Starting a Traveller game online

[wynteriii]

I need helps and hints if you guys have any. The group will luckily be with local guys that can't make it to a game and/or moving away soon. I only have one rule book and we need to make characters. I thought about letting them borrow the book but that would take awhile. What else can I do?

 

[Hopeless]

So the Traveller core rules is about $23 on drive thru rpg, classic traveller is cheaper or you could go the way I did and buy separate copies of the pocket traveller book and if you're lucky to order if from a store thats linked to bits and mortar you can have the pdf sent to another of your players.

I initially used the internet to organise the players in my game to design their characters but one of them i had to lend my copy which is why i first bought a spare.

How frequently do they post online?

 

[CosmicGamer]

Book Zero: Introduction to Traveller is available on Drive ThruRPG for $2.97 and has "a few of the careers available in the Core Rule Book". Don't know which.

 

[CosmicGamer]

Spica Publishing Career Book 1 is $3.99 and has the Bounty Hunter, Clergy, Colonist, Corporate, Citizen, Militant Religious, Space Patrol, and Worker careers.

It also has

Inside you’ll also find expanded Mishap and Events tables for the careers in the Traveller Main Book, along with two alternative Life and Unusual Events tables for use during character generation.

which gives you Spicas modified version for some of the chargen from the core book.

Spicas book 2 and 3 are $10.

Also, you can check out the website: http://www.travellersrd.com/content/official/mongoose_traveller_srd/mongoose_traveller_srd_index.html for consolidated traveller open content srd (Thanks Gregory Wolfe) and has the scout career from the core book.

 

[JRoss]

I really recommend the Spica books, too.