Freelance Traveller

Mar/Apr 2023	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Articles
	Other Roads	The Earth Colonies Campaign: Gaian Pilgrimage: An Earth Colonies Mini-Campaign	David Johnson
	Critics’ Corner	The Scotian Huntress Campaign	Paul Anuni
		Patrons of the Frontiers of Space	Ewan Quibell
		A Rift in Time	Jeff Zeitlin
		Off the Table: The Cosmic Computer	Shannon Appelcline
	The Prep Room	Down and Out in Low Orbit	Jo Jaquinta
		Designing Aliens	Jim Vassilakos
	Active Measures	Getting Off the Ground: The 200T False Trader	Richard Huxton
		Getting Off the Ground: Thomas’s Theorem (lea en español)	J. Fernando Martín (Translated by Google Translate and Jeff Zeitlin)
	Kurishdam	Games People Play: Darbol	Jeff Zeitlin
	Raconteurs’ Rest	The Astoundingly True Tale of José Fabuloso: Chapter 2	Jo Jaquinta
	The Lab Ship	Planetology 101	Thad Coons
	Up Close and Personal	Ishmael James	Richard Honeycutt
		Interview with Omer Golan-Joel of Stellagama Publishing	Brett Kruger
	Columns	Confessions of a Newbie Referee: #61: Room for More!	Timothy Collinson

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From the Editor

Thinking about the past years of Freelance Traveller, I’ve come to something of a realization: Writing a SF RPG, and writing for a SF RPG, have a lot in common with writing stories in the metagenre we call Science Fiction.

Neither the game nor the stories are about the technology, or about whatever it is in the background that we’ve chosen to emphasize; rather, both are about the people and how they handle situations in an environment where the possibilities are somewhat different than we’re used to. When we write material that isn’t itself story (or adventure, which is really just a plot outline for a future interactive story), we’re developing material that helps define other stories, later, in some way.

It is, ultimately, the story that interests us, rather than just the details of the background/environment/world-building. When we read material that helps define the background, we’re generally thinking, ultimately, of the stories that can be told using that material, and how people will act in a universe that includes that material as part of its reality.

Stories, and adventures, eventually come to an end, often satisfying, occasionally not. But Traveller and its derivatives differ from ‘straight’ stories in that there is always more material for new adventures—or, if you prefer, new stories to tell.

Thank you for the stories you’ve told, the material that you’ve give us for other people’s stories, and for all of both that you’ll give us in the future.