Den of the Lizard King

2026 was a rough year so far for me, Omer Golan-Joel, owner of Stellagama Publishing.

I have written much about Classic Traveller skills in the past decade.

Faced with a cluttered home, overwork, and financial insecurity, I have decide to simplify my life and drastically cut my expenses.

I am thinking about migrating my Dark Nebula variant-OTU setting to the Galaxiad milieu of the Official Traveller Universe.

Art by Edna www.fotosearch.com One of my main current projects is Sorcerous Nomad.

I think I found my new favorite Official Traveller Universe (OTU) "milieu": the Galaxiad.

I made even further progress with my Lore25 challenge maps: a full Referee's map including Drill routes, and a Players' map with only the commonly-known stars and routes noted.

I have progressed further in developing my Lore25 starmap for the Ishtar and Apep sectors.

I have been dedicating the first week of the Lore25 challenge to drafting the star maps of the adjacent Ishtar and Apep Sectors into a simple, easily printable, B&W map.

Similar to my abortive attempt at the Sector23 Challenge two years ago, I wish now to undertake a new yearly challenge, hopefully to bring to completion this time!

I decided I wanted to play a solo campaign in Barrowmaze, using Shadowdark with its free SoloDark supplement.

I have recently bought and read XBoat Special Supplement 2: Galaxiad Gaming Kit, published in March 2024 by Robert Eaglestone, a licensed - and canonical - milieu of the Official Traveller Universe (OTU), noting Marc Miller himself as an advisor and source

Art by Nomad_Soul Following the Library Data A-M I posted yesterday for my Dark Nebula 2900 setting, here are the N-Z entries.

I have once posted the Library Data for my Dark Nebula 2900 setting - a quasi-OTU Classic Traveller setting.

After receiving some input from my readers and the Traveller community at large, I decided to keep the two Subsectors format of my Dark Nebula quasi-OTU setting.

The original idea for my Dark Nebula quasi-OTU (Original Traveller Universe) setting for Classic Traveller was that of two subsectors, side by side, providing a large and comprehensive sandbox to play in.

Three and a half months ago, Stellagama Publishing released Faster Than Light: Nomad, our new premier sci-fi ruleset.

I have recently been attracted to a new OSR (or OSR-adjacent?)

Hard science fiction, like our real world, favors the gun over the sword.

The Second Edition of The Sword of Cepheus refines and redefines the game, upgrading it for greater usability and playability by a wide variety of players with varying playstyles.

Yesterday, I discussed the question of empty-hex (deep-space) jumps in Classic Traveller.

During research for my Box-Centric Classic Traveller blog post, the question arose: can Box-Centric Classic Traveller jump into, and from, empty map hexes?

I have written in the past about Proto-Traveller: a way to play Classic Traveller focusing on its older roots, namely the first three booklets released in a black book in 1977.

Art by deanz; purchased through Adobe Stock I was thinking of an OSR-fantasy setting.

Our artist, Maximilian Schmuecker, who made the Cepheus Deluxe: Enhanced Edition cover, is hard at work on the cover of the second edition of The Sword of Cepheus (SoC2).