Freelance Traveller

Mar/Apr 2022	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Article
	Doing It My Way	A Mini-game for Computer Hacking (download John MCClain's original PDF here)	John McClain (with Jeff Zeitlin)
	Critics’ Corner	Reach Adventure 5: The Borderlands Run	Paul Anuni
		Cepheus Deluxe	Carlos Alos-Ferrer
		The Second Scions’ Society	Jeff Zeitlin
		A Travellers’ Dozen	Ewan Quibell
	Kurishdam	Lecture Hall and Library: What’s in a Name: Aesirist Revisionism in the Sword Worlds	Davd Johnson
		Lecture Hall and Library: Jump Destination: Khorlu, Bronson’s Star	Ken Pick
	The Prep Room	Above the Crowd	Timothy Collinson
		Jotting #13: Calendars II: Naming Dates	Jeff Zeitlin
	Columns	Confessions of a Newbie Referee: #55: The End is in Sight	Timothy Collinson
	Multimedia Gallery	The Pirates of Drinax Graphic Stories: Episode 3: Hunting Pirates	Joe Adams
	Active Measures	Getting Off the Ground: The Missed Interview	David Johnson
	Raconteurs Rest	The Old Scout: Light in the Darkness	Craig Berry

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From the Editor

I apologize for the blatant stupidity on my part that resulted in this issue being late. When I was laying out this issue, I inadvertently put the same article in twice, and when I realized it, I had to scramble to rework the last few pages, as I didn’t have an extra article that would just drop in and fill the space.

This issue’s featured article, John McClain’s minigame that replaces the simple rolled tasks for hacking a computer, really resonated with me, because it’s one of those things that actually gets the players more involved in the game, while at the same time being simple and straightforward enough not to turn things into baroque exercises in decision-making. I encourage people to come up with other ideas like this, perhaps for other “complex” tasks that the rules-as-written reduce to a single roll.

Timothy Collinson’s “Above the Crowd” had its genesis in someone else’s ‘thing-a-day’ challenge (read the article). I think that others who wanted to spend just a few minutes a day could choose to do a ‘thing-a-day’ and share them with the community (through us, of course! ?), producing resources that a referee could easily use with the application of just a little bit of imagination. And if doing so inspires you to expand on one (or more) of those things, so much the better…

I should note that the Recent Releases list on p60 is only those that I find out about through DTRPG’s “Follow Your Favorites”. If you know of any Traveller-related releases from elsewhere—or non-game releases that might be of interest—please let me know, and I’ll consider including them on the list, too.