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The August 2011 issue of Freelance Traveller magazine is ready for download!
Twenty-six pages of reviews, adventures, columns, and other Traveller goodness are waiting to present themselves to you. This issue also marks the return of the Freelance Traveller contests (see below), and the beginning of reprinting (with permission) Mike Cross's "Slice of Life" column from Terra/Sol Games' website, supporting the Twilight Sector setting.
Sadly, real life interfered, and so the artists were unable to get the next section of The BurrowWolf to us in time for publication this month. We look forward to its return; many of you have written to us to tell us how much you like it.
Download this month's issue from http://www.freelancetraveller.com/magazine/.
(As usual, the articles from last month's issue are posted to our website, as well. They're listed and linked from their respective section pages, and also from the July 2011 back issue page, http://www.freelancetraveller.com/magazine/2011-07.)
Freelance Traveller Contest #2011-1: Wooden Ships and Iron Men
Create a career for a Wet Navy, with technology limited to the Age of Sail. Personal firearms are to be assumed to be muzzle-loaders, as are cannon. You may invent undocumented skills that are relevant to the career, but provide an explanation of the skill and its relevance—examples of situations where the skill would be useful are a plus. Do not assume anything about the setting other than technology being limited to roughly the early-to-mid 1800s in Europe.
The career must be compatible with Classic Traveller (Basic or Expanded chargen), MegaTraveller, or Mongoose Traveller (or the Mongoose Traveller SRD).
Send entries to contest@freelancetraveller.com. They must be received by 23:59:59 EDT August 31, 2011; the editor will decide which he likes best (realism and lots of options are pluses), and that winning entry will appear in the October 2011 issue of Freelance Traveller. It will also become a core component of a Freelance Traveller project that has been back-burnered for a while; the author will be invited to participate and an overview of the project will be posted in the October issue along with an invitation for serious participation in further development only.
Twenty-six pages of reviews, adventures, columns, and other Traveller goodness are waiting to present themselves to you. This issue also marks the return of the Freelance Traveller contests (see below), and the beginning of reprinting (with permission) Mike Cross's "Slice of Life" column from Terra/Sol Games' website, supporting the Twilight Sector setting.
Sadly, real life interfered, and so the artists were unable to get the next section of The BurrowWolf to us in time for publication this month. We look forward to its return; many of you have written to us to tell us how much you like it.
Download this month's issue from http://www.freelancetraveller.com/magazine/.
(As usual, the articles from last month's issue are posted to our website, as well. They're listed and linked from their respective section pages, and also from the July 2011 back issue page, http://www.freelancetraveller.com/magazine/2011-07.)
Freelance Traveller Contest #2011-1: Wooden Ships and Iron Men
Create a career for a Wet Navy, with technology limited to the Age of Sail. Personal firearms are to be assumed to be muzzle-loaders, as are cannon. You may invent undocumented skills that are relevant to the career, but provide an explanation of the skill and its relevance—examples of situations where the skill would be useful are a plus. Do not assume anything about the setting other than technology being limited to roughly the early-to-mid 1800s in Europe.
The career must be compatible with Classic Traveller (Basic or Expanded chargen), MegaTraveller, or Mongoose Traveller (or the Mongoose Traveller SRD).
Send entries to contest@freelancetraveller.com. They must be received by 23:59:59 EDT August 31, 2011; the editor will decide which he likes best (realism and lots of options are pluses), and that winning entry will appear in the October 2011 issue of Freelance Traveller. It will also become a core component of a Freelance Traveller project that has been back-burnered for a while; the author will be invited to participate and an overview of the project will be posted in the October issue along with an invitation for serious participation in further development only.
