waves Ships of the Cardee Vehicle Solomani Catalog EPIC 1-Stoner EPIC 2-Into The EPIC 3-Chimera EPIC 4-Merchant EPIC 5-Scout Express Glimmer Drift Cruiser Cruiser EPIC 6-Mercenary EPIC 7-Merc GAE 1-The GAE 2-The Cruiser Heaven Forgotten War Gabriel Enigma GAS 1-Fast GAS 2-SW Patrol GAS 3-Archaic GAS 4-Ships GAS 5-Cutters and Courier Cruiser Small Craft Boats Shuttles GAS 6-Corsair GAS 7-Modular Starship Domain Sophont Species Character Prior History Spinward Marches Ley Sector Glimmerdrift Gateway Crucis Margin Reaches D20 SRD Scout Courier (opens folder Deck Plan to RTF docs) Far Future Enterprises, 1418 N Clinton Blvd, Bloomington, IL 61701 USA. Email: [email protected]..

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