Traveller: Starter Edition (1983)

User Summary:

This streamlined box set of rules is designed to introduce new and younger players to Traveller. The books are full (8.5x11-inch) size rather than the classic Traveller digest format.

The game includes:
--Two Rulebooks ("Rules Booklet" and "Charts and Tables")
--An 8.5x11-inch double adventure: "Mission on Mithril" and "Shadows"
--A double-sided map
--Two dice

How does Starter Traveller differ from the full Traveller rules? The most significant difference (other than book size and organization) is in starship movement and combat. There are no vectors in Starter Traveller. Instead, combat between starships is conducted much like man-to-man combat, using range bands.

Missing from the rules are:

Archaic Firearms
Ship Construction Formats (TAS Form 3: Ship's Papers, TAS Form 4: Ship Paragraph Description)
World Format (TAS Form 7: Subsector Data)
Expanded information on the following encounters: wirebushes, cold snap, tornado, volcano, radiation area, quicksand.
Experience
Drugs
Expanded descriptions of the following equipment: handcuffs, wristwatch, shotgun microphone, chainsaw, disguise kit, wheeled AFV, tracked AFV, dirtmover, small steamship, destroyer.