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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 9394569" data-attributes="member: 12731"><p>As for actually experiencing the game (my Narrator is running adventures written by Decipher yo the best of my knowledge, not his own material) it felt wonky at first, but I'm starting to appreciate what they were trying to do.</p><p></p><p>Yes, the mechanics are poor, but we've mostly sorted them out by now. The game insists on round-based initiative: things reset at the start of everybody's round, nut at the start of your round. This is clearly clumsy and I prefer the simplicity and elegance of cyclic initiative like in 5E where there's zero need to end one round and start the next (everything's expressed as a number of YOUR rounds).</p><p></p><p>Combat being reduced to rocket tag (if your phaser hits, your foe is stunned) felt wonky at first, but I guess this is a genre trope. At least you can abuse the game system to allow you to dodge everything unless the hapless Romulans roll four sixes in a row or whatever.</p><p></p><p>I am starting to like the variation inherent in the short "weekly" episodic nature of scenarios. When we play D&D we almost never go shorter than 30 episode campaigns.</p><p></p><p>Here we have managed two missions in one night.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 9394569, member: 12731"] As for actually experiencing the game (my Narrator is running adventures written by Decipher yo the best of my knowledge, not his own material) it felt wonky at first, but I'm starting to appreciate what they were trying to do. Yes, the mechanics are poor, but we've mostly sorted them out by now. The game insists on round-based initiative: things reset at the start of everybody's round, nut at the start of your round. This is clearly clumsy and I prefer the simplicity and elegance of cyclic initiative like in 5E where there's zero need to end one round and start the next (everything's expressed as a number of YOUR rounds). Combat being reduced to rocket tag (if your phaser hits, your foe is stunned) felt wonky at first, but I guess this is a genre trope. At least you can abuse the game system to allow you to dodge everything unless the hapless Romulans roll four sixes in a row or whatever. I am starting to like the variation inherent in the short "weekly" episodic nature of scenarios. When we play D&D we almost never go shorter than 30 episode campaigns. Here we have managed two missions in one night. [/QUOTE]
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