I've been a fan (and sometime player and author) of GDW's Traveller SF RPG since just after it came out in 1977. I think I started playing in 1978, after a group of schoolfriends who had already introduced me to D&D (and were writing the Beholder fanzine) brought it along, and I was hooked. I've now got 3 shelves of Traveller stuff, plus 5 or 6 of the boxed games, have written professional and fan content for it, and a range of software apps related to it.

My big current Traveller software projects are Travellogue, Port2Jump and Traveller 3D Map, and I also have some smaller Javascript Apps that I've done from time to time. There's also a Consolidated List of 2D6 Tools.

I'm also working up a concept I'm calling Distant Stars Arising which is about a “quick play” 2D6 SF/Cepheus/Traveller system that uses a VERY condensed rule set (currently 32 pages) and cards to help with most aspects of navigation and plot (not just, or even really, weapon/kit/NPC cards).

I also aim to use this wiki to support any extended Traveller campaigns I run or get involved with.

I was the HIWG Sector Analyst for Analyst back in the 90s, and I've just finished pulling together everything that me and my colleagues wrote on Gushemege into a 200 page Sector Handbook which will hopefully see the light of day shortly.

I've posted a full'ish Collected Works page up - but keep uncovering the odd piece I've forgotten.

I'm fascinated by “The Game”, the big 3 century geo-political in-house game that GDW created to move the Twilight 2000 timeline on to 2300AD. I'm slowly working up my own equivalent which has only a 100 year time horizon, called Centennial.

I'm interested in how Traveller can take advantage of emerging virtual worlds. I did quite a bit with Traveller in Second Life, and have my eye on No Man's Sky and Dual Universe. I've also been working up a ChatGPT Virtual GM for Traveller, and which can actually do many of the things I've created smaller code applications for - so I might start releasing some or all of that at some point.

Most of my Traveller play is solo now (and I've got some ideas about that), but who knows I might be persuadable to join a physical game if someone's in Birmingham, UK.

My author's page on the Traveller Wiki site is at http://wiki.travellerrpg.com/David_Burden

Some old notes on Getting Back into Traveller

Links to third party Traveller Web Sites and Blogs