Traveller Lite?

[Finarvyn]

I'm not sure which edition this would pertain the most to (although I am most interested in CT), but I'm curious as to how far a person could trim down the Traveller rules to
(1) make it still have that Traveller feel
(2) make it still a somewhat complete game.

In other words, I'm sure there are chunks of rules that could be thinned out and what would be left would be a "core Traveller" or "Traveller lite" rules set. Part of why I ask is because I have some players who aren't interested in learning rules so it would be neat to have a really condensed version of rules to start from, then we could slowly add rules elements as needed. I'm just not familiar enough with the Traveller rules to make a good judgement on this.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

 

[rust]

There is a free Traveller Lite for the T20 version, which contains most of
the basic informations the players would need for a start.
There are also free introductions to Megatraveller und Traveller TNE, but
I did never read them, and therefore have no idea about their content or
quality.

 

[robject]

Andy Slack pared CT down to a half-dozen pages once. Then trimmed it to one page.

Here's the four-page player handout:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andyslack/pdf/ctu.pdf

 

[mike wightman]

Here were my thoughts:

http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=10884