For those keeping track

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I actually started my first foray into Captain’s Log Solo Role-Playing!

I have to admit it was a bit slow going, and I didn’t get much past the initial first act after the title sequence/first commercial break.

But yeah, the first episode of Star Trek: Excalibur is underway!

I believe one of the best things of Solo RPGs (so far) is that you can decide just how long a session goes, from a whole day dedicated to it (a couple of Saturdays were spent reading the rules and creating characters, basically a Session Zero), or a couple hours on a Sunday afternoon followed by a couple of lunch sessions while working from home (like I did this past week).

For now I may follow that schedule, playing during football on TV on Sundays, and maybe one or two lunch sessions at home.

Don’t Touch That Dial!

Trader Captain

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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!

Pulling Back

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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!

2 Log Crews

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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!

YouTube

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I have to admit that I don’t know why it took me so long to use YouTube the way I have over the past few weeks.

In that time I’ve gotten a better (full) understanding of the basic game mechanics of at least 3 4 different RPG systems that I’ve owned for more than a few years, but never sat down to really learn any of them.

  • Star Trek Adventures
  • Dragonbane
  • Savage Worlds Adventure Edition
  • edit: Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game

And other video tutorials are enticing me to learn more about still others.

Heck, I may finally learn how to play GURPS.

Stand by!

Star Trek Excalibur: Meet the Crew

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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!

For My Next Trick…

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To ‘celebrate’ the release of the new Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook, I’m going to reroll my Solo RPG Barbarian, Raised By Minotaurs, using the new character creation rules.

And then I may actually continue his very short stint in soloing.  I think he got as far as the forest where a scouting party disappeared.

Don’t touch that dial!