Supplement 9 - Campaign Guide

This is a book for lazy referees. Or busy referees, tired referees, referees with children, referees with demanding boy/girlfriends, referees with high-powered executives jobs… In short, referees with very little time on their hands to spare in constructing an entirely new campaign from scratch.

This Campaign Guide will give you all the tools to run a complete campaign with little or no preparation. For those referees who do like to construct their own campaigns, the tools within these pages will give you plenty of material to use when your players do something unexpected or otherwise go off piste.

There are two types of campaign presented here; the Automatic Campaign and the Semiautomatic Campaign. Both require you to know the Traveller rules (the better you know the rules, the smoother your campaign will be) and both require at least a little creativity on the part of the referee for best results – unfortunately, we have not yet managed to package instant and spontaneous creativity into paperbound form. Instead, you will find lots of mini-systems that can be bolted into a campaign, each of which has been designed to spark your own creativity but without requiring you to write reams of notes before a campaign begins.