Save the Date - TravCon UK 2026
BITS UK Ltd is happy to announce Travcon UK 2026, a residential science fiction roleplaying convention taking place 12–14 June 2026 at the Cranfield Management Development Centre in Milton Keynes.
Travcon UK is a weekend dedicated to the Traveller Roleplaying Game, in all its many editions from Classic Traveller, Cepheus through to Mongoose Second Edition. Whether you’re a long-time veteran or new to the Third Imperium, the focus is on great games, good company, and plenty of time around the table.
The convention will be primarily residential, with accommodation, meals, and gaming all on site. That means no rushing off in the evenings, just settle in, play on, and enjoy the social side of our fantastic Traveller community.
We’re also pleased to confirm that Mongoose Publishing, the owners and publishers of the Traveller RPG, will be attending running games and on hand to answer all questions.
BITS UK Ltd are a fan-based organisation running demonstration games at cons since 1996. We are dedicated to supporting all editions of Traveller.
Cranfield Management Development Centre offers modern facilities in a self-contained setting, making it an ideal venue for a relaxed, immersive convention weekend. With cellular game rooms to reduce ambient noise, free parking and Wi-fi and an onsite hotel gym and pool. Preferential rates will be provided as part of con registration. .
More details on games, booking, and how to get involved will be shared soon.
Cold Dark Grave is now available
We're really pleased to announce that Cold Dark Grave is now available here at DriveThruRPG as a PDF.
Being a Belter...
...is a risky line of work at the best of times.
Ernsteyn Industrial Materials is a family-run asteroid mining operation which has hit hard times.
The sharks are closing in...
...and there's not much a small company can do when one ship is grounded needing expensive repairs and your other Seeker might as well stay in dock because suddenly the decent mining grants aren't coming your way.
There's a job (isn't there always?)...
...which could save the company. It's a simple salvage operation and the patron is well known to EIM, but surely there must be a catch (isn't there always...)?
Cold Dark Grave was first published as the BITS tournament adventure From a Cold Dark Grave for Gen Con UK 2005, making it perfect for a one-shot adventure as it includes pregenerated characters. This edition expands the original adventure but it is still easily usable as a one shot; alternatively, it could be included in an existing campaign. The adventure includes details on the Yres system in the Regina subsector of the Spinward Marches.
Written for Mongoose Traveller, suitable for all Traveller rulesets through the included BITS Generic Task System and BITS Generic NPC System.
This third printing has been modified as necessary to update it for Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition, and to space some bits out a bit more nicely. The second printing had a few minor corrections due to too many late nights working on the first printing (which was only printed, stapled and cropped on the afternoon of taking it down to Conception 2007 where it was launched for sale).
Please do check out the rest of our BITS products here.
Foot notes:
1) TravCon UK 2025 folks, we will resolve PDFs for you once we have 'Delta 3 is Down is out'.
2) We can't release this in print without using the Traveller Compatible license which will remove the canon material from the book. Our apologies, but that's a limit of the TAS licence we've been asked to use.
Adventures coming back into print
If you read the entry on TravCon 2025, you may have noticed that the reports mentioned that we published a very limited run of a Double Adventure version of our scenarios Cold Dark Grave and Delta 3 is Down. These have been converted to the latest edition of Mongoose Traveller. We're in the final stages of getting them ready to release, and we'll share more when that happens.