I love this book. I love the rules, the ships, the exotic techs, the design process, and the descriptions of the crew roles.

HOWEVER … there are at least 13 illustrations missing. It’s obvious when a caption is present next to a 1/4 blank page.

There is a lot of good material here. HOWEVER, page 6 is unusable due to problems in formatting. Overlapping text, incomplete entries, and missing descriptions. This page is ESSENTIAL for mining in asteroid belts. So, this book in its current form is UNUSABLE for mining.

I have read CT Beltstrike and tried to piece together the missing information, but the two systems are incompatible.

Eventually I purchased “Uranium Fever.” It is well written, clear, and easy to follow. I’ll be using its mining rules.

The rest of “Beltstrike” is okay except for the usual typos. I have found numerous others on-line with the same complaints. Until there is a Mongoose version, or at least an errata, this book cannot be used for mining in Traveller.

I played the original Traveller in the early 1980s. This is a grand improvement in all areas. And great fun!

First) This is a beautifully designed book with brilliantly clear and engaging illustrations. Second) This is one of the best RPG supplements I’ve seen since 1978. For any system. Every page is full of ready-to-use maps and settings. And I am amazed at how many campaign ideas are sparked just by flipping through it. Third) Please offer a way to donate to the author. I tend to use only electronic versions. Since there is no “Pay What You Want” feature, I am tempted to buy a print version.

There seems to be something wrong with the download files. There are no deck plans. There is one sheet of an empty grid and one sheet of key items.

WARNINGS: This book REQUIRES three other products to play it:

• Gurps Basic Set, Compendium I, and Compendium II This is the SECOND EDITION of Old West. not the more current Third Edition.

Now for the good stuff: The artwork is what you expect from a Gurps game. The cover is beautiful, most of the interior illustrations are royalty-free or small sketches. Quite a few drawings are .. charming. They are not great works of art but they were obviously done by someone with a passion for role-playing and contain lots of ideas for characters, npc's, and settings.

The background material is AWESOME! It covers huge areas and many, many cultures along with technologies, battles, biographies, and various waysto gain and spend loot.

The terms and descriptions of Indigenous people are not very polite. They reflect the language and clichés of the movies and TV of the 60s and 70s. This is not unexpected from a supplement written in 1991 but I would hope that vhanges have been made in the third edition. Unfortunately, this is NOT the third edition.

The rules and bckground for Horses is adequate, but I didn't get the feeling that I could create a character, or npc, who was "living the saddle" or working on a ranch or cattle-drive.