Archive for January, 2008

Issue #8 is now online!

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Greetings, Fellow Sophonts:
Issue #8 of Stellar Reaches is now available on our downloads page!
This issue is our largest yet, with over seventy pages of fantastic material for your Traveller game. Mark “Commander Drax” Bridgeman brings us our feature adventure, The Irash Express, which is the second part of his series The Lorimar Slot. Alvin Plummer […]

Mongoose Now Has A Fair Use Policy (or The OTU Is Back In)…

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Good Morning, All:
I have received some official clarification from Chris Longhurst in regards to the future of fan-created OTU material in Stellar Reaches:
Hi all.
Just to clarify, we’ve reached a decision: free stuff is okay.
I think a proper ‘fair use policy’ should probably have more legal
waffle than that, but that’s what it boils down to. As […]

Open Game Content in Stellar Reaches…

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Good Morning, All:
Under the Open Gaming License Version 1.0A, you must declare your Open Game Content, which is the game content that other publishers can use in their own OGL products. Quiklink has already released a lot of game mechanics as Open Game Content, and not all of them are restricted to the D20 System […]

The Future of Stellar Reaches (or Where’s Issue #8?)

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Good Morning, All:
This weekend, I received some very important news that impacts the future of the Stellar Reaches fanzine. The Fair Use policy that allowed me to publish material for the Official Traveller Universe (the OTU) is no longer valid. Mongoose Publishing now has sole rights to the OTU setting, and since I do not […]