Journal of the Travellers Aid Society Issues #1-12.These are collections of the earlier GDW publications. GURPS Traveller The Best of JTAS - Steve Jackson Games Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society #26 (1997) ASIN B000NPSB0I.Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society #25 (1996) ASIN B000F9JG2E.Imperium Games T4 - Marc Miller's Traveller Challenge Magazine 36 IRIS 3 (1988) ASIN B000KTZUBK.Challenge Magazine 35 The Spice of Life (1988).Challenge Magazine 34 IRIS 2 (1988) ASIN B000E5ED3G.Challenge Magazine 33 IRIS 1 (1988) ASIN B000E5DI50.Challenge Magazine 32 A World On Its Own (1988) ASIN B000G30DVM.Challenge Magazine 31 Hazardous Cargoes (1987) ASIN B000KTZUBU.Challenge Magazine 30 The Fall of the Imperium (1987) ASIN B000ERK356.Challenge Magazine 29 The Sabmiqys (1987) ASIN B000KTZUDS.Challenge Magazine 28 K'kree Starships (1987) ASIN B000ERI5Z6.Challenge Magazine 27 Grandfather's Worlds (1986) ASIN B000ERM0KM.Challenge Magazine 26 Cargo (A Merchant Prince Variant) (1986) ASIN B000KTXQOS.Challenge Magazine 25 Fleet Escort Lisiani (1986) ASIN B000U338EM.Best of JTAS Volume 4 Issues 13-16 (1983) ASIN B000QYFKNC.Best of JTAS Volume 3 Issues 9-12 (1982) ASIN B000QYFJIS.Best of JTAS Volume 2 Issues 5-8 (1980) ASIN B000QYFGWM.Best of JTAS Volume 1 Issues 1-4 (1981) ASIN B000F955T2.23 Zhodani Philosophies (1985) ASIN B000QYN9ZI.22 Port to Jumppoint (1985) ASIN B000QYJYJI.21 Vargr, including Special Supplement 3: Missiles in Traveller (1984) ASIN B000QYI2IW.19 Skyport Authority (1983) ASIN B000QYHUY4.18 Travelling without Jumping (1983) ASIN B000QYHSUA.17 Atmospheres, including Special Supplement 2, Atmospheres (1983) ASIN B000QYGDWE.14 Laws and Lawbreakers (1982) ASIN B002JHEIPU.12 Merchant Prince, including Special Supplement 1, Merchant Prince (1982 ASIN B000QYJ7YA.08 Broadsword Class Mercenary Cruisers (1981) ASIN B000QYIYT4.04 Gazelle Class Close Escorts (1980) ASIN B004RHZ2K0.Under this system, a world which should be approached with caution is denoted an 'Amber Zone,' and a world that should not be approached at all is denoted a 'Red Zone.' It does so by maintaining low-cost hostels at many of the large starports, and, most importantly, by maintaining its 'rating system,' which warns of the dangers inherent in visiting certain worlds. The idea of the TAS is that it is an organization that exists to support what are basically 'transients,' or 'wanderers' around the galaxy. In the original Traveller game, it was not too uncommon for characters to obtain membership in the TAS during character creation. The Journal of the Travellers Aid Society takes its name from the fictional Travellers' Aid Society (TAS) that was first mentioned in the original incarnation of the Traveller game published by Game Designers Workshop. Mongoose Publishing produced six volumes of Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society in 2020 as part of their Traveller licence. : 111 JTAS was revived once again as a weekly, then bi-weekly subscriber-supported web magazine in February, 2000. : 333Īfter Steve Jackson Games licensed the Traveller setting, Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society was resurrected as an online magazine in 2000. Imperium Games published Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society #25 in 1996, and published their second and final issue of the Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society in 1997. : 55 GDW's original magazine ended with The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society #24 (1984) it was soon replaced with a new magazine, Challenge, which continued JTAS' numbering with issue #25 (1986) but covered all of GDW's games, not just Traveller. : 55 JTAS #9 (1981) GDW developed their metaplot for Traveller by describing the start of a war with an alien species named the Zhodani. : 55 JTAS #2 (1979) began printing excerpts from the 'Traveller News Service', which provided information on 'current' events in the Imperium that issue, dated 274–1105, offered two news excerpts from Regina sector, dated 097-1105 and 101–1105.
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: 56 Marc Miller decided that, rather than using modern dates for the magazine, each issue would instead be based on the in-game Imperium's calendar, and the calendar advanced about 90 days every quarterly issue.
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Andrew Keith's writing for JTAS was so extensive that he had to take the pseudonyms John Marshal and Keith Douglass (he was later 'caught' when a reader did a word-use analysis of his articles and determined that they were all written by the same person). Wiseman created a magazine to support Traveller, which resulted in Game Designers' Workshop's The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society (JTAS), which Loren Wiseman would further develop as editor over its history.