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  Absent Friends 
  William H. Keith, jr 
   
   
   The Traveller universe has been a community of friends since even before its first publication. Traveller players are a 
  unique and diverse group who enjoy the opportunities the game provides them for camaraderie and imagination.  
   Lamentably, some of our friends are no longer with us, but their memory remains… 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  J. Andrew Keith 
  1958-1999 
  Andrew was a prolific science fiction and role-playing game 
  author with Traveller clearly predominant in his writings. He 
  was intelligent and creative in his writings and an asset to the 
  Traveller system. 
   
   
  Clayton R. Bush 
  1958-2007 
   Clay was an independent author of convention scenarios in 
  'odd' systems, but he always returned to Traveller. In 1991, 
  he received a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award' for writing and 
  running over 100 convention events. 
   
   
   
  Don Rapp 
  1936-2007 
   Don caught the Traveller bug early and enjoyed promoting 
  Traveller at conventions. He was the author of some of the 
  first supplements to Traveller: Scouts and Assassins, and 
  SORAG. 
   
  Bari Z. Stafford Sr. 
  1953-2002 
   Bari enjoyed designing ships, sectors, and situations for 
  Traveller, and he enjoyed sharing them with fellow 
  Travellers. His magnum opus was Turokan’s Expedition to 
  the Rim. 
   
   
   
  John M. Ford 
  1957-2006 
   John as an extraordinarily intelligent and witty man with 
  exceptional writing talents on the larger science-fiction scene. 
  He nonetheless lent his talents to gaming and to Traveller. 
  He wrote GURPS Traveller Starports and was a frequent 
  contributor to the Journal of the Travellers’ Aid Society. 
   
  Paul Montgomery Crabaugh 
  d. 1985 
   Paul was an early asset to Traveller, and regrettably an 
  early loss. Issue 51 (1982) alone of Dragon featured four of 
  his articles on Traveller, each short, punchy, and insightful. 
  He was also an advocate and a pioneer of the Civilian-- the 
  career for players to experiment with being an average Joe. 
   
   
   
  Robert E. “Bob” Bledsaw 
  1942-2008 
   Bob pioneered the licensed role-playing supplement with 
  D&D materials, and expanded to produce Traveller materials 
  in 1979. Notable among the items he published were 
  Starships and Spacecraft, the Traveller Judges Screen, and 
  Dra’k’ne Station. 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  E. Gary Gygax 
  1938-2008 
   All role-players owe a debt of gratitude to Gary Gygax. It was his pioneering of the recreational role-playing genre with 
  Dungeons & Dragons that created the modern role-playing game. In the long view, he ranks with H.G. Wells (whose Little 
  Wars pioneered military battle games) and Fred Jane (whose Jane’s Naval Wargame pioneered sea battle games).  
   Dungeons & Dragons had a strong and lasting influence on Traveller. 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
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