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Post by rredmond on Apr 21, 2020 17:55:59 GMT -5
Oh hah. Okay. Must take a closer look.
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Post by Falconer on May 29, 2020 9:37:33 GMT -5
More updates, including a planetary classification system. If anyone is interested, we can talk about it.
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Post by Falconer on Aug 18, 2021 13:53:02 GMT -5
I am planning to ramp up my efforts on this. My current thinking is a book called Original Star Trek RPG, or OST for short. Rather than being a companion, it would represent a complete reiteration of Michael Scott’s rulebook, plus a curated compilation of some of the creative efforts which have taken place here at the OST boards. In other words, not just a Player’s book. Obviously it would be free, posted up on a website.
Here’s why. People are always talking about what rules they would use to run Star Trek. Common answers are FASA or LUG or Far Trek. Simple; tells you all you need to know. I want to have a simple answer, too! I play OST!
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Post by rredmond on Aug 18, 2021 14:50:29 GMT -5
And you already have the forum for it! Have all those files been updated? It's been a while since I took a peek and the "Modified" dates you have don't match my download dates.
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Post by Falconer on Aug 18, 2021 15:59:46 GMT -5
I think so? Not sure when you downloaded them. It seems like I never touch half of them, and the other half tweak constantly.
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Post by Starbeard on Sept 15, 2021 19:19:27 GMT -5
I'm all in favor of this project! I never got beyond parsing out the AGFF rules into discrete sections with occasional house rule comments. Of course there's no reason to supply them because a quick skim shows that you've already gained way more traction and scope with it than I ever did.
I will keep checking to see how this goes. In your original reference list, were you talking about Task Force's SFB, or Zocchi's Star Fleet Battle Manual? The Battle Manual pretty much directly translates the Technical Manual information into game terms, so I've found it quite helpful before in that respect.
Bjo Trimble's Concordance is another source I've relied on heavily in the past, but most of that might be DMG material instead of PHB material. It might provide a worthy list of tech with descriptions (though I think Scott already covered that when making AGFF's item list).
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Post by Falconer on Sept 17, 2021 9:58:07 GMT -5
Hey, Starbeard, I’d still love to see your work. Can you share it here? Some of my influences evolved as the project went on. In the very early days of this board, Starfleet Voyages was my grail, since it is the final version of STAGFF and apparently includes space travel/combat from the Battle Manual. But since an affordable Starfleet Voyages never materialized, I’ve moved on, and incorporated that aspect from the S&S rules, which has worked out great for me. So, that basically evaporated my interest in the Battle Manual. The Star Fleet Battles (TFG) game and Star Fleet Universe are another oeuvre which I really thought would be a great area to mine, but so far this has been minimal. My view of the Alpha Centaurans is partially derived from Prime Directive 1 (1993). I at least consulted the racial modifiers in PD20. I was at one point really interested in the SFU map of the Federation and neighboring empires, but this has been eclipsed for me by Star Trek Maps (198). There’s probably a lot of other stuff which has contributed to the head-stew, but nothing that would be reflected in a rules document. Funny you should bring up the Concordance. I now own every edition of it. It’s great, and a nice way to get in the head of early fandom since it was the “Memory Alpha” of the day.
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Post by Starbeard on Sept 18, 2021 13:47:48 GMT -5
Sure thing. I think early on I brought it up in a thread here, but to my recollection I had after that finished parsing out the rulebook and the DF article into one document. Not that too much in STAGFF needed reorganizing.
I'll scare it up from my hard drive during my next office day.
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Post by rredmond on Sept 20, 2021 9:18:25 GMT -5
Sure thing. I think early on I brought it up in a thread here, but to my recollection I had after that finished parsing out the rulebook and the DF article into one document. Not that too much in STAGFF needed reorganizing. I'll scare it up from my hard drive during my next office day. Intriguing, will this show any behind the scenes stuff from your PbP? That was a great game, definitely miss it!
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Post by Starbeard on Sept 25, 2021 1:20:44 GMT -5
Sure thing. I think early on I brought it up in a thread here, but to my recollection I had after that finished parsing out the rulebook and the DF article into one document. Not that too much in STAGFF needed reorganizing. I'll scare it up from my hard drive during my next office day. Intriguing, will this show any behind the scenes stuff from your PbP? That was a great game, definitely miss it! I'm not sure if it will, other than the embarrassingly slapdash methods of my rulebook editing! Looking it over again, it really is 95% just combining and restating STAGFF and the DW article into a single file. For what it's worth, here are PDFs of the most recent revision from 2015, with some extra house rules files, including a first stab at space exploration: some are probably not useful to others, like my take on warp travel and scanning systems, or my randomized mission assignment tables, but you might get some use out of my calculations for standard planetary orbital patterns from the SFTM converted into STAGFF planet size game terms. Just pick your orbital pattern, find the planet size, and it tells you how much time is spent "in communication" vs "going dark," base difficulty to get a transporter lock, and chances of being spotted by terrestrials. drive.google.com/drive/folders/18krrft-dOO-xTGzq2qJCMugONnjnOZYr?usp=sharing
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Post by rredmond on Sept 27, 2021 8:35:20 GMT -5
Dig the fonts Sean. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by Falconer on Sept 27, 2021 11:34:34 GMT -5
Yeah, thanks, man! I’ve been browsing this stuff but haven’t really dug in yet. But I will. As I said in my OP, my “Phase One will be to synthesize the STAGFF Basic Game + Advanced Game + Beyond the Final Frontier.” That’s something which I have definitely done but mostly on an ad hoc basis. In other words, my documents do not incorporate everything.
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