Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, or JTAS, was GDW's official Traveller magazine during the classic era of the game, edited by Loren Wiseman. It featured regular columns such as Amber Zones, a Bestiary, and The Ship's Locker, and also laid the groundwork for much of the Charted Space setting. After issue #24 it transformed in Challenge.

Publisher: GDW
Type: Magazine
Issues: #1-24

Locale: USA (Illinois)
System: Classic
Debut: June 1979

Challenge not only replaced JTAS, but it continued directly with its numbering. Its initial intent was to provide support for not just Traveller, but also Twilight: 2000. Over the years, it would support all of GDW's major games and also become a general magazine supporting science-fiction and horror roleplaying, particularly Call of Cthulhu, Cyberpunk, Shadowrun, and Star Wars. Nonetheless, about half of its content remained focused on GDW's own games. The timing of Challenge's lifespan meant that its Traveller support was mainly for MegaTraveller. Unfortunately, that coverage was very scattered: the lack of a central focus was an overarching problem for the game.

Note: Traveller-focused Index only.

Publisher: GDW
Type: Magazine
Issues: #25-77

Locale: USA (Illinois)
System: General
Debut: April 1986

Though Imperial Lines wasn't a proper magazine, it was nonethless an official newsletter, produced for GDW by three HIWG members: Mark "Geo" Gelinas, Mike Mikesh, and John Meyers. The initial issue debuted with Assignment Vigilante (1992), but GDW soon proved unable to mail it due to financial problems at the time.

Publisher: GDW
Type: Newsletter
Issues: #1-5

Locale: USA (Illinois)
System: MegaTraveller
Debut: Mid 1992

Though it continued the number from GDW's JTAS v1, JTAS v2 was a very different magazine, not just because of its focus on T4 (1996), but also because of its production team's relative inexperience with Traveller, its focus on fiction, its numerous controversies, and ultimately its very short run. JTAS v2 would be an ignoble end to a long history of professional Traveller periodicals.

Publisher: Imperium
Type: Magazine
Issues: #25-26

Locale: USA (Wisconsin)
System: T4
Debut: December 1996

Signs & Portents was Mongoose Publishing's house organ, begun back in 2003 as a print magazine to support their d20 lineup. By the time Traveller came along with Signs & Portents #53, it was a free online magazine. A few Traveller articles could be found in each issue through the magazine's finale in Signs & Portents #93, circa mid-2011. After that, many S&P article reprints and (later) new content, appeared in a trilogy of Traveller Compendiums.

Note: Traveller-focused Index only.

Publisher: Mongoose
Type: Magazine
Issues: #53-93 / #1-3

Locale: UK (Wiltshire)
System: Mongoose 1e
Debut: August 2003

The second incarnation of Imperiallines (without the space) was created to support Traveller5 (2013), primarily through examples of its use. It was edited by Robert Eaglestone and its core contributors also included Andrea Vallance, Donald McKinney, Greg Lee, and James Kundert. The newsletter ran just two issues from September 2014 to January 2015. A third (eighth) issue was content complete but never published.

Publisher: FFE
Type: Newsletter
Issues: #6-7

Locale: USA (Illinois)
System: T5
Debut: September 2014

The fourth incarnation of JTAS returned to print, but it was nonetheless a creature of the 21st century: it depended on Kickstarters to fund and publicize production, with the magazine created in batches of six issues every few years. JTAS v4 was still very much a magazine, full of short articles, but it also was a very dense one. It's 128-page issues easily contain several issues worth of content when compared to the original JTAS from GDW.

Publisher: Mongoose
Type: Magazine
Issues: #1-6 (partial)

Locale: UK (Wiltshire)
System: Mongoose 2e
Debut: December 2019

High Passage was a professional magazine started by a group of high-school friends in a graphic design class. It in fact was Traveller's second professional magazine (and likely third periodical overall). Very quickly the High Passage Group linked up with FASA and the Keith Brothers, who supported later issues, then replaced it with their own Far Traveller magazine.

Publisher: HPG
Type: Magazine
Issues: #1-5 / #1-2
Locale: USA (Illinois)
System: Classic
HP Debut: Spring 1981
FT Debut: October 1982

The fourth professional Traveller magazine, and the most long-lived and influential print magazine other than JTAS itself. The Travellers' Digest was the magazine of Digest Group Publications, or DGP, who used it to tell the story of a Grand Tour across the Third Imperium. Many of the ideas within The Travellers' Digest formed the basis of MegaTraveller, which was also authored by DGP.

Publisher: DGP
Type: Magazine
Issues: #1-21

Locale: USA (Idaho)
System: Classic to Mega
Debut: June 1985

The MegaTraveller Journal directly replaced The Travellers' Digest and offered a new focus on the Domain of Deneb, the only attempt to create a focused home setting in the MegaTraveller era. It was unfortunately short-lived due to the fact that DGP itself was on its way out. The last issue is notable for its inclusion of the Keith supplement, "Lords of Thunder".

Publisher: DGP
Type: Magazine
Issues: #1-4

Locale: USA (Oregon)
System: MegaTraveller
Debut: February 1991

Traveller Chronicle bridged the gap from MegaTraveller (1987) to T4 (1996) while also resurrecting Golden Age projects such as "A Pilot's Guide to the Caledon Subsector" and "The Far Frontiers" and providing a home to New Era projects such as "Children of Earth". It was truly a magazine for "Traveller in all of its forms".

Publisher: SotK
Type: Magazine
Issues: #1-13

Locale: USA (Kentucky)
System: Classic to TNE
Debut: July 1993

Xboat was Robert Eaglestone's Traveller5 fanzine, created as part of the first 'Zine Quest on Kickstarter, in 2019. The plan was to produce four print issues on a quarterly basis, which expanded to include a Special Supplement as a stretch goal. The first two issues and the Special came out like clockwork, and then the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the last two. One more issue was produced afterward as a PDF-only addendum. Xboat is the closest thing to a classic print periodical produced in the 21st century.

Publisher: Self
Type: Magazine
Issues: #1-5+SS1

Locale: USA (Texas)
System: T5
Debut: August 2019

Alien Star, which originated in Dorset in the UK, was the first major Traveller fanzine. It was originally published by two students from the Poole Gramma School of Dorset and later handed off to Dave Hockham of Minifigs-Skytrex. In the later era it became less Traveller-centric.

Publisher: Self
Type: Fanzine
Issues: #1-8

Locale: UK (Dorset)
System: Classic
Debut: February 1981

Dark Star was Traveller's fourth periodical, but the first newsletter, which offered up shorter and less polished content, focused on news and reviews (with some of the equipment, patrons, and other short content popular in Traveller). It ran for six months in the UK, the product of a Games Workshop staffer.

Note: Index of issue #1 is poor, based solely on descriptions of issue.

Publisher: Self
Type: Fan Newsletter
Issues: #1-6

Locale: UK (London)
System: Classic
Debut: June 1981

Ed Edwards' Working Passage was the groundbreaking Traveller newsletter that opened the floodgates for Traveller fanzine publication in the '80s. Not only did it directly lead to Between Worlds and Imperium Staple but it also indirectly led to many others ... and then Edwards co-founded HIWG, the main mover in Traveller fandom into the '90s.

Publisher: Self
Type: Fan Newsletter
Issues: #0-11

Locale: USA (Oklahoma) System: Classic
Debut: November 1984

Between Worlds was a short-lived fanzine published by Magnus M. Abel. Issues continued to be sold well after its shutdown, with the hope of reviving the 'zine.

Publisher: Self
Type: Fanzine
Issues: #1-6

Locale: USA (Florida)
System: Classic
Debut: December 1985

The Imperium Staple was founded by high-school student Herb Petro with the support of Ed Edwards, who had previously edited Working Passage, the first of the American fanzines for Traveller. It raced along at a monthly schedule for ten issues, after which Petro handed off the 'zine to W. Elmer Hinton, who ran it just two more issues before this corner of fandom dissolved into acrimony.

Publisher: Self
Type: Fanzine
Issues: #1-12

Locale: USA (New Hamp.)
System: Classic
Debut: March 1986

Third Imperium, founded by Mike Jackson, was the Canadian Traveller fanzine. Published during the fanzine explosion of the mid '80s, Third Imperium shared shelf space with other classics such as The Imperium Staple and Security Leak, though it was more long-lived than either (and is generally considered one of the top 'zines of the era). Third Imperium focused on the Trojan Reach, and much of Jackson's work on the sector remains canon today.

Publisher: Self
Type: Fanzine
Issues: #1-11

Locale: Canada
System: Classic
Debut: Spring 1986

Gregg Giles founded the Security Leak Newsletter as the first publication from his SORAG Laboratories, but soon was publishing a full Magazine.

Publisher: Self
Type: Magazine
Issues: #1-3 / #1-5
Locale: USA (Texas)
System: Classic
N. Debut: December 1986
F. Debut: February 1987

After stepping away from The Imperium Staple, Herb Petro debuted a less regular fanzine called Continuum. His initial goal was to create a forum for discussion and a vehicle for the publication of articles that might not be accepted by other magazines. However, much of Continuum was dominated by the announcements of MegaTraveller, released at the end of the year: by that time, Continuum was gone, as it published in just three issues before disappearing.

Publisher: Self
Type: Fanzine
Issues: #1-3

Locale: USA (New Hamp.)
System: Classic
Debut: March 1987

An attempt at a professional magazine by James B. King. The first six issues were Traveller-specific, then it turned into SFRPG magazine. But King could never make money and so finally shut the magazine down.

Publisher: Self
Type: Fanzine
Issues: #1-6 / #7-17

Locale: USA (Washington)
System: General
Debut: Spring 1987

Tiffany Star was founded as the heart of the History of the Imperium Working Group (HIWG), with the magazine edited by Mike Mikesh for HIWG Chairsophant Ed Edwards. Over time, it went through four different stages of development: as a fanzine for HIWG articles; as a newsletter for HIWG Documents; as a forum for author communications; and as a newsletter for Traveller. After Mikesh moved on to edit Imperial Lines, Tiffany Star first went on hiatus then came to an end. AAB Proceedings replaced it as the HIWG flagship. [USA: Oklahoma]

Publisher: HIWG
Type: HIWG Newsletter
Issues: #0-32

Locale: USA (Maryland)
System: MegaTraveller
Debut: January 1988

Though Signal-GK grew out of the HIWG, it was presented as a fanzine, not a typical HIWG newsletter. Over 13 issues, Signal-GK told the story of the Dagudashaag sector, one subsector at a time, except at the end when it doubled up to complete its overview with issue #13. It was thus the first fanzine to successfully detail an entire sector of space. Thanks to a '10s "Resurrection" effort, the entire 'zine is available online.

Publisher: SGK Prod.
Type: HIWG Fanzine
Issues: #1-13

Locale: UK (W. Yorkshire)
System: MegaTraveller
Debut: 1989

Another HIWG publication that aspired to full fanzine quality. It was short-lived.

Publisher: Self
Type: HIWG Fanzine
Issues: #1/bis-2

Locale: Canada
System: MegaTraveller
Debut: July 1990

After the demise of the final three HIWG newsletters in 1999, there were no fanzines for six years, the first break since Ed Edwards had begun the modern era of Traveller fanzine publication with Working Passage. That changed in 2006 when Jason "Flynn" Kemp debuted the first digital Traveller fanzine, focused on The Empty Quarter in the Gateway Era, using mainly the T20 ruleset. Alvin Plummer, who had worked on the Empty Quarter with HIWG in the '90s took over in 2010 and continued to run the 'zine through 2018, with most of the later issues being entirely his work, using the Classic Traveller rules rather than T20. The Stellar Reaches website and blog survives to this day.

Publisher: Samardan
Type: Digital Fanzine
Issues: #1-27

Locale: Online
System: T2 & Classic
Debut: February 2005

Frontier Report was the second digital Traveller fanzine, and also had the shortest of runs. It was created by Mark Bridgeman, who was a member of the Citizens of the Imperium forums as "Commander Drax". He was also a contributor to Stellar Reaches, and the first issue was an impressively bulky volume, supporting all of the classic 2D6 systems, but mainly focused on T4. There would never be a second issue, though Bridgeman had at least three articles submitted for it.

Publisher: Self
Type: Digital Fanzine
Issues: #1

Locale: Online
System: Classic to T4
Debut: April 2009

Freelance Traveller was founded by Jeff Zeitlin in 1994 or 1995 as a website intended to collect together original articles about the Traveller RPGs and Charted Space. In 2009 he tried a new experiment: collecting together articles into a PDF 'zine, which he called Freelance Traveller Magazine #0. The experiment was successful, and Freelance Traveller has been running ever since, first on a monthly, then a bimonthly schedule. With over 100 issues under its belt, it's by far the longest-lived Traveller periodical of any sort.

Note: This 2019 edition only covers issues from 2019 to the present day.

Publisher: Self
Type: Digital Fanzine
Issues: #91-123

Locale: Online
System: Various
Debut: November 2009