🎉🎉🎉 love hearing how this was such a team design and build!

I'm not going to switch to 2E soon, I love my challenge dice too much, but I'm still looking forward to this set and working the adventure into my campaign.

its a full campaign. My plan is to use the three briefs and one additional brief from existing STA briefs after each main adventure.

@Meric - I love that 1st adventure so much. I said so on many feeds already, but I will say it again now.

Love this podcast. I'm excited to get my starter set.

Spoiler Free: The shuttle scene is one of the best scenes in any prewritten STA book. This scene brought the Awesome.

While a veteran player since 1e, I preordered the Starter Set already... want those dice.... I wonder how big are those D20 ?

This is such a good episode. Wow! Please bring Mike Ashkewe back again!

I miss Europa! Will it ever come back?

I love you guys! I love STA Captain's Log since its release and always will. I love the mission briefs, I love the premise that everything is so well compatible and I love Star Trek!

This is so great Michael 🎉

The background says "Hate Mulgrew". You might want to edit that.

Hey! Jim Johnson! Breaking news. Guy from "How to be a Great GM" is having his channel pruned. He is restarting again with a new channel all about Star Trek Adventures ed 2. instead of a another D&D channel. He would be an amazing guest for you and Michael Dismuke. I think you should check out some of his videos. And I'm still holding out for the snowballs chance in hell that you'll one day have Razorfist and Terran from the Rageaholic channel to discuss story writing and the deeper facets of the lore of Deep Space 9 on your channel. Have a great new year as we excitedly look to your content for 2025.

10:52 The Federation-Klingon War Tactical Campaign 19:13 Mission Briefs: Political Actions, Beneath the Raptor's Wings, Khitomer Accords, The Alpha Quadrant 21:40 Scenarios: Conflict of Values, Alternative Truths, Synthetic Diplomacy, Ghost in the Machine 25:17 Buffer Time (card game) 27:56 STA Second Edition Core Rulebook 39:00 Second Edition Quickstart Guide 41:22 Game Toolkit 43:50 Starter Set

Another great video. Took a bit but now I have a nice game going here thanks to your guidance here, on Continuing Missions and the Modiphious Discord. Thanks

It's fun that the Lower Decks finale gave us one possible story reason the core book cover could happen. :)

I *love* the fact that "Spader Card" has become the go-to term.

Stratigc is what you are talking about l..

What about the 4 years war?

Unoffical fan ttrpg games of Mass Effect DO exist. I've even downloaded two different versions that were over 100 pages long. Hopefully you do it well as an actual fan. 😉 We can really use a win for that franchise.

Werewolf father/son story? I HAVE HEARD OF YOU. 🤔 I don't recall where, because the other podcast doesn't sound familiar, but maybe some other youtuber was talking about your story or maybe you were a guest on a different podcast.

Screw Attack? No kidding? Do you think you'll reconnect with Stuttering Craig and visit on his Side Scrollers Podcast? We might meet up at sometime, he asked if I would Interpret (ASL) his podcast for an episode.

This was such a wonderful opportunity. i REALLY hope i remember that Bob Picardo story right

Awesome episode, awesome guest. At the risk of irritating fans, 😘, "We will watch your career with great interest."- senator palpatine.

it is nice that the short film "guidelines" actually force people to do the fun work of carrying the show forward and advancing the universe with new and original characters and stories. as for getting people. "They also believe" - some monk on a space station without artificial gravity

Razorfist did a deep dive on a ton of episodes of DS9 and also pointed out that the script writers were reusing scripts from the Rifleman, Clumbo, and a dozen other shows. It is what led to the charm and novelty of each episode, "this is the noir one, or the rom com one, or the old western showdown one." The writers reskinned what worked, added some flair to make it their own, and in most cases, it worked.

Be the change you want to see, go indie. Create new content instead of attempting to force a change in a pre established ip. It has never been easier to do so, Hail to the Iron Age. Thank you for the wonderful information JJ, MD and BH.

I know it wasn't, but I feel like this conversation was about me. Now, I'm questioning some of my choices and wondering how to fix what may be a tarnished reputation. I'm going to start by writing just to write again to restrengthen those muscles which I have allowed to atrophy and try to put a portfolio and website together. Jim and Michael, if you have anything you would like to see in that portfolio, just let me know and I will see what I can come up with.

A brony campaign? Really? When you literally have the option to run a WELCOME TO NIGHTVALE one shot? 😅 Fair enough. I guess I didn't do a good enough job of showing off the podcast to you. At least make the brony convention happen in Nightvale. That would be hilarious 😆

Good conversation! IMO, people complaining about literally everything in our society being “problematic” in some way are, themselves, a problem. Can’t we all be individuals anymore, and make our own value judgments for our lives, and maybe leave everyone else alone? Sure there’s rare occasions where something is hugely offensive to a really large group of people but even that can be taken care of by the normal response of the marketplace. Most of us don’t need to be, and shouldn’t try to be, activists and censors, seeking to change everything to meet our desires-or what we perceive to be what’s “best” for everyone else. Anyone taking on that responsibility is guaranteed to be wrong, because they’re circumventing freedom of expression, and consumer choice.

I have also used Cohors Cthulu for the setting and major and minor NPCs during a time travel mission that pits the crew of our ship against aliens from 2382 who are trying to infiltrate the Earth during the early Imperial Roman era. Al is reading my mind again.

for the past year we have sed the Sentience Rules for a a sentient computer progam in our Star TrkActual play on Tabletop Journeys.

I ran the first adventure last weekend, and it was amazing. My players had so much fun that they bought my #FLGS out of 2E Core Rule Book. This was the start of my latest STA campaign.

Awesome episode! And great idea for incorporating the whole range of 2d20 lines into STA. It makes a lot of sense and opens the doors to so much creativity! I may be trying this in the future.

I love this show! Was dismayed to films the podcast feed didn’t update, but I am glad to be able to find it on KZbin.

Been loving this so far. Keep up the good work. I need to be an actual player more myself.

Aenar hide themselves and were legend around the time or Enterprise

looking forward to doing the sentience QuickStart for our group. a new game not bound to an existing IP !!!

In DS9 they showed that there was an all Vulcan ship in Starfleet. Sisko and the crew played them in baseball.

That Stellar Cartography Console is going right into my ongoing Dakota Game on Rumble. Thanks for sharing that.

I used Fallout in an episode where some of the crew were trapped in the Holodeck with the safeties off.

One of my players is a Betazoid and he thinks he has Xavier levels of telepathy 😂

Off topic, but I’m hoping to get the ear of those involved in game content, as you guys are. Please tell me that a creatures supplement is in the works? Virtually every RPG of any longevity has one, or more, such supplements, and STA desperately needs one, IMO. We could have way more creatures than are in the 2e book (along with those hopefully), with more detailed descriptions and artwork. It’s a no-brainer, one would think, but it seems no-one’s thought to make one yet?

great timing - we have a session tonight and we have two Betazoids (twins who don't get along) in our support crew, one of whom was assigned as a special envoy for a First Contact mission.

Stuff like the force and moving objects with your mind is Psychokinesis according to the talents anyway I believe

I love how traits are used in this game. If players embrace the concept it keeps fresh in their minds that it’s something they can use, as well as something to be aware of. “Smoke”, for instance, can be expressed as “The bridge is full of smoke, obscuring your view of the scene”. But you can make the “smoke” trait yourself, if your character has the tools or ingredients to do so. You can make a clear room smoke-filled to conceal your movement, make enemies unable to target you, etc. You can do such things in any RPG, of course, but this one emphasizes it a lot more. I’ve played in and DM’d far too many D&D sessions where players never do anything other than move and attack over and over until they win, or lose. No thought is given towards utilizing the environment or changing the environment to gain advantage, or to extricate themselves from the situation, etc. That mindless mechanical progression through encounters is so boring.

Really appreciated the dive into GM philosophies here. I've been pretty nervous getting prepped to GM STA 2E for the first time, and a lot of what Alex shares here is putting my mind at ease. GMing is a lot of work!

Thank you so much for having me on! This was a great conversation that I hope we can continue :) - Alex

thank you Alex for talking about all this, tips for just making a good game are even more critical when you move online. I am so glad that Alex says it is OK to go more simple for a VTT that is great for people to hear and not worry about as new GM's. ( We just use google slides just because i am used to it. it really makes the "sticky notes" part really good!) Keeping the camera moving is really REALLY important for me. Sadly I have seen 2/3 of a table sidelined for an hour while 2 players have a "moment". Remember good customers are like Latinum - treasure them.

great to hear about use of online tools and GM on a platform. (also, oh man, have a business plan for tax and things, that kills creatives so quickly sometimes. ) and one thing that may not have been mentioned for "getting started" - a stable internet connection, having a player drop repeatedly during a session is frustrating for everyone. you can switch to a new scene with whoever is there, but it really rough when it happens repeatedly.