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This all-new FASA Traveller Bundle presents the early 1980s Classic Traveller supplements published by FASA Corporation.
Later known for BattleTech and Shadowrun, FASA started in 1980 as a Traveller licensee publishing starship deck plans by young founders Jordan Weisman and Ross Babcock. Weisman soon recruited the prolific designer J. Andrew Keith and his brother William. The Keiths wrote many adventures still well regarded 40+ years later. In a 2021 blog post, "My Top 10 Classic Traveller Adventures," Old School Revival blogger James Maliszewski gave top honors to the Keiths' Sky Raiders trilogy.
Maliszewski wrote, "The central conceit of these adventures is the mystery of the eponymous Sky Raiders, an ancient civilization of interstellar marauders who ravaged multiple worlds in a remote sector to spinward of the Third Imperium in the ancient past." (This was the tumultuous Far Frontiers sector, the main playground for FASA's Traveller adventures.) "Throughout the three adventures, the characters uncover details about the history of the Sky Raiders, leading them on an Indiana Jones-esque chase across many planets, with rivals also intent on learning these secrets hot on their heels. It's brilliant pulp sci-fi of the most engaging sort and, in my view, represents Traveller at its best."
We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. These are image scans of the original 1980s hardcopies with OCR applied. Text is clean and copiable. The covers of the adventures are muddy and sometimes stained. The deck plans are crystal clear.
(These adventures and deck plans require one or another version of the Classic Traveller rules, such as our Little Black Books Starter Pack in the Bundle of Holding Store.)
Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to this FASA Traveller offer's designated charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.
The total retail value of the titles in this FASA Traveller Bundle is US$170. Customers who pay just US$9.95 get all eight titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $66) as DRM-free ebooks, including deck plans for the luxury spaceliner King Richard (retail price $20) along with its accompanying module Action Aboard: Adventures on the King Richard(retail $6); five FASA Classic Traveller adventures (retail $6 each) – The Harrensa Project, Ordeal By Eshaar, Rescue On Galatea, Stazhlekh Report, and Uragyad'n of the Seven Pillars; and the large map set for a towering Starport Hotel Complex (retail $10).
Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $19.95 to start, alsoget our entire Bonus Collection with twelve more titles worth an additional $104,including the Keith brothers' Sky Raiders adventure trilogy (retail $6 each) – Legend of the Sky Raiders, Trail of the Sky Raiders, and Fate of the Sky Raiders; the FCI Consumer Guideequipment book; four sets of starship deck plans (retail $10 each) – Leander, Fenris and Valkyrie, Tethys, and Vlezhdatl; and four volumes in the Adventure Class Ships series of deck plans (retail $10 each): Adventure Class Ships Vol. 1, ACS-2, ACS-3 - Merchants, and ACS-4 - Aslan Mercenary Ships.
I remember this stuff as being pretty good for its day; while that was a long time ago, I think they've held up as well as similar material from GDW. It's a little annoying that the sector where the adventures are set aren't included in the offer, but I think it may belong to GDW rather than FASA - the maps etc. are in the Traveller wiki anyway. Depending on how much of this material you already own it may be worth a look, especially if you like lots of new ships etc.
