Freelance Traveller

May/June 2020	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Article
	Raconteurs’ Rest	TravCon 2020 (UK) After-Action Report	Timothy Collinson
	Critics’ Corner	CD-ROM: Classic Traveller	Jeff Zeitlin
		Journal of the Travellers’ Aid Society	Timothy Collinson
		The Zhodani Candidate	Megan Robertson
		Off the Table: A Memory Called Empire	Benedikt Schwarz
	Raconteurs’ Rest	Smoke Test: Once in a Blue Moon [Chapter 7]	Michael Capriola and C. A. Pella
	The Prep Room	Pacing An Adventure: Some Hints	Jeff Zeitlin
		Finding Your Way Around The Starport: Traffic Control	Benedikt Schwarz
	Multimedia Gallery	Twilight Stories #1: Port of Transit (continued)	Mike Cross
	Active Measures	Getting Off the Ground: Historical Author	Paul Raistrick
	Doing It My Way	Navigation in Traveller: Jump Masking	Dan Corrin
	Columns	Confessions of a Newbie Referee: #44: Rabbit Holes	Timothy Collinson
	The Shipyard	Mongoose Traveller Designs: Traffic Control Pinnace	Benedikt Schwarz
	Up Close and Personal	Ham Sinclair	Daniel Phelps

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From the Editor

Much of this issue was put together during the period when New York was under ‘lockdown’ due to the covid-19 pandemic. That, plus a scheduled vacation during April, meant that I had extra time to do it—and I needed it, because the disruption to my regular routine meant that I had difficulty focusing on tasks, whether recreational like this, or my regular job (where I was really working, from home). Nevertheless, here in your hands you hold an issue that was released on time—and I’ve already started working on the next issue, so that hopefully Freelance Traveller won’t miss a beat during this period when many of us are being told not to get together to play Traveller.

Freelance Traveller is only one way to keep Traveller going during this trying time, and I encourage everyone, as usual, to write for us, so that we’re printing what you want to see and to share. We are, after all, a community resource.

There are other ways to continue your involvement in Traveller, though—several people have mentioned in other forums playing virtually—using virtual tabletop software like Roll20, or just videoconferencing software like Zoom or Skype. There’s also an older technology that’s still available: IRC. Freelance Traveller manages two Traveller-related IRC channels, #Traveller on Undernet, and #LoneStar on Otherworlders. Those channels are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so feel free to hang out a while, or to leave a client idling in either. Someone will show up at some point to chat.