This is Free Trader Beowulf

This is Free Trader Beowulf

This was my main present from the better half, a landscape format coffee-table book which explores the history of Traveller. I found myself looking at projects I'd worked on (predominantly BITS) and having a huge nostalgia rush. It's titled after the iconic text quote on the cover of the original Classic Traveller box set, a short fiction piece that set the whole feel of the game.

The book even leans into the (slow disappearing) Mongoose reputation with a typo on the spine ("Free Trader Beowilf").

I'm looking forward into digging into this over the next day or two; spending time with my forever game is always a pleasure. So glad this was created.

It does lead me with a dilemma; one of the potential projects I was going to do was to revamp the BITS website this holiday, which may have involved a complete move to a different platform, but now I realise that the references in the book all have hard URL inks to pages on the site. If I rebuild, I will break them!

Merry Christmas all.

25 December 2024