Gray Lensman
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Been travelling thru my JTAS and Challenge Mags for the first time in a couple of decades. Is it just me or were you also disappointed when there were really no more CT articles?
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General Rereading JTAS and Challenge
- Thread starter Gray Lensman
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Honestly by the time JTAS moved into Challenge it seemed like a shadow of its former self to me. That may simply have been because the period I read it most closely, 1980 - 1984, was a kind of high water mark for CT. Sure, many good things came after, most notably the Alien Modules, but the adventures and supplements had tapered off a good bit by then.
Gray Lensman
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I just stared re-reading them yesterday. Blast from the past aside, there was/is some good material in there.
One thing I would like to ask - Did anyone play the Main Adventures and fill in any of the gaps in between?
Major B
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I'll second both the first point and the following question.
I started actively re-reading JTAS for my first writing project and have been continuing both for a second project and because there is so much goodness and fodder packed into every volume.
Now I am building up my library of the Digest for the reason agorski mentioned - from the content it seems a more worthy follow-on to JTAS than Challenge.
I would love to see feedback to Lensman's question.
I don't know. I tended to like Challenge more than JTAS. JTAS wasn't quite ADQ for CW in that there wasn't a whole lot of new equipment and weapons, just scenarios or travel guides. At least that's what I remember. Challenge became more Trav oriented in all respects.
GypsyComet
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Ah, yes, the setting breaker, though they didn't know that at the time.
