Post by okumarts on Feb 2, 2010 10:23:32 GMT -5
Hello all,
it was suggested that I post some details regarding my WNMHGB campaign. I'll start off with the history of the campaign itself and save the characters and adventure synopses until later when I have the characters all drawn for this campaign.
I originally started running a Trek campaign in the early 90s using the FASA system. It was set in the "Movies Era". It was generally uninspired and the only highlight was when two of my players (brothers) played the Klingons and the other players played the Federation ship. That was quite the battle and some really fun role-playing.
I decided to run a Trek campaign again using the Big Eyes, Small Mouth game in the late 90s. I liked the system as it was simple and could handle everything from martial arts to starships. This is the true origin of the current campaign. It was set in the era of "The Cage", just before Kirk takes over the Enterprise. The captain of an Oberth vessel discovers an alternate reality half-human, half-klingon son who is attempting to invade this reality. I chose to make the Captain an NPC and the real drama was with the "actors" who were the ship's crew. It was fairly dramatic and I made the Captain resign her position eventually due to the stress of having to kill her "son".
Recently I translated the characters to the Hero (5th ed) System and we played a few rollicking adventures, but the system just didn't match the "feel" of the campaign.
I came across WNMHGB in January and felt that it had the right stuff for rebooting the campaign. My group (some of whom I've been role playing with for over 25 years) and I had been playing a 1st ed. D&D campaign set in 1755 Boston and really enjoying the game. I did a little digging in the retro-clone systems and discovered Microlite20 and eventually WNMHGB. I immediately got the group together and we translated the old characters and created a new one, the Captain played by a newer member of the gaming group.
I have updated the era to "just after" Kirk commands the Enterprise so we are somewhere in Season One. The ship is a Miranda Class Starship called the USS Rampant.
Character Bios and Mission Logs will follow.
it was suggested that I post some details regarding my WNMHGB campaign. I'll start off with the history of the campaign itself and save the characters and adventure synopses until later when I have the characters all drawn for this campaign.
I originally started running a Trek campaign in the early 90s using the FASA system. It was set in the "Movies Era". It was generally uninspired and the only highlight was when two of my players (brothers) played the Klingons and the other players played the Federation ship. That was quite the battle and some really fun role-playing.
I decided to run a Trek campaign again using the Big Eyes, Small Mouth game in the late 90s. I liked the system as it was simple and could handle everything from martial arts to starships. This is the true origin of the current campaign. It was set in the era of "The Cage", just before Kirk takes over the Enterprise. The captain of an Oberth vessel discovers an alternate reality half-human, half-klingon son who is attempting to invade this reality. I chose to make the Captain an NPC and the real drama was with the "actors" who were the ship's crew. It was fairly dramatic and I made the Captain resign her position eventually due to the stress of having to kill her "son".
Recently I translated the characters to the Hero (5th ed) System and we played a few rollicking adventures, but the system just didn't match the "feel" of the campaign.
I came across WNMHGB in January and felt that it had the right stuff for rebooting the campaign. My group (some of whom I've been role playing with for over 25 years) and I had been playing a 1st ed. D&D campaign set in 1755 Boston and really enjoying the game. I did a little digging in the retro-clone systems and discovered Microlite20 and eventually WNMHGB. I immediately got the group together and we translated the old characters and created a new one, the Captain played by a newer member of the gaming group.
I have updated the era to "just after" Kirk commands the Enterprise so we are somewhere in Season One. The ship is a Miranda Class Starship called the USS Rampant.
Character Bios and Mission Logs will follow.
