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Synopsis

Journal of the Travellers Aid Society is a role-playing game magazine devoted to Traveller, commonly abbreviated JTAS.

Description

Articles in the magazine were grouped in various categories:

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;
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.

Meta-history & Background

The first issue was published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1979 and the last of the first run was #24 in 1985. It was superseded by the magazine Challenge, which took up its numbering scheme and ran from issue 25 onwards with a broader role-playing game focus.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 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 is now an e-zine edited by Loren Wiseman under Steve Jackson Games and GURPS Traveller. See: JTAS Online

Credits

Editor: Loren Wiseman

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

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)

No. 25: Vestiges
No. 26: Artifacts Unearthed

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 ==Synopsis ==
 '''''Journal of the Travellers Aid Society''''' is a role-playing game magazine devoted to Traveller, commonly abbreviated '''JTAS'''.
+==Description==
+Articles in the magazine were grouped in various categories:
+*'''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;
+*'''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.
 ==Meta-history & Background ==