After Action Reports from The Front
Can’t stop creating characters…
This character/miniature was originally slated for use in Five Parsecs from Home (and may still be) but I decided to create a merchant vessel for Captain’s Log, in the same vein as Harry Mudd/Cyrano Jones/Thadiun Okona.
I’m also using the other two character/miniatures that I created for that crew. along with the ship, the Infineon Beetle.
We’ll get to this one eventually, as I always say.
Don’t touch that dial!
So instead of staring a Captain’s Log campaign this weekend, I created yet ANOTHER crew.
At least it’s a TNG-era crew.
Introducing the crew of the Akira-class U.S.S. Kaiju, NCC-64954.
I think I have too many proverbial irons in the fire.
So I’m reluctantly shelving Savage Worlds and Marvel Multiverse RPG for the time being.
Focus will be on Dragonbane, Captain’s Log, and Dungeons & Dragons with the Mythic Game Master Emulator.
I didn’t get too deep into Savage Worlds and Marvel, having learned most of the mechanics and character creation through YouTube videos.
Don’t touch that Dial!
I love planning stuff, and I’m bad at execution.
As in I can create stuff for Captain’s Log, I just can’t seem to get anything started.
Examples:
Crew of the U.S.S. Discovery NCC-1798
Crew of the U.S.S. Diomedes NCC-314
That’s *four* different starships and crews that I have ready to play, from Enterprise-era to late TOS-era.
I don’t touch the Movie-era because that’s when the bulk of our FASA Trek campaign took place.
And we had one TNG-era adventure aboard the Intrepid-class U.S.S. Challenger as our last hurrah in FASA Trek, sometime in the late 1990s.
Don’t touch that dial!
I’ve always had an idea for an Espionage-themed Star Trek campaign, ever since the old FASA Starfleet Intelligence Manual was released.
While watching more tutorials for Captain’s Log, I was able to review my original first mission (which may become the second mission) and came up with a bunch of crew members as NPCs.
Interesting that Illyrians are listed as Enterprise-era species, which I suppose makes sense, given Strange New Worlds takes place before The Original Series-era.
And I’m considering the original mission as the second mission because I’m going to take a suggestion from a couple of Solo RPG tutorial videos, and start In Media Res, a time honored story telling method used in so many of my favorite movies (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai).
In medias res is a Latin phrase that means “in the middle of things”. It’s a literary device used to describe a narrative that begins in the middle of the plot, rather than at the beginning.
I tried using CoPilot to create a crew photo, but I can’t get it to use the Enterprise-era uniforms.
These were the best two.
The AI apparently doesn’t know what an Andorian, Aenar or Denobulan looks like.
Don’t touch that dial!
That’s hillarious:
I was thinking that one of my miscellaneous characters for Star Trek Adventures Captain’s Log should be a Klingon, so I started looking into acquiring the Klingon Core Rulebook from Modiphius.
Amazon has the deluxe edition for about $50.
Modiphius has it on sale for $60.
DriveThruRPG has it digitally for $20.
I go to the page for the item on DTRPG and:
Yeah, I’m an idiot.
Captain Cayla Okono, USS Discovery NCC-1798
YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT, I’M MAKING MY OWN STAR TREK: DISCOVERY
TAKE THAT, KURTZMAN!
The Discovery’s traits:
– Deluxe Galley
– Improved Warp Drive
– Point Defense System
– Improved Power Systems
Captain Okono’s Values:
– I finish what I start
– Exploration is the blood that fills my veins
– The mission comes first
– Never leave a stone unturned
Don’t touch that dial!
All this time I never used one of the biggest resources for learning that was right under my nose.
YouTube.
Case in point: for years I never could wrap my head around Modiphius’ 2D20 system, even though I’d read it and kinda maybe got the gist of it.
Star Trek Adventures 2nd Edition appears to have stripped things down a bit, from what I’ve heard from YOUTUBE videos, and right here is a video that I found that explains the basics of the system better than any other resource I’ve found online.
He also goes into character creation:
While this is great for when/if I finally delve into this system, maaaaaaybe with my gaming group (hint hint nudge nudge), I’ve decided to start looking up some videos explaining how to play the Captain’s Log Solo version of STA.
Wish me luck with this.
Don’t touch that dial!
