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The gameplay loop is a lot of fun. It delivers on characters feeling like they have Superpowers. There is a lot of excitement when a "Fantastic" roll is made. Helping out other characters on your turn feels very genre-appropriate, especially when combined with Teamwork maneuvers. The...

Instead of trying for a Simulation of what could be Starship Combat, STA goes more for a TV Simulation of what is on the shows and movies. The real beauty of the game is that all stations and departments feel useful and each success builds on one another. Helping out a crewmate in a task role...

You should 100% give this version of the RPG a try. I think it captures every aspect of Star Trek. I will go out on a limb and even say it captures it better than either FASA, LUG, and Dichipher games did.

Having played this game when the core rule book was released in September, this version of the Star Trek RPG models every aspect of Star Trek for every era. The rule system is innovative and you can run any type of story with Star Trek. Epic Space battles, Yes. Horror/Investigation, Yes...

Actually that is not what this is saying. It is saying that the Author of the Book is Diamond, and the Distributor is PSI. This is not comic book shop sales, but most likely what Diamond/PSI has sold to customers who allow their cash register sales to be tracked by Bookscan. Amazon sales...

The article is a little bit out of date, Bookscan is owned by Circana now and eBooks can be tracked. Convention sales can be tracked if set up correctly. As a regular book scan user, 9780786969517 is the Number listed for the 2024 PHB However, the listing is not looking correct. It says the...

Since it is a toy code, the title is not reporting to Bookscan. If they are touting numbers, then every Beyond Subscriber received a version of the 2024 rules.

Yes Amazon sales position never really means much without the hard numbers, but the book industry has sources to track actual sales that others could look at. Unless you are in the Toy Industry do you have access to those numbers.

What is interesting to me is that on Amazon, the book was changed to a toy listing instead of a book listing. So all of the metrics for measuring sales can only come from WotC now as there used to be outside systems you could look up the sales and compare. Also not making the Book an...

In Dune, things that do damage are at a baseline 2 damage. If you have a better version of that weapon the damage starts increasing (A crysknife, compared to a dagger) or you can spend Momentum to increase the damage.

The Dune RPG is Challenge Diceless. It works very well. I enjoy the challenge dice too. I had Captain Shaw sign the blank faces of mine. I am very interested to see how Star Trek implements this new version of the 2D20 system.

Looking forward to the new edition. The advancement and reputation rules in the Klingon Core Rule Book basically put advancing your character in the hands of the player through the use or challenging that Charater's values. Gone is the table voting from the 1e book.

Why? Star Trek as an RPG has been around since the 80s. Just go for Star Trek.

Looking forward to getting this. 6 new connected wartime adventures. While for the Klingon-Federation War of 2256-2257, it can be modified for any era. Yeah this is going to be on my buy list.

I have run Star Trek Horror games. It is not about the technology, it is about the feeling you create as GM, horrific and weird is still horrific and weird in the 24th century.