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[[Journal of the Travellers Aid Society]] was a role-playing game magazine devoted to [[Traveller]], commonly abbreviated '''JTAS'''. | [[Journal of the Travellers Aid Society]] was a role-playing game magazine devoted to [[Traveller]], commonly abbreviated '''JTAS'''. | ||
* If you are looking for the [[Mongoose Publishing]] version published in 2019, [[New Traveller: Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society|click here]]. | * If you are looking for the [[Mongoose Publishing]] version published in 2019, [[New Traveller: Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society|click here]]. |
Revision as of 23:25, 19 July 2019
Journal of the Travellers Aid Society was a role-playing game magazine devoted to Traveller, commonly abbreviated JTAS.
- If you are looking for the Mongoose Publishing version published in 2019, click here.
Description (Specifications)
Articles in the magazine were grouped in various categories, some of which only started in later issues:
JTAS Article Categories | |
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Section | Remarks |
From the Management: | Editorial, sometimes including comments, ideas, and short news items |
Cover Article: | The headline article for the issue |
Amber Zone: | Ready-to-play scenarios, complete with patrons, rumors and nasty surprises |
Contact!: | Intelligent beings or sophonts of the Universe |
Modules: | Official additions to the Traveller rules |
Ship's Locker: | Expansions to the equipment lists in the basic game |
Bestiary: | Expansions to the original Animal Encounters in the basic game |
Variant: | A modification to an existing game |
Ref's Notes: | Discussions on some aspect of Traveller from the referee's viewpoint |
Review: | An in-depth look at items of interest to SF gamers |
New Products Seen: | Short reviews of new releases |
Q&A: | Answering questions on all facets of Traveller |
Table of Contents
Issue Listing:
- JTAS (Issues 1-24)
- No. 1: Annic Nova
- No. 2: Victoria
- No. 3: Asteroid Mining
- No. 4: Gazelle Class Close Escort Vessels
- No. 5: Imperium
- No. 6: The Imperial Interstellar Scout Service
- No. 7: Champa Interstellar Starport
- No. 8: Broadsword class Mercenary Cruisers
- No. 9: War!
- No. 10: Planet-building, a Referee's Guide
- No. 11: Striker Miniatures Issue
- No. 12: Merchant Prince
- No. 13: Hivers
- No. 14: Laws & Lawbreakers
- No. 15: Azun: A High-Population World in the Solomani Rim
- No. 16: SuSAG
- No. 17: Atmospheres
- No. 18: Traveling Without Jumping
- No. 19: Skyport Authority
- No. 20: Prologue
- No. 21: Vargr
- No. 22: Port to Jump-point
- No. 23: Zhodani Philosophies
- No. 24: Religion in the Two Thousand Worlds
- Best of Series
- Best of the Journal Volume 1 (Issues 1-4)
- Best of the Journal Volume 2 (Issues 5-8)
- Best of the Journal Volume 3 (Issues 9-12)
- Best of the Journal Volume 4 (Issues 13-16)
- Challenge (Issues 25-33)
- No. 25: Lisiani
- No. 26: Cargo
- No. 27: Grandfather's Worlds
- No. 28: Sector to Sector
- No. 29: A Decade of Traveller
- No. 30: The Warehouse
- No. 31: Hazardous Cargos
- No. 32: Swift Water
- No. 33: Project Farstar
- JTAS (Issues 25-26)
Meta-history & Background (Dossier)
The first issue was published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1979 and the last of the first run was #24 in 1985 CE. It was superseded by the magazine Challenge, which took up its numbering scheme and ran from issue 25 onwards with a broader role-playing game focus. All 24 issues in the first run, and the first nine issues of Challenge magazine were collected into three publications by Far Future Enterprises in 2002-3:
- The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 1-12.
- The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 13-24.
- The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 25-33.
The Journal was resurrected for two additional issues in 1996 under Imperium Games, where the numbering was taken from where it was left off (JTAS #25 and #26).
Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society was resurrected as an e-zine edited by Loren Wiseman under Steve Jackson Games and GURPS Traveller. It is currently out-of-print, but is pending “re-print” by Far Future Enterprises in 2018. See JTAS SJG.
JTAS / Challenge Issues
This is an overview of the JTAS / Challenge Magazine (periodical) run:
Credits (Primary Sources)
Credit | Authors & Contributors |
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Editor | Loren Wiseman |
Writers | A vast number of authors |
References & Contributions (Sources)
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science