In trying to explain Traveller to the OSR discord I spent way too much time on this chart.
Short answer: support indie creators there’s awesome stuff in the Cepheus space. And this is the tip of the iceberg.
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When Mongoose released the Traveller SRD, it was designed to encourage supplements but not games, so it wasn’t a complete game.
So eventually the Cepheus Engine SRD was created to be a complete game skeleton so games could be created from it. It’s functional on its own, but barebones.
So a lot of the Cepheus games (particularly if they have Cepheus in the name) are Traveller clones. But some are very different but built out of the same engine.
Sword of Cepheus for example, is what if you wanted to use Traveller rules to play a fantasy RPG.
Another way to look at it: Cepheus is to Traveller as the DIY OSR scene is to D&D. It’s where the indie creators who like Traveller are playing around making new stuff.
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