Traveller Spine Codes

[MongooseBella]

It doesn't have a hex code as it is it's own little campaign - as there's only one we didn't give it a code

 

[derBearJew]

I have the World Builder's Handbook with a triangle and the #11 on it. I thought that it was supposed to be #9 with a hex?

 

[Geir]

I have the World Builder's Handbook with a triangle and the #11 on it. I thought that it was supposed to be #9 with a hex?

Worse, Secrets of the Ancients is also a triangle with a #11 on it.

 

[Sigtrygg]

World Builder's Handbook is a Third Imperium book with rules that can be used generically.

Nearly every page has some mention of the Imperium or the IISS (yes I am exagerating).

For it to be a generic rule book it would have required a lot less Third Imperium.

 

[derBearJew]

World Builder's Handbook is a Third Imperium book with rules that can be used generically.

Nearly every page has some mention of the Imperium or the IISS (yes I am exagerating).

For it to be a generic rule book it would have required a lot less Third Imperium.

Symantics aside, the OP listed it as a core rule book number 9. Just wondering why my copy has the same markings as Secrets of the Ancients was all.

 

[Sigtrygg]

It's not semantics It is a Third Imperium Book. It has little use for 2300AD, unless there is an IISS suddenly introduced in 2300AD.
The IISS is mentioned 105 times, the Third Imperium 28 times, scout 123 times, the Imperial navy even gets 4 mentions. No stutterwarp in the technology chapter.

 

[derBearJew]

It's not semantics It is a Third Imperium Book. It has little use for 2300AD, unless there is an IISS suddenly introduced in 2300AD.
The IISS is mentioned 105 times, the Third Imperium 28 times, scout 123 times, the Imperial navy even gets 4 mentions. No stutterwarp in the technology chapter.

Not using it for 2300AD. Never mentioned 2300AD.

 

[Vormaerin]

The point is not what *you* are using it for. The point is that the classification system is Hexagon = Core Triangle = Charted Space.

Core Rulebooks should be independent of Charted Space. Traveller has not been particularly consistent about maintaining that separation over the decades, but it is the ideal.

 

[derBearJew]

The point is not what *you* are using it for. The point is that the classification system is Hexagon = Core Triangle = Charted Space.

Core Rulebooks should be independent of Charted Space. Traveller has not been particularly consistent about maintaining that separation over the decades, but it is the ideal.

Fair enough. I hadn't been fully aware of what the shapes meant. Just that I saw what #9 with a hex was supposed to be and what my copy says.

Thank you for the information.

 

[MongooseBella]

I have the World Builder's Handbook with a triangle and the #11 on it. I thought that it was supposed to be #9 with a hex?

This is an error - it will be fixed in later reprints. I think its from using an old template - our graphic artists are now checking each other's book spines before they get released, our apologies that this one got through