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Star Trek Adventures Second Edition

Started by Grognard GM, February 27, 2024, 04:42:58 PM

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jhkim

#30
March 02, 2024, 02:20:01 AM
Quote from: Koltar on March 02, 2024, 12:52:44 AM
Quote from: Aglondir on February 28, 2024, 11:08:51 PM
Why isn't the TOS-era woman wearing a miniskirt?

...becaquse she is wearing a "Strange New Worlds" version of the strarfleet uniform.
Thats why.

Though Captain Pike's crew didn't have miniskirts in the original series, either, as portrayed in "The Cage".



So Strange New Worlds is in this respect being consistent with the original. The uniforms for the Strange New Worlds series are different than both "The Cage" and the original series, but they're at least close.

Aglondir

#31
March 02, 2024, 02:52:50 AM
Quote from: Koltar on March 02, 2024, 12:52:44 AM
Quote from: Aglondir on February 28, 2024, 11:08:51 PM


Why isn't the TOS-era woman wearing a miniskirt?


...becaquse she is wearing a "Strange New Worlds" version of the strarfleet uniform.
Thats why.

- Ed C.

Yeah, I think you're right. The sleeve rank and the neckline don't match a female TOS duty uniform. I assumed they were going for one uniform from each era.

I like this art less the more I look at it.  Hopefully it's just a placeholder.

Ratman_tf

#32
March 02, 2024, 04:58:03 AM
Bring back the Skant!

The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
-Haffrung

Grognard GM

#33
March 02, 2024, 07:10:52 AM
I'm a middle aged guy with a lot of free time, looking for similar, to form a group for regular gaming. You should be chill, non-woke, and have time on your hands.

See below:

https://www.therpgsite.com/news-and-adverts/looking-to-form-a-group-of-people-with-lots-of-spare-time-for-regular-games/

HappyDaze

#34
March 02, 2024, 10:26:36 AM
Quote from: Koltar on March 02, 2024, 12:52:44 AM
Quote from: Aglondir on February 28, 2024, 11:08:51 PM


Why isn't the TOS-era woman wearing a miniskirt?


...becaquse she is wearing a "Strange New Worlds" version of the strarfleet uniform.
Thats why.

- Ed C.
I think the kneeling woman is wearing a TOS-style Sciences division uniform.

Koltar

#35
March 02, 2024, 10:55:20 AM
Quote from: tenbones on February 28, 2024, 12:03:06 AM
Not my Star Trek.

Looks like I'll have to put that Savage Worlds Sci-Fi Companion to work when it drops.

Okay, what the Hell 'IS" your "Star Trek" then?

I Don't like the Modiphius game mechanics at al - but I DO love "Star Trek" in just about all versions.
The Modiphius artwork I often find useful to illustrate things in my RPG campaign.

I have NO 'Nerd Rage' or outrage about that cover in any way....

- Ed C.
The return of \'You can\'t take the Sky From me!\'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUn-eN8mkDw&feature=rec-fresh+div

This is what a really cool FANTASY RPG should be like :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-WnjVUBDbs

Still here, still alive, at least Seven years now...

Thor's Nads

#36
March 02, 2024, 11:21:09 AM
Quote from: Koltar on March 02, 2024, 10:55:20 AM
Okay, what the Hell 'IS" your "Star Trek" then?

I Don't like the Modiphius game mechanics at al - but I DO love "Star Trek" in just about all versions.
The Modiphius artwork I often find useful to illustrate things in my RPG campaign.


Modiphius is frustrating. Their system is terrible, but their production values are fantastic.

I don't think there has been a better Star Trek RPG than the Last Unicorn Games version, but I have to say I played in a LUG Star Trek campaign back in the day and it was not great, even though the GM was really good.
Gen-Xtra

RNGm

#37
March 02, 2024, 02:05:42 PM
Quote from: Aglondir on March 01, 2024, 05:54:01 PM
Quote from: RNGm on March 01, 2024, 05:20:00 PM
I'll pass.   I've been a trekkie most of my life (at least until STD and Picard premiered) but I still kept supporting Modiphius' game after that until they ran a sale to raise money for the BLM bail funds during the height of the riots.

Thanks for the info. Course corrections laid in.

Glad to help.  And, yeah, I was very disappointed since my old neighborhood had just been rioted through weeks earlier and would be again a few weeks later.  Also, just to clarify, they ran multiple sales/humble bundles to benefit rioter bail funds over the course of the next year encompassing the fiery but supposedly mostly peaceful "summer of love" so it wasn't a one-off mistake on their part not knowing what they were directly supporting.

Aglondir

#38
March 02, 2024, 04:08:07 PM
If I were to run a Trek game again, I would seriously consider Far Trek, a free rules-lite PDF located here:

https://fartrekrpg.blogspot.com/

It's for the TOS era. After all of the recent Trek-drek, going back to TOS taps into the same sense of wonder as the OSR. 

Grognard GM

#39
March 02, 2024, 05:52:36 PM
Quote from: Koltar on March 02, 2024, 10:55:20 AM
Quote from: tenbones on February 28, 2024, 12:03:06 AM
Not my Star Trek.

Looks like I'll have to put that Savage Worlds Sci-Fi Companion to work when it drops.

Okay, what the Hell 'IS" your "Star Trek" then?

I Don't like the Modiphius game mechanics at al - but I DO love "Star Trek" in just about all versions.
The Modiphius artwork I often find useful to illustrate things in my RPG campaign.

I have NO 'Nerd Rage' or outrage about that cover in any way....

- Ed C.

For a lot of fans, Trek ended with either Voyager or Enterprise. Enterprise was certainly the last time anything labelled Star Trek didn't have to vary from canon by a substantial margin for actual legal reasons.

I can tell you're very proud of consuming anything with the name Star Trek slapped on. You probably consider that to make you a better, or more loyal fan. But a lot of us consider discernment to be the sign of a fan.
I'm a middle aged guy with a lot of free time, looking for similar, to form a group for regular gaming. You should be chill, non-woke, and have time on your hands.

See below:

https://www.therpgsite.com/news-and-adverts/looking-to-form-a-group-of-people-with-lots-of-spare-time-for-regular-games/

Spinachcat

#40
March 02, 2024, 09:50:56 PM
That cover!!! LOL. Modiphius are really a pathetic bunch who need a tasty dose of "go woke, go broke"

The best Star Trek campaign I ever played used the old Buffy RPG system. Rules light with very cool chargen that made it really fun to play secondary PCs.

Though, I doubt I'd ever run any ST again since the IP has become such a laughable SJW shitshow and thus, the player base who would show up for the game would most likely be retarded.

That said, Far Trek with the right group might be fun. I'd have it take place in the original Star Trek Animated Series universe.

hedgehobbit

#41
March 03, 2024, 01:39:58 PM
One of the things that set the FASA Star Trek RPG apart from others is their large list of adventures. I have some of Modiphius' adventures for their Fallout game and they aren't bad. So I thought I'd check out their Star Trek adventures to see how they stack up.

Here's the synopsis for the first adventure I looked at:

Starfleet has given your crew instructions to perform a long-overdue maintenance overhaul on Subspace Relay Station 2103. The situation becomes complicated (of course it does) when the maintenance team discovers that a malfunction has caused the transmission of classified signals that could have been intercepted by the cultures of a nearby planet.

Shawan II is home to a pre-warp humanoid civilization at a late 20th-century Earth level that appears to have made a pop-culture phenomenon out of the potentially classified Starfleet data (great idea, wish I'd thought of it). The crew of your ship must ensure that the leaked data doesn't compromise Starfleet in any way. Someone's going to have to go down to the planet but the senior crew could be recognised by fans of the Starfleet transmissions. So it falls to some intrepid and ingenious ensigns to sneak onto the planet, engage with fans and critics at a convention, and sort this mess out (what could possibly go wrong??).

I guess this adventures is of the "fun" type like D&D's prom adventures. But as it's based on the Lower Decks series, it is fascinating to see how the 1973 Star Trek cartoon for kids was significantly more adult than the adult cartoons of today.

Brad

#42
March 03, 2024, 03:03:11 PM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on March 02, 2024, 04:58:03 AM
Bring back the Skant!



I have advocated for this by my wife told me I'd look ridiculous.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Ratman_tf

#43
March 03, 2024, 04:36:20 PM
Quote from: Brad on March 03, 2024, 03:03:11 PM
Quote from: Ratman_tf on March 02, 2024, 04:58:03 AM
Bring back the Skant!



I have advocated for this by my wife told me I'd look ridiculous.

She's probably just afraid of how attractive you'd look.
The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
-Haffrung

Ratman_tf

#44
March 03, 2024, 04:39:25 PM
Quote from: hedgehobbit on March 03, 2024, 01:39:58 PM
One of the things that set the FASA Star Trek RPG apart from others is their large list of adventures. I have some of Modiphius' adventures for their Fallout game and they aren't bad. So I thought I'd check out their Star Trek adventures to see how they stack up.

Here's the synopsis for the first adventure I looked at:

Starfleet has given your crew instructions to perform a long-overdue maintenance overhaul on Subspace Relay Station 2103. The situation becomes complicated (of course it does) when the maintenance team discovers that a malfunction has caused the transmission of classified signals that could have been intercepted by the cultures of a nearby planet.

Shawan II is home to a pre-warp humanoid civilization at a late 20th-century Earth level that appears to have made a pop-culture phenomenon out of the potentially classified Starfleet data (great idea, wish I'd thought of it). The crew of your ship must ensure that the leaked data doesn't compromise Starfleet in any way. Someone's going to have to go down to the planet but the senior crew could be recognised by fans of the Starfleet transmissions. So it falls to some intrepid and ingenious ensigns to sneak onto the planet, engage with fans and critics at a convention, and sort this mess out (what could possibly go wrong??).

I guess this adventures is of the "fun" type like D&D's prom adventures. But as it's based on the Lower Decks series, it is fascinating to see how the 1973 Star Trek cartoon for kids was significantly more adult than the adult cartoons of today.

Props where it's due. That sounds like a great ST episode setup. I'd play it.
The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
-Haffrung
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