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Someone over on CotI caught that I upfscked the upload and the permalink was bad. Fixed, so if you tried it and got 404ed, try it again.

I agree that player uptake of Traveller needs to be increased. Where there seems to be disagreement - and I have no opinion on who's right - is on how to increase that uptake. I definitely agree that The Rules need to be divorced from The Setting; I don't necessarily believe that that's the...

I think this is an excellent idea - having a single place where these announcements can be found would potentially allow more people to see - and watch for - future Cons, wherever situate. As it is, they can end up scattered across several subsections and spotting them would be "hit or miss"...

The November/December 2025 issue of Freelance Traveller has been posted for download! This issue features after-action reports on Traveller conventions on both sides of 'the pond', Timothy Collinson and Dom Mooney reporting on TravCon (UK) and Jeff Zeitlin reporting on TravellerCON/USA. Jim...

Books - Novels, not shorts, and there are a lot of them: C.J.Cherryh - the Chanur novels (there are four) Sharon Lee and Steve Miller - the Liaden Universe® (there are a metric fsckton) David Drake - the Republic of Cinnabar Navy series (also called Leary/Mundy) (there are about a dozen)

I'm seeing some sluggishness compared to most other times, but not to the point of timing out.

TCUSA is closing in on a hundred participants annually; we're not quite there yet, but we routinely run eight or more tables (out of ten to twelve available) for the Saturday sessions.

This year's theme was "Bwaps", and there was indeed Bwappery in quantity. Next year's theme is the Fifth Frontier War, and the dates are October 16/17/18, so mark your calendar and make plans. For longer-lead-time planning, 2027 will be October 15/16/17, and we are sincerely hoping that Marc...

Nope, this was only TCUSA #18; 2027 will fittingly be both Traveller's 50th and TCUSA's 20th. But yes indeed, fun was much in evidence, and the next issue of Freelance Traveller will have my AAR - as well as Dom Mooney's and Timothy Collinson's AARs for TravCon UK, and anyone else who wants to...

The September/October 2025 issue of Freelance Traveller is (FINALLY) available for download! This issue is a theme issue, to match the theme of TravellerCON/USA: Bwaps. Our resident cultural anthropologist, Timothy Collinson, has sojourned among our Bwap neighbors, and brought back quite a bit...

I'm not aware of any that have been specifically stated to have been uplifted, but given the published information, one might reasonably wonder about the Ithklur.

Isn't this in essence what the $1 editions (Explorer and Merchant) were?

It needs to be somewhat controversial, as there's (pre-Mongoose) canon that says that the Aslan didn't actually develop it themselves, but got it from a lost Terran starship. That would make the Aslan a minor race by that definition. Perhaps one could 'de-contraveralize' the terms by suggesting...

...which should also contain the Jgd-Il-Jagd, who appeared in one of the GDW JTAS issues, but I don't have my peel of the CD to hand at the moment to tell you which one.

I'll be there! This year's theme is Bwaps!