Traveller Double Adventure 4: Marooned/Marooned Alone
science fiction role-playing game supplement
Traveller Double Adventure 4: Marooned/Marooned Alone is two tabletop role-playing game adventures, written by Loren K. Wiseman for Traveller, and published in tête-bêche format by Game Designers' Workshop in 1981.
Plot summary
Marooned/Marooned Alone is an adventure in which the player characterss must travel by foot through the wilderness on the planet Pagliacci in the Solomani Rim, dealing with its harsh weather and treacherous landscapes while being pursued.
Reception
William A. Barton reviewed Marooned/Marooned Alone in The Space Gamer No. 46. Barton commented that "if your players haven't tired of planetary journeys after Across the Bright Face/Mission on Mithril and Twilight's Peak, they'll find a welcome challenge in Marooned/Marooned Alone."
Bob McWilliams reviewed Marooned/Marooned Alone for White Dwarf #28, giving it an overall rating of 10 out of 10 for the novice (and 9 for the expert), and stated that "this movement system is a rules addition that has long been required, and should have been in the basic rules set.
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