Random Alien Generation

I remember seeing a Random Alien Generation article in Dragon magazine waaaay
back.  I do believe it's in issue #59.  The cover has an sci fi theme, an
illustration of a group of 3-6 humans and maybe a robot, along with a shuttle-
type craft. If not #59, then it's in the range of #54 - #76, since those are
the only Dragons I ever bought.

At the time I found the article highly amusing, since I didn't play Traveller,
and ended up using it for monster generation when we were bored with the
typical Monster Manual critters.  I can't comment on how "good" the article
would be for any of the Traveller game systems, since I don't know any of them
that well at all.

There was a short story about Traveller-types, I remember, and an article
detailing a "new" type of Traveller character.  I don't at the moment remember
what they were called, but they were the people who were the second group to
land on a planet.  Only the "real basics" as far as electronic exploration goes
were done by the first group; this second group did the actual intensive
ground-based research.  Thinking back on this, the type of group sounds similar
to the EEC (Exploration and Evaluation Corps) group in Anne McCaffrey's
_Dinosaur_Planet_.



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