The Undersea Environment

Science-fiction role-playing game supplement

The Undersea Environment

Cover by William H. Keith

Designers| J. Andrew Keith
Publishers| Game Designers' Workshop
Publication| 1983
Genres| Science-fiction
Systems| Classic Traveller

The Undersea Environment is a 1983 role-playing game supplement, written by J. Andrew Keith for Traveller, and published by Gamelords.

## Contents

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The Undersea Environment is a supplement that details alien oceans, including factors in the depths that affect characters such as pressure, gravity, temperature, the effects of decompression on divers, and undersea communication and combat.[1]

## Publication history

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The Undersea Environment was written by J. Andrew Keith, with art by William H. Keith Jr., and was published in 1983 by Gamelords as a digest-sized 48-page book.[2]

A companion adventure, The Drenslaar Quest was written by the same author.

## Reception

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Tony Watson reviewed The Undersea Environment for Different Worlds magazine and stated that "Given the wealth of background information contained in this volume, it should not be too difficult for a gamemaster to set up and run an adventure or two under the sea. If your Traveller campaign might benefit from such a setting, this book may prove extremely useful, and may in fact find applicability for other role-playing systems."[3]

Tony Watson reviewed The Mountain Environment and The Undersea Environment together in The Space Gamer No. 72.[1] Watson commented that "The tight focus and elaborate detail of these supplements is both their strength and weakness. Just about all aspects of mountain and undersea environments are covered, but I wonder just how much of this material is really going to make its way into the average adventure."[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b c Watson, Tony (January–February 1985). "Featured Review: Traveller Supplements from Gamelords". The Space Gamer. No. 72\. Steve Jackson Games. pp. 6–7.
2. ^ Schick, Lawrence (1991). Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games. Prometheus Books. p. 342\. ISBN 0-87975-653-5.
3. ^ Watson, Tony (September–October 1984). "Game Reviews". Different Worlds (36): 33–34.