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- Editorial - It's Our Birthday!
- Interview - An Interview with Michael Moorcock
- Feature - The Best Short Stories of 2004
- Con Report - A Report from Archon 28
- Sub-Genre Spotlight - Steampunk
- Essay - So What Exactly Is Fantasy?
- Essay - Raygun Carnage
- Essay - Deciphering the Text Foundations of Traveller
- Review - The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson: A Review in Three Acts
- Review - The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
- Review - Murder of Angels by Caitlin R. Kiernan
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Posted by John DeNardo at Tuesday February 01, 2005 at 5:42 PM
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The article on the Traveller RPG is excellent. It deconstructs, in detail, the probable, and possible, influences earlier SF had on the original Traveller RPG. I actually have the original game box and most of the original books. I can attest to the 'DIY' aspect of the game. Its basically just a set of rules to cover character creation and combat. Everything else was left to the GM to figure out. Quite a difference to today's RPGs, especially of the D20 variety.
I see that Traveller is still around today in a D20 and GURPS format. I may check them out. In fact, GURPS also has stuff based on Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, the Miles Vorkosigan series, and a harder SF setting called Transhuman Space. Nice!
Posted by JP on Tuesday February 01, 2005 at 10:37 PM at 10:37 PM
I'm going to sell my whole Traveller collection (actually, I've started already). So if there's anything you need...e-mail me!
Posted by Fred Kiesche on Thursday February 03, 2005 at 9:40 AM at 9:40 AM