The January/February 2018 issue of Freelance Traveller is posted for download! This issue's feature is Greg Alan Caires' take on the Travellers' Aid Society. He brings us a career for Classic Traveller, and a collection of adventure seeds for character generated under that career. The remainder of ...

The November/December 2017 issue of Freelance Traveller has been posted for download! This issue features two after-action reports on TravellerCON/USA 2017, plus an article over Marc Miller's principal byline (with commentary and analysis by Jeff Zeitlin) on a quick character generation process for...

The September/October 2017 Issue of Freelance Traveller is ready for download! This issue, the Corporate Repo Career by Joshua Levy stands as our featured article. Travellers are usually one step ahead of the bank in having their 'skipped' ship repossessed; now they can be on the other side of the ...

The July/August 2017 issue of Freelance Traveller is posted for download! This issue spotlights an adventure, The Smarargian Crisis , by Benedikt Schwarz, a first-time contributor. An extensive adventure offering sentient plants, a murder investigation, and an ambiguous ethical question will hopefu...

Stargazer has posted an interview with Marc Miller on his blog at http://www.stargazersworld.com/2017/05/ ... rc-miller/

Effective immediately, Freelance Traveller can accept submissions in Markdown format, both original (as described at http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax) and Github-flavored (as described at http://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown). This provides a convenient and consiste...

Over the years, we have (sadly) lost a number of well-respected contributors to Our Community. I am requesting the community's assistance. Below is the list of names that I can recall; I would like the community to assist as follows: 1. Sort the roster below in order, the Friend who has been Absent ...

I used to have a memory that was the next best thing to photographic. However, I can't seem to remember that it's forum, singular, and not forums, plural, when typing the URI for the forums. When I type 'forums', I get directed to a "powder blue" page; why not set it up so that that page does an aut...

The May/June 2017 issue of Freelance Traveller is ready for download! This month's featured article is Timothy Collinson's After-Action report on TravCon 17 (UK), wherein he tells us how even the unexpected can be overcome and a good time had by all. The rest of the issue contains the usual mix of ...

The March/April 2017 issue of Freelance Traveller is ready for download! This issue features Daniel Stevens' method for Low-Prep Traveller Campaigns for Beginners - an hour or two of prep gets you the basics of an entire setting, from high-level to local, and allows the referee to fill in details o...

Damn.

Just...

Damn.


To Absent Friends

The January/February 2017 issue of Freelance Traveller is posted for download! This issue's featured article is Ken Pick's extensive Jump Destination of Geolan and Wasphome in the Hamilton's Star system. You get two worlds for the price of one, and even a glimpse of an alien species. Not listed as ...

@DanDare2050 - Would you please be so kind as to write up your 'faction system' as a potential article for Freelance Traveller (Doing It My Way section)?

The November/December 2016 issue of Freelance Traveller is posted for download! This issue features Your Humble Editor's after-action report on TravellerCON/USA 2016. Traveller was played, fun was had, and I'm already looking forward to next year. This issue introduces The Freelance Traveller Cookbo...

I like the sample page, except that for the stats, you want the text to be black and the grey background to be somewhat lighter. Separately, I'd like to see deck plans, and not isometric ones, either - plain black-and-white line drawings are ideal.

The September/October 2016 issue of Freelance Traveller is available for download! This issue's feature is Joe Webb's adventure, The Petrified Forest. An abandoned Naval/Scout base has become an active pirate base, and there are political ramifications to doing something about the pirates using off...

Please, wbnc, contact me by email, editor@freelancetraveller.com. I think that if you can do some scenes that fit nicely in 8.3x11, with 'bleed' to go out to 8.5x11.7, you can have some Freelance Traveller covers.

I've never particularly liked the idea of psi at all, and certain of the powers just strain credulity a bit too much for me. Also, I tend to be a "fellow traveller" with respect to the idea of Old School Roleplaying, where you don't have a skill for everything; you make do with what you do have, and...

May I suggest that the Moderators make this thread a Sticky?

I could also see a not-quite-top persuader being a salesman - he wouldn't need to necessarily have both Belief and Empathy, though it's likely that he does have one or the other. Consistency, as described here, isn't really necessary for the salesman , though it would be for the account manager - wh...