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Need some help identifying something...

Started by Novastar, March 13, 2013, 11:45:33 PM

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Novastar

March 13, 2013, 11:45:33 PM
Found this on e-bay...
Star Trek WEG Adventure Game

Now, I don't remember WEG ever doing Star Trek; but I was wondering if it might be: Star Trek role-playing game (Heritage Models)

Or...it's a complete fake. :cool:

Anybody able to help me out on this?
Quote from: dragoner;776244Mechanical character builds remind me of something like picking the shoe in monopoly, it isn\'t what I play rpg\'s for.

Novastar

#3
March 13, 2013, 11:58:52 PM
Interesting.

It's a board game from the looks of things, rather than an RPG (I know WEG was primarily a board game company till Paranoia and Ghostbusters), but it isn't on the list of products WEG did on Wikipedia. Thanks for the link!
Quote from: dragoner;776244Mechanical character builds remind me of something like picking the shoe in monopoly, it isn\'t what I play rpg\'s for.

talysman

#4
March 13, 2013, 11:59:45 PM
According to Memory Alpha, it's one of three board games produced by West End Games in 1985, when they licensed the Prime Directive setting from Amarillo Design Bureau.

Star Trek: The Adventure Game

enrious

#5
March 14, 2013, 03:33:44 AM
I think that's mistaken.

Kirk and Spock are on the cover and the name includes "Star Trek".  Unless things were very different in the mid-90s, those should all be no-nos for the Prime Directive/ADB/Star Fleet Battles universe license.

Thus, this looks to be something actually licensed from Paramount for the "real" Star Trek universe, rather than from ADB using the SFB universe material.

arminius

#6
March 14, 2013, 12:59:10 PM
Yeah, it's obviously licensed from Paramount. I own the game, but I haven't looked at it too closely. My understanding is that it's a kind of hybrid hex & paragraph game, a bit like Barbarian Prince or Voyage of the BSM Pandora, except that it also has a two-player option.

flyingmice

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March 14, 2013, 01:09:41 PM Last Edit: March 14, 2013, 07:14:37 PM by flyingmice
Quote from: Novastar;636913Found this on e-bay...
Star Trek WEG Adventure Game

Now, I don't remember WEG ever doing Star Trek; but I was wondering if it might be: Star Trek role-playing game (Heritage Models)

Or...it's a complete fake. :cool:

Anybody able to help me out on this?

Michael Scott, who wrote the Heritage Models StarTrek game, is a good friend of mine. We wrote In Harm's Way: Wild Blue together.

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