http://stellarreaches.nwgamers.org A Fanzine for Traveller Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:14:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Good Morning, All: There appears to have been a misunderstanding of some sort, and so I feel that I need to take a moment here to clarify myself. Some have thought, because I posted last year about delays on my part in releasing issues, that I wasn't taking submissions for the ... http://stellarreaches.nwgamers.org/2008/04/29/your-submissions-are-welcome-at-any-time/ Good Afternoon, All: You might be asking yourself the same question: Where's Number Nine? Well, hopefully I have an easy answer here. In short, it's been three months since our last issue, and I have not had a single new article submission. I only have a few adventures left in the ... http://stellarreaches.nwgamers.org/2008/04/14/wheres-number-nine/ 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 ... http://stellarreaches.nwgamers.org/2008/01/13/issue-8-is-now-online/ 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 ... http://stellarreaches.nwgamers.org/2008/01/10/mongoose-now-has-a-fair-use-policy-or-the-otu-is-back-in/ 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 ... http://stellarreaches.nwgamers.org/2008/01/09/open-game-content-in-stellar-reaches/ 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 The Fair Use policy that allowed me to publish material for the Official Traveller Universe (the OTU) is no longer valid.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, ... http://stellarreaches.nwgamers.org/2008/01/07/the-future-of-stellar-reaches-or-wheres-issue-8/ Good Morning, All: Please forgive me for the long delay in posting an official update to this site. Yes, I am still alive, but as you can tell, Issue #8 is still delayed. This is through no one else's fault but my own. In September and October of this year, I've ... http://stellarreaches.nwgamers.org/2007/11/13/i-am-alive-but-issue-8-still-delayed/ Good Morning, All: I was pleased to read this morning that Traveller is going OGL under the administration of Mongoose Publishing, Inc. For more on that story, please check out: Mongoose's Traveller announcement I don't yet know enough about it to know what this means for Stellar Reaches, but I assure you that ... http://stellarreaches.nwgamers.org/2007/08/04/traveller-goes-ogl/ Good Afternoon, All, Due to personal and Real Life (tm) issues, I have not completed the work necessary to release Issue #8 of Stellar Reaches. As Gen Con Indy is only two weeks away, I will probably not get back to it until after I have returned home from "The Four ... http://stellarreaches.nwgamers.org/2007/08/02/issue-8-postponed/ Good Morning, All, This is just a quick note to let everyone know that the deadline for submissions for Issue #8 is Saturday, June 30th, 2007. I already have a number of interesting submissions, but I'm always open to more. We could easily use a few patron encounters, starship articles, adventures, ... http://stellarreaches.nwgamers.org/2007/06/01/issue-8-deadline-june-30th/