[Freelance Traveller] Issue 000 Now Available For Download

[FreeTrav]

Freelance Traveller is going FANZINE! Effective immediately, our introductory issue, Number 000, is available for download at http://www.freelancetraveller.com/magazine/index.html - you can choose US Letter or A4 format. Beyond the format change, there will be other changes - but much will also stay the same! Read the Editor's column for more info, read the rest of the issue, and then let us know what you think!

 

[Vile]

Not a bad little lab ship by Mr. Boulton on the cover, there. Is this going to be a regular thing? I actually prefer a lower page count like this in my fanzines - Stellar Reaches and the first issue of Frontier Report are great, but they are somewhat difficult to surreptitiously slip through the office printer ...

 

[FreeTrav]

I'm hoping to have more artwork in future issues than in this one, and by as many artists as are interested in doing this. I don't know if Andrew will be doing more covers; I basically asked him if I could use a version of this one that he posted at CotI, and he offered to do the portrait orientation version for me.

I'm hoping to go to monthly issues, starting with issue #001 in January (posted around Christmas). That's going to depend on material found/provided, ultimately, but I can and will use existing Freelance Traveller articles as filler, as long as a supermajority of the issue is new material. This issue sorta represents the smallest issue I'm willing to go with; I'll consider holding articles for subsequent months if an issue gets to 12 content pages (this issue has eight), and will definitely hold if it gets to 16 pages. Eight pages per month for a year, printed out and bound, makes a good 96-page Annual at the end of the year, or a prize for a contest.

 

[GamerDude]

That plan sounds great FreeTrav. You're right 96 pages is a nice little book.

Good luck.

 

[Treebore]

How do you find Stellar Reaches and Frontier Report?

 

[FreeTrav]

I've downloaded Stellar Reaches, but haven't actually had the chance to read through them - but "Flynn" has a good rep, so I'm expecting to see good things from it.

This is really the first awareness of Frontier Report that I have; can you give me a link?

 

[Treebore]

I've downloaded Stellar Reaches, but haven't actually had the chance to read through them - but "Flynn" has a good rep, so I'm expecting to see good things from it.

This is really the first awareness of Frontier Report that I have; can you give me a link?

It was a little tricky to find:

http://the-children-of-earth.org/traveller/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=9

 

[FreeTrav]

... This is really the first awareness of Frontier Report that I have; can you give me a link?

It was a little tricky to find:

http://the-children-of-earth.org/traveller/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=9

Thank you kindly, sir!

 

[BP]

Its too short

(In other words, I was enjoying myself and - blam - blank page and then noth'n but black!)

Kudos - and thanks for the fanzine!

 

[Solivagus]

Very nice! One suggestion tho: in addition to US Letter & A4, how about a landscape format for reading on a computer?

 

[FreeTrav]

Very nice! One suggestion tho: in addition to US Letter & A4, how about a landscape format for reading on a computer?

Under consideration, definitely. The difficult part is going to be deciding on 4:3 vs 16:9/16:10 format. There's also the issue of whether I can get the Adobe Acrobat 8 Distiller printer driver to accept such a format; it took quite a bit of hair-pulling to get it to accept the A4 since my default system settings are all US-centric.

Also, just a reminder - we're not giving up on the website; it's just that new material will appear in the PDF before it appears on the website, usually by a month - so you'll be able to read this issue's articles in a screen-friendly format soon (we're not waiting - this time - for the next issue to come out. I have some vacation coming up in about two weeks, and I'll web this issue then).

 

[Vile]

Very nice! One suggestion tho: in addition to US Letter & A4, how about a landscape format for reading on a computer?

Heheh ... and before too long, we'll also want an e-book format ... :twisted:

 

[FreeTrav]

Very nice! One suggestion tho: in addition to US Letter & A4, how about a landscape format for reading on a computer?

Heheh ... and before too long, we'll also want an e-book format ... :twisted:

. o O ( PDF is an e-book format... )

 

[Vile]

Yeah, but they mostly have tiny screens designed for novels.

 

[andrew boulton]

Not a bad little lab ship by Mr. Boulton on the cover, there. Is this going to be a regular thing?

No, I'll do something different next time

 

[FreeTrav]

Not a bad little lab ship by Mr. Boulton on the cover, there. Is this going to be a regular thing?

No, I'll do something different next time

And if it is as gorgeous as this one was, Freelance Traveller will be both proud and happy to print it, either on the cover or as part of a gallery feature article.

 

[Treebore]

Cool! I run my game via maptools, so the more cool art I have to represent the ships, space stations, asteroid habitats, etc... that they see, the better.