Best Star Trek RPG?
Mr. Flibble
Explorer
I have to vote for LUGTrek, which I think managed to best reflect the spirit of each TV series while still adding original material. FASA is second for nostalgia value, but I really did lose faith with that line as it transitioned more toward militarism. The early material was pretty good, though.
pming
Legend
Hiya.
FASA, hands down. One of our most remembered campaigns (any game). We played in our friend Dave's basement (he died a few years back...great guy...miss that big lug...). Anyway, his basement room was rather large, about the size of ToS actual bridge. It also had a bar in it (full). With the FASA version it had all those cool player-hand out sheets for Navigation, Engineering, Weapons, etc....and the Engineer had to dole out energy 'points' to other stations. Everyone moved little 'chits' around on their chart, taking power from weapons to boost shields and stuff like that.
We had the whole basement laid out like the bridge...tables, chairs, lighting, etc. A big white board was the "screen" and the GM sat down in front of it and to the side. Our engineer had the 'bar'; it had just enough bar/cupboard blockage that he kinda sounded muffled, so it gave the sense of him being "down in engineering". We had props too...even one of those little "scientific viewfinders with the blue light inside" that Spok always looked into and said Fascinating. When we got hit, the GM would raise a hand and say "A solid blast the to the port side!", and all of us would 'react' to it, jiggling in our seats or staggering and grabbing onto a table/bar (engineering). A toy "star trek noise maker" (played ST sounds like phaser shots, comm opening, red alert siren, etc) was used to great effect!
That campaign was an absolute BLAST! We had a hair-net wearing, toothpick-chewing Hispanic engineer, a demure, charming and almost narcoleptic communications officer, a studly, HUGE bodybuilder doctor-captain (that was my character), a fortune-cookie fortune-telling efrosian (?) navigator into Tai-Chi who sounded like Doc fromBack to the Future (and he kinda looked like him too)...and others.
Of all the RPG's I've ever played over three and a half decades of RPG'ing (and that's saying something!), FASA's Star Trek rates at the very top for a "game that feels like it should". Even if we put a "bit" more into the game than others...it gave use the rules to do so. Good times...good times...
^_^
Paul L. Ming
FASA, hands down. One of our most remembered campaigns (any game). We played in our friend Dave's basement (he died a few years back...great guy...miss that big lug...). Anyway, his basement room was rather large, about the size of ToS actual bridge. It also had a bar in it (full). With the FASA version it had all those cool player-hand out sheets for Navigation, Engineering, Weapons, etc....and the Engineer had to dole out energy 'points' to other stations. Everyone moved little 'chits' around on their chart, taking power from weapons to boost shields and stuff like that.
We had the whole basement laid out like the bridge...tables, chairs, lighting, etc. A big white board was the "screen" and the GM sat down in front of it and to the side. Our engineer had the 'bar'; it had just enough bar/cupboard blockage that he kinda sounded muffled, so it gave the sense of him being "down in engineering". We had props too...even one of those little "scientific viewfinders with the blue light inside" that Spok always looked into and said Fascinating. When we got hit, the GM would raise a hand and say "A solid blast the to the port side!", and all of us would 'react' to it, jiggling in our seats or staggering and grabbing onto a table/bar (engineering). A toy "star trek noise maker" (played ST sounds like phaser shots, comm opening, red alert siren, etc) was used to great effect!
That campaign was an absolute BLAST! We had a hair-net wearing, toothpick-chewing Hispanic engineer, a demure, charming and almost narcoleptic communications officer, a studly, HUGE bodybuilder doctor-captain (that was my character), a fortune-cookie fortune-telling efrosian (?) navigator into Tai-Chi who sounded like Doc fromBack to the Future (and he kinda looked like him too)...and others.
Of all the RPG's I've ever played over three and a half decades of RPG'ing (and that's saying something!), FASA's Star Trek rates at the very top for a "game that feels like it should". Even if we put a "bit" more into the game than others...it gave use the rules to do so. Good times...good times...
^_^
Paul L. Ming
Magistus71
Explorer
For a trek game I prefer Starships & Spacemen, but I voted for Fasa since it was the only one on the list I ever played.
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/108104/Starships--Spacemen-2e?term=spacemen&
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/108104/Starships--Spacemen-2e?term=spacemen&
Mirth
Explorer
I also voted for Fasa, but if I were to run one now, I'd use this ...
www2.abillionmonkeys.com:3389/trek/
www2.abillionmonkeys.com:3389/trek/
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Wednesday Boy
The Nerd WhoFell to Earth
I picked up the FASA version but never got around to playing it. I think if I ran it, I'd use Fate.
If you ran the FASA Star Trek RPG you'd use Fate? Huh? You wouldn't be running it then!
Wednesday Boy
The Nerd WhoFell to Earth
Let me try that again...
I picked up the FASA version but never got around to playing it. I tried reading through it once but it felt like a wall of text, so I didn't read much of it. I think if I ran a Star Trek game, I'd use Fate instead because (to me) it's an easily accessible game and it would facilitate a character-centric game well.
The LUG Star Trek game was the first rpg I ever played, and I get pretty nostalgic about it. The ICON system gets a few details wrong, but it captures many of the central tenets of Star Trek storytelling while shedding some of the common tropes that get attached to a lot of rpgs. As I recall, it's a good Star Trek game, and I'm trying to get a group together for a new campaign at the moment.
To start things off, I've got a one-shot adventure planned for a couple weeks from now. None of the players have experience with the ICON system, so I can't wait to see how they take to a system that's over 15 years old now.
To start things off, I've got a one-shot adventure planned for a couple weeks from now. None of the players have experience with the ICON system, so I can't wait to see how they take to a system that's over 15 years old now.
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