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Daily Star Trek Quotes: February 21-27

Written by TardisCaptain
Um… what kind of smoke is that?

Here are the Daily Star Trek Quotes that will appear on the @STrekQuotes twitter account for the week of February 21st through February 27th.

February 21
Happy Birthday to Martha Hackett https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Martha_Hackett #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekVOY #WeAreStarfleet #IDIC

“We are alone here, at the mercy of any number of hostile aliens because of the incomprehensible decision of a Federation Captain.” Seska- State of Flux, Stardate: 48658.2 #StarTrek #StarTrekVOY #WeAreStarfleet #IDIC

February 22
Happy Birthday to Jeri Ryan. @JeriLRyan https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Jeri_Ryan #StarTrek #StarTrekVOY #StarTrekPicard #WeAreStarfleet #IDIC

“Ranging is my job. It’s not saving the galaxy, it’s helping people who have no one else to help them. It’s helpless, and pointless, and exhausting, and the only thing worse would be giving up.” Seven- Stardust City Rag #StarTrek #StarTrekPicard #WeAreStarfleet #IDIC

February 23
Majel Barett-Roddenberry born on this date in 1932. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Majel_Barrett-Roddenberry #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekDS9, #StarTrekVOY, #StarTrekDiscovery #WeAreStarfleet #IDIC

(on kids) “We raise them, we care for them, we suffer for them we keep them from harm their whole lives. Now, eventually, it’s their turn to take care of us.” Lwaxana Troi- Half a Life, Stardate: 44805.3 #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #WeAreStarfleet #IDIC

February 24
Happy Birthday to Tawny Newsom. @TrondyNewman https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tawny_Newsome #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #WeAreStarfleet #IDIC

“A view like this makes you realize it doesn’t matter what deck you work on, we’re all in it together.” Mariner- I, Excretus, Stardate: Unknown #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #WeAreStarfleet #IDIC

February 25
Happy Birthday to Anson Mount. @ansonmount https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Anson_Mount #StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrekShortTreks #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds #WeAreStarfleet #IDIC

(to himself) “You’re a Starfleet captain. You believe in service, sacrifice, compassion… and love.” Pike- Through the Valley of Shadows, Stardate: 1048.66 #StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery #WeAreStarfleet #IDIC

February 26
Happy Birthday to Chase Masterson. @ChaseMasterson https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Chase_Masterson #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #WeAreStarfleet #IDIC

“It’s never a bad time for flowers.” Leeta- Doctor Bashir, I Presume?, Stardate: Unknown #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #WeAreStarfleet #IDIC

February 27
“You know I’ve wrestled with the fine line between doing what I think is right and interfering with other species. So don’t tell me you know what I would’ve done when I don’t even know what I would’ve done.” Archer- Cogenitor, Date: Unknown #StarTrek #StarTrekENT #WeAreStarfleet #IDIC

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Homebrewed Stats for Starships Final

Written by TardisCaptain 1 Comment on Homebrewed Stats for Starships Final

And we have reached the last of the scans from my 1990’s Starship Homebrew book. I had found this book earlier while unpacking various boxes after a move. It was a book that I had assembled in a three-ringed binder contained copies of ships that could be used in the Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator by FASA. These were ships from the official Starship Recognition Manuals, Rulebooks, Sourcebooks, Adventure Modules and Magazine Articles. I discovered that I wanted even more starships for the book and I found them in various official and fan-made tech manuals and blueprints. Using the Starship Construction Manual and the stats from the source material I was able to convert several starships for use with the FASA game. These scans look rough, because they are the original dot matrix printouts with, literally, cut and pasted images combined on a photocopier. But I am sharing them here for all to enjoy.

Additional: Here is a photo of the original book that I was talking about.

Master Book of Ships

Past Entries:

Homebrewed Stats for Starships

Homebrewed Stats for Starships Part II

Homebrewed Stats for Starships Part III

Homebrewed Stats for Starships Part IV

Homebrewed Stats for Starships Part V

Homebrewed Stats for Starships Part VI

Homebrewed Stats for Starships Part VII

For the last batch of vessels, we have one Gorn ship, a couple of Tholian ships and some merchant vessels. Now onto the batch.

CK-5-Class-XV-DreadnaughtDownload

The name of this vessel in the fan-made Gorn Guidebook is the “Gorn Space Control Dreadnaught”. I don’t know why I had changed the name to the CK-5. Probably because I was trying to mimic the naming convention seen in the Klingon Ship Recognition Manual and the Romulan Ship Recognition Manual.

Spinner-Class-III-Light-Patrol-CruiserDownload

The image came from The Worlds of the Federation resource book. The stats were guestimated by me at the time of creation. The 2nd edition of the Starship Construction Manual doesn’t provide any stats for Tholian equipment. I didn’t know that the 1st edition of the book had Tholian equipment until I got a hold of it several years later.

H-1-Gravta-Class-V-DestroyerDownload

A friend of mine had several fan-made technical manuals that he let me borrow in the 90’s. This Tholian ship came from one of them. I don’t recall the title of the book. Like the Spinner, I guestimated the stats for this vessel based off of the information in the publication. The name of the class came from the book.

1447-Starliner-Class-XII-LinerDownload

Stats for a passenger liner? Yes, I made these based off of the information on this vessel from the fan-made Starfleet Dyamics book. A liner could be caught in a pirate situation for both the starship tactical combat simulator or on the roleplaying side.

Cabot-Class-IV-TrawlerDownload

There were a ton of ships in the 1979 publication, “Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology“. Some of the illustrations by Rick Sternbach were even used as on-screen graphics in Next Generation episodes. There were a few different ships that I wanted to homebrew stats for. This was the first, and only one, that I did in the 90’s. I had planned to write up others, which may happen sooner or later.

So now that my past works have been uploaded for everyone to see, I’ll start working on new homebrewing ships, races, equipment, etc. Not just for FASA but for other gaming systems as well. I’ve been playing a Far Trek game online with some fellow Trekkies and I’m still enjoying Star Trek Adventures by Modiphius.

Posted in: Humor, My Creations, Star Trek

Making Memes Part V

Written by TardisCaptain

I’ve still been hard at work trying to spread my warped sense of humor. Here is another set of memes for you to enjoy. You can see the past memes I’ve created here: Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV.

Just the look on Kirk’s face inspired me to make this meme. I could see him saying this. I used MS Paint to create this .

Another “I saw this face and had to meme it” project. Again this was done in MS Paint.

And the last of “Inspired by that look” memes. Here Trip Tucker is doing his Thor “Is it though?” impersonation. Plus we need more Enterprise memes.

I’ve spent some time making blanks of popular memes so that I could easily create my own. Here is one that I created using the goosebumps meme blank.

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Daily Star Trek Quotes: February 14-20

Written by TardisCaptain
When someone asks me if the commercials for the big game were any good.

Here are the Daily Star Trek Quotes that will appear on the @STrekQuotes twitter account for the week of February 13th through February 20th.

February 14
Happy Birthday to Andrew Robinson. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Andrew_Robinson #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #WeAreStarfleet

“There’s an old saying on Cardassia: ‘Enemies make dangerous friends.’” Garak- The Search, Part II Stardate: Unknown #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #WeAreStarfleet

Happy Birthday to Simon Pegg. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Simon_Pegg #StarTrek #WeAreStarfleet

“Are you from the future?” Scotty “Yeah. He is. I’m not.” Kirk “Well that’s brilliant. Do they still have sandwiches there?” Scotty- Star Trek (2009) #StarTrek #WeAreStarfleet

February 15
“The vultures are circling.” Paris “Vultures eat the dead, Mister Paris. We’re not dead yet.” Janeway- The Void, Stardate: 54553.4 #StarTrek #StarTrekVOY #WeAreStarfleet

February 16
Happy Birthday to LeVar Burton. @levarburton https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/LeVar_Burton #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekVOY #WeAreStarfleet

“Just because something’s old doesn’t mean you throw it away.” LaForge- Relics, Stardate: 46125.3 #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #WeAreStarfleet

February 17
Happy Birthday to Jerry O’Connell. @MrJerryOC https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Jerry_O%27Connell #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #WeAreStarfleet

“I’m the first officer of a Federation starship and your commander. And nobody crushes my team. (rips shirt off) Let’s do this!” Ransom- Temporal Effect, Stardate: 57501.4 #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #WeAreStarfleet

February 18
“Captain, I’m beginning to understand why you earth men enjoy gambling. No matter how carefully one computes the odds of success, there is still a certain… exhilaration in the risk.” Spock- Patterns of Force, Stardate: 2534.7 #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #WeAreStarfleet

February 19
“I may have trouble telling the difference between a plasma conduit and a phase inducer but there’s more to bring a Bridge Officer than memorizing technical manuals.” Troi- Thine Own Self, Stardate: 47611.2 #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #WeAreStarfleet

February 20
“I’m a physician, not an engineer!” Dr. Phlox- Doctor’s Orders, Date: Unknown #StarTrek #StarTrekENT #WeAreStarfleet

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Daily Star Trek Quotes: February 7-13

Written by TardisCaptain
How it feels working on my computer on some days.

Here are the Daily Star Trek Quotes that will appear on the @STrekQuotes twitter account for the week of February 7th through February 13th.

February 7
“Let me help. A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He’ll recommend those three words even over I love you.” Kirk- The City on the Edge of Forever, Stardate: 3134.0 #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #WeAreStarfleet

February 8
Happy Birthday to Ethan Phillips. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ethan_Phillips #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekVOY #StarTrekENT #WeAreStarfleet

“You are rigid and inflexible. But maybe if you learn to bend a little, you might have better luck with your class.” Neelix- Learning Curve #StarTrek #StarTrekVOY #WeAreStarfleet

February 9
“Sir, I protest. I am not a merry man.” Worf- QPid, Stardate: 44741.9 #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #WeAreStarfleet

February 10
“Murder is contrary to the laws of man and God.” M-5 Computer- The Ultimate Computer, Stardate: 4729.4 #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #WeAreStarfleet

February 11
Happy Birthday to Philip Anglim. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Philip_Anglim #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #WeAreStarfleet

“The truth is not always easy to recognize.” Bareil- The Collaborator, Stardate: Unknown #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #WeAreStarfleet

February 12
“What is their fixation with our ears?” Soval “I believe they’re envious.” T’Pol- Cease Fire, Date: Unknown #StarTrek #StarTrekENT #WeAreStarfleet

February 13
“Age and wisdom have their graces, too.” Picard- Too Short a Season, Stardate: 41309.5 #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #WeAreStarfleet

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Daily Star Trek Quotes: January 31-February 6

Written by TardisCaptain
Do not go to Captain Kirk’s seafood restaurant.

Here are the Daily Star Trek Quotes that will appear on the @STrekQuotes twitter account for the week of January 31st through February 6th.

January 31
Happy Birthday to Paul Scheer. @PaulScheer https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_Scheer #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #WeAreStarfleet

“I love Starfleet. Okay, and I don’t want to live in a castle with pet dragons and all the mutton I can eat. You need to accept the fact that I’ll be a virgin for the rest of my life.” Billups- Where Pleasant Fountains Lie, Stardate: Unknown #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #WeAreStarfleet

February 1
“Vulcans do not approve of violence.” Spock- Journey to Babel, Stardate: 3842.3 #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #WeAreStarfleet

February 2
Happy Birthday to Brent Spiner. @BrentSpiner https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Brent_Spiner #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekENT #StarTrekPicard #WeAreStarfleet

“I am superior, sir, in many ways but I would gladly give it up to be human.” Data- Encounter at Farpoint, Stardate: 41153.7 #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #WeAreStarfleet

February 3
“’Piece of cake’ – it’s an old human expression. It means they’ll be easy to fix.” O’Brien- Captive Pursuit, Stardate: 46477.5 #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #WeAreStarfleet

February 4
“I’ll see you tonight. BYOB.” Paris “What?” Torres “Bring your own bat’leth.” Paris- Distant Origin, Stardate: Unknown #StarTrek #StarTrekVOY #WeAreStarfleet

February 5
(Encountering a mysterious alien probe) “This is why I’m in Starfleet.” La Forge- The Nth Degree, Stardate: 44704.2 #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #WeAreStarfleet

February 6
“When we’re faced with a common threat, we put our differences aside and try to co-operate.” Archer- United, Date: November 15, 2154 #StarTrek #StarTrekENT #WeAreStarfleet

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Daily Star Trek Quotes: January 24-30

Written by TardisCaptain
And then our eyes locked from across the room…

Here are the Daily Star Trek Quotes that will appear on the @STrekQuotes twitter account for the week of January 24th through the 30th.

January 24
“Well, gentlemen, we all have to take a chance. Especially if one is all you have.” Kirk- Tomorrow is Yesterday, Stardate: 3113.2 #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #WeAreStarfleet

January 25
“As they say on Talax, ‘Omara S’alas’, ‘Good news has no clothes’.” Neelix- Lineage, Stardate: 54452.6 #StarTrek #StarTrekVOY #WeAreStarfleet

January 26
“There’s an old Ferengi saying—‘Never ask when you can take.’”  Quark- Babel, Stardate: 46423.7 #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #WeAreStarfleet

January 27
Happy Birthday to James Cromwell. @jamesocromwell https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/James_Cromwell #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekDS9 #StarTrekENT #WeAreStarfleet

“And you people, you’re all … astronauts … on … some kind of star trek.” Zefram Cochrane- Star Trek: First Contact, Stardate: 50893.5 #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #WeAreStarfleet

January 28
Happy Birthday to Gillian Vigman. @Gillian_Vigman https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Gillian_Vigman #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #WeAreStarfleet

“Wait, like to work on the bridge? Like Jadzia Dax?” Tendi “Who the bleep is that? I don’t know who that is. No, like Spock.” Dr. T’Ana- First First Contact, Stardate: 58130.6 #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #WeAreStarfleet

January 29
“You think that the loss of a colleague or friend doesn’t affect us? It does. But if we give in to those emotions, they overwhelm us. You’re the ones to be envied.” T’Pol- The Forgotten, Date: Unknown #StarTrek #StarTrekENT #WeAreStarfleet

January 30
“It looks horrible, tastes worse, but it’s absolutely guaranteed to make you feel better.” Dr. Crusher- Angel One, Stardate: 41636.9 #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #WeAreStarfleet

Posted in: Character Creation Challenge, Role Playing Games, Star Trek

2022 Character Creation Challenge Day 21: Prime Directive 1st Edition

Written by TardisCaptain

So in the 2021 Character Creation Challenge I created a character for the D20 Prime Directive roleplaying game. I talked about how this is a licensed game set in the Star Fleet Universe, which can only use races/events referenced in the original Star Trek series. Because of this, they would never lose the license (a good thing) but the company has had challenges coming out with newer supplements (still waiting for the various Gorn and cat races supplements). Since the first edition of Prime Directive (also known as PD1) was a different game than the D20 and GURPS versions, I decided that I would create a character for the 2022 Challenge.

The characters in Prime Directive are members of Starfleet. But instead of serving as a Captain or Department Chief, they serve on Prime Teams. A troubleshooting group that, if needed, are expendable. These specialists can come from various backgrounds that are sent to emergency hotspots on various missions.

The first step in character creation is selecting a race. There is the standard Federation races seen on Star Trek like Humans, Vulcans and Andorians. For some reason Tellarites are not listed in the core rulebook. Then there are Rigellians (large humanoids), Alpha-Centauran (Female dominated humanoids) and Cygnans (albino humanoids good with tech). All of these races have different characteristics which are Strength (STR), Accuracy (ACC), Speed (SPD), Leadership (LDR), Logic (LGC), Intuition (INT), Discipline (DIS), Technical (TEC), General Knowledge (GKN) and Perception (PER). All the races have set numbers except for Humans and Alpha-Centaurans. Later in the character creation process you can adjust these numbers.

Let’s go for a race I’ve never played before. Between the three new races I selected this character to be a Cygnan named Kovil. Next for Kovil is deciding which Starfleet service division he would be a member of out of Command, Engineering, Marine Service Combatant, Science, Medical and Psionic. I’m going to make an Engineer.

There are a series of skills that each character has. There are basic skills that each member of Starfleet has plus the skills acquired for the service division and branch. Apparently the Engineering division has only one branch, Technical. As a member of Starfleet, each person has a rank. They could be enlisted or an officer. This was the first dice roll of the game as the rank was randomly assigned. 2d6 and check the chart for your division. Kovil rolled a 10 which resulted in a Lieutenant (j.g.) rank. And, for some reason, you roll for the seniority of your character. Afterwards you come up with the Professional and Heroic Reputation scores along with the Initial Background Ratings. (boy there are a lot of these things in here, I wonder if they will all add up in the end)

Now, that I’ve received my “free” skill points, I get to use Initial Character Improvement Points (which is 56 to start out with plus some bonus points based upon my seniority). Character improvement points can be awarded after adventures to improve your characters. These can be spent on skills or characteristics. Now that we have our final characteristics and skills, we add the two together and divide by 2 (round down) to determine how many d6 dice you roll when using that skill. Ugh, this is a lot of complication, but now this section is finally done.

Now comes the section where you determine how much damage you can take in various forms. These include Stun Damage and Lethal Damage. Had a few movement stats to fill out. Oh gheez, now you get 10 more points to put in to skills that are just personal interests. While this is a kewl idea, I swear this paperwork never ends. Had I known this section was here, I wouldn’t have picked a few things in this category earlier.

There is a whole page for equipment, which is assigned before missions. So yea, I’m done making this character and I’m only scanning in the sheet that I actually filled stuff out on. There was still a few blank spaces, but I think I’m done.

Afterthoughts:

While going through the branches, it looked like the had some branches pretty well fleshed out while others seemed lacking. There was a lot of focus on rank and seniority while trying to warn players not to abuse it. I haven’t seen this come up in other system documentation.

I don’t know what it is, but the way this rule book is laid out has made my eyes glaze over. Eventually I was wishing that they could just get to the point when things were being explained. I seriously doubt I’d play this system without seeing it in action first. While it’s a Star Trek game and I want to homebrew for them, this one may be on the bottom of the list. I haven’t heard of anyone playing this game.

I did get the urge to make an actual checklist for character creation that would have helped.

Additional Notes:

10 more days left in the 31 day challenge. We can do this. You can do this. You can still jump in and have fun if you want. That is all this is for, is to have fun. I’m learning a lot. Some good, some bad, but I’m learning. I’m having fun, when my college age kid calls me every night one of the things she asks is “What character did you make today?”

Coming Up Next:

Werewolf The Apocalypse

Posted in: Character Creation Challenge, Role Playing Games, Science Fiction, Star Trek

2022 Character Creation Challenge Day 14: Boldly Go!

Written by TardisCaptain

Boldly Go! is a science-fiction roleplaying game that was released in 2021 by Geoffquest and backed by a Kickstarter campaign. Like Starships and Spacemen, it is a Star Trek inspired game with the serial numbers filled off. I heard about this game just after last year’s Character Creation Challenge. And since I am very interested in Star Trek (and Star Trek-like) roleplaying games, I knew I had to pick this up and use it for this year’s challenge.

When I created a character for the Dune: Adventures in the Imperium RPG, the first thing I needed to do was to create a Nobel House. In Boldly Go! the players not only create their characters in session zero, they can also create the ship that they will be serving on. This will be a vessel serving in Space Fleet for the Stellar Alliance. While the players can just pick a ship listed in the core rulebook, creating a ship, like creating a Nobel House, would give the group a little bit more cohesion.

Boldly Go! uses the Traits System. Character, ships, equipment and other items all have traits. These traits can be positive or negative, permanent or temporary. When a character has to complete a task they add one base D6 to a dice pool. For each positive trait that applies to the scene (justified to the Fleet Admiral (GM) if they have any questions) you can add an additional D6 to use. A roll of 5 or 6 counts as a success. If more successes are rolled than what is required (the more difficult tasks require more successes) then the character succeeds the task they are attempting to do. Negative traits can make the task more difficult. There are also Drama Points that can be earned during play. Drama points can be used for a variety of positive options including adding to your dice pool.

So first the group comes up with the name for the ship. I consulted the voices in my head and we came up with the SFS Valiant. For the concept, the Valiant would be an exploration cruiser. The other classifications we could have selected from included Cruiser, Diplomatic, Medical, etc. If there are four or fewer players, they all get two trait points to purchase traits for the ship (higher number of players gets 1 point per player). So the number of voices in my head is classified, but we will say that there are four players in the game. It would be interesting to see what could happen as each player selects a trait. Some may think that certain traits are needed more than other. They have a sample list of positive and negative traits (yes ships can have negative traits) but they don’t define what they are. So this is something that the group and Fleet Admiral would have to discuss when making the ship. Each trait is worth one trait point. Ship traits can be a physical item (such as Advanced Engines) or non-physical (such as Crew Like Family). I think I filled out the sheet correctly (the systems ran out of room). Since the CO is going to be an NPC, I just filled in a name.

Like the ship creation, you create a concept, name and backstory. Then you select a species and write down the traits and special ability that the race has. The races for PCs in the game include Humans (I don’t know if anyone will know who these guys are), Gatoan (cat people), Krakenoid (humanoid octopuses), Mordons (Silicon-based humanoids), Rittians (sloth people), Syntoids (self-aware androids) or Hybrids (combine two non-Synthoid races into one). Since Krakenoid’s are not really found in any other game that I’ve seen so far, I’m going with that one. Since the Krakenoids are a militant race, I’ll go with the occupation of security. Each member of the Space Fleet gain the Academy Training trait. Then I selected the rank of Lieutenant (he was going to be the Chief of Security) which earned the character two free drama points. It also meant that I had five trait points that I can spend. There is a list of sample traits or you can make some up of your own.

In the equipment section, everything was pretty straight forward. Your character gets this as a member of Space Fleet. If other equipment is assigned or found, you’ll be able to use it. Here is the character and ship sheets.

Afterthoughts:

I really feel like this system has a good start. Perhaps I’d change my mind with actually experiencing the game in play, but I felt that it still needed one or two more steps to being a really great system. I didn’t get this feel from my initial read-through when I first got the book. But now that I’m looking at it while actually creating a ship and creation, it feels like there could be a little bit more. Or at least I would try to implement it if I was actually running a game. I could see myself playing and homebrewing for this system.

Why would a player select a negative trait for a character or a ship? In this read through there was nothing stating that you would gain a positive trait for selecting a negative trait or if you’ve had to take a balance.

Having used the FASA Starship Construction Manual in the past, the ship creation was simple, but somewhat too simple. If I was a FA for a game, I’d probably put limits on how many systems and traits a certain class of ship might have. I didn’t see any guidelines for this.

I like the graphical design of the Character Sheet and Ship Sheet. Speaking of graphics, the images used to show Captain Raymond Sexton Jr. reminded me of Nick Diamond from Celebrity Death Match.

Additional Notes:

On the Character Creation Challenge thread at the RPG.net forums a user by the handle Golden Age Superhero asked me more about my entry for Castles and Crusades. I mentioned that my Knight could not be a Halfling as per the rules. GAS reported that there were no class/limit restrictions. I went back and looked over the racial descriptions. The classes listed were the “typical” classes and that with your Castle Keeper’s (C&Cs name for a DM) permission you could use others. So in hindsight I could have made Godfrey a member of the Halfling race. Thank you for pointing that out. Just the thought of a proud Knight having to be taken seriously by those who only see his short stature just sounded like an interesting role playing opportunity.

While I can do a little prep work before hand, the bulk of my workday is spent on real life work duties. I create my character afterwards (with the blog entry open for editing so I can write my thoughts down as they happen) and I’ve had a few times where I’ve run into snags or deadlines. So there are times I’m trying to push to get the entry for that day done, which may lead to mistakes. The majority of the entries I feel good about, but I know that not all of them are going to be up to satisfactions. If I noticed it, I’ll try to point it out (like I did with the Modern Age entry). If I missed something, feel free to let me know. Part of the reason I’m participating in this challenge is to learn about some of these roleplaying games and what they have to offer.

Coming Up Next:

Covert Ops

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Daily Star Trek Quotes: January 10-16

Written by TardisCaptain
Yes Dr. McCoy… I agree.

Here are the Daily Star Trek Quotes that will appear on the @STrekQuotes twitter account for the week of January 10th through the 16th.

January 10
“They like to pretend they’re not doing anything to attract a woman even when it’s the most important thing on their minds.” Dr. Crusher- The Outcast, Stardate: 45614.6 #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #WeAreStarfleet

January 11
“Only when we embraced non-violence did we achieve peace.” T’Pol “We also plan to embrace non-violence. As soon as the heretics are eliminated.” D’Jamat “That’s illogical. It’s not possible to eradicate everyone who disagrees with you.” T’Pol- Chosen Realm #StarTrek #StarTrekENT

January 12
Happy Birthday to Kirstie Alley. @kirstiealley https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kirstie_Alley #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #WeAreStarfleet

“Humor. It is a difficult concept. It is not logical.” Saavik- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Stardate: 8130.3 #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #WeAreStarfleet

January 13
“I wasn’t a hero, and neither were you! What you did was wrong, and I was wrong to support you, but I was too young and too stupid to realize it! You were the captain; I was the ensign.” Riker- The Pegasus, Stardate: 47457.1 #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #WeAreStarfleet

January 14
Barry Jenner born on this date in 1941. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Barry_Jenner #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #WeAreStarfleet

“A great tragedy has ended. We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph. From both we have learned there can be no going back. We must move forward to preserve in peace what we’ve won in war.” William Ross- What You Leave Behind #Star Trek #StarTrekDS9

January 15
“But their planet’s dead. Does it matter now which one’s right?” Sulu “Not to Lokai and Bele. All that matters to them is their hate.” Spock- Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, Stardate: 5730.2 #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #WeAreStarfleet

January 16
Star Trek: Voyager premiered on this date in 1995 with the episode Caretaker. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Voyager #StarTrek #StarTrekVOY #WeAreStarfleet

“That’s our ship. That’s Voyager. Intrepid class. Sustainable cruise velocity of warp factor 9.975. 15 decks. Crew complement of 141. Bio-neural circuitry.” Stadi- Caretaker, Stardate: 48315.6 #StarTrek #StarTrekVoyager #WeAreStarfleet

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