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Alignment Chart for Traveller 14 April 2026

I gather the cool kids are getting back into alignment charts these days.

So here's mine.

Rules Purist Rules Neutral Rules Rebel
Setting Purist The Little Black Books are Traveller Mongoose Traveller is Traveller T20 is Traveller
Setting Neutral MegaTraveller is Traveller TNE is Traveller Interstellar Wars is Traveller
Setting Rebel Orbital 2100 is Traveller Mongoose 2300 is Traveller Starfinder is Traveller

The Little Black Books are the original game; Mongoose Traveller uses a similar baseline but quite different actual rules, and T20 is an adaptation of D&D 3rd edition for all those who thought that what Traveller really needed was classes and levels.

MegaTraveller was still very much the same system as the original game, but it broke the setting with the Civil War and the collapse of the Imperium. Traveller: the New Era used a whole new rules engine. And Interstellar Wars is GURPS 4th edition modified for play thousands of years before the founding of the Imperium.

Orbital 2100 is a Cepheus Engine game, an unconnected setting but with rules reliably close to the original books (based I believe on Mongoose's first edition). Mongoose's 2300 has slightly more divergent rules, and Starfinder has no connection to Traveller at all.

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