Traveller Referee Screen
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Traveller Referee Screen is a 1979 role-playing game supplement for Traveller published by Judges Guild.
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.
Referee Screen is a GM's screen with charts and tables from Traveller plus weapons data from Book 4, Mercenary.
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)".{{Cite book |last=Appelcline |first=Shannon |title=Designers & Dragons: The '70s |publisher=Evil Hat Productions |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-61317-075-5}}{{rp|198}}
Referee Screen was published by Judges Guild in 1979 as four cardstock pieces.{{Cite book |last=Schick |first=Lawrence |title=Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games |publisher=Prometheus Books |year=1991 |isbn=0-87975-653-5 |pages=338 |author-link=Lawrence Schick}}
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."{{Cite magazine |last=McWilliams |first=Bob |date=October–November 1979 |title=Open Box |magazine=White Dwarf |publisher=Games Workshop |issue=15 |pages=21}}
William A. Barton reviewed Traveller Referee Screen in The Space Gamer No. 36.{{Cite magazine |last=Barton |first=William A. |date=February 1981 |title=Capsule Reviews |magazine=The Space Gamer |publisher=Steve Jackson Games |issue=36 |page=26}} Barton commented that "the Traveller Referee Screen will make for smoother play in even the wildest campaign."