The Lucanii Drift

[Falconer]

There is a new supplement to S&S called The Lucanii Drift by Paul Kidd (author of the White Plume Mountain novel). Billed as a sandbox campaign setting, it looks like it would be very handy. Google it and you’ll find reviews and where to buy it.

[coyotepunc]

www.drivethrurpg.com/product/201735/The-Lucanii-Drift

$7.99

[Falconer]

Yeah, I did buy it some time ago. I am using his Alternative Ship Combat System.

I want to love the rest of it, but, not sure I do. I want to use it, but, not sure I will.

[putraack]

I bought this last year, but only really sat down to read it last night. This looks great! Very much a way to scale down a lot of Trek's planets & adventures into an RPG format.

I'm looking forward to attempting to turn it loose on my players.

[Falconer]

It’s really wonderful.

[Stan]

Yes, it is an excellent sandbox adventure area, with a great map for players and lots of random encounters and short-but-enough-to-run adventures. Just about perfect in my mind.

I'd use a different ruleset probably, but would just convert stats on the fly.

I'd probably also add in the "Fathomless" campaign which I and a group of others put together: continuingmissionsta.com/categories/star-trek-adventures-fathomless-community-campaigns-season-one/

Fathomless is written to be era and location neutral so it would work find if run in the Lucanii Drift region.

[putraack]

Somehow, I forgot this book had an alternative Ship Combat System, until I re-read this thread last night. Having read it today, I am very inclined to adopt it.

One question, in case I didn't read the right bits, while I see what effect losing crew has (under the Med.Officer's roll), how many crew might be lost or wounded, and what effect is there on the Zangid ships that are short a small amount of crew?

[Falconer]

I’m not exactly sure, to be honest. I greatly admire these rules, and have put it into my “Player’s Handbook,” but I surprisingly rarely use them. In the combats I have run, often only one or two PCs are available to actually man battle stations, as the rest are running around the ship and/or planet, etc., busy dealing with specific pre-existing situations. That said, it is a handy guide to things the players *can* do in a combat.

FWIW, WRT the medical roll, I guess I read “casualties” as injuries rather than fatalities.

[putraack]

Well, at least I didn't miss anything obvious!

I'd be tempted to say "casualties" means beds and perhaps cryochambers are tied up, and at some percentage, the ship starts losing effectiveness-- die-roll penalties?

[Falconer]

Yeah, it means fewer people are manning stations. Like in “Balance of Terror” where they are yelling “Fire!” on the Bridge but the crews are not responding.