Freelance Traveller

July 2010	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Essay Question		Jeff Zeitlin
	Critics' Corner	Flynn's Guide to Magic In Traveller	Jeff Zeitlin
	Fifth Imperium	#10: My Rules, Part One: The Mechanics of XP and Grenades	Shannon Appelcline
	Kurishdam: Lecture Hall and Library	Jump Destination: Khorlu, Bronson's Star	Ken Pick
	Doing It My Way	Zhodani Commandos Revisited	Samuel V. Wilson III
	In A Store Near You	The Promenade: Gig	Jeff Zeitlin
	Multimedia Gallery	The BurrowWolf: A Traveller Graphic Novel - Chapter Two	David Billinghurst and Dave Redington

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From the Editor

Up through this issue, Freelance Traveller has printed articles focusing on the various rulesets for Traveller, or on settings that are “compatible” with the Official Traveller Universe (OTU). That’s because of what people have offered us, not because of any specific decision to not support other settings, but simply because that’s what we’ve received from our contributors.

If that’s what we continue to receive, that’s what we’ll continue to print. But we’re perfectly willing to print materials supporting other settings that have had Traveller rules applied to them. That specifically includes (but isn’t necessarily limited to) Strontium Dog, Judge Dredd, Reign of Discordia, and Twilight Sector. It also includes fan-written settings such as Mercator, printed a few issues back as a Special Supplement to Freelance Traveller.

We’ve been happy to cover “house rules” against settings compatible with the OTU, as well, and will continue to be happy to do so. That, too, should be understood to apply as well to other settings—but it gets a bit fuzzy, here, because that has a tendency to move us in the direction of being a general gaming magazine, and that’s been done already, several times, by people more competent to do it than we are—including by at least one company whose offerings we are supporting. Nevertheless, if our readers and contributors make it clear that we should move slightly farther afield and support such products as Hyperlite and Diaspora, we will be willing to “go there”.

Right now, we fill a niche, and will continue to do so; we’d simply like to know what that niche should be, and how we should fill it. To that end, we’d very specifically like people to answer the two as-yet-unanswered Essay Questions that ask, in essence, “What is Traveller?”. It is only by knowing what you feel the answer to that question should be that we can do our level best to serve you, our readers.

As an additional question, we’d like to ask something else, so please send us feedback on this as well: We’ve had a tendency to print fewer longer articles rather than more shorter ones. Should we look to change this, or are you happy with it?