A new Traveller expansion, Orbital 2100 from Zozer Games, sets up a cold war between the Earth and Moon using 2d6.
If the tail end of 2025 and into 2026 ends up being the year of Traveller, then I’ll take back some of the things I said about Starfield. Because for whatever reason, sci-fi RPGs seem to be on the rise, and Traveller in particular is starting to serve up heaping spoonfuls on everyone’s plate. The kind that makes you think ‘whoa can I eat all that?’
The latest comes from Zozer Games, makers of Cepheus Universal (another universal sci-fi RPG), who have put out Orbital 2100 (3rd Edition), for Traveller and more. More being Cepheus Universal and any other “classic 2d6 SF games.” There are more than you might think!
Orbital 2100 Third Edition – Earth vs. The Moon, A Tidal Fight
The central conceit of Orbital 2100 is that the Earth and the Moon are locked in a bitter Cold War. You can get involved between the main conflict, or play characters from independent colonies like those on Mars and Mercury, who are swept up in the rising tide of system-wide conflict.
With a variety of adventure options and “campaign types” featured, this is a setting book that will kickstart your next game. Because character creation is “anchored” in the setting, your players can’t help but get involved.
You’ll find tools for running espionage campaigns, featuring spies and special operatives who move and shape the solar conflict. But you’ll also find tools for those adrift on the seafoam of war, aka asteroid miners, explorers, and settlers of older colonies.
“Experience the danger of spaceflight across our own solar system: radiation, solar flares, zero-G muscle wastage, explosive decompression – there are plenty of ways to die out here.
Colonisation and settlement is driven by an intense rivalry. The Earth is locked in a Cold War with the people of Luna. Both face off, 400,000km apart, threatening mutual annihilation whilst they compete to colonise the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Older colonies like Mars and Mercury are independent and caught up in this struggle for solar system supremacy,”
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This book is fairly extensive, with rules for a much harder sci-fi than your typical Traveller fare. Which is saying something. You’ll get plenty of specialized space hardware, as well as write ups of the places we know – the planets and moons of our very own Solar System.
You can check it out now on DriveThruRPG!
Earth vs. the Moon, a classic conflict!
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