Your TAS News Bits

[greypilgrim]

IMTU (running "in the beginning" of the official game in 1105) I've accumulated all of the available TAS news briefs from all the JTAS issues to dole out to my players and their PC at the appropriate times. I would be interested in any and all news items that any of you have posted for your players that dealt with teasers or other background info/intel that you gave out to your players. It would be interesting to note what else might be going on in the rest of the Traveller universe. Mine is in the Spinward Marches.
[My time today is short - I will later post stuff which I included for mine.]

 

[coliver988]

If you can find Don's Traveller timeline (and it may be in the files section) it has almost all the printed stuff. See this wiki article. I have a copy and use it when trying to see what else is going on in the time period I am playing in.

 

[ady]

A quick way to make your own is to gather short news reports from the real world and change the locations and dates to match the spinward marches and have them takig place on whatever world the players are landing on. There is a list of text only news sites here. https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/

 

[Commander Truestar]

One thing I like doing is going to shipping news archives from the age of sail. London newspapers from the 1700 and 1800's
I also make up my own and have begun using vignettes from "Traveller's Tales Vol 1"

Check out a recent after action report from my game which has news items here:

Finding Allies And Making Enemies

www.usedstarships.com

 

[PVernon]

NOTE - There is a thread, somewhere around here, of real news headlines with Traveller adventure hooks.