Freelance Traveller

Jan/Feb 2023	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Articles
	Active Measures	The Pendente School for Exceptionally Talented Juveniles	Greg Caires
	Doing It My Way	Character Generation Rules: Character Generation for Adolescents	Greg Caires
		Alternative Psionics for Traveller	Greg Caires and Jeff Zeitlin
	Critics’ Corner	21 Plots III	Ewan Quibell
		The Travellers’ Digest and The Early Adventures	David Johnson
		Other People’s Toys: BenzNote Hex Grid Note Cards	Timothy Collinson
		Off the Table: Soldier of the Republic	Timothy Collinson
	Kurishdam	The Club Room: Koszrans	Paul Drye
	Active Measures	The Deadly Garden	David Johnson
	The Prep Room	Almost Alien	Jo Jaquinta
	Doing It My Way	Character Generation Rules: Building Starships as a Traveller Career	Chris Barlow
		A Traveller-Themed Solo Game	Jeff Zeitlin (with credit to Oliver Darkshire)
	Less Dangerous Game	Bread Worms	Cian Witheren
	Columns	Confessions of a Newbie Referee: #60: Another Dimension	Timothy Collinson
	Multimedia Gallery	The Pirates of Drinax Graphic Stories: Snatch & Grab	Joe Adams
	Raconteurs’ Rest	The Astoundingly True Tale of José Fabuloso: Chapter 1	Jo Jaquinta

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From the Editor

Another year has begun, and with it another year of Freelance Traveller. One of the things I like seeing when I’m working on putting together each issue is the sheer breadth of the community’s creativity—there’s always something interesting coming across my email for inclusion in the magazine. Sometimes, like for this issue, I ask someone to organize and/or expand on something they’ve brought to the community elsewhere—the three feature articles for this issue are all based on Greg Caires’s adventure, ‘Stranger Things’, run at TravellerCON/USA 2022.

But that brings up an important thought: Over the past few TravellerCONs that I’ve gone to, I’ve noticed that the typical participant was from my generation, or perhaps early in the next generation. I haven’t been seeing a significant level of participation from younger adults or adolescents. I’d like to ask the community to have a dialogue with itself: How can we bring ‘new blood’ into the hobby? I don’t care whether the dialogue happens here in the pages of Freelance Traveller, on mailing lists or web forums, on IRC or Discord, or anywhere else (it should happen in all of those places!); I’d just like to see it happen, and I’d like it to result in bringing new people into the hobby, to become the next generation of players, authors, and con-goers. Because the hobby doesn’t live on new publications, it lives on the imagination of the participants.