Good Afternoon, 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 The Fair Use policy that allowed me to publish material for the Official Traveller Universe (the OTU) is no longer valid.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, and since I do not have a pre-existing license from Marc Miller to publish OTU material through the fanzine, I cannot include any OTU material in future issues of Stellar Reaches, which includes Issue #8. Since most of the submitted material takes place in the OTU, I cannot use it in its current form.
Under the Traveller OGL, we may use any game mechanics covered in the SRD once it is released, to create and publish for any setting of our own creation, so long as it does not reference the Official Traveller Universe in any form or fashion.
Stellar Reaches will remain as a Traveller fanzine, and will publish fan-generated material for free, as it always has. I have plans to release other Traveller publications through my own imprint, Samardan Press, but I will discuss those plans on another venue, out of respect for those that provide these boards.
If you have previously submitted an Official Traveller Universe article that you would like to revise and resubmit, you are more than welcome to do so. I would be greatly appreciative.
Yours In Service,
Jason “Flynn” Kemp,
Editor, Stellar Reaches fanzine
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 The Fair Use policy that allowed me to publish material for the Official Traveller Universe (the OTU) is no longer valid.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, and since I do not have a pre-existing license from Marc Miller to publish OTU material through the fanzine, I cannot include any OTU material in future issues of Stellar Reaches, which includes Issue #8. Since most of the submitted material takes place in the OTU, I cannot use it in its current form.
Under the Traveller OGL, we may use any game mechanics covered in the SRD once it is released, to create and publish for any setting of our own creation, so long as it does not reference the Official Traveller Universe in any form or fashion.
Stellar Reaches will remain as a Traveller fanzine, and will publish fan-generated material for free, as it always has. I have plans to release other Traveller publications through my own imprint, Samardan Press, but I will discuss those plans on another venue, out of respect for those that provide these boards.
If you have previously submitted an Official Traveller Universe article that you would like to revise and resubmit, you are more than welcome to do so. I would be greatly appreciative.
Yours In Service,
Jason “Flynn” Kemp,
Editor, Stellar Reaches fanzine