Welcome to the Zhodani Base Awards 2020! 2020 has been a strange year. For Traveller products it was another good year. Lots of new stuff from the small publishers (and Mongoose).

The first category is “Best Cover“. The nominees are:

• The Sword of Cepheus : from Stellagama Publishing
• Colonial Freighter : from Zozer Games
• Star Battles: Space Map Bundle : from Jon Brazer Enterprises
• Cepheus Journal Issue #002 : from Cepheus Journal

The winner of the “Best Cover” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2020 is: Star Battles: Space Map Bundle from Jon Brazer Enterprises.

There were lots of Traveller products with nice covers this year. Lots of love for all nice covers. An image with a starship and hexes was a perfect cover for a product like this.

Next category is “Best Fanzine or Online Magazine“. The nominees are:

• Freelance Traveller
  
• Journal of the Travellers’ Aid Society (Mongoose)
• Xboat
• Cepheus Journal

The winner of the “Best Fanzine/Online Magazine” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2020 is: Freelance Traveller.

Freelance Traveller has once again proved that they are the best fanzine by publishing bimestrial issues with lots of good contents for free.

Freelance Traveller has won this category every year since 2011!

Next category is “Best Adventure“. The nominees are:

• Smuggler’s Doom : from Parts Per Million
• The Zero Gravity Olympics : from Old School Role Playing
• Skandersvik : from Mongoose
• The Mystery of Woden’s Eye : from Jonesing 4 Games

The winner of the “Best Adventure” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2020 is: Skandersvik from Mongoose.

There were lots of fine Traveller Adventures for different settings published. This year, Skandersvik was the most interesting one.

Next category is “Best Ship or Deckplan“. The nominees are:

• Colonial Freighter : from Zozer Games
• Opportunity-class Light Trader : from Independence Games
• Independence Armed Freighter : from Moon Toad Publishing
• Kalevala Class Small Pickets : from Surreal Estate Games

The winner of the “Best Ship or Deckplan” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2020 is: Colonial Freighter from Zozer Games.

There were lots of fine ships for Traveller published this year. Colonial Freighter was the coolest and most inspiring design.

Next category is “Best ATU Product“. The nominees are:

• Modern War : from Zozer Games
• The Sword of Cepheus : from Stellagama Publishing
• Moon : from Felbrigg Herriot
• Godstar : from Zozer Games

The winner of the “Best ATU Product” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2020 is: The Sword of Cepheus from Stellagama Publishing.

This category always make me happy since you can always find so many cool ideas and useful books.

Next category is “Best OTU Product“. The nominees are:

• The Book of Small Craft : from Tim Price, Ian Stead
• Generation X : from Timothy Collinson
• Aliens of Charted Space Vol. 2 : from Mongoose
• Skandersvik : from Mongoose

The winner of the “Best OTU Product” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2020 is: Aliens of Charted Space Vol. 2 from Mongoose.

Mongoose continues to churn out good quality products for the OTU.

A final bonus category this year is “Best Free or Pay What You Want Traveller Product“. The nominees are:

• Modern War – Gun Conversion : from Zozer Games
• The Zero Gravity Olympics : from Old School Role Playing
• Boarding Action : from Old School Role Playing
• Apocalypse : from Old School Role Playing

The winner of the “Best Free or Pay What You Want Traveller Product” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2020 is: The Zero Gravity Olympics from Old School Role Playing.

There were a lot of great free products this year. In 2020, I have seen lots of questions about futuristic sports. This years winner may answer some of these questions.

Now, go and download all of the free Traveller Products. Why? They are free!