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The May/June issue of Freelance Traveller is posted for download! This issue's featured article is Greg Caires' and Tom Price's solo-play adventure, Chamax Escape. In addition to the game itself, Greg and Tom have provided some notes on the design process for the game. Timothy Collinson also...

TravellerCON/USA 2024 will be happening 11-13 October 2024 at the Hilton DoubleTree Resort Lancaster, 2400 Willow Street Pike, Lancaster, PA. This year’s theme will be “The Ancients”. Instead of using Kickstarter this year, convention badges are being sold right now via TableTop Events (TTE)...

Fixed. Thanks for the catch.

The March/April 2024 issue of Freelance Traveller is available for download! This issue's featured article is the translation of Gaizka Márquez's article on Law Level and Driving Permits from Vuelo Raso N.8. The rest of the issue is the usual eclectix mix of reviews, rules, adventures...

I really need to take some time and look at these; I should note that there's no link to S1E3 in this thread. Also, if you're amenable, and transcripts are available, I'd love to be able to print them in Freelance Traveller...

What I'd like to see: Within the Charted Space setting, material that's not ultimately Third-Imperium-centric - that is, I'd like to see material for adventuring as Vargr in Vargr space, as Zhodani in Zhodani space, as Aslan in Aslan space, et cetera und so weiter and so forth. This material...

English in one form or another is pretty much a lingua franca (which, oddly enough, means "french language") in probably most of the world - but that doesn't mean that you can understand someone else speaking it, or be sure that they understand you speaking it. Loren Wiseman once posted a story...

I don't find the DTRPG watermarks offensive, and I'm not going to participate in illicit copying of them, so it's not a problem. It's intended as a mild, non-obtrusive deterrent, and it's quite frankly easily circumvented if your ethics are weak enough. I find it more acceptable than what often...

The January/February 2024 issue of Freelance Traveller has been posted for download! This issue's featured article is W.N.Vossbrink's Pan-Galactic Empires: Defining the Broad Strokes of the Setting. This article sets out a way to map an entire galaxy, the locations of species inhabiting it, and...

I would say that if you flunk out of the Academy, but choose to enlist in the same service anyway, you go through the same boot camp that any enlistee does, except that you're older than the typical recruit. You'll still get the same skills, but having flunked out of the Academy, you'll probably...

This was my screw-up; one of the longer articles was inadvertently pasted twice into the Publisher file, and I didn't realize it until I was fixing formatting. As a result, I have about ten pages to fill that I wasn't prepared for, and now am scrambling to find material to fill it. Watch this...

My take on the whole military/naval academy-followed-by-service thing is close to the way the US Armed Forces handle it: If you go through the Academy and graduate, you are commissioned in the Academy's service (Army for USMA West Point, Navy for USNA Annapolis, Air Force for USAFA Colorado...

I wasn't aware of any such requirement in canon when I wrote The Color of Jumpspace, but I did take inspiration from Niven's Known Space setting, where you did need a sentient to monitor the hyperspace mass detector.

It was brought to my attention that the public copy of Freelance Traveller issue 84, November/December 2017, ANSI A (US Letter) format, was corrupt and unreadable. I did a bit of digging, and uploaded a fresh, uncorrupted copy. Those of you who have the Freelance Traveller thumb drive from...

Can't give you a specific adventure that this would be, but it sounds like something that someone could have written after reading GURPS Traveller Planetary Survey 2: Denuli.