Yup, that's a 2024 rpg cover alright.

Yep. And the only straight white cis gender man (insert harm here) in the pic might be the guy in the back left... but he isn't Starfleet and looks afraid.

Such diversity, so representation

I wasn't going to get it because the system for the first one was clunky and the organization of the book was terrible.  Now that I have seen ethnically ambiguous danger hair lesbian and her androgynous girlfriend front and center on the cover, I must buy it or I am a bad person.

Quote from: Vykos on February 27, 2024, 05:33:05 PM
Yep. And the only straight white cis gender man (insert harm here) in the pic might be the guy in the back left... but he isn't Starfleet and looks afraid.

  What about the fellow in the TOS movie uniform on the far right? (No pun intended ... but I do note that those films often got derided by Roddenberry for their 'militarism.' )

That Enterprise looks like it is from Fallout.

You should watch one of Modiphious' Twitch livestreams. That crew is a 100% accurate depiction of the players.

I politely, and with greatly restrained nerd rage, ask what in the hell happened with those nacelles?

The left one is flat like a Next Generation design and the right one looks like a child tried to draw an oval.

The guy over there in the movie-era uniform looks pretty good.

Huh. Maybe the ship was AI generated?

Quote from: Thornhammer on February 27, 2024, 09:51:39 PM
I politely, and with greatly restrained nerd rage, ask what in the hell happened with those nacelles?

The left one is flat like a Next Generation design and the right one looks like a child tried to draw an oval.

The guy over there in the movie-era uniform looks pretty good.

Huh. Maybe the ship was AI generated?

That's what I thought when I looked at it. maybe not the whole thing, but there's parts that have that look where the AI is just not 'getting it".

Read the article where they say the 1e products are supposed to be fully compatible. I find that is rarely true in practice.

Quote from: HappyDaze on February 27, 2024, 11:13:36 PM
Read the article where they say the 1e products are supposed to be fully compatible. I find that is rarely true in practice.

That new Discovery-era Klingon War sourcebook they just announced like two weeks ago, wonder which edition that will be.

Quote from: Ratman_tf on February 27, 2024, 11:07:03 PM
That's what I thought when I looked at it. maybe not the whole thing, but there's parts that have that look where the AI is just not 'getting it".

The saucer is okay, the neck is off center, the nacelle struts are not symmetric in any possible sense, and the actual nacelles have been covered earlier.

Either that's AI or the artist needs to be shitcanned on the spot. The people do not look off.

"A mix of technologies" I could totally buy, but FUCKING FIX THIS NONSENSE, MODIPHIUS. All you gotta do is fix the ship!

Not my Star Trek.

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

While cringy I doubt that's the cover. Hell they apparently sent out two different press releases, one of which fails to highlight 'diversity' at all.

Quote from: hedgehobbit on February 27, 2024, 07:03:01 PM
You should watch one of Modiphious' Twitch livestreams. That crew is a 100% accurate depiction of the players.

Self-inserts all the way down.

Quote from: Thornhammer on February 27, 2024, 09:51:39 PM
Maybe the ship was AI generated?

Ironically doesn't look good enough to be.

Quote from: HappyDaze on February 27, 2024, 11:13:36 PM
Read the article where they say the 1e products are supposed to be fully compatible. I find that is rarely true in practice.

Which is fine by me as if I wanted backwards compatibility I'd just buy the previous edition.

Quote from: Anon Adderlan on February 28, 2024, 07:22:05 AM

Quote from: HappyDaze on February 27, 2024, 11:13:36 PM
Read the article where they say the 1e products are supposed to be fully compatible. I find that is rarely true in practice.

Which is fine by me as if I wanted backwards compatibility I'd just buy the previous edition.

I am speaking as someone that has bought much of the current edition. The question of backwards compatibility also influences whether or not I will buy products like the upcoming Klingon War book.

I got the first edition rulebook, and the first adventure module book they published, I haven't really gotten anything else.  I love star trek, but I haven't been interested in any of the newer shows, and heck even as much as people say they don't like the jj abrams movies because they aren't real star trek, at the time they came out I watched and enjoyed them, and they have their own merit as pieces of entertainment even if they are just that and not as thought provoking or interesting as the worst parts of TOS.

I don't really see any reason to get anything else from modiphius for STA.  I got the miniatures for the TOS bridge crew and TOS away team, my favorite style/setting for the game.  I've seen no reason to get things like the engineering book, science book, command book, or other little expansions.  Nobody I know is playing the game any more, and there's little to no interest in it.  I've been homebrewing my own little sourcebook for a d100/traveller star trek mashup and I think it will probably be much better than STA ever hoped it could be, but we will see.

Not the first rpg with bad covert art I have bought so not a big issue for me.

If they make it easier to learn and run I may buy it. If it is truly backwards compatible even better.