Freelance Traveller

April 2012	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Article
	Doing It My Way	Child’s Play	Mark Graybill
	Critics’ Corner	Mongoose Traveller: The Third Imperium: Alien Module 4: Zhodani	“kafka”
		Mongoose Traveller Supplement 9: Campaign Guide	Jeff Zeitlin
		Off the Table: Revolt and Rebirth	Shannon Appelcline
		Off the Table: A Long Way Home	Shannon Appelcline
	Raconteurs’ Rest	Drop Out (Part 15)	Ken Murphy
		Green Hills: A Bedtime Story	Jeffrey Schwartz
	Up Close and Personal	Angus Owensby	Ken Murphy
	In A Store Near You	Depilatory Creams	Richard Hazlewood
		Combat Exoskeleton	Ewan Quibell
	Kurishdam	At Home, We Do It Like This: Slice of Life: The Dole	Mike Cross
	The Shipyard	Mongoose Traveller Designs: A2 Econo-Trader	Ed Hinojosa
	Active Measures	Getting Off The Ground: The Picture	Dwayne Walstrom

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From the Editor

It’s time to plead for more artwork, and specifically, more cover art. There’s a lot of great artwork out there, and a good amount has been offered to us for use, but some of it, as wonderful as it is, is not suitable for cover art the way we’ve been running our covers. As you’ve no doubt observed, we run cover images right up to the edge of the paper (“bleeds”, in the lingo), and then place our masthead across it. This has led to a couple of less-than-optimal covers—last month’s, in fact, was one of them, because of the way the “busy” background tended to obscure the text we placed over it.

We’ve also twice gone to NASA’s Astronomy Pictures of the Day—this month, and October of 2010—and once to a generic SF picture released under Creative Commons, in August of 2011. So, in general, we’ve had a good supply of cover-suitable art, but it does run low occasionally. Like now. So please, send us artwork. Artwork most suitable for covers should be suitable for printing, at US Letter or international A4 size, and with the top 1½" not containing any significant content that would be obscured by the masthead.

Other artwork, for the Gallery, is wide open; we may shrink it to fit our pages, but we won’t crop it.

We’re continuing to solicit material specifically for theme issues, above and beyond our normal search for good material. Please give some thought to submitting suitable material for any of the theme issues we’ve named in the solicitation on page 23 of this issue. We’d especially like to see material for the recently-released 2300AD setting, and for the Cruise issue, but all four of the themes indicated are our highest priorities for theme issues.

Of course, your continued submission of articles on any and every topic related to Traveller, or of interest to the Traveller community, remain welcome and encouraged!

Finally… we’ve noticed a trend in certain sections, that only one or two regulars have come to dominate them. This reflects not a conscious decision on our part, but the distribution of submissions we receive. We’d like to see other authors, too, so if you have an idea for an article in a section you don’t usually write for, write it up anyway and send it to us, and we’ll be happy to work with you to get it into publishable shape.

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