tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post3181430698195903373..comments2024-03-18T20:22:06.331-04:00Comments on GROGNARDIA: Retrospective: Star Trek the Roleplaying GameJames Maliszewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-6951567798392085252011-08-23T23:16:25.792-04:002011-08-23T23:16:25.792-04:00I grew up playing FASATREK and later moved onto LU...I grew up playing FASATREK and later moved onto LUGTREK, I even bought DECIPHER TREK but hated the system. Anyway we are still playing trek rpgs. Check us out <br /><br />http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/star-trek-late-night/wikis/main-pageAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-28010941078475907092011-02-21T18:04:28.219-05:002011-02-21T18:04:28.219-05:00We have a large group of people RPing Trek in Seco...We have a large group of people RPing Trek in Second Life. It's a great group of people and a lot of fun. We have Starfleet academy (you are a cadet when you start, until you graduate), space stations and ships (we have a great team of modelers, animators, and texturers to create nice trek ships for us to RP in). The group is called UFS, check us out I think you will like it!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11337478645594720748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-79794382472507042042010-01-30T23:59:50.353-05:002010-01-30T23:59:50.353-05:00Thanks for reminding me of this classic. I pulled...Thanks for reminding me of this classic. I pulled out my copy and discovered a 1st edition rules, the starship combat game, and ship sourcebooks. At the time TRAVELLER (aka Classic Traveller) was our RPG staple and Star Fleet Battles was our ship combat game. At the time, FASA Trek just didn't make the grade.<br />Looking at it today with fresh eyes I too like the CharGen sequence. And the Command and Control version of the starship combat game is a wonderful model for ROLEPLAYING starship combat.<br />So now I am experimenting with using FASA Trek for the mechanics and Prime Directive for the setting. Looking to mix Kligon Armada (the Star Fleet Universe version of the Starmada engine) for starship combat.RockyMountainNavyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16208992845018220559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-55623636048036408042010-01-24T02:25:13.257-05:002010-01-24T02:25:13.257-05:00Had it, played it, love it, still have it. But hav...Had it, played it, love it, still have it. But haven't played in years. We had a Galaxy Quest back in the day, as our GM felt it necessary for our helmsman to make a pilot role to get us out of spacedock. My spanking-new starship with the scratch all along the side...Baron Greystonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16636292202674906870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-55582281337633370672010-01-21T14:41:15.807-05:002010-01-21T14:41:15.807-05:00This game might be responsible for one of my earli...This game might be responsible for one of my earliest grognard moments. ^_^ I was intrigued, but after looking at it, I decided it was too complex and got a few things “wrong”.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16733274876782876659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-65647284021533776972010-01-21T14:20:56.662-05:002010-01-21T14:20:56.662-05:00I actually came to be a Star Trek fan through FASA...I actually came to be a Star Trek fan through FASA Trek, which was the first RPG I ever played back in 1985. Star Trek IV was on the horizon, but FASA Trek defined Star Trek for me.<br /><br />Any wonder I hate most Trek after Voyage Home? ;)Forever DMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14377944405270117523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-40603582269622937952010-01-21T13:22:43.623-05:002010-01-21T13:22:43.623-05:00Never played this and I'm not even much of a T...Never played this and I'm not even much of a Trek fan. But I'll praise the stark cover, I found it compelling both then and now: Kirk, Spock, Ship, Space. Now that's being tightly on-message (i.e. "focus on core competency").Deltahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00705402326320853684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-74089304324507381212010-01-21T11:54:00.178-05:002010-01-21T11:54:00.178-05:00Along with the 007 James Bond RPG, Call of Cthulhu...Along with the 007 James Bond RPG, Call of Cthulhu, and a home brew based on some E. E. "Doc" Smith novels (which used a variant of the FASA Trek rules), the original Star Trek RPG was one of our staples. We played aboard a variety of vessels, including playing the crew of a Klingon ship (with each of us learning two or three phrases of Klingon) and as part of a Klingon delegation going up against a Federation delegation over the future of a planet. We must have played through nearly all of the modules with A Doomsday Like Any Other being a memorable favourite.<br /><br />I always thought though, that FASA Trek was never up to handling TNG. It a game being designed from the ground up -- LUG Trek -- to handle that properly.pookiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09521454715536568847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-25611786835011840912010-01-21T11:53:37.565-05:002010-01-21T11:53:37.565-05:00One interesting thing about this game is that it&#...One interesting thing about this game is that it's overshadowed by one of its supplements -- the Klingons supplement, which was written by John M. Ford, author of the classic Trek novel "The Final Reflection." Many old-school Trek fans still consider Ford's portrayal of Klingon culture to be the "real" one (as opposed to what was developed for TNG and later series.) Ford was a novelist and gamer who didn't discriminate between the two genres -- to the benefit of gamers of the time, though to the detriment of collectors of his work today, since his RPG supplements are rather harder to find than his novels...Matthew Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04905727799828366356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-43456059487656141412010-01-21T09:31:45.482-05:002010-01-21T09:31:45.482-05:00I still have the box set for the starship combat. ...I still have the box set for the starship combat. Never got to play it though. I've been through the box about a million times wishing I had. <br /><br />:(Jayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997164906328234122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-31384841388157852532010-01-21T08:22:20.278-05:002010-01-21T08:22:20.278-05:00This was actually the first RPG I ever bought, tho...This was actually the first RPG I ever bought, though I didn't get it at the time. I was 8 I think, and while I tried to read the thing, I just didn't get it. <br /><br />I wish I knew what happened to that set...<br /><br />To this day I've still yet to ever play a game of Star Trek.David The Archmagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11649391406526258069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-86558966742142536522010-01-21T05:55:05.086-05:002010-01-21T05:55:05.086-05:00I've got the revised all in one box, but haven...I've got the revised all in one box, but haven't gotten to do much more than skim through it and read the example of character generation.<br /><br />Sadly there IS or at least was recently a group playing the game but on weekends when I am unavailable.<br /><br />It really seems like an interesting game, and I am not really a big Trek fan.Captain Rufushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00296697477771399357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-79205596931477156722010-01-21T00:35:06.218-05:002010-01-21T00:35:06.218-05:00Re: FASA Trek ship combat
I never played it, but ...Re: FASA Trek ship combat<br /><br />I never played it, but I sure knew all about it. Every male gamer I knew was crazy about it, in the late eighties. (And a lot of female ones, too.) It must have been the most common wargame around, for a long while.<br /><br />In high school, I worked as an aide in the library. I swear to you, there was not a morning when the FASA gamers were not in there photocopying ship status sheets. People would play before school, at lunch, after school, and even during class. Ah, the Klingonity!Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-1452738045873965382010-01-20T23:50:22.902-05:002010-01-20T23:50:22.902-05:00Trek isn't a purely action-adventure series, s...<b>Trek isn't a purely action-adventure series, so why the designers chose to saddle it with a persnickety, over-detailed system for resolving fights, I have no idea.</b><br /><br />They used that same Action Point system for <i>everything</i>. Seriously, it was in their Doctor Who game, too.<br /><br />But we did have fun with the game as a whole!<br /><br />Verification word: Sleasco -- Harry Mudd's corporate umbrella corporation.Will Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06379173017869751088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-84580779544802054012010-01-20T23:37:18.122-05:002010-01-20T23:37:18.122-05:00While I started with D&D in 1977 at the age of...While I started with D&D in 1977 at the age of 8, FASA Star Trek is what I think of when I think old school gaming. It is this game more than any other that is responsible for the fact that I am still gaming today.<br /><br />I've told the story of my first encounter with the game on my own blog so I won't repeat it here but I still remember the first adventure I ran like it was yesterday.<br /><br />Thanks for bringing attention to the old gal and may many more generations use dice, paper and pencils to boldly go where no one has gone before.<br /><br />Peace and Long Life.Adam Dicksteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840144928096089178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-65756386192616750002010-01-20T23:34:25.015-05:002010-01-20T23:34:25.015-05:00I picked up the box set, minus the GameScience dic...I picked up the box set, minus the GameScience dice, but with the Ship Construction Manual and the ST:III Sourcebook, at a flea market for about $5 a few years back. I'm enjoying reading through it, and remembering fondly the few sessions I played with my group back in the late 1980's. You are correct that the lifepath system was a fun minigame in its own right - by the time I got done rolling up my ensign I had a pretty good idea of who he was.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15257633015186395791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-59895572121256436832010-01-20T23:03:25.303-05:002010-01-20T23:03:25.303-05:00We had a copy of this and the LUG TNG game in my M...We had a copy of this and the LUG TNG game in my Middle School library. Those were my first RPGs. I played a Vulcan named T'Lab as my first ever character in the latter.Rachel Ghoulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04765944479141792643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-87793642091254879272010-01-20T22:19:18.682-05:002010-01-20T22:19:18.682-05:00I probably did my best gamemastering with FASA Tre...I probably did my best gamemastering with FASA Trek. And even though our group didn't really have the patience for the starship combat system, those rules are still IMO the best Star Trek space combat rules ever. (Not my favorite,but the best.)<br /><br />And while I agree that the "lifepath" system was good, it was just too many rolls and took too long. It's funny that I never thought about house-ruling around that then. Maybe I just know more now, or maybe I'm just too tired. Anyway, I recently conjured some house rules to remedy that. Even so, though, I probably would choose something less structured to play Trek if I were to play or ref again.<br /><br />VerWord: "gonstra" (n) -- a tree-dwelling herbivore of planet Al-debra IVBob Portnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563075580066984380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-89565329713078337152010-01-20T21:31:30.998-05:002010-01-20T21:31:30.998-05:00This is one I actually still own and treasure. If...This is one I actually still own and treasure. If you can, take a look at FASA's ST:TNG sourcebook, which does some neat things with the "lifepath" and allows for more cross-discipline PC's.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-31826448243802521062010-01-20T21:27:01.979-05:002010-01-20T21:27:01.979-05:00Playing FASA Trek in college with a group of frien...Playing FASA Trek in college with a group of friends who were all big Trek fans. We even had a computer set up where one of the player's would play sounds files of ST sound effects at approriate times!<br /><br />It was one of my fondest gaming memories. A good combo of game and players on the same page.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-83959844321079818692010-01-20T21:25:08.827-05:002010-01-20T21:25:08.827-05:00James, you know the LUG version was a direct attem...James, you know the LUG version was a direct attempt at capturing those very elements you mention: 1) creating a history while generating a character and; 2) starship combat. <br /><br />I insisted on this because of my love for FASATrek. I can't imagine it being done any other way.Ross A. Isaacshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03130248059505536194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-55974846837395781652010-01-20T21:23:38.353-05:002010-01-20T21:23:38.353-05:00I still remember the first time I played a game of...I still remember the first time I played a game of <i>Star Trek</i>. It was at the local wargames club and we rearranged all the furniture to emulate the bridge. Including putting a lounge chair on a set of kitchen tables for our very laconic captain (it was probably a good thing he was laconic or the assemblage might have collapsed). I was navigator. The science officer had found a pen and some sheets of poster paper and would quickly draw pictures of what was on the screen (or, in one case the poster deckplans came in very useful), and we (the helmsmen and I) would hold them up in front of the captain. We could even execute the "Computer: Magnify" command by moving the sheet closer to the captain.<br /><br />It may have looked rather ridiculous to people walking past (in fact some of the more staid older wargamers might have commented thusly), but it was actually immense fun and introduced us (and me especially) to the power that physicality adds to the "tabletop" [in this case literally] gaming experience. Something I was later to use to great effect when running <i>Paranoia</i> adventures, and which, twenty years later, became heavily established in the freeform movement.<br /><br />So thankyou, Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration!Reverance Pavanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01217657347160811310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-59485946404667416282010-01-20T20:25:20.060-05:002010-01-20T20:25:20.060-05:00I used to love Fasa Trek. If I could manage to pla...I used to love Fasa Trek. If I could manage to play the role of commanding officer I used to break out a tape recorder and make my captain's log during play sessions. I'd love to find one of those tapes some day, it's doubtful if they've survived for over 25 years however.JDJarvishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691101939920824546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-89733317697322200852010-01-20T19:52:35.544-05:002010-01-20T19:52:35.544-05:00Got my 2nd edition boxed set on my shelf about 10 ...Got my 2nd edition boxed set on my shelf about 10 feet from me, if that.<br /><br />Surprisingly, we did almost no Star Trek roleplaying, but we did play the heck out of the starship combat simulator.Brian Ihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03611254309132646269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-88814261018925973072010-01-20T19:15:38.114-05:002010-01-20T19:15:38.114-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13079821547999747258noreply@blogger.com