Freelance Traveller

November/December 2017	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Articles
	Raconteurs’ Rest	After-Action Report: TravellerCON/USA 2017	E. Tage Larsen
		After-Action Report: TravellerCON/USA 2017	Jeff Zeitlin
	Doing It My Way	Character Generation Rules: Quick Character Generation for Conventions	Marc Miller with Jeff Zeitlin
	Critics’ Corner	2300AD: Tools for Frontier Living	Megan Robertson
		2300AD: Hard Suits, Combat Walkers, and Battlesuits	Megan Robertson
		Skull and Crossbones	Jeff Zeitlin
		LinkLooks: Supplement 1: 1000001 Characters	Timothy Collinson
	The Prep Room	Jottings: #1: Naming Practices	Jeff Zeitlin
		Bullet Journalling and Traveller	Timothy Collinson
	Raconteurs’ Rest	Sword Worlds Resurgent: Here Be Dragons [Prologue] [Chapter One] [Chapter Two]	John Clifford
	Active Measures	An Introductory Corporate Repo Adventure	Joshua Levy
		Getting Off the Ground: The Boys in Blue	Timothy Collinson
	Up Close and Personal	Kvinne Vaskebjørn	Joshua Levy
	Doing It My Way	Character Generation Rules: Shavian Empire Careers	Ken Pick
		The Chase	Benedikt Schwarz
	Columns	Confessions of a Newbie Referee: #31: Off Piste	Timothy Collinson

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From the Editor

Sometimes, people who you think of as larger than life, aren’t. That can be disappointing, or it can be a pleasant surprise. Those of us who attended TravellerCON/USA this year had the opportunity to meet Marc Miller, and I found it a pleasant surprise.

Simply put, Mr Miller is human. He presented the image of being genuinely happy to meet the Traveller community that sprang from his efforts of 40 years ago (yes, it’s really been that long since the initial release of what we now call Classic Traveller), and while he no longer plays, he clearly still takes an interest in the game, and in what the community is doing with it. I was quite flattered, for example, when he told me that I—meaning, ultimately, you—had met my original intent/conceit and done a fine job of filling the niche left empty by the demise of the various incarnations of the Journal of the Travellers’ Aid Society. He was also willing to talk about future plans for Traveller5, and about a variety of other subjects, not all related to Traveller or role-playing—though he was willing to discuss that, too; he and I spent a few minutes on various aspects of the convention quick-chargen he was running (and which appears in this issue). I also got permission from him to transcribe (and clean up, to get rid of hesitations and ‘ah,…’) his lecture/Q&A sessions; those will appear in future issues.

Meeting him and talking to him was definitely a privilege, and one I am thankful for. It gave me a chance to see that even someone who ‘should be’ larger-than-life can also be as ordinary as me.