Tag Archives: Space

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!

Introducing

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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

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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!

To-Do List

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A bunch of games came in recently, and I really want to play all of them as soon as possible.

But that’s not happening.

Links for the current bunch of games that came in:

Right now I’m focusing my time and energy on Core Space, reading the rule book, priming and painting the miniatures, and watching YouTube tutorials on how to play.

We’ll see if I can get a scenario in this weekend.

Stand by!

Upcoming: August 20 – 26

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Like I did with my Sports Gaming Blog, I hope this list will act as a prompt for my other gaming.

Paint miniatures for Cyberpunk Red Combat Zone
Paint miniatures for Star Trek Adventures
Setup Star Trek Adventures Captains Log RPG: TOS Era Captain
Setup new crew for Five Parsecs From Home

That should be plenty for the week,

Stand by!

STA: Captain’s Log Solo RPG

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I can’t tell you how excited I am about this product.

Star Trek Adventures: Captain’s Log Solo Roleplaying Game

I miss playing the old FASA Trek system, especially with my gaming group.  Playing games on Saturday nights until well past midnight.  Star Trek RPG was a cornerstone of those game nights.

But the reality is that:

  • we don’t have that kind of free time anymore
  • solo play is the way I’ve been playing a lot of games

I was planning to start a new campaign in Five Parsecs From Home, but I think this is going to take up some of my table top time at home.

Since this game covers any and all eras of Star Trek, I’m going to pull a multiverse trick and recreate my FASA Trek ‘ego’ character, Commodore Christopher Saguisag, into all (not you, Discovery/Picard) of those eras.

First up will be Enterprise-era, since I’m in the middle of putting together a uniform jacket from that series.

Stand by!