Freelance Traveller

March/April 2017	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Article
	The Prep Room	Low-Prep Traveller Campaigns for Beginners	Daniel Stevens
	Critics’ Corner	A Selection of GKG Traveller	“kafka”
		Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition: The Pirates of Drinax: The Torpol Cluster	Megan Robertson
		Ship Files: Polixenes-class Courier	Omer G. Joel
		Mongoose Traveller 2nd Edition: High Guard: Aslan	Megan Robertson
	Kurishdam	The Club Room: The Wayward: A Terraforming Company	Peter Brenton
		Lecture Hall and Library: Jump Destination: Nutema	Jeff Zeitlin
	Doing It My Way	Character Detailing Rules: Certification for Player-Characters	William F. Hostman
		In the Grey: Starship Activities in Jumpspace	Timothy Collinson
		Character Generation Rules: Special Operations (Commandos)	Ken Murphy
	Active Measures	The God-Monster	Steve Hatherley
		The Mire Run	Ian Whitchurch
		Getting Off the Ground: Instant Murder Mystery for In the Grey	Timothy Collinson
		Purity	Allen Shock
	Columns	Confessions of a Newbie Referee: #27: Still a Newbie	Timothy Collinson
	The Shipyard	Naklaad-class Interface Merchant	Timothy Collinson
		Mongoose Traveller Designs: The Ubiquitous Type S	James Brian King
	In A Store Near You	The Showroom: Kerala-class House Grav Note: This is shown in the downloadable issue as a Shipyard article.	Ewan Quibell
	Raconteurs Rest	Sword Worlds Resurgent: The Huntress	John Clifford

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From the Editor

I apologise for being late again this issue; there’s really nobody to blame but myself. I lost about a week’s work due to being in a blue funk over two pieces of news that came to me while working on the issue. The first was the news of Loren Wiseman’s death; I’ve written a short obituary that appears on page 63 of this issue, and… well, you see the cover.

The other… I’m starting on a never-ending, life-changing journey, and not for happy reasons. At my physical this year, the usual lab work was done, but the results weren’t usual. I have joined the ranks of those who live with Type II diabetes. That doesn’t mean I’m planning on closing down Freelance Traveller; I’m not letting diabetes take away my contribution to the Traveller community.

I can’t grumble at the fact that I’m not seeing a flood of submissions to match the flood of commercial releases I’ve been seeing on DTRPG; I’ve said all along that if you think you can make money off your work, by all means do so. But I’d still like to see more stuff come my way….

To Absent Friends

While we were working on preparing this issue of Freelance Traveller for you, we received some sad news: Loren K. Wiseman, one of the founders of Our Game, passed away on February 15, 2017. Loren had been involved in Traveller from its very beginnings, as one of the creators of Classic Traveller for GDW. After a stint of unemployment following GDW’s closure, he joined Steve Jackson Games, where he was the line editor for GURPS Traveller. He was an occasional visitor to several on-line Traveller forums, including the Traveller Mailing List, until his health started failing him. He was undoubtedly one of Traveller’s larger-than-life figures, and he will be missed.