Welcome to the Zhodani Base Awards 2016! 2016 has been another good year for Traveller products. Lots of new stuff from the small publishers (and Mongoose).

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

• Anderson & Felix Guide to Naval Architecture : from GKG
  
• Traveller Referee’s Screen : from Mongoose
• Foreven Worlds: Fessor Subsector : from JBE
• Fate of the Kinunir : from GDW

The winner of the “Best Cover” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2016 is: Fate of the Kinunir from GDW.

There were lots of Traveller products with nice covers this year. Lots of love for all nice covers. Fate of the Kinunir combined a classic Traveller cover with a nice image. I really liked that.

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

• Freelance Traveller
• Frontier Explorer
• Stellar Reaches

The winner of the “Best Fanzine/Online Magazine” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2016 is: Freelance Traveller

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

Freelance Traveller has won this category every year since 2011!

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

• Theories of Everything : from Mongoose
• The Rose of Death : from JBE
• Castrobancla, The City of Aliens : from Alex Greene
• The Calixcuel Incident : from Mongoose

The winner of the “Best Adventure” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2016 is: The Calixcuel Incident from Mongoose.

There were lots of fine Traveller Adventures for different settings published. This year Mongoose did a few really good ones. The Calixcuel Incident was in my opinion the best one.

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

• Quick Decks: TL 9 Yacht : from DSL Ironworks
• Rucker-class Merchant : from GKG
• Type S Scout/Courier : from Moon Toad Publishing
  
• Crusader Class Close Escort : from Gamer Printshop

The winner of the “Best Ship or Deckplan” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2016 is: Type S Scout/Courier from Moon Toad Publishing.

There were lots of fine ships for Traveller published this year. Moon Toad Publishing made the best one for this category and won.

I do love the classic Traveller ships.

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

• Skull and Crossbones: Piracy in Clement Sector : from GKG
• Orbital 2100 : from Zozer Games
• The Space Patrol : from Stellagama Publishing
• Wendy’s Guide to the Fleets of Hub Subsector : from GKG

The winner of the “Best ATU Product” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2016 is: The Space Patrol from Stellagama Publishing.

This category always make me happy since you can always find so many cool ideas. This year The Space Patrol win. Not only because it is really good, but also because it could have been useful for one of my own campaigns. (Unfortunately it was published a bit too late to help me.)

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

• Central Supply Catalogue : from Mongoose
• High Guard : from Mongoose
• Going Portside : from Mongoose
• Mercenary Forces : from Mongoose

The winner of the “Best OTU Product” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2016 is: High Guard from Mongoose

Only products from Mongoose was nominated this year. I hope that will change next year. High Guard was the best one.

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

• Castrobancla from Alex Greene
• Prelude to War: Player’s Guide from JBE
• Near Space from Stellagama Publishing
• Cepheus Engine from Samardan Press

The winner of the “Best Free or Pay What You Want Traveller Product” category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2016 is: Cepheus Engine from Samardan Press.

Cepheus Engine wins because it has enabled many other small publishers to produce cool Traveller products without being limited by the restrictions from Mongoose. Read my review here.