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I got rid of the "balanced party" long ago. The whole idea of balance got it start in the simple, direct RPGs like 1E D&D. Games that were intentionally designed to be very limited in their forms of game play. 1E was very much hexcrawl....move explore combat and repeat. And 1E was most...

A group of goofy, funny, wise cracking one liner goofballs.........................................................again? And an end of the world threat.........................................again? I'd guess Galavatron.....he fought the real Thunderbolts(not this team) like, er five times...

Well... 1)Like most Comic Book Lore, the When, Why, How and What of Krypton have been both kept very vague and changed every couple years. It can be hard even for Superman fans to follow. Plus every comic or show or such will often have it's own "truth". Superman the Movie wants Krypton to...

I think Star Trek as a whole shows us a Federation with near zero crime. Even more so if your talking about places like Earth or Vulcan. To have some sort of big flashy CSI like crime on Earth every week breaks the idea of utopia fast. This is even worse as to have even a little drama you...

Divine Approval: All Divine Magic is approved by your deity. If it follows your deities ethos they will add a boon, if it goes against they will add a bane. Or the deity might be neutral. --- Mundane Magic Item Crafting At 3rd level all non spellcasting classes gain the Create Magic Item...

The plane’s orderly in nearly every way. Its orchards consist of trees growing in straight lines, all without having been planted that way. Its fields glimmer with grass that grows to a certain height and no higher, much like a rich berk’s lawn. Its streams flow straight, taking right-angled...

But that is one episode of a show. Not a whole show on just that single topic. Though...well, Star Trek IS a surveillance state. And yes you could make a Star Trek: Frontier show........maybe even: Star Trek: Federation Primeval

Yes, it could be done.....but only as a show with a very focused megaplot. The Elite Cops that travel the Federation to help the local cops with the rare crimes could work. Though, all that "crime" might not feel like Star Trek. The Federation ideal is that there would be little crime as all...

A show might work....but would it be a Star Trek show, or just a generic sci fi show? M'talas Prime is "far outside the Federation". So would it be Star Trek with a bunch of dark morally questionable...maybe even evil "cop" characters fighting crime? Is it Star Trek to show drug dealers...

I also see a CSI Federation show not working "in" the Federation as it breaks the idea of a utopia. You can't have that much Crime in paradise. And, as you said, you would need to avoid "jaded dark" cops and setting. You could do it.....like DS9...on the "Edge" of the Federation somewhere in...

Have no fear.....I'm an Edge Lord! Something right with the world today And everybody knows it's wrong But we can tell 'em no or we could let it go But I would rather be a hanging on Living on the edge!

There is a big limit on how far you can stretch an IP. But it can be vague......and worse the non fans will never, ever understand. And sadly it's nearly always non-fans in charge of things. But you can't just take "random outer space plot" and slap "Star Trek" onto it. And the Big...

My default is to make a hard, harsh, dangerous, bloody, gritty, vile, dark, world. So most foes, and nearly all monsters fight to win and even more kill and slay. Though, my world is also full of all types of creatures. So there are plenty of "goofy goblins" and "dumb giants" and even...

Limbo is a part of the Reality of the Multiverse. Pure Chaos, but still the pure Chaos of Reality. "a state of utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organization or order. Synonyms: tumult, turmoil, jumble, disarray" are all Chaos, but all a part of Reality. Even something Chaotic like...

I agree it is not essential. After all like 75% of all Star Trek has little or no action. The City on the Edge of Forever has like zero action and is at the top of most lists, just like Measure of a Man. Or the Visitor. Blink of an Eye. Or Dear Doctor. The Siege of AR-558 has a lot of...

Yes. Though taking part in a Role Playing Game also requires player intelligence. The player needs the bare minimum intelligence to understand things like "Don't shoot a fireball at a fire giant" or "don't try and put the zombies to sleep". Spells have ranges and areas of effect, players...

The big problem is the average non Star Trek fan, or worse the Star Trek hater, takes a look at a couple episodes and will say "oh, ok, whatever it's just people fighting in space with ships and laser gun pew pew". So, as that is what they think Star Trek is: that is what they make. Plus the...

For most games, most of the time, I use the system that popped up in the late 3.5E books. Each 5 or so on a check gets you the most basic knowledge of the monster, starting with the most commonly known things and going up from there. But it is always, tavern gossip, tall tales, stories...

As my game is Deep Immersive Role Playing, the use of Insight will only get the clueless player a vague 'insight' to what the character (and ever non clueless player) knows or thinks or feels. So like if a character is in a dark sewer talking to a figure in a cloak to get a "super duper magic...

I think we see a bigger problem with all shows, and even IPs : How far can you go? What is Star Trek? You could say it's an action adventure show about a ship exploring space. But that is very basic. Though if you dig deeper you will add it's about showing an idealistic future. And deeper...