Rating: [ 5.62 / 10.00 ]

Game Info

Title  GURPS Traveller Planetary Survey 1: Kamsii
Authors  Steve Jackson, Loren K. Wiseman
Book Type  Background: Setting
Rank: [ 524 / 3183 ]
Genre  Science Fiction
Setting  Charted Space
Series 
Edition Info  Steve Jackson Games (2001)
Stock: 6801
ISBN: 1-55634-495-3
System  GURPS 3

Game Summary

GURPS Traveller: Planetary Survey 1 — Kamsii the Pleasure Planet is the first of a series of worldbooks that each detail a single planet in the GURPS Traveller universe. Kamsii is a theme park on a planetary scale which is centrally located in the Core Sector. The book provides four different looks of the corporation running the planet, from mild and benevolent, to cutthroat and corporate, run down and seedy, or downright sinister.


This game is also contained in GURPS Traveller: 25th Anniversary Set.

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Notes on This Edition
First edition. Comic book-sized saddle stitched paperback, with a full color cover by Eric Ren, 32 pages. MSRP originally USD$8.95, reduced to USD$4.95 in 2005 by the publisher.

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# Title System Publisher Released Stock Status
1 GURPS Traveller Planetary Survey 1: KamsiiGURPS 3Steve Jackson Games 2001 6801 ---

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4 + 4U Dog. Planet as Theme Park. Worth the $9 bucks. Just.

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4 / 10Sleeper

Reasonable overview of a theme park planet. But it's definitely an overview, with few concrete details. The locations are just generally described (this continent has some Authenticist villages on this side, there's some kind of Droyne colony elsewhere...), there's only a world map, and there are no named NPCs.

But the real problem is what do you do with Kamsii? It's too controlled to make an interesting adventure location, there's no natural conflicts or factions, and there's no need for a booklet if the PCs just stop for a vacation. The various suggestions for getting the PCs involved are weak, and don't really take advantage of the unique features of the planet. (Corporate espionage or hunting creatures for a zoo can happen anywhere.)

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Overall Series Listing

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# Title Rating Rank
1 Droyne Coyn Set 5 8771
2 GURPS Traveller 6.45 523
3 GURPS Traveller: 25th Anniversary Set 6.25 827
4
GURPS Traveller: Alien Races:
GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 1 6.45 528
GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 2 6.19 927
GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 3 5.89 1679
GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 4 5.34 4310
5 GURPS Traveller: Behind the Claw 6.1 1073
6 GURPS Traveller: Far Trader 6.13 1030
7 GURPS Traveller: First In 6.62 372
8 GURPS Traveller: GM's Screen 5.09 7144
9 GURPS Traveller: Ground Forces 5.68 2386
10
GURPS Traveller: Heroes:
GURPS Traveller Heroes 1: Bounty Hunters 5.41 3777
11 GURPS Traveller: Humaniti 5.37 4033
12
GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars:
GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars 6.94 191
GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars Combat Counters 5 10482
GURPS Interstellar Wars: Sector Map 5 8892
13 GURPS Traveller: Modular Cutter 5.85 1798
14 GURPS Traveller: Nobles 5.39 3936
15
GURPS Traveller: Planetary Surveys:
GURPS Traveller Planetary Survey 1: Kamsii 5.62 2723
GURPS Traveller Planetary Survey 2: Denuli 5.95 1433
GURPS Traveller Planetary Survey 3: Granicus 5.35 4269
GURPS Traveller Planetary Survey 4: Glisten 5.86 1753
GURPS Traveller Planetary Survey 5: Tobibak 5.36 4215
GURPS Traveller Planetary Survey 6: Darkmoon 5.4 3863
16 GURPS Traveller: Psionics Institutes 5 10300
17 GURPS Traveller: Rim of Fire 5.91 1623
18 GURPS Traveller: Star Mercs 5.88 1714
19 GURPS Traveller: Starports 5.98 1331
20 GURPS Traveller: Starships 5.84 1828
21 GURPS Traveller: Sword Worlds 6.42 563
22 GURPS Traveller: The Best of JTAS, Volume 1 5.11 6488