In May 2025 we resurrected two May 2021 offers featuring the 2020 Second Edition Traveller SFRPG line from Mongoose Publishing: the Mongoose Traveller 2E Bundle, which had the complete 2E Starter Set and essential 2E supplements; and Traveller Pirates of Drinax, featuring Gareth Hanrahan’s epic sandbox campaign of spacefaring across the Trojan Reach sector.
1. MONGOOSE TRAVELLER 2E [from May 2021]
This revived May 2021 Mongoose Traveller 2E Bundle once again had everything you need to play any science fiction RPG campaign, from desperate battles across the stars against evil empires, through free traders operating on both sides of the law, to mercenary companies desperate to find their next ticket. Traveller lets you explore the universe the way it suits you.
(Where books with the same title exist for both First and Second Edition, this offer presented the 2E version.)
There were three titles in this revived offer’s Player Collection (retail value $100) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the complete Mongoose Traveller 2E Starter Set, with the rules and the Fall of Tinath campaign; the versatile Traveller Companion rules expansion; and the Central Supply Catalogue Update 2023.
Those who paid more than this revival’s threshold (average) price also got this offer’s entire Referee Collection with ten more supplements worth an additional $114, including the essential ship-design supplement High Guard Update 2022, the High Guard Deployment Shuttle, the Vehicle Handbook, six short Referee’s Briefings, and the Referee’s Screen.
2. TRAVELLER PIRATES OF DRINAX [May 2021]
Spinward of the Imperial capital, the Trojan Reach is a border sector of 460 stars with a total population of about 600 billion in nine sophont groups. A gaggle of small independent states, with just a few worlds each, separates the Third Imperium from the Aslan Hierate. The Tlaiowaha Subsector, now dominated by the Aslan, was once ruled by the Kingdom of Drinax, named for its throneworld (Trojan Reach 2223). A recent disastrous war with the Hierate shattered the Kingdom and left Drinax blasted and lifeless.
In The Pirates of Drinax King Oleb XVI of Drinax entrusts the Travellers with a letter of marque, permitting them to prey on ‘illegal’ trade within his vanished kingdom. The King hopes this privateering will give him leverage to restore Drinax to glory and win back all the planets lost over the last two centuries.
But the King’s plans are just the starting point for The Pirates of Drinax campaign. Once the Travellers have their letter of marque and ship, their path is up to them. Will they stay loyal to their patron and help restore Drinax? Will they turn rogue and create their own kingdom? Will they be heroes or monsters, pirates or privateers? At all points the choice is up to the Travellers. All paths are open.
This May 2021 Pirates of Drinax offer once again presented one of the best-regarded titles in the five-decade history of Traveller, a massive ten-part spacefaring campaign across the Trojan Reach by Gareth Hanrahan (Eyes of the Stone Thief, The Dracula Dossier, The Darkening of Mirkwood). This revived offer’s Drinax Starter Collection (retail value $57), included the complete three-volume, 595-page The Pirates of Drinax and the first three Reach Adventures set in the Trojan Reach: 1: Marooned on Marduk, 2: Theories of Everything, and 3: Calixcuel Incident.
This offer’s Drinax Bonus Collection added five more titles worth an additional $90, including the helpful Drinaxian Companion, the Shadows of Sindal campaign expansion, and three more Reach Adventures: 4: Last Flight of the Amuar, 5: The Borderland Run, and 6: Exodus.
(Note: All the titles in this Pirates of Drinax offer require the Mongoose Traveller rules.)
These two revivals marked the high point of Traveller Week, our 2025 sequence of six Bundle of Holding revivals showcasing the many eras of Traveller. This week-long event centered on Traveller Day, celebrated each year on May 1 in recognition of the cover copy on the 1977 First Edition of Traveller: “This is Free Trader Beowulf, calling anyone… Mayday, Mayday…” We launched this sequence with a new special deal on Shannon Appelcline’s comprehensive 298-page history of the Traveller game system, This is Free Trader Beowulf. We followed up with the Classic Traveller Imperium Tour, Gamelords Traveller, and FASA Traveller. The last stop in our 2025 travels, Traveller5, visited the game’s latest incarnation.
