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Feb 27, 2010 22:09:11 GMT -5
Post by Falconer on Feb 27, 2010 22:09:11 GMT -5
Anyone running a Star Trek campaign currently? If not, what’s preventing you? I ask that from a diagnostic angle, not as motivational rhetorical question.
For me, the answer is no. I am in a new area with new friends. I have established a tradition of Thursday Night Board Games, but it will take a bit more time before they will be open to the idea of RPGs. At that point, I feel that a classic Keep on the Borderlands campaign with Holmes+ rules will probably be the best way to ease them into role-playing. But, we’ll see. I’ve aired a few choice episodes of TOS for them lately, and if OSFB turns out to be a hit and the Trek enthusiasm is riding high, I may just go for it!
The other barrier for me is that I don’t have the fundamentals figured out. If I lived near my old group, it would be a simple thing to pick a couple of episodes and “playtest” how they would run with the game. But with a new group, I’ve got to sell them on it, so I’ve got to have a pretty clear idea on how a session would run. I don’t have a go-to game system. My feeling is that I’ll want a Players Handbook of my own making—something simple, basically covering PC generation and equipment. Other than that, they can have the SFTM on-hand for more flavor and ideas. Then, I can use any and all RPG materials behind the screen. Nevertheless, I ultimately would have to settle on a “game engine” to use as basis.
So that’s what’s going on with me.
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Feb 28, 2010 0:10:37 GMT -5
Post by aramis on Feb 28, 2010 0:10:37 GMT -5
No.
Lack of available players. Moved to the burbs for better schools, but the price was fewer gamers.
However, I am running Traveller.
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Feb 28, 2010 5:47:46 GMT -5
Post by rsaintjohn on Feb 28, 2010 5:47:46 GMT -5
No, sadly. Would only do it with a group of really trusted players and friends who aren't going to go all canonista in my face. 2 years ago I could have pulled it off, but two friends/players who shared a similar vision as me both lost their jobs and left the Bay Area. As GM and player, I can play almost anything in any style and acclimate, but for some reason I have a really particular vision of Trek that would likely fly in the face of hardcore Trek fans *or* most experienced gamers.
I do have an open invite to run a game for a bunch of kids to whom I introduced Swords & Wizardry (and tabletop roleplaying!) last year, the kids of friends back in Ohio. I bet that would be a blast. But I feel a bit obligated to give them what they really want, and that's to play something like OVA or BESM in the Full Metal Alchemist universe. I may go back to visit family over the summer, so I'll have to wait and see what happens.
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Feb 28, 2010 7:28:20 GMT -5
Post by finarvyn on Feb 28, 2010 7:28:20 GMT -5
Not at the moment, no. 1. My group hasn't met often due to family conflicts, and when we do meet we're running playtest Dresden Files RPG or OD&D adventures. 2. Most of my gaming group aren't die-hard Trek fans. My daughter might be up for a "New Trek Movie" style game because she loved the film, but I'm not sure how much she or the or the others are into a true TOS game. (Of course, ultimately if I run it they'll play it......)
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Feb 28, 2010 14:43:48 GMT -5
Post by slortar on Feb 28, 2010 14:43:48 GMT -5
Me neither.
I do have a gaming group, but we only meet once a month or so (or less frequently). Currently playing D&D 4, which I'm really, really not a fan of, even though the campaign itself is fun.
After we wrap that up in a few weeks, I'm tapped to run a Call of Cthulhu adventure for them and then I'm hoping I might be able to sweet-talk them into running superheroes with something like BASH.
I can't picture any of them agreeing to do ST, sadly. The intersection of RPG player and Trek fan is kinda rare in my neck of the woods.
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Feb 28, 2010 20:57:01 GMT -5
Post by Inferno! on Feb 28, 2010 20:57:01 GMT -5
No, but I'm currently putting the final touches on my Savage Worlds/Star Trek Conversion. My wife likes Savage Worlds so maybe soon.
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Mar 1, 2010 1:15:41 GMT -5
Post by coffee on Mar 1, 2010 1:15:41 GMT -5
I'm not running anything right now. I keep thinking I might like to, but then I open another beer and keep farting around on the internet.
Although I do have to say, I'm in two online games and two face to face games (one monthly, one twice monthly). So I don't have a deep-seated need to run anything, really.
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Mar 1, 2010 10:05:20 GMT -5
Post by Alex on Mar 1, 2010 10:05:20 GMT -5
No, I just don't have the experience with SciFi RPGs I'd need. All of my thoughts turn to D&D and that just doesn't fit with my image of Star Trek (though I'm not against using the rules of D&D, the style differs too greatly).
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Mar 1, 2010 15:14:46 GMT -5
Post by szieser on Mar 1, 2010 15:14:46 GMT -5
Hopefully I can run my convention one-shot for my regular group in the next two weeks or so. I think if they have enough fun with it, they will want to play it for a little while. So, I've got to be on my GMing A-game and really pitch it.
Plus we have no heavy trekkies in the group, so I don't think anyone will bust my chops over the details!
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Mar 1, 2010 15:40:47 GMT -5
Post by putraack on Mar 1, 2010 15:40:47 GMT -5
Nope.
I'm time-limited on the amount I can play to two monthly RP groups. One won't touch anything that isn't D&D. The other is pretty new, and we are playing Savage Worlds/Space:1889. I had a GURPS group that was inclined to Trek a few years ago, but doctoral researches prevented it from ever meeting. The SW group might be amenable to trying Trek with those rules (or others), but I haven't researched that idea yet.
I am playing Star Fleet Battles monthly, and Federation & Empire by email, so I am sorta playing a few roles in the SFU.
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Mar 1, 2010 15:52:36 GMT -5
Post by lstyer on Mar 1, 2010 15:52:36 GMT -5
I'm not, but I'd like to do something in the Original Series time frame. I'm about to start up a Conan D20 RPG, so that's taking most of my brainpower at the moment, plus the (much better) regular GM of my group is running a long-term TNG era game, and I don't really want to feel like I'm competing with that. But at some point I'm going to have to put something together to get this TOS bug out of my brain.
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Jul 8, 2016 17:17:24 GMT -5
Post by michaeltaylor on Jul 8, 2016 17:17:24 GMT -5
No, but I'm currently putting the final touches on my Savage Worlds/Star Trek Conversion. My wife likes Savage Worlds so maybe soon. Did anything ever come of this?
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