Traveller Referee Screen
Science-fiction role-playing game supplement
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Traveller Referee Screen is a 1979 role-playing game supplement for Traveller published by Judges Guild, a company which published resources for various roleplaying games.
Contents
Traveller Referee Screen is a gamemaster's screen which contains the important tables from Traveller Books 1-4 involving combat, encounters, use of psionic abilities and maneuvers for starships.[1]
Referee Screen is a GM's screen with charts and tables from Traveller plus weapons data from Book 4, Mercenary.[2]
Publication history
Shannon Appelcline explains that the first licenses Judges Guild acquired with a company other than TSR was for the Traveller role-playing game from GDW, and so "Following their original methodology of publishing gaming aids, Judges Guild rapidly put out a referee screen (1978), a character creation aid (1979), and a book of deck plans (1979)".[3]: 198
Referee Screen was published by Judges Guild in 1979 as four cardstock pieces.[2]
Reception
Bob McWilliams reviewed Traveller Referee Screen for White Dwarf #15, giving it an overall rating of 7 out of 10, and stated that "this is a useful though not essential purchase."[4]
William A. Barton reviewed Traveller Referee Screen in The Space Gamer No. 36.[1] Barton commented that "the Traveller Referee Screen will make for smoother play in even the wildest campaign."[1]