Gauging Interest: Star Trek (Icon)

[Blackrat]

Ah. Okay, so what do those advantages do? Do they add something to some situations? For example I had the Department Head (Ascendant Class) +3 on my sheet. What does that +3 do?

 

[knightemplar]

That is the game system showing that you have bought the department head advantage. The advantage is that you actually have people underneath you that do as you say, as long as the request/order is reasonable.

Like your parents for +2, they can call on favors outside of starfleet and are well known enough to actually have some influence. I am going to let you make who your parents are, and if you are in a tight spot outside of starfleet they might be able to wire money pay for a space transport ticket, etc. If you meet an npc who actually knows them, he will be much more likely to help you with what you need because of them.

 

[Blackrat]

Ah... So the +3 means the "points" used for buying that ability? So, I'm guessing these few that cost -1/-2 have given me points back that you put into something else? Same as WoD's Merits/Drawbacks? Ok, ok.... I think I got it now...

Alright, I'll take one more example. To make sure I got this right.

So I have:
Coordination 2
Energy Weapons (Phaser) 1 (2) Coordination Skill

So lets say a couple Klingons storm my medbay and I'm forced to fight to defend my patients. A patient manages to subdue one of them and throws me the klingon's disruptor. I shoot it.

So I roll 2d6 because my coordination is 2 and take the highest. And then add 1 to the result from the energy weapons skill.

Now on the next turn a fellow officer hands me a phaser which I'm more proficient in using. So this time I roll 2d6, take the highest and add 2.

Right?

Unless the Drama die, which I'll say is the first I roll, is 1 or 6...

 

[knightemplar]

Thats the way it works Blackrat.

 

[Blackrat]

Good .

Oh, I made a slight change to the sheet... The Hippocratic Oath is terribly outdated even in modern time and would fit even less to the 24th century of Star Trek, so I changed that to Physician's Oath which has mostly replaced the Hippocratic Oath already, and would be easier to update to a time where humans are no longer the only sentient species...

Just some terminological pedantics

 

[knightemplar]

Not a problem Blackrat.


By the way here are links to the other posts now


IC post.
http://www.enworld.org/forum/playin...scendant-shakedown-cruise-ic.html#post4941124

OOC post. Please post characters on the OC post. I will be adding more to the rules pages on the Ascendant post.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/talking-talk/265573-star-trek-ascendant-ooc.html

 

[Blackrat]

and a pic can't find any grey hair federation members that aren't pervious characters

Well, here's one who even seems to have ensign's pin. An unnamed character from Voyager that has only appeared in 3 or 4 episodes:

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/c/ce/Unnamed_Voyager_command_disappears.jpg

Or... If you have in mind some actor or something you'd like him to look, I could do a quick comicbook style scetch for you. Mind you, I'm not good drawer... Not half bad either though. Just bored and I happen to have paper at hand

EDIT: Whoa, that came out better than I hoped. I decided to scetch Dr. Crescent myself too... Worked awesome except for the spikes... If only I could get them to work... And ears. Just can't draw ears .

 

[HolyMan]

Well, here's one who even seems to have ensign's pin. An unnamed character from Voyager that has only appeared in 3 or 4 episodes:

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/c/ce/Unnamed_Voyager_command_disappears.jpg

Or... If you have in mind some actor or something you'd like him to look, I could do a quick comicbook style scetch for you. Mind you, I'm not good drawer... Not half bad either though. Just bored and I happen to have paper at hand

EDIT: Whoa, that came out better than I hoped. I decided to scetch Dr. Crescent myself too... Worked awesome except for the spikes... If only I could get them to work... And ears. Just can't draw ears .

Could u sketch that guy and make him look alittle heavier Benson has been "inactive" for a while

 

[Blackrat]

Could u sketch that guy and make him look alittle heavier Benson has been "inactive" for a while

Hmm... Tough . I'll try to find a pic of someone who looks similar but a bit heavier and use that as model... Will be around this time tomorrow that I can post it. I'll post a new pic of Dr. Crescent in couple hours

 

[Blackrat]

New pic of Crescent.