Star Trek Roleplaying Made Easy

June 3, 2009 4 comments

Over at Vulcan Stev’s Database I’ve guest-blogged a 3-part series on Gaming in the Universe of Star Trek. It’s generic, all-eras, any mechanics advice on what I think a good Trek game needs.

How I’d Run a Star Trek Game covers the structure I’d use for a ship and a crew, and the way I’d organize adventures.

Starship Combat Made Easy covers how I’d make ship-to-ship combat involve all the players at the table without having to bust out battle mats and miniatures.

Star Trek Worldbuilding discusses culture-building for alien races encountered by the Federation.

Unlike

More from unclebear

Uncategorized none

Comments

Leave a comment Trackback

Written by Vulcan Stev on June 3, 2009.

Thank you for guest posts. They have been very popular.

Vulcan Stev’s last blog post..Gaming in the Universe of… Star Trek pt. 3
Written by Jason on June 3, 2009.

I’ve been designing a Trek game based around “semi-scientific drama” in the format of ReGenesis or House. Pretty cool stuff. The super-advanced Trek technology gives you an excuse to say “we’ve never seen anything like this before!” without knowing much, if anything, about the real science. Because things COULD be that way if we had super dooper medical scanners…
Written by Jonathan “Buddha” Davis on June 4, 2009.

Berin,

You might also want to check out this microlite 20 version of original Star Trek @ http://69.51.142.222/trek/

It’s got the fun and camp of the original down pat!

Jonathan “Buddha” Davis’s last blog post..$econd $ight
Written by mxyzplk on June 9, 2009.

I enjoyed these articles as my gaming group is running an Alternity game somewhat in the Trek/B5 vein (command staff of a travelling space station).

And that M20 ST Buddha linked is pretty bad ass!

I have to say, I never played it but I appreciated the ST:TNG RPG’s sense of genre emulation, what with the random technobabble charts and the holodeck and time travel supplements…

mxyzplk’s last blog post..Why Complain About 4e? Stop the Edition Wars!