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''GURPS Traveller'' is a set of table-top role-playing game books by Steve Jackson Games, designed to allow game play in Traveller's Third Imperium science-fiction setting using the GURPS rule system. Traveller was originally published in 1977 by Game Designers' Workshop and was inducted into the Origins Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame in 1997. Recently many people have noted the remarkable resemblance between the Traveller universe and the one shown in the TV series Firefly. Mentioning that similarity is probably the quickest way to explain to any new player what the Traveller universe is like. == History == Steve Jackson had been a long-time fan of ''Traveller'', and had previously talked to Digest Group Publications about doing a ''GURPS Traveller'' back in the late 1980s. Following the dissolution of GDW in 1996, Jackson licensed the ''Traveller'' property from Marc Miller,〔 while Miller simultaneously licensed ''Traveller'' to Imperium Games.〔 Jackson brought on Loren Wiseman to produce the new game, which was set in an alternate history of the classic ''Traveller'' timeline (which was at the time licensed to Imperium Games).〔 Following its publication, ''GURPS Traveller'' was extensively supported with numerous background books through 2003, and the ''Journal of the Travellers Aid Society'' was resurrected as a ''Pyramid''-like online magazine in 2000.〔 GURPS Traveller (first published 1998) was "created on a handshake with Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games." This quote is from Marc Miller, the original author of Traveller, and the owner of the Far Future Enterprises company which still publishes the Classic Traveller game system. The game uses the GURPS (Third Edition) system and takes place in an alternate timeline in which no Rebellion occurred and the Virus was never released. Steve Jackson Games has produced over 30 high-quality supplements for the line, including details for all of the major races, many of the minor races, interstellar trade, expanded world generation, the military forces of the Third Imperium, and starships. The game is often referred to as "GT". Loren Wiseman who worked with Game Designers' Workshop in the design and development of Traveller is still the GURPS Traveller line manager and editor of the online magazine Journal of the Travellers Aid Society. In August 2007, Mongoose Publishing announced changes in Traveller license and a strongly supported reintroduction of the Traveller system: Steve Jackson Games licence for GURPS Traveller and the Journal of the Travellers Aid Society runs until the end of 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Steve Jackson Games Daily Illuminator Archive - August 2007 ) Entry for 6 August 2007〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「GURPS Traveller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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