![]() ![]() For example: The damage your phaser does is not just the weapons listing, but factors in your Security Discipline. But there are some strange things embedded in here. It does open up some questions from time to time as to whether a character should leverage the pool or not – but this forces good teaming with the players. The two pools interact with each other but are critical to the play of the game. ![]() The gamemaster can leverage this pool to his advantage, allowing him to toss in complications such as NPC’s recovering faster from damage. This is the ying to the momentum pool’s yang. The counter to that is the threat pool which his owned by the gamemaster. They are a group pool you can leverage to roll extra dice to try and succeed, or to up the ante (so to speak) on a certain situation. This is a pool of points that you build by over-succeeding on tasks. Something brilliant – the use of momentum and threats poold. Once I got into the game there were some bits of brilliance here along with some, “what the hell?” moments reading/playing this as well. So if I made any mistakes, those are on me (and the gamemaster that led us on our adventure). I struggled a bit with some of the core concepts until I played. That brings me to one point, some of the rules and examples are not entirely clear. ![]() I lightly read the rules before Gen Con and I’m glad I played the game to clear up some of the ambiguity in the book. So I pre-ordered the game and slotted some time to play at Gen Con. There have been some good attempts in the past to rekindle this franchise into a game – but they all more or less fizzled. Third, we’ve been in a weird glut of Star Trek RPG’s. I’ve even gotten to write game walk-thru books for several of the computer games for Star Trek. First, I have been a Trek fan since the original series (yes, I’m that old.) Second, one of my first writing projects in the gaming business was for FASA’s Star Trek RPG back in the 1980’s (yes, I’m that old part II.) I wrote support books, rules, and scenario packs back in the day. I have to admit, I was excited that Modiphius Entertainment was putting out a new Star Trek RPG. Put on your red shirt and prepare to beam down ![]()
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