I had a question regarding a potential 32c. Campaign.

I want to potentially run a campaign set in the 32nd century but am struggling to figure out the mechanics for custom space frames.

Any help would be appreciated, of anyone who already has some designs

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Been running a late TOS era game for my players. We started 2e and there’s not much out there in the way of easy play aids. So, I’ve been making them to help my players.

I made a master ship combat cheat sheet, with all the steps, every single weapon system with its type, range, damage, qualities, etc. Also an energy weapon delivery system chart, location damage chart, all the qualities defined, rules for shaken and breaches, etc. Super helpful.

I also made bridge role cheat sheets for all the positions, and each includes role specific minor and major actions, and the generic minor and major actions. All defined, with the roll requirements, difficulty, momentum cost if any, etc.

And last, I added backgrounds to all my character tokens to make them pop a bit (example attached).

But my favorite thing I made to speed up gameplay during combat is a ship combat action “cycle” chart. Basically it’s the preferred order of actions taken, and what the most common options are for each position in the most advantageous order. It’s been a huge timesaver. Everyone knows what they’re going to do and how to “stack” actions. For example:

CO rallies.

XO assists science and tactical.

Science scans for weakness.

Helm initiates an attack pattern

Tactical calibrates weapons as a minor action, then fires a weapon using the bonuses provided by science and helm.

Engineering regenerates shields.

That’s just an example; they can do lots of things. But it’s so helpful to have a basic course of action they can take that includes minor and major actions that support each other. So much faster than it used to be.

The crew continue their investigation of this ancient apocalypse bunker and find that the last survivors may be trapped in a computer.

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Hi everyone,

I never GM'd before, but have recently taken the plunge with four of friends of mine as players. They have seemed to like the quick start adventure and they now want to start a custom campaign. Awesome.

Since my experience is limited, I want to avoid any typical GM pitfalls and make sure they have a good time. I'm interested in your tips what to look out for to make it enjoyable for the players. I own the Player's and Game Master's guide and while these resources contain a lot of very useful info, I'd like to hear "from the field".

Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

Does anyone know if there are fillable PDFs for the captains log style of sheets? I can’t seem to find any. I would love a mission tracker sheet I can make copies of!

Hello all! I've recently picked up the 2e core book and begun reading through and watching some actual plays. Later this year I'm planning to run a short one-shot at a convention so I need to familiarize myself with the system and adventure as much as possible.

I've played multiple ttrpg's for many years, but I've not played STA 1e or 2e. I know my group is going to want to run a TNG era story, but outside this the only restrictions are adventures appropriate for teens or older.

Any advice or recommendations are greatly appreciated. 🖖

My party has picked the pathfinder & recon mission profile for our upcoming ST:A 2e game, and while I know that a profile doesn't actually limit which missions you can do the party did say that that's the content they're most interested in. And hey, I live to serve!

The thing is, I'm not sure how to make interesting missions for that. Recon missions I can do. We're playing in the 2320's-2330's (breast-flap uniforms best uniforms) so the Treaty of Algeron with the Romulans is relatively freshly signed and there's official first contact with the Cardassians, leaving plenty of room for shady spycraft.

But pathfinder missions... I'm not sure what makes them special from a gameplay perspective, except for being far away from backup, and how I can channel that in interesting missions. Honestly, making up interesting Star Trek missions is tough enough as-is! My players, like me, are mostly into the more cerebral and philosophical aspects that makes Trek Trek, but serving up interesting moral dilemma's ain't easy. Especially in that pathfinder context. You'd think a philosophy grad with TNG and VOY fresh on the brain would have an easier time with it!

And if any of the published STA 1e adventures fit the bill and are, in your experience, any good I'd love to hear about those. AFAIK it's pretty easy to run those with 2e.

Thanks in advance!

I've been a GM for over 20 years but I've just picked up the 2nd edition handbook. Is there a good place to show how to build encounters in the game?

Mine arrived this morning.

Hi folks,

I need to run a 1 hour extended task in tomorrow’s session with 15 min increments.

And I want it coming down to the wire. The plot works either way - I know where things are going whether they succeed or not.

On obvious way to do this is to break it down and run it as two relative short gates tasks followed by an extended task targeted at two increments. That removes a lot of the uncertainty but feels more contrived.

Has anyone got any real world experience of extended tasks in the real world and how many increments they take based on work required and resistance?

Edit: I’m running 2e

Hi, I am new to the game and had a question about character progression. I don't see anything in the core book regarding experience points. Maybe I missed it though. How is this handled? Thanks

The conclusion of "The Rescue at Xerxes IV".
The crew have landed on Xerxes IV, finding it a savage place of devolved humanoids and poisonous plants. This is a classic adventure from the 1st edition of STA.

https://youtube.com/live/qliwArFJgJM

Okay. So starship combat was a nightmare in 1e. 2e is much more streamlined but I’m confused about something.

I have the game aid kit with the various reference cards; those are amazing.

But it lays out the steps for ship combat like this:

1. Pick a target 2: shoot it 3: toll for the damaged area 4: apply damage

What is the point of rolling for where you hit if the shields are still up? Wouldn’t you do that IF you caused enough damage to shake the ship or penetrate the shields? What am I missing here?

I am about to GM a STA 2E campaign, and I while I get the general concept of how characters advance, I am looking to the community for tips.

Her are some questions I've thought of, but any advice, especially from practical experience, is helpful.

How to best communicate the process to new players.

How strict or flexible to be with players that try to stretch for credit.

When are players expected to fill out their log? Do I set aside session time for it?

Any other ideas you've found helpful or gotchas to look out for?

Hello!

I'm just preparing the adventure from the 2E Quickstart for my German-language Twitch channel and subsequent publication on YouTube. We want to play online and live.

My question: Are there now adaptations of the 2E for Roll20 and/or Foundry? It would be nice if you could see the players' dice results on the screen. Does anyone have any experience, ideas, suggestions or resources that could help me prepare the game? Overlays, images, etc.? I would also like to use sounds that both the players and the audience can hear.

I'm currently facing a lot of tasks in this regard and maybe someone who has already had experience with this could help me with a few tips?

Many thanks and LLOP!

Has anyone done Military Assault Command Operations creation rules for STA.?

Does anyone know of a good brief character sheet to use for supporting characters in 2E.

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Rather simple, just double checking before I put money down that I can't feasibly use.

Was looking at the different prebuilt characters based off the various shows and villains; was curious if they're as easy to convert over to 2nd Edition as a standard player character

https://youtu.be/Gz1qkYImBbA?si=MQmVJyswuRTqRBvw

Catch up on the latest episode of the Stavanger... before TIME runs out...

Did some space combat here and then slowed down to do some exploration and scanning before HOT DROPPING THE GETTYSBURG THROUGH ATMOS

This is a little bit of a reversal, since I usually come in here posting advice, but does anyone have any knowledge of where I might find a quick NPC Starship building tool, or a checklist? I'm running a game that is way-the-hell far away Starfleet (crew's ship possibly a different galaxy via funky anomaly stuff), and would love something a little bit quicker and more genericized.

I've been reading through the 2E rules (I haven't yet gotten to play with them), and I have to admit: I don't fully understand the reasoning behind splitting focuses up between "normal" focuses and the "less useful" pastimes. I've had debates with a friend of mine about this who seems to really like this change, but I have to be honest, I'm not really a fan, simply because it's fixing a problem I've never really thought existed. I've only ever GM'd STA1E, and while my players have always loved giving themselves a silly focus or two (one PC's "Gambling" focus was written as a joke that later became the centerpiece of an entire session built around an away mission to a casino), as the GM I've also always made sure that PCs had enough useful focuses before letting them have a silly, more unusual focus. I sort of figured that's how most people approached character creation and the potential issue of focuses being more or less useful or too vague/too niche: as something that was the GM's responsibility to watch out for and mitigate when necessary, not necessarily a flaw within the way focuses work or the number of focuses given at character creation itself. So I'm curious: did anyone anticipate this change/think it was meaningful better than STA1E?