Star Trek Adventures: One Fragile Peace-Roll20

Creating your character

Pre-generated characters of various ranks, skills, responsibilities, and individual personalities will be provided as pre generated characters, but players can meet with the game master at least 2 days prior to the next scenario with an outline, or some basic ideas for a character that we will develop.

Preparing for the session

A working microphone with good sound quality will be required, webcams are optional but not required. No need to read rules ahead of time. This is a teaching game so the game master will teach as we go. All dice rolled will be virtual dice.

What James (DM_Shroud) brings to the table

The game master has hardback books of Star Trek Adventures first edition by Modiphius, including the core Rules book, Command, Operations and Sciences division books, and all four quadrant books as well as Captain's Log: Star Trek Solo Adventures.

Homebrew rules

Some specific game rules have been augmented such as attack patterns for combat, various kits for characters like engineering kid field surgery kit, to act as assets on the ship or in the field. Multiple ships are not going to be Star Trek alpha or beta Canon. This is 2272 so no synthetic Android characters or Klingons or Romulans. Especially no Romulan spy PCs dressed up as Vulcans to blend in with the crew... that isn't going to happen. No Jedi crossover characters. We will make active use of Supporting characters from The core rules and Supervising characters from the Lower Decks Campaign book.

How James (DM_Shroud) creates a safe table

Players can expect to play in character for the majority of play, except for questions about skill or combat task resolution in accordance with the tropes and expectations of Starfleet officers within one of the Paramount television shows or films. The themes planned are light-hearted, strongly heroic /swashbuckling Space Opera epic Adventures, with occasional darker scenarios similar to what was seen in episodes of the Original Series, The Next Generation, but not as dark and gritty on a regular basis as Deep Space Nine. At least passing familiarity with Star Trek is recommended but not strictly required. Please note that the game master will not accept "secret Romulan spies who are acting like Vulcans" or "Klingon agents with changed genetics deeply embedded in Starfleet." Ground combat and space combat will be normal and expected components of each episode, and player knowledge of space and ground tactics as set forth within the Star Trek universe will be helpful but not strictly necessary. Puzzles per se or riddles and similar will be a minimal part of each scenario, if at all. There could be scenarios which will involve deductive science or inductive logic, or exploration and clues discovered to illuminate the matter at hand. No role-playing experience is necessary, this is planned to be a teaching game. Veteran players of Star Trek Adventures or prior Star Trek role-playing game editions (FASA, Decipher Star Trek, Last Unicorn Games) will be welcomed. The game master also asks that the players respect the campaign and try not to have arguments over Star Trek Canon, as there are too many books, films, and television series to keep track of it all. The flavor here is going to be solidly Original Series, so let's stick with that... The game master further advises that the basic tenets of Star Trek will not be violated by the game master. No request for cross-genre fantasy or other Space Opera intellectual property characters will be honored. There will be no Space Orcs, nor Force powers nor lightsabers from Star Wars in this Star Trek campaign. Additionally I want to emphasize again: no Vulcan officer characters who are actually disguised Romulans trying to undermine the Federation.