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Given character creation is a very large portion of the core book, it made sense to us to keep it in the core book. Starter set is for getting the taste of the game. YMMV naturally. If someone wants to experiment with creating characters for the system, they could hop over to the free character...

Don't know for sure where you heard that from. I wanted to include a poster map along with the dice, tokens, booklets, and reference cards we included, but had to cut it because we wanted to keep the starter set price low (and we got a poster map in the toolkit anyway).

I find it interesting they didn't hold any tickets for day-of sales. Casual gamers might want to poke in on Saturday or Sunday but I guess it's not feasible. I did three Gen Cons just before the pandemic and it was fun, but a lot. '98 and '99 it was really hard to navigate the dealer cavern...

Maybe. Short run RPGs based on a niche IP is something the RPG industry brings out a lot. Dallas, Alien, Blade Runner, Avatar Legends, John Carter of Mars, Zorro, The Princess Bride, Hercules and Xena, Buffy, etc. The list is very long. Given it's relatively low-cost to develop and release an...

Not counting anything I've developed, my favorite RPG book has to be the revised and expanded Star Wars RPG by West End Games. So much fun packed into that book. Runner-up is probably the TSR Marvel Super Heroes advanced set.

Glad I was able to help. I'm the PM and line editor. I don't do as much writing on the line as I used to in the early days of 1e; I'm focused now on managing the line, hiring freelancers, working with teammates, managing the concept to publication of all STA products, and editing and...

Fishing for a page count, I guess? Overview of traits in the QS is about a page, page and a half? Traits rules cover more than 6 pages in the core book, providing full details on creating and using traits. Hope that helps.

Traits are traits. They represent something specific in a location, about a character, about a situation, or about a piece of equipment. So in that respect they're defined--they are a truth about a thing. How that trait impacts gameplay will depend on the context it's created, modified, or used...

I'm the project manager for STA. :) Full details on traits are in the core book.

Like I said, for the purposes of the quickstart it wasn't necessary to go into full detail on every game element. The QS is intended to give players a good taste of the game. The full ruleset is in the core book.

It's a quickstart. Full details on traits aren't needed to get through the introductory adventure.

I'll be curious to hear your reaction to the look and feel of the 2e quickstart.

Perfect timing. I posted a video on that very topic the other night. :D (And one on adapting standalone missions to CL.)

It does. Instead of points, you either have Momentum or you don't. You have Threat or you don't. You can still spend them to impact the narrative, just not at the level you would in STA with multiple points.

Star Trek, for me. Hits everything that's important and what shaped my life. Team work, sense of wonder, diversity and inclusion, the hope for a better future, self-improvement, no chasing the dollar. Almost 60 years of incredible sci-fi storytelling across multiple media--comic books, fiction...