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Spica Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the PDF edition of Career Book 2! This eagerly-awaited follow-up to the highly successful Career Book 1 brings even more careers, options, and pre-generated characters into your Traveller Universe! Career Book 2 is fully compatible with the Traveller RPG and available for download from DriveThruRpg.com NOW for only $11.40 USD!
Inside Career Book 2 you'll find:
52 pages of content with evocative, high quality character art;
Two alternative methods for generating Background Skills;
An alternative Injury Table;
University and Graduate School pre-career options
Two new skills: Manipulation and Psychohistory, and an expanded Trade skill
14 new careers for use in your Traveller game or campaign:
- ATHLETE: Striving for accolades, athletes compete in games spanning subsectors. It's the winning that matters!
- CHANCER: Lying, cheating, stealing, and deceit: the tools of the trade of the Chancer, who can only win as long as someone else loses.
- COMPANION: Whether you're down-trodden and poor, or high-class and rich, everyone pays a price in the oldest profession.
- COSMONAUT: Making a living in space can be hard work, with cargo pods to be moved, repairs to be made and people to be rescued!
- ENFORCER: Thug, bully boy, heavy: names mean nothing to you. Getting a result for your boss means everything!
- INSURGENT: Working within the government, you work in the background, helping those who seek to overthrow the government.
- MEDIA PRACTITIONER: Lights! Camera! Action! Whether it's a soap opera, a documentary or a quiz show, you're the one who makes it shine!
- MYSTIC WARRIOR: You're searching for the truth both within and without, and enjoying a fight along the way!
- POLITICIAN: Greed, money, power, and votes: when you're a politician, you need plenty of these!
- PORT AUTHORITY: You make sure the right cargo gets to the right ship, the ships get off the pad and that the taxes on the cargos have been paid!
- PRISONER: Whether you're a common criminal, a political agitator or a prisoner of war: behind bars, everyone has one thought - to get out!
- PUPPETEER: These alien experimenters are happy to wait to see the outcome of their experiments on other societies.
- SECRET POLICE: The Secret Police know what everyone is doing, what everyone is saying and where everyone is going!
- SLAVE: Your life is in the hands of your master or mistress, their every wish a command, and every command an order!
Also included are 57 pre-generated characters! Three are from each of the new careers, plus 14 multi-career characters (generated using both the Traveller Main Book and Career Book 2) - all pre-generated and ready for when you need characters in a hurry!
Requires the use of the Traveller Core Rulebook, available from Mongoose Publishing.
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Spica Publishing is pleased to announce the PDF release of Ship Book 1 - Nemesis Class Pursuit Ship, fully compatible with the Traveller RPG and available for download from DriveThruRpg.com at a reduced cost of only $7.15!
The first ship book released by Spica Publishing, NEMESIS CLASS PURSUIT SHIP details a 100 ton starship designed for use with Traveller.
Pursuit ships are small, fast vessels with one simple mission - to find their prey, chase it down and bring it to justice - although that
'justice' may be meted out by a wide variety of employers from interstellar police to criminal masterminds. NEMESIS includes everything needed
to use the ship in your Traveller game:
Full Traveller starship statistics
A detailed deckplan of the entire ship
Complete descriptions of the ship’s interior
Detailed statistics and backgrounds of three very different and unique NEMESIS crews
Three new vehicles that can be used with the Nemesis or as everyday vehicles
Scenario hooks to use as jumping-off points for your Traveller adventures
The NEMESIS an excellent Adventure Class starship, ideal for Agents, Bounty Hunters, Space Patrol officers and Enforcer player characters. With a NEMESIS at your command you become significantly more dangerous to your enemies!
With a NEMESIS on your tail, you'd better start running, and fast!
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Spica Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the PDF edition of Career Book 1, fully compatible with the Traveller RPG and available for download from DriveThruRpg.com for the bargain price of only $4.36!
Career Book 1 from Spica Publishing has been enhanced! Improvements include:
40 pages of content with evocative, high quality character art;
A clearer internal layout;
Expanded Mishap and Events tables for the Psion career from the Traveller Core Rulebook;
Explanations of some of the unique mustering out benefits available only to Career Book 1 characters;
12 additional pre-generated characters, bringing the total to 40!
Career Book 1 includes eight new careers for use in your Traveller game or campaign!
- ADVENTURER: Having crossed sectors in your search, you finally locate the ancient device inscribed with alien writing. Travel, excitement, danger, ancient artefacts. This is why your patron pays you such good money!
- BOUNTY HUNTER: Any one. Any where. Any time. Dead or alive. For the right price.
- CLERGY: Bringing the message to the faithless, you carry out your work amongst both rich and the poor, saving souls and helping others to see the light.
- COLONIST: Chancing it all on a barren rock out in the middle of nowhere, if you find it, it's got your name on the claim.
- CORPORATE CITIZEN: A hustler, a mover, a shaker, you make the big money decisions that keep the financial markets running like clockwork.
- MILITANT RELIGIOUS: When your god calls you to arms to convert the faithless, no task is too big and no goal too high. Your efforts will be rewarded in the afterlife!
- SPACE PATROL: The Space Patrol deals with everything from docking bay infractions and dangerous orbital maneuvers to smugglers and pirates. Make sure you have your Pilot license with you!
- WORKER: The common man, Joe Plumber, no less, doing the essential jobs that no-one else wants to do.
Pre-Generated Characters: Now with 40 pre-generated characters, three from each of the eight new careers, plus 12 multi-career characters (generated using both the Traveller Main Book and Career Book 1) - all pre-generated and ready for when you need characters in a hurry!
Inside you’ll also find expanded Mishap and Events tables for eight of the core careers in the Traveller Main Book, including the Psion career in this enhanced edition, along with two alternative Life and Unusual Events tables for use during character generation. |
Free Subsector Hex Grid Maps!
We also offer free-to-download subsector hex grids (numbered appropriately for each subsector). Click on the links below to download them.
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