Freelance Traveller

April 2011	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Critics’ Corner	Mongoose Traveller 760 Patrons, Second Edition	“kafka”
		Golden Age Starships Compilation 1-5	Jeff Zeitlin
	Raconteurs’ Rest	Drop Out (Part 2 and Part 3)	Ken Murphy
	Up Close and Personal	Sohair Chen	Ken Murphy
		Norman Nescio	Jeff Zeitlin
	In A Store Near You	The Showroom: TL-1 Stagecoach	Ewan Quibell
		PersonaCore Expert System	Scott Diamond
	Active Measures	Zen and the Art of Leaving the Planet	Peter Arundel
	Fifth Imperium	#17: Twenty Weeks of Traveller, Part Three: The First Nine Plot Hooks	Shannon Appelcline
	Multimedia Gallery	The BurrowWolf (Chapter Four, Part One)	Dave Redington and David Billinghurst
	Doing It My Way	Traveller House Rules and Background	Peter Arundel
		Matching the Classic Traveller Tech Tree in GURPS	Anthony Jackson

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From the Editor

Recently, we posted a poll in the various forums asking whether we should expand our coverage beyond Traveller, to things like Hyperlite, Diaspora, and so on. The response rate was quite acceptable, but the responses themselves indicated some confusion as to what Freelance Traveller currently covers.

So, for clarification: Freelance Traveller is intended to support anything that is purely Traveller—all of the published rulesets, and all of the published settings—including such settings as Twilight Sector, Babylon 5, Judge Dredd, and Strontium Dog. But, in addition to that, “crossover” articles are fair game for us as well—do you have a “referee’s guide” to using Traveller rules to play in the setting from Space: 1999? That’s within our scope. So too would be “Traveller: 1889”, regardless of whether you’re talking about the Space: 1889 setting with Traveller rules, or vice-versa. And if other settings are formally published in the future—for example, 2300AD using the Mongoose Traveller ruleset—those will be considered valid settings for coverage in Freelance Traveller.

Going slightly further afield, gaming resources that can be mined for Traveller ideas are also fair game—that’s why we reviewed the products that appear under the “Other People’s Toys” heading in Critics’ Corner.

Finally, we’ve made provisions for reviews of fiction that the reviewers think has a “Travelleresque” feel. Beginning in July, we’ll start printing reviews of such fiction under the “Off the Table” heading in Critics’ Corner; Fifth Imperium columnist Shannon Appelcline has already posted some reviews suitable for this section over on RPG.Net, and we’ve obtained permission to reprint them, just as we did with the Fifth Imperium column.

So… expand, or not? If we do, we will do so cautiously, so as not to lose our core identity, which is tied to Traveller, and has been since we were a badly-designed website back in about 1993 with only a few articles and no domain name of our own. Share your thoughts with us; our email at feedback@freelancetraveller.com is always available.