It's simply impossible to please all of the people even some of the time. A fan can choose at anytime what to use in his or her own games. The level of detail or lack of detail in any specific interpretation of the OTU, in an ATU or IMTU, is entirely subjective and highly open to interpretation.However, part of the mission of the Traveller RPG Wiki is to explore and fill in as many of the holes in the swiss cheese as possible, trying to navigate the impossible line in-between under-definition and over-definition, acknowledging that: The Traveller setting is swiss cheese, it has more holes than cheese. A large part of the fun is in actually in playing the game and searching out the mysteries and inconsistencies! It makes for great adventure! Thus, the setting is constantly being re-invented and reinterpreted. And it's near impossible to find an answer because there are nearly 40 years and 2,000 publications to consult, more than any fan can reasonably research with only a dozen or so books to reference. Ask a question and in most cases, there is no definitive answer, not even a subjective one. Fans tend to be even more conflicted.īut that setting is swiss cheese, it has more holes than cheese:

And the publications are chocked full of conflicts and contradictions. Just be aware that some other fans will almost invariably and very passionately disagree with you. It's ok to try and make sense of the generalities of the OTU. Traveller is a specific setting, the OTU, with a very generalized yet firm set of canon, with definite boundaries and conventions including specific game mechanics and formulas for determining specific game results although many of the mechanics conflict and contradict each other. The first generation of Traveller fans is aging and probably averages somewhere near or over 50yo in age. Traveller has a near fanatically nonconformist group of very passionate and all-too-often cranky grognard fans. It's loose and free because too much codification leads to simulationist gatekeeping. It can be used to simulate almost anything. Traveller is a generic, universal RPG system. Please see the following AAB Library Data files for related information:

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