Traveller Referee's Screen Review

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TML message #6794From bundle 544

Contents:Ref. Screen, Booklet of Handy Charts, two green cardstock
sheets, adventure booklet.

Detail of Contents:
Ref. Screen Charts:
The Ref. Can see:
Terrain Effects on Movement
Travel Movement
Combat Movement Rates
Personal Hit Location
Shotgun and Flechette Characteristics
Automatic Fire Range Attenuation and Recoil Penalties
NPC Stats
Psionic Base Difficulty Levels
Stages fo Psionic Sucess
Telempathy Stage of Sucess Reductions
Task Difficulty Levels
Indirect Fire Deviation
Submunitions Attack Table
Fragmentation Attack Table
Target Movement Difficulty Modifiers
Spotting Task Short Ranges
Spotting Modifiers
Target and Spotting Size Table
Sample Burst Diagrams
Burn Damage Table
Armor Equivalency Table
Vehicle Hit Location
Water Vessel Damage
Vehicle Damage Resolution
Vehicle Damage
Aircraft Damage

The Player Can See:
Unarmed Melee
Armed Melee
Thrown Weapon
Direct Fire Combat
Indirect Fire Combat
Task Difficulty Levels
Fatigue Effects on Fire

A section of whimsical advertising
Some Artwork.

The Green Sheets Contain:
Skill List by Controlling Attribute
Career Entry Requirements
Skills by Skill Cluster

The Adventure Outline is interesting.

The Booklet of Handy Charts Contains:
Some Rule Mods to make TNE compatible with FF&S:
Fatigue Effects on Fire
Indirect Fire Deviation
Submunitions Attack Table
Shotgun and Flechette Characteristics
Spotting Tasks

How to get the TNE Upgrade booklet in FF&S (next post)

Some minor Erratta for TNE 2nd Printing!

Planetary Travel
Animal Encounters (Several Charts)
Space Travel (Several Pages, including travel times)
Starship Encounters
Trade (Several pages)
Psionics
More Planetary Combat

Analysis:
Overall, worth $8, if you haven't made your own already.