Freelance Traveller

Jul/Aug 2026	Department	Article Title	Author
	From the Editor		Jeff Zeitlin
	Featured Articles
	Raconteurs’ Rest	North Star 9: After-Action Report	Timothy Collinson
	Critics’ Corner	Adventure 13:Signa GK	Steve Hatherly
		Riding Shotgun	Ewan Quibell
		Flynn’s Guide to Alien Creation	Jeff Zeitlin
		Fleetwatch	Paul Anuni
	Active Measures	The Badawi Adventure: A Sacnoth Dominate Era Mini-Campaign	David Johnson
		A Job on Plaven	Ewan Quibell
	Columns	Confessions of a Newbie Referee: #81: Kumihimo	Timothy Collinson
	Fascinating Flora	Lantern Maw	Jeff Zeitlin
	Multimedia Gallery	The Pirates of Drinax Graphic Stories: #17A: On to Thebus	Joe Adams
	Raconteurs’ Rest	The Astoundingly True Tale of José Fabuloso [Chapter 21]	Jo Jaquinta
	In A Store Near You	Foamcret	Jo Jaquinta
		Skinmarker/Pa-asab	Timothy Collinson
	The Prep Room	En Route	Timothy Collinson and Jane Polwin
		Techniques in Plotting and Characterization	Jim Vassilakos
	Less Dangerous Game	Bughunter	Martin Carter

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From the Editor

I can’t say that I’m finally back on schedule with the magazine; this issue is still a week later than I’d have preferred. However, I think I may have “turned the corner”, and if the weather doesn’t persist in enervating me, and if the day job (that pays for my life, including being able to put out Freelance Traveller) stays relatively calm, maybe the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t an oncoming train.

That said, one thing that helped was that people sent in a good mix of articles at good sizes. This meant that I didn’t have to scramble to find old enough reprints to fill space, and no section was positioned to overwhelm the issue. To all my contributors, thank you, and I hope people will continue to exercise their imaginations, and send in the products thereof.

There are still several sections that could use some submissions, “Less Dangerous Game” and “Fascinating Flora” notably among them. I’d also like to see more adventures, and more reviews from people other than Paul Anuni and I. One special request: If you’re involved in actually organizing and running a gaming convention, I wouldn’t mind an article about it, and what’s involved in making it happen, from start to finish.

I’m going to briefly step away from Freelance Traveller in this half-page of blather, and note that both Europe and the eastern USA have been experiencing record heat as I “go to press”. Please take this as a reminder to stay hydrated, and to rehydrate as often as possible, and (to the extent possible) stay where the heat isn’t so severe (or the temperature is controlled, as with air conditioning).