A quick (honest!) overview of what the Star Trek Adventures - Captain's Log Solo RPG ruleset offers, and how random story prompts can be turned into an actual game.
After several weeks of uneventful service following the successful mission to Angstrom Base to recover the notes on the Stellar Inverter, the crew of the USS Edmund Fitzgerald received a new assignment. They were to re-route to the planet Tolen IV where…
Last night AdventureCo met online and discussed our next move. It was agreed that we would continue with Star Trek Adventures for a few reasons. First, this group likes Star Trek as a property. Second, everyone has gotten the rules more or…
Last week (actually, about three weeks ago), the Away Team had found themselves in a bit of a pickle: the windows in the command center were dangerously close to breaking and a decompression event was immanent. The team raced back to V’Tol’s…
GM’s Log, Stardate 98712.94. Angstrom Base has been compromised by what appears to be a newly discovered and invasive species. Initial analysis indicates that this single-celled parasite is not native to Dran’Ankos, though its presence has devastated this research post. The Away…
GM’s Log, Stardate 98608.9. We have been patrolling the Cardassian Demilitarized Zone for several weeks now with no incidents to speak of. We have, however, gained a shadow in the form of two Galor-class cruisers on the Cardassian side of the divide.…
Last night we had a kind of “session 0”, since the previous week is what I’m calling “session -1”. This week the crew translated their online-generated characters into Roll20 character sheets but the output of the character generation site did a lot…
Last night we had our “session -1” to hash out a few pre-session 0 things. We hadn’t formally opted for a game system, for one. Call of Cthulhu was the initial front-runner (with a solid vote of 1, and a “sounds good”…
Last week I picked up the Humble “Star Trek Adventures” Bundle. For a minimum of $15 I got over a dozen PDFs including the core manual, one manual for each of the central disciplines (Command, Security, and Operations), character sheets from 80%…