Is that the one which had 5 or so lovely hardback books full of glossy pictures and stuff? Owned 'em all, blew the protective dust off them and sold 'em for what I paid, no idea what the game was like. They sure looked nice though, and its rare you see the whole set together these days.

Quote from: Piestrio;561854Anyone play the Last Unicorn games?

How are they?

Yes, I enjoyed them. The character generation was a little confusing and the starship combat felt a bit strange, but they were worth the money I paid for them.

Quote from: RPGPundit;561215I've never actually found any star-trek RPG to be to my satisfaction, but of course Star Trek is a difficult format to use in an RPG context.  The one I liked best was probably the Prime Directive RPG.  Mind you, I ignored the whole "SFB universe" thing and ran it as a regular Star Trek game.

Yeah, I never found Star Trek made for a great RPG either.

I've owned various sets of rules for it over the years but always found them unsatisfactory.

But then, given that the shows featured nothing but hyper-competent characters mostly winning the day through talking I'm not so sure it wouldn't make more sense to just use a story-game for it (heresy, I know).

Quote from: jgants;562048Yeah, I never found Star Trek made for a great RPG either.

I've owned various sets of rules for it over the years but always found them unsatisfactory.

But then, given that the shows featured nothing but hyper-competent characters mostly winning the day through talking I'm not so sure it wouldn't make more sense to just use a story-game for it (heresy, I know).

or run trek with the new doctor who game.  isn't the initiative order something like "talking before guns?"  would be perfect for a next gen era game.

On the story games theme, you could probably do a decent job of running it using Risus, Dogs in the Vineyard, or something similar. I think Dogs in the Vineyard would work quite well for modelling the episodes when the Federation star ship rocks up at a less technologically advanced planet and have to solve some conflict or other. This happened quite a lot in Next Gen.

I don't mean to derail this and send it into Other Games so I'll stop there.

Quote from: Piestrio;561854Anyone play the Last Unicorn games?

How are they?

That's the only version I've played...the one mentioned above that I enjoyed even despite the awful GM.

Quote from: RPGPundit;561215I've never actually found any star-trek RPG to be to my satisfaction, but of course Star Trek is a difficult format to use in an RPG context.  The one I liked best was probably the Prime Directive RPG.  Mind you, I ignored the whole "SFB universe" thing and ran it as a regular Star Trek game.

RPGPundit

Quote from: jgants;562048Yeah, I never found Star Trek made for a great RPG either.

I've owned various sets of rules for it over the years but always found them unsatisfactory.

But then, given that the shows featured nothing but hyper-competent characters mostly winning the day through talking I'm not so sure it wouldn't make more sense to just use a story-game for it (heresy, I know).

Actually, one of the ways we were able to make it work for us was to just play Star Trek in the Mirror Universe and be badasses. It was always good for some vicarious lawbreaking and backstabbing fun.

We tried doing an all Klingon game of murderous space hoboes, but I moved away before we got further than making characters.

Every few months one of our gang RUNS an all Klingon game with FASA (which has rules for running both Klingon and Romulan campaigns).  It's not QUITE murder hobos.  Well, unless you consider a cross between the USSR and the Mongol Empire to be murder hobos.  

JG

Quote from: James Gillen;562561Every few months one of our gang RUNS an all Klingon game with FASA (which has rules for running both Klingon and Romulan campaigns).  It's not QUITE murder hobos.  Well, unless you consider a cross between the USSR and the Mongol Empire to be murder hobos.  

JG

how often does someone say "qapla'!"

Quote from: beeber;562627how often does someone say "qapla'!"

a LOT.  

jg

STAR TREK Gaming?

YES - its fun.

 I'm running a STAR TREK campaign every other week on Tuesday evenings. Check out the threads I started back in the Fall of 2011.

The players are the commanding officers of a Saladin-class destroyer named the USS COCHISE NCC-530.

The campaign is set in the JJ Abrams universe and that version of things.

Because of the recent brief Second Federation-Romulan War the Klingons (or at least a few Houses and commanders) have a truce or alliance with the Federation to fight their common enemy the Romulans. As a result of that there are 18 Klingon soldiers 'helping out' the crew of the Cochise from time to time.

The captain of the ship is a player character.

The 2009/Abrams movie took place in February of 2258...currently in our campaign its mid-July of 2259.
They've done quite a bit of adventuring.


- Ed C.

Quote from: Koltar;563127I'm running a STAR TREK campaign every other week on Tuesday evenings. Check out the threads I started back in the Fall of 2011.

I for one would like to see more AP reports from this.  My attempt at an Abramsverse Trek campaign was stillborn when two of the players who signed up proceeded to rant all through the character creation session about how much they hated the 2009 movie.

Quote from: daniel_ream;563129I for one would like to see more AP reports from this.  My attempt at an Abramsverse Trek campaign was stillborn when two of the players who signed up proceeded to rant all through the character creation session about how much they hated the 2009 movie.

1. Are you on board with the setting of the campaign?
2. If so, please continue.
3. If not, suggest an alternative.
4. If you don't have an alternative, Shut The Fuck Up.

JG

Quote from: James Gillen;5632121. Are you on board with the setting of the campaign?
2. If so, please continue.
3. If not, suggest an alternative.
4. If you don't have an alternative, Shut The Fuck Up.

JG

This is a pretty good checklist for the beginning of about any game ever.

Quote from: Tommy Brownell;563213This is a pretty good checklist for the beginning of about any game ever.

Thanks.  

jg