Has anyone tried Prime Directive D20?

Someone gave me a copy of the handbook, and it intrigued me.  I would convert it to normal canon, possibly even make it post-DS9, but I haven't been able to find willing players.

I'm thinking of running Trek in HERO System, but I'm not totally sure I'd use the ADB version of the universe.

JG

What about GURPS prime directive?

No matter which system you decide to use, I highly recommend the following three websites for background or just some nice images.

Ex Astris Scientia is a good general site for all things Star Trek along with some great links.

Trek Core is another good general site with lots of great screenshots.

The Starship Schematics Database is all ships, all the time, and covers Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, and Space Cruiser Yamato.

For LUG Trek lovers like me, I recommend TrekRPGNet and Memory Icon. Both of them a chock full of LUG Trek goodness.

Like FASA Star Trek, especially their Starship Combat Simulator? Then go give the Star Trek Tactical Combat Simulator Site a good look.

And now, why I have been looking up all these sites lately -



Kzinti



Kzinti



Kzinti



Kzinti



Kzinti exist in my Star Trek, much to the chagrin of canonista. Why? Because they are just too much fun in a game.

Seriously kick-ass images!

Quote from: James Gillen;615186I'm thinking of running Trek in HERO System, but I'm not totally sure I'd use the ADB version of the universe.

I ran some one-shots using Hero System, and so I have the original series crew written up.  

http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/trek/hero/

Quote from: Ghost Whistler;614267I don't remember that. I recall it being actually quite good. LotR wasn't well written, but the ideas were pretty good. Then Decipher dropped it off a cliff chained up in a padlocked safe. What a bizarre time that was.

Oh yes. In my humble opinion, Lord of the Rings Coda was a rough diamond. Full of great ideas, especially the magic system, and the advantages (I don't remember how they were actually called), very Tolkienian, but unfortunately it was marred by poor organization and some broken rules (too many hit points, characters got too powerful too fast, etc). I would have loved to see a second edition that fixed those problems. A pity.

I played a GURPS Star Trek game only once, in a con many moons ago (back when we had cons around here).

This was mentioned in the "2013 wish list" thread and now I'm very much looking forward to it.

Quote from: jeff37923;615246Kzinti

Oh, you mean Aslan.

Quote from: The Butcher;615485Oh, you mean Aslan.

In comparing feline humanoids, I always saw the Aslan as "domestic cats" and the Kzinti as "feral cats". I guess you could substitute the Caitians for Aslan in Star Trek....

I like the 'start fleet battles' trek verse.


The Man-Kzin Wars books that spawned the Kzinti are a good read.





Once upon a time, in the earliest days of interplanetary exploration, an unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet Kzin. But the Kzinti learned the hard way that the reason humanity had given up war was that they were so very, very good at it. Thus began the Man-Kzin Wars.

Born and bred to hunting, they had never encountered a species they couldn't treat as prey - until they met the canny pseudo-pacifists from Planet Earth. They nearly overwhelmed humanity on first contact, but fast as you can say "Ghengis Khan" or "Alexander the Great" the seemingly harmless monkey boys were all over the pussycats like ugly on an ape, with space fleets and strategic thinking that left the Warrior Race quite dazzled.

I really want the full run of these books (decipher) but the prices are nuts

Quote from: Piestrio;615841I really want the full run of these books (decipher) but the prices are nuts

Even second-hand on the Net?

jg

I find the corebooks are usually reasonably priced.

The sourcebooks are available in PDF though, and I recommend that route, as the print ones are scarce and prone to scalping.