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December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
  • Joel Benford's story, Kursis Charter, based on the QLI adventure of the same name, has been updated in Raconteurs' Rest, with parts 38 and 39 being added.
  • MAG brings images of the ubiquitous Type S Scout/Courier to the Multimedia Gallery.
  • In the Information Center: We've added some sites to the list of Traveller websites, and some programs to the Windows and Macintosh software lists in the Computer Connection.
  • James Catchpole sends us an adventure seed, Out of Bounds. Find this Active Measure in Getting Off the Ground.
  • In the Information Center, we have News About Traveller: Mongoose will be releasing a new version of Traveller early in 2008.
  • We've updated the software used to manage the Freelance Traveller Forums. We expect that the new software will ultimately have better performance, and will offer a better interface, which we are in the process of determining how to customize to match the look and feel of the rest of Freelance Traveller. The new software also offers the administrators some additional convenience, so problems that are discovered and/or reported may be correctable more quickly. One change in the new forum software that we've been advised of is that the old URLs for RSS feeds no longer work - the new software has changed the URLs for them. The old URLs were of the form

    http://forums.freelancetraveller.com/rss/read.php?newsgroup=<groupname>

    The new URLs are of the form

    http://forums.freelancetraveller.com/rss/<groupname>

    Please update your subscriptions accordingly.
  • Traveller HERO has been released! With the release, we have a new sample, replacing the old one, which has been linked from the Designers' Interview page in the Conversion Rules section of Doing It My Way. We've also added listings for HERO Designer and some data files to the multiplatform software list in the Information Center's Computer Connection.
July 2007
  • Joel Benford's story, Kursis Charter, based on the QLI adventure of the same name, has been updated in Raconteurs' Rest, with part 37 being added. He also has given us an overview of one of the worlds in the story, Sentry, in the Jump Destinations section of Kurishdam's Lecture Hall and Library.
  • Peter Gray's Crucible Campaign material, in Other Roads, is updated, with revisions to the articles for the Pretoria and Midway (formerly Sabinar) federations, the Stronghold, the Badlands, the Highwaymen, and the Cultural Taxonomy overview.
  • Our site search is now powered by Google, so expect results faster, and with more flexibility in setting up the search.
  • We've revised the forms slightly, and changed the mechanism behind them. If you give us a valid email address when submitting your question or feedback, you'll get a confirmation email with the information you submitted, and if there's a problem with the data you've submitted, it will be described.

    Note: At some point, a valid email address may be required - we WILL NOT give that email address to ANYONE without your permission (or a court order); we will ONLY use it for contacting you in connection with your feedback or question.
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
31 March 2007
  • Part 30 of Kursis Charter, by Joel Benford, has been added to Raconteurs' Rest.
  • Ken Murphy profiles the colorful Spanachi family in Up Close and Personal.
  • Beginning with the April updates, we will no longer indicate the exact dates of the updates; all updates that appear during a given month will appear in a single entry on this page after the first update of the following month appears on the RSS What's New page. We will also not be noting minor fixes or link updates on this page.
28 March 2007
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11 March 2007
21 Jan 2007
24 Dec 2006
22 Oct 2006
1 Oct 2006
10 Sep 2006
27 Aug 2006
30 July 2006
9 July 2006
2 July 2006
11 June 2006
28 May 2006
  • Conversion of older articles to the new look continues.
  • The web interface to the Freelance Traveller Forums is still down. This is because of deficiencies in our current hosting plan. We are looking for a new hosting plan that will support our needs for the forums.  However, the NNTP interface is still up and working, and accessible via a newsreader program.
  • At the request of DOJ, Inc., we have withdrawn the downloadable PDF for TravellerHero. The discussion from the authors remains on Freelance Traveller. DOJ and ComStar Games have come to an agreement allowing ComStar to publish Traveller material for the HERO System. See the announcement.
  • There will be a temporary outage of the main Freelance Traveller site some time during the month of June. This outage is not expected to last more than a few days, and represents the initiation of our new hosting arrangement. Shortly after the changeover, the web interface to the forums should be back on-line.
  • Part 18 of Kursis Charter, by Joel Benford, has been added to Raconteurs' Rest.
  • Ewan D. Quibell brings a review of the FASA Double Adventure, The Stazhlekh Report/The Harrensa Project, to Critics' Corner.
  • Added ComStar Games's titles to the list of published products in the FAQ, in the Information Center.
  • Brandon Cope brings his GURPS Traveller design for a heavy modular merchant ship to the Shipyard.
7 May 2006
22 April 2006
  • Conversion of older articles to the new look continues.
  • The web interface to the Freelance Traveller Forums is still down. This is because of deficiencies in our current hosting plan. We are looking for a new hosting plan that will support our needs for the forums.  However, the NNTP interface is still up and working, and accessible via a newsreader program.
  • Part 15 and Part 16 of Kursis Charter, by Joel Benford, has been added to Raconteurs' Rest.
  • A new subsection of Lecture Hall and Library, in Kurishdam, has been created. Jump Destinations contains writeups of individual worlds, including Joel Benford's writeup of Miip.
  • Some minor reorganization of the site has moved many of the RICE Papers. Links to these articles from outside Freelance Traveller are broken; please follow the links from  the RICE main page to get their new locations. RICE Papers on specific worlds are now with other Jump Destinations; RICE Papers on cultures not tied to a specific worlds are in The Club Room.
  • Michael Cessna brings two adventure seeds to Getting Off the Ground: Cat and Mouse and Combat Logistics. John G. Wood brings another: Extraction. See them in Active Measures.
19 March 2006
26 February 2006
12 February 2006
22 January 2006
8 January 2006
18 December 2005
4 December 2005
20 November 2005
23 October 2005
9 October 2005
2 October 2005
  • Conversion of older articles to the new look continues.
  • The authors of TravellerHERO have given us a look at the genesis of the project.
27 September 2005
3 September 2005
13 August 2005
17 July 2005
10 July 2005
26 June 2005
30 May 2005
15 May 2005
7 May 2005
10 April 2005
27 March 2005
13 March 2005
6 March 2005
21 February 2005
  • Conversion of older articles to the new look continues.
  • Peter Gray's extensive material on his Crucible Campaign, an alternative development of the area behind the Claw in the New Era, is now available in Other Roads.
30 January 2005
  • Conversion of older articles to the new look continues.
  • Mick Bailey's profiles of the Emperors of the Rule of Man are now available in the Lecture Hall and Library section of Kurishdam.
  • The Freelance Traveller Forums are live for pure NNTP access (using e.g., Forté Agent, XNews, Thunderbird, tin, slrn, etc.). To participate, you must register (it's free) by sending email to newsadmin at freelancetraveller.com. Include the username you'd like to use, and an email address you can be reached at; we will send you access instructions and your password via return mail.
16 January 2005
  • Conversion of older articles to the new look continues.
  • Ken Pick brings us Striker Zero, an adaptation of Ground Zero Games' Dirtside II and Stargrunt II for Traveller. Read this collection of articles in Doing It My Way.
  • At some point during this year, we will be converting our What's New/Changelog pages to database driven.  At the same time, or perhaps before that, we will be requesting permission to place a cookie on your system. This cookie will NOT be used to 'snoop' on you, but simply to indicate when you last visited our What's New or Changelog pages, so that when the database-driven versions go on line, we will be able to show you only those items you don't know about.
12 December 2004
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29 August 2004
8 August 2004
25 July 2004
4 July 2004
13 June 2004
23 May 2004
1 May 2004
11 April 2004
21 March 2004
Just a token update this time around; real life takes its toll. Next update will be the weekend of 10 April.
7 March 2004
15 February 2004
  • We've been neglecting completing the conversion of older articles to the new site design. A step toward correcting that is the single largest change to the site. We're also experimenting with minor adjustments to the look, based on some feedback that we've received.
  • Peter Trevor turns his spotlight on us for this update. See what he has to say in the LinkLooks section of Critics' Corner.
  • John Snead brings the Safe-T-Pod-class 3 Ton Lifeboat to the T4 section of the Shipyard.
25 January 2004
11 January 2004
28 December 2003
14 December 2003
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16 November 2003
26 October 2003
12 October 2003
28 September 2003
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