JTAS Publication Dates

[creativehum]

I've looked around and can't find this...

The JTAS ToC page listed the year of publication, but not the month.

Does anyone know the publication dates of the first 24 issues of the JTAS?

Or at least the month of the first issue? (They were printed quarterly, so I can do the math from there.)

The first issues was published in 1979. Can anyone give me a more precise date?

Thanks!

 

[GypsyComet]

The "internal" date of each issue tracked the calendar year, IIRC. JTAS#1 had an internal date of 183-1105.

 

[Vargas]

Or at least the month of the first issue? (They were printed quarterly, so I can do the math from there.)

Except that they weren't always on time unfortunately . . .

EDIT: And I'm not sure the internal date was ever changed to reflect a delay.

My best guesses based on memory . . .

17 - Fall '83
19 - May or June '84
20 - August '84
22 - January or February '85

 

[creativehum]

For clarity:
I am looking for the actual real dates of the times people printed them and read them

 

[infojunky]

Why?.... (asked good-naturedly)

 

[creativehum]

As an infojunky, of course you want to know why!

I was writing a post on another thread about the development of the Classic Traveller line, tracking the growth of the rules over the years, the development of the Third Imperium over the same years. I was able to compare Books, Supplements, and Adventures.

I wanted to add JTAS issues into the mix as well. But without details about when the issues came out relative to the other material, I could not.

I posted what I could, leaving out the JTAS material.

 

[ffilz]

As an infojunky, of course you want to know why!

I was writing a post on another thread about the development of the Classic Traveller line, tracking the growth of the rules over the years, the development of the Third Imperium over the same years. I was able to compare Books, Supplements, and Adventures.

I wanted to add JTAS issues into the mix as well. But without details about when the issues came out relative to the other material, I could not.

I posted what I could, leaving out the JTAS material.

Which thread?

 

[creativehum]

Which thread?

A thread someone started at The RPG Site called "Traveller 3 Black Books -- All You Need?"

My post is here.

 

[mike wightman]

Hmm, that's an rpg forum site I have never visited.

I notice the names of some blasts from the past on that thread.

 

[creativehum]

It is filled with folks who have fled -- or even banned -- from other sites.

But they talk Old School styles of play as their base assumption, so I go there to talk old school play.

 

[aramis]

Hmm, that's an rpg forum site I have never visited.

I notice the names of some blasts from the past on that thread.

It's a toxic cesspit, but it often has great info and discussions. Note that the moderation is pretty much "No spamming, otherwise, anything goes".... including ad hominem and strawman fallacies galore. Oh, and the fastest way to get banned there? Demand they ban someone over personal attacks.

 

[creativehum]

It's a toxic cesspit, but it often has great info and discussions. Note that the moderation is pretty much "No spamming, otherwise, anything goes".... including ad hominem and strawman fallacies galore.

It's true, it's all true.

I stay out of all the nonsense, but it is there on the board. (The worst offender being the guy who runs the site.)

But if I want to go ask about Hex Crawls or hash out approaches to GMing it's got lots of people focused on actual techniques and actual play.

 

[infojunky]

As an infojunky, of course you want to know why!

I was writing a post on another thread about the development of the Classic Traveller line, tracking the growth of the rules over the years, the development of the Third Imperium over the same years. I was able to compare Books, Supplements, and Adventures.

I wanted to add JTAS issues into the mix as well. But without details about when the issues came out relative to the other material, I could not.

I posted what I could, leaving out the JTAS material.

Color me amused.

After reading you could get away with the publication year, but that doesn't support your argument very clearly.

I recently have been amusing myself by going through and comparing jTas to the mass of concurrent 3rd party material. One of things I find very amusing is the amount of material the Keith brothers produced under a wide number of imprints.