Marc is starting another Kickstarter for Traveller fans...
http://kck.st/2uAViRl

About this project

Loren Wiseman was editor of the Journal of the Traveller' Aid Society (but
if you think that the JTAS covers stories of helping distressed immigrants,
you are in the wrong place) from 1979 to 2015. In that time, he wrote more
than 400 editorials about games, game design, science-fiction, and a lot
more. The writings range from the mundane (as in product announcements) to
the sublime (with insights into the game design process, or memories of his
days at GDW). At an average of 500 words each, the texts come to more than
250,000 words.

Alas, Loren left us in February of this year and we think his thoughts and
insights are worth reviewing and preserving. We have put together three
examples just for an early peek:
• His introductory editorial when JTAS Online started in February, 2000.
(http://www.traveller5.net/2000JanEditorial.pdf)
• An editorial from 2002 talking about how he would have done Traveller
differently.  (http://www.traveller5.net/2002JanEditorial.pdf)
• His thoughts on his 40th anniversary as a game designer.
(http://www.traveller5.net/2013FebEditorial.pdf)

The manuscript runs more than 250,000 words. For technophobes and
bibliophiles, the printed book is about 500 pages with a full index.

The book is divided into chapters by year (2000 through 2015), with about a
hundred editorials per chapter. The Table of Contents shows chapters by
year and individual dated editorials within.

Steve Jackson has agreed to write a Foreword, and Marc Miller will write an
Afterword.

And There's More: Loren edited the Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society
for GDW Game Designers' Workshop from 1979 to 1988, Challenge Magazine
until 1996, and then JTAS Online for Steve Jackson Games from 2000 to 2015.
We have collected all of the magazines Loren edited (the GDW JTAS and GDW
Challenge Magazine are scanned PDFs; the SJG JTAS is HTML with an
interface) on a USB Drive (it totals just under one GB).

http://kck.st/2uAViRl

Also...

We've mentioned before that Marc will be at TravellerCON/USA this years. We
now can reveal that he will be running character generation workshopping
throughout the con (you must sign up in advance - see the TravellerCON/USA
website), _plus_ he will be giving a lecture (subject not yet revealed)
_and_ there will be a Q&A/Sign-My-Stuff session (again, you must sign up in
advance, and if you have a question you'd like to see answered in the Q&A,
you must submit it at the time you register for the session; questions will
be pre-screened - see the TravellerCON/USA site)

TravellerCON/USA: http://www.travellercon-usa.com/
Con Registration: http://www.travellercon-usa.com/registration.html
The Lectures: http://www.travellercon-usa.com/game-1---lecture.html
The Workshops: http://www.travellercon-usa.com/game-20---strapovich.html

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