I’ve always had an idea for an Espionage-themed Star Trek campaign, ever since the old FASA Starfleet Intelligence Manual was released.
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Star Trek Excalibur: Crew Update
Star Trek Excalibur: Meet the Crew
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…
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!
Q’apla?
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.
There’s been an awakening…
… have you felt it?
Between watching YouTube videos on Solo RPGs and reviews on the systems that I own, I feel more ready than ever to finally get things started with…
How I let this one sit on my shelf for this long without taking a good look at it is a crime.
It really feels like everything I want to get out of a Fantasy Solo RPG experience, and it’s all coming out of one box.
No Mythic GM Emulator needed, though i may use that later, either for this of if I decide to go back to D&D 5E.
I made a DUCK KNIGHT for crying out loud! I’ll probably try him out in combat when I get home from work.
Stand by!
Introducing
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!
Core Space
This has to be the most I’ve gotten hooked on a new game in quite a while.
In the two weeks since picking up the core box set, I’ve read the rules, set up the map, and painted almost all of the miniatures that came with my initial order.
I even played the example scenario and found the game pretty easy to pick up and play.
I managed to paint the extra crew set that I want to use in my campaign playthrough, they should be ready to go sometime this week.
I do wonder how this got past my radar on Kickstarter all those years ago, though. The Kickstarter ran in 2017, the game shipped in 2019.
Stand By!
Funk
Moving Right Along
At glacial pace, we’re getting to the first scene/encounter in the currently untitled adventure featuring Raised By Minotaurs.
I pulled out a deck of Quest Deck cards from Kickstarter, a pack called ‘Notice Board’. Since I had previously stated that RBM came into town to look for a job as a monster hunter, I figured he found a notice board to find work.
I drew 4 cards and picked one that I figured this character would choose.
So we’ll get to this encounter soon.
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As an aside, I ended up describing this character as 6’8″, 250 lbs.
Looking around the web for a similar real person, I found that I had made a more muscular Harrison Barnes (also 6’8″) of the Sacramento Kings.
Don’t touch that dial!