Star Trek: Catalyst
Join the crew of a new "Enterprise" to plumb the depths of a TOS-era alternate continuity!
$20.00
/ Session
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Weekly / Thursday - 1:00 AM UTC
Session Duration / 3 hours
2 / 5 Seats Filled
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Meet your party members
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About the adventure
🪐Alternate-Universe Trek! 👽New Life, New Civilizations! 📺1960s Episodic Action! The year is 2250. A freshly-minted Federation has assigned a five-year mission of exploration, defense, and diplomacy to their flagship vessel the U.S.S. Catalyst, and you're onboard! Travel through an all-new Milky Way galaxy, meeting familiar faces in novel contexts and venturing into situations hitherto unseen: Vulcan temporal terrorists? A mirror Earth in the prime universe? Sentient starships? There's only one way to find out... In short, join the crew of a new "Enterprise" to plumb the depths of a TOS/SNW-era alternate continuity! 📰REVIEWS FROM PLAYERS!📰 "Jason is a great GM: professional, knowledgeable, patient." "Every character has a different voice and seemingly endless backstory. This is an easy recommendation." "He's the master of the slow burn, excelling in mystery/noir-style scenarios and slowly teasing the player with information while keeping the experience engaging the whole time." "He's also very considerate of player time and comfort. He doesn't like to get caught up in fiddly things like encumbrance and counting ammo, and he works to make sure we as players can set and enforce boundaries for things that may upset us."
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Meet the Game Master
5.0
(27)
5 years on StartPlaying
55 games hosted
Highly rated for: Voices, Storytelling, Creativity
About me
"You are FANTASTIC. You have a very Rob Paulsen quality about you, and I mean that in a very good way." "Dude's been voice acting for us for 6 years now, and he still manages to find ways to surprise me." "You...make me want to go to actor school so I can do these things. It's so very very cool to see in action. I fucking loved it." Hello, adventurers! I'm Jason R. Wallace, a 30-something American artist and educator. What can I bring to YOUR cyber-table? I'm glad you asked! - The techniques, cultural literacy, and methodology of a BFA in Dramatic Arts (with a Performance emphasis); character acting, accents/dialects, improvisation, and more! - 20+ years of experience as a stage and voice actor, across the professional, collegiate, and community spheres, with 100+ performing credits! - 15+ years of RPG gamemastering, with experience in systems throughout the continuum of rules complexity - from light fare like FATE, The Black Hack, and Electric Bastionland to crunchier play like Shadowrun, Dark Heresy 2E, and Lancer! - Experience and fluency with Discord, Zoom, Roll20, Foundry, and other essential digital RPG tools!
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Creating your character
🔨 Character creation will take place as a group activity during session zero, under the GM's guidance, in the campaign's Foundry environment. 📚 Standard rules from the STA 2e core book will be followed, and options from both official supplements and third-party sources will be offered.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
🎙️You'll need a microphone to speak to us. 💻You'll need a browser (e.g. Chrome, Firefox) to access the game. 🎲The game elements (i.e. dice, sheets) will be fully digital, and you shouldn't need to install anything. 📖Rules and tools will be provided, so no additional purchases necessary.
What ProfessHex brings to the table
📜Experience with the STA ruleset and with games tonally similar to this campaign (e.g. Stars Without Number, Impulse Drive, Lasers & Feelings)! 🖱️A well-organized, user-friendly Foundry environment for play! 🖼️Theatre-of-the-mind scenes with immersive, evocative imagery! 🗺️Detailed battlemaps with digital bells and whistles! 🎼Mood-building musical scores and sound effects! 🗣️Flavorful NPCs with accents/dialects, personality quirks, and genuine emotion!
Equipment needed to play
Computer
Headphones
Internet
Microphone
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Safety
How ProfessHex creates a safe table
0️⃣During session zero, over a Google Doc, we'll discuss the rules, establish boundaries with Lines and Veils, set expectations for the players AND GM, and settle on the campaign's design, style, and tone. ⚠️In movie terms, content is expected to hover between PG and PG-13; this includes some strong language, occasional intense sci-fi violence, rare sexual situations and drug use, et cetera.
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