Hell, i'll even put up with D20 System if it means that we finally see Through a Mirror Darkly. I've been waiting 13 years for that supplement, and that's two companies now that've canned their Star Trek RPG with that supplement on the production schedule, overdue, and essentially finished. GRRRRR...Starman said:
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Mongoose doing Star Trek d20?
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I've now read a couple of times where people criticize the old FASA Star Trek game. I was a devout fan of that game during the mid-to-late 80's until FASA lost the license. I thought it was a good system for the time, and just as good as AD&D. Sure, it had a few imperfections, but what game doesn't? So what exactly is it about FASA Trek that everyone hates?
Huh. I'd say B5 D20 is a merely-good RPG. It starts with suffering from the bizarre choice to use the D20STL on an RPG with potential huge crossover appeal, which is compounded by not making it virtually-complete (like Spycraft), but instead having only half the combat chapter there and requiring another book to get all the rules. And, while they definitely started out in the right direction with te rules changes, i question some of the details. Frex, i think hps still escalate too quickly, compared to the TV show.wingsandsword said:
It's not a bad game, by any means, but it's not stellar like Stargate or Conan.
And, to this day, i still don't understand why a number of ready-to-publish 'Trek RPG products weren't published in those six months before WotC lost the license. Seems to me that if they thought the 'Trek license was worth acquiring, they must've thought 'Trek RPG books would make money, so why not publish a bunch of 'Trek books while you have the chance? Especially when one of those is the mirror-universe supplement, which, after Vulcans and Klingons, is probably the most-popular, and thus biggest-profit-potential, Star Trek topic out there. (Based on the various mirror-universe episodes consistently showing up in fan-voted best episodes lists.)Ranger REG said:
TheAuldGrump
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J_D said:
I certainly didn't hate it. I had fun in the two campaigns of it I played, one as captain, the other as chief engineer.
I really liked starship combat, there was something for everyone to do instead of waiting while the GM and whoever is piloting go and ignore everyone else.
The Auld Grump
Ghostwind said:Mongoose does not have the license. Matt has publicly said this on the Mongoose boards. I can also confirm that because I've talked to Decipher myself. How do I know? Because I've been involved with Decipher on negotiations for this license with another company for months. That is all I can say because of an NDA. However, I can say that Decipher will be making an announcement this year concerning the Trek RPG and its future based upon the information I was told yesterday.
It would be nice if they'd say something...anything, about the LotR license this year. It's pretty frustrating to watch them keep mum on the matter. They keep the license, get to profit from the cards, and don't bother doing anything with the RPG. Not very impressive.
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Vampyrknight
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A Conundrum
Not to seem like a conspiracy theorist, but has anyone checked out the entry recently on Amazon.com? Earlier, when I went on it, it listed Diamond Comics Distributors, Inc. (not Mongoose) as the publisher, but at the time, it was for Star Trek D20. If you look at it now, it's just Star Trek RPG. Someone's changed the entries, probably the publisher before I got a look at it, probably because the information was leaked. Something like this could get the license revoked, if Mongoose was set to do a d20 version of it.
Not to seem like a conspiracy theorist, but has anyone checked out the entry recently on Amazon.com? Earlier, when I went on it, it listed Diamond Comics Distributors, Inc. (not Mongoose) as the publisher, but at the time, it was for Star Trek D20. If you look at it now, it's just Star Trek RPG. Someone's changed the entries, probably the publisher before I got a look at it, probably because the information was leaked. Something like this could get the license revoked, if Mongoose was set to do a d20 version of it.
FCWesel
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qstor said:
Yeah, I wound up picking one of these books up, as a friend wanted to run it...him being a huge Dune freak and all. Then he had to move to NY (family problems) and I have never played it. Barely cracked opened the covers, really.
Sgih, yet one more book i bought that will never see real table time.
Ranger REG
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Because they're not TSR, it takes money to publish it, and it was bad timing (busy promoting the new D&D Third Edition).woodelf said:
I'd wish they released all of the material back to the author, like they did with Spacedock & Ship Recognition Manual series (written by Steve Long) and made available on the Trek-RPG.net web site. At one point, MnM guru Steve Kenson posted an excerpt of his drafted Klingon supplement (unpublished) as well as a Cardassian supplement (also unpublished) for LUGTrek.*
* Still my favorite d6-based system.
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Ranger REG
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Hmm. I hear rumors that the Herbert Estate wanted more money from WotC to renew the license (also expired December 31, 2000). WotC passed on it.FCWesel said:
Since then, no one have acquired the Dune RPG license, else it would have been in publication already.
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