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Hello explorers!

Issue 5 of the Frontier Explorer is now available for download. This issue provides a smorgasbord of articles from our submission queue on a variety of topics.

We have several articles on gaming tips for both players and game masters to help make the game engaging and relevant to the players regardless of the game you play. There is new equipment as well as small cultural write-ups on a couple of the Star Frontier races.

This issue includes a clean, redrawn version of the classic Assault Scout deck plans as well as an initial look at variations on that ship, and a solo adventure that uses those deck plans. We also delve into the internet archive to resurrect some lost material on a new Mega-corp and optional rules for dealing with the expenses of owning a starship. There is also a short story by another new fiction author, that takes place in a new setting.

The issue content (articles) are:

• A Vrusk Life In Song
• Ice Cave Wolves of Alcazzar
• Creating Plot Hook Laden Backgrounds
• Backgrounds – Rooting Player Characters in the Setting
• Crafting Personal RPG Quests
• Financing A Frontier Freighter
• The Yazirian Warrior Bard
• The Assault Scout
• The Albatross
• Going for the Head
• Oni-Senada Corporation
• A Blast from the Past
• Riddle Me This, Puzzle Me That
• Dealing with Power Creep
• To Live And Die In StarLight
• Grymz Guide Comic #5

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Hello explorers!

Issue 4 of the Frontier Explorer is now available for download.  This issue provides a fresh look at the Saurian race published originally in Dragon! Magazine issue 103 (Nov 1985) and provides new ships, weapons and creatures related to the Saurians and Spacefleets initial contact with the new race.

Much of the content of this issue was due to inspiration from the lead article on Subspace Radios.  You can find the details of how the issue came to be in our letter from the editors.  Additionally the issue includes another Jurak Hangna creature write up as well as a short story by a new fiction author.

The issue content (articles) are:

• Subspace Radios
• Animal Handling Skill
• Spacefleet Signal Corps
• Talnor Class Communications Ship
• The Saurian Cycle - A Roadmap to Adventure
• The Sauria Sector
• Saurian Spacecraft
• Magnetically Accelerated High Energy Missile (MAHEM) System
• A Saurian Affair
• Kischen Planetary Report
• The Infita
• Love And Atomic Rockets
• Gear Up For Adventure
• Morgaine's World
• Grymz Guide Comic #4

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Issue 3 of the Frontier Explorer is now available.  We were really excited and honored to get permission from Ali Ries to use one of her images as the cover and couldn't pass up the opportunity to center the issue on the topic of her picture.  Accordingly this issue has a strong robotics theme with articles on new robots and robotics skills and a robot component to the included adventure.

This issue contains the final installment of the Mooks Without Numbers adventure and also a new creature file entry by explorer Jurak Hangna.  In addition we have a number of other articles containing useful background information for game masters, more locations, a pair of starships and a short story.  The issue is packed full of great articles.

This issues contents (article titles) are:

• Robotics in the Frontier
• Programming Robots for Dummies and Dralasites
• Gorilian Carnivorous Wom
• Eorna Lunar Defense Battery
• E-1A Eorna Heavy Fighter
• Dawn Trader Class Merchant Ship
• Mooks Without Number - Part 3
• Frontier Robots I
• The "Tin Can" Robot
• Stand Your Ground
• Oort Clouds and Kuiper Belts
• A Pirate By Any Other Name
• For Lucco's Honor
• Terran Fauna

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Issue 2 of the Frontier Explorer magazine is now available.  This issue is once again filled with system briefs, new ships, locations, creatures, and background material for use by GM's in their games.  This issue also includes several contributions from community members, a milestone we hadn't expected to reach for a couple more issues.  Needless to say we're excited.

Continuing with the 30th Anniversary of Star Frontiers theme, this issue delves into the archives and contains a summary of some Star Frontiers gaming conventions held back in 1999 that included interviews with some of the game's original developers.  These interviews provide insight to some of the philosophies that went into the design of the game.

We also have the next installment of the Mooks Without Numbers adventure and introduce a new series by explorer Jurak Hangna that will present a new alien creature in each article.

This issues contents (article titles) are:

• The Family of One
• Friend or Foe?
• Sci Con I & II - 1999
• Digging in the Dust of Laco
• Mooks Without Number - Part 2
• All We are is Dust in the Wind
• Eorna Defense Installaion Ruins
• Great Aquatic Sandworm of Moonworld
• Grymz Guide Comic

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We are excited to announce that Issue 1 of the Frontier Exploer is now available.  Jump on over to the Frontier Explorer Issues section to grab your copy.

Contents of this issue include gaming tips, a new starship and a complete gaming scenario among other things.  The full list of articles titles is:

• The Dralasitic Creed
• Crafting a Compelling Character in a Role-playing game
• Lossend
• What is War?
• Mooks Without Number - Part 1
• Planeron Station
• CSS Nightwind
• Make Run For It
• Don't Go In The Water
• About the Magazine
• Grymz Guide Comic

We're still working on getting the Hi-Res Download section of the site up and running but it is coming soon.  Grab your copy of the Frontier Explorer, sit back, and enjoy.