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And I shouldn't forget to point people at https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/preproom/jottings/calendars.html and https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/preproom/jottings/calendars2.html

Definitely local calendars; you'd want them for sure if agriculture is a thing there, and a local calendar would be useful for an ephemeris for in-system travel. I also think that there would be local clocks, although the base unit would be the Imperial second; worlds with sols of...

Swatch tried a close variation of this. It didn't catch on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

Psychoanalysis is Freudulent!

http://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/culture/reference/calend.html

OK, just some general comments, not necessarily addressing any past posts, since I'm coming so late to the thread... As Jeff Zeitlin, occasional player and referee: Traveller for the Fifth Edition of the D20-based system (5eT, just to try to minimize the inadvertent deliberate confusion with T5...

The March/April 2026 issue of Freelance Traveller is (FINALLY) available for download! Joshua Levy begins a series of articles on using AI to generate session summaries for ongoing campaigns. We've belatedly printed Timothy Collinson's AAR on the 2023 Faversham gaming convention. The rest of...

Much better; thank you!

What was, IMO, even more annoying was that it was Imperial measurements for the US (or North American) editions only. Overseas editions were SI-ized. And the tradition in Traveller was already SI units, universally - Traveller never officially used Imperial units (except in GURPS Traveller...

I don't know that I'd go so far as to claim PTSD on their behalf, but whiplash and "versioning fatigue" are certainly reasonable diagnoses. I lived through most of that period (I came to Traveller while Classic '82 was the 'current' version), and while I can't claim that my perceptions are...

I'd be curious as to the price of the Merchant's Edition in print; this is not listed as having a print edition on DTRPG, and the PDF is only US$1. I can't see a shop selling a print edition at comparable price point (even assuming that they're doing so with Mongoose's blessing).

Not exactly "compatible" with MS-Word, although the current version claims to read and create them - but be warned that it does not perfectly preserve formatting across implementations: Your Word-generated ODT won't look quite the same in any of the OpenFork* Writer implementations as it does in...

While I'd agree that they're not quite enough, I think the Explorer's Edition and the Merchant's Edition are steps in this right direction.

The January/February 2026 issue of Freelance Traveller has been posted for download! This issue features Jim Vassilakos' overview of "One Player, Multiple Gamemasters" as a framework for PBEM or on-line gaming. It's an interesting approach that just might be more conducive to "novelization" of...

I'm sure you (and everyone else) already knows this, but GW was, 'way back at the dawn of time, an authorized distributor in the UK for Traveller. They chose to go their own way with Warhammer, and no longer work with outside agencies on anything else.