Has anyone ever successfully made a character with this game?

If you have could you kindly explain it to me, step by step?

Perhaps there is a guide somewhere online?

Quote from: Piestrio;612160Has anyone ever successfully made a character with this game?

If you have could you kindly explain it to me, step by step?

Perhaps there is a guide somewhere online?

Try Patrick Goodman's site -- http://strpg.patrickgoodman.org .  He has a lot of chargen aids toward the bottom, including a guide.

I remember chargen being very confusing until I used some kind of resource, but actual play was pretty fucking cool.  Good luck.

Quote from: Future Villain Band;612162Try Patrick Goodman's site -- http://strpg.patrickgoodman.org .  He has a lot of chargen aids toward the bottom, including a guide.

"The character generation process in the Player's Guide is somewhat...disheveled."

So this is a guide on how to decipher Decipher Star Trek.

Quote from: James Gillen;612266"The character generation process in the Player's Guide is somewhat...disheveled."

So this is a guide on how to decipher Decipher Star Trek.

IIRC, the issue is that key pieces of character generation are all over the book.  The actual resolution system is pretty easy (and fairly reminiscent of d20, IIRC.)  But looking over that chargen aid, you can see that one part of chargen is on page 28, and one part is on, like, 174, and in between is shit like "Starship combat."

It's not the most terribly organized game in the world, because the main casualty is chargen, but it's up there.

I have no experience with Decipher Star Trek, but I have played Decipher Lord of the Rings. Character creation was not complex, but it was very confusing.

I'm not a fan of CODA, but if I had those chargen reference sheets, I might have played the damn thing.

Quote from: Future Villain Band;612286IIRC, the issue is that key pieces of character generation are all over the book.  The actual resolution system is pretty easy (and fairly reminiscent of d20, IIRC.)  But looking over that chargen aid, you can see that one part of chargen is on page 28, and one part is on, like, 174, and in between is shit like "Starship combat."

It's not the most terribly organized game in the world, because the main casualty is chargen, but it's up there.

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I took one look at this game once, and knew I would never run it.

I don't think there's any really good Star Trek game, but the one that came closest to being viable in my book was Prime Directive.

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Quote from: RPGPundit;612784I took one look at this game once, and knew I would never run it.

I don't think there's any really good Star Trek game, but the one that came closest to being viable in my book was Prime Directive.

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Give the Last Unicorn Games version a look. It is surprisingly good. Plus, there is a ton of fan-made material that is good and not wankery on the internet.

Quote from: RPGPundit;612784I took one look at this game once, and knew I would never run it.

I don't think there's any really good Star Trek game, but the one that came closest to being viable in my book was Prime Directive.

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What did you like about Prime Directive? Being a pretty big Trek fan I've always been turned off by the wonky canon and haven't every really given it a look.

Quote from: Piestrio;612972What did you like about Prime Directive? Being a pretty big Trek fan I've always been turned off by the wonky canon and haven't every really given it a look.

The canon thing about Prime Directive and the whole Star Fleet Battles universe is that it is based off of the Star Fleet Technical Manual, which was TOS and more of a well-done fan creation when it was published. From that point on the ADB Trek universe and the Paramount one diverged.

Quote from: Piestrio;612972What did you like about Prime Directive? Being a pretty big Trek fan I've always been turned off by the wonky canon and haven't every really given it a look.

So IGNORE 'their canon' - and go with wjhat you actually see in the shows and movies.

 Thats what I've done.

The character templates in the main book are a good rough outline for making typical player characters in Starfleet. I've still had to tweak it somewhat tho.


- Ed C.

Quote from: Piestrio;612972What did you like about Prime Directive? Being a pretty big Trek fan I've always been turned off by the wonky canon and haven't every really given it a look.

Its ridiculously simple to ignore the canon (which I never bothered to learn) and just run the game as an "original series" Star Trek RPG. The system is quite sound, and the feel of the game is quite good for away-mission type adventuring.

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Quote from: RPGPundit;613299Its ridiculously simple to ignore the canon (which I never bothered to learn) and just run the game as an "original series" Star Trek RPG. The system is quite sound, and the feel of the game is quite good for away-mission type adventuring.

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The Prime Teams concept is actually something invented for the game, since (as Riker pointed out to Picard in Next Gen) the captain normally isn't SUPPOSED to go on field missions.
But while the Amarillo people came up with their own stuff (like Hydrans) overall it's very much like Original Series.  Which is a good thing.  In retrospect one of the things I disliked about the Next Generation era (and one reason I was disappointed with the take on pre-Federation history in Enterprise) is that the producers of the later series made their own concepts when there were still a whole bunch of Original Series concepts that were not only there to explore, but would have been better than the new stuff they came up with.  For instance, Orions are a very similar culture to the Ferengi, but they aren't half as irritating, require less makeup props to portray, and their women are A LOT better looking in harem outfits.  

JG

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