What are your must read books?

A cool thing about traveler is that it has nearly 50 years of crunch, adventures, and fluff. And these are all mostly cross compatible, with a little work.

What are your favorites from each era?

I’ll go: TNE: i mostly dislike this setting (too much crunch) but I really treasure _Aliens of the Rim, Volume I: Hivers and Ithklur_.

You can tell that the writers went whole hog and really treasured the space to write about truly alien aliens, and their annoying (to them) guard dogs. I’d love to see a high quality adventure in the Hiver/K’Kree/Solimani/3i intersection, but the deep dive into Hiver culture and lore helps make my own stuff work.

From Mg2e: the Dilettantes book. What’s better than a useless, rich character who can start a campaign having gotten the Duke’s wife pregnant? Or a playboy rockstar? Or a self funded archaeologist? Or all three rolled into one?

For reference, the eras are (yes, chunking similar products together):

CT

MT

TNE

T4

GURPS Traveller

T20

Traveller Hero

T5

Mongoose Traveller

What are your must reads?