Behind the Claw: The Spinward Marches Sourcebook

GURPS Traveller

by Martin J. Dougherty, Neil Frier

-- A detailed background setting for the hot GURPS Travellers series.

-- More than 400 individual star system descriptions, plus alien races

Genres: Role Playing Games, Science Fiction, Gaming

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1998

About the author

Hailing from northeast England, Martin J Dougherty is a professional writer specialising in military history. He has been at times a games designer, an engineer, a self-protection instructor, a teacher and a defence analyst. Martin has published a range of books covering topics as diverse as self-protection, medieval warfare and space flight, and has addressed international conferences on anti-shipping missiles and homeland security issues.

Martin's interests include martial arts and fencing. He has coached Fencing, Ju-Jitsu, Self-Defence and Kickboxing for many years at the University of Sunderland, and has competed to national level as a fencer. As a martial artist he holds black belts in Combat Ju-Jitsu, Nihon Tai-Jitsu and Self-Defence. Martin is a Senior Assessor with the Self-Defence Federation and an IL1 instructor/assessor with the Britsh Federation for Historical Swordplay, specialising in the Military Sabre and the Smallsword.

Reviews

[Gerall Kahla · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am not one to bow to canon in a gaming setting for canon's sake. The enjoyment of my players at the table is paramount, and gaming authors should expect me to fold, spindle, and mutilate their creations to accomodate my game.

That having been said, I didn't have to do a lot of that with this book. Sure, dates are slid around from one decade to another (in accomodation of abovementioned gaming fun) but the core of the book described the Spinward Marches well. There were even plot seeds dropped throughout that are still germinating in my head right now...

Altogether, a good, solid Traveller acquisition. I enjoyed reading this one.