| Book 6: Scouts | |
| Publisher: | Game Designers' Workshop |
| Date: | 1983 |
| System: | Classic Traveller |
| Genre: | Science-fiction |
| Designer: | Marc Miller |
Traveller Book 6: Scouts[1] is a tabletop role-playing game supplement, written by Marc Miller for Traveller, and published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1983.
Scouts is a supplement which presents additional systems for character generation related to the Scout Service, and also includes an expanded system for world generation. The Scout Service is a fictional intersteller exploration organization.
An updated edition[2] titled Book 3 Scout, written by Lawrence Whitaker, was published by Mongoose Publishing in 2009.
Tony Watson reviewed Scouts in Ares Magazine #17 and commented that "Scouts adds much to Scout characters and especially to the generation of star systems and worlds. These latter rules and great detail to star systems, and a correspondingly greater cost in time and effort to create subsectors. Its value then, depends on how anxious the referee is to include the new information in his campaign."[3] Andy Slack reviewed Scouts for White Dwarf #53, giving the supplement 7/10 overall and stated that it was "Not as clear as earlier Traveller materials. If you want to generate or GM detailed Traveller star-systems, and have a lot of time to spare, this is the item for you. If you simply want expanded scout characters, then egotism aside Star Patrol is similar and cheaper."[4]
Stephen Nutt reviewed Scouts, Book 6 for Imagine magazine, and stated that "It is hard to say that GDW have done more than half succeed with this one."[5]
Classic Traveller Books