Start your journey through Mongoose Traveller RPG with this 11-part guide to character creation, combat, space travel, trade, exploration, espionage, science, technical skills, and long-term campaign play.
Mongoose Traveller RPG: The Ultimate Guide
Welcome to this complete article series on getting more out of Mongoose Traveller RPG.
Traveller is a science-fiction roleplaying game about characters with histories, careers, debts, ambitions, starships, dangerous jobs, and difficult choices. This guide collects the core topics new players and referees often need first: how characters are built, how skills work, how travel and trade shape campaigns, and how to turn the rules into memorable adventures.
If you are new to Traveller, use this page as a Start Here guide. Read the articles in order for a guided introduction, or jump directly to the topic you need for your next character, session, or campaign.
Get the Companion Guide
If you want a deeper companion to this series, check out Beyond the Horizon: The Ultimate Guide to Playing Mongoose Traveller. It expands on these ideas with additional insights, tips, and strategies for players and referees who want to get more from their Traveller sessions.
The 11-Part Mongoose Traveller Guide
Use the article list below as a guided path through the game. You can read it in order, or jump directly to the topic you need.
- Mongoose Traveller Character Creation: Rolling Characteristics - Learn how Traveller uses the classic 2D6 system to generate your character's core characteristics and what those numbers mean in play.
- Mongoose Traveller Character Creation: Background Skills - Choose the right starting skills and give your character a useful foundation before their career begins.
- Mongoose Traveller Character Creation: Careers - Explore Traveller careers and learn how career events, survival, advancement, mishaps, and benefits shape your character's life story.
- Mongoose Traveller Character Creation: Mustering-Out Benefits - See how mustering-out benefits can give your character money, gear, allies, rivals, ships, or even the seed of a future business.
- Mongoose Traveller RPG Character Development: Fleshing Out Your Character - Turn career results into a memorable person with motives, personality traits, backstory hooks, and useful connections.
- Mastering the Art of Combat: A Guide to Traveller RPG Fighting Skills - Understand Traveller combat skills, weapon choices, tactics, and the kinds of decisions that keep characters alive.
- Navigating Space: An Introduction to Safe Journeys in Traveller RPG - Learn the basics of space travel, navigation, hazards, fuel, resources, and the risks that make interstellar journeys interesting.
- Building a Business Empire: A Guide to Trade and Commerce in Mongoose Traveller RPG - Explore trade, commerce, ship ownership, employees, speculative cargo, and the campaign opportunities that grow from business play.
- The Fine Art of Exploration: A Guide to Survival and Investigation Skills in Traveller RPG - Prepare for expeditions, dangerous worlds, survival challenges, resource gathering, mysteries, and discoveries beyond charted space.
- Stealth and Deception: A Guide to Espionage and Stealth Skills in Traveller RPG - Use stealth, deception, surveillance, manipulation, and intelligence-gathering to create tense missions and intrigue-heavy adventures.
- The Science of Adventure: An Introduction to Science and Technical Skills in Traveller RPG - Discover how science, engineering, medicine, electronics, and technical expertise create problem-solving opportunities in Traveller.
Keep Building Your Traveller Toolkit
If this Mongoose Traveller RPG guide helped you understand the game, the next step is turning that knowledge into smoother sessions at the table.
Beyond the Horizon: The Ultimate Guide to Playing Mongoose Traveller expands on the ideas in this article series with practical guidance for players and referees who want a stronger grasp of character creation, campaigns, space travel, trade, exploration, and long-term play.
New to Traveller? You may also want to download the free Introduction to Traveller PDF for a quick beginner-friendly overview.
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