Star Trek The Role Playing Game (Fasa 1983) | Rules Breakdown

[@Dasharr]

"Most damage requires bed rest to heal in Star Trek." Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a Cure Light Wounds spell!

[@RPGGamer]

Lol, Wierdly, I've just recorded the video for The Doctor Who Role Playing Game, which uses the basic same rules, but came out 2 years later. And they added a massive amount about healing into the system, and while it codifies how long healing takes, I don't feel it works as well as this "healing takes as long as it needs to" system.

[@jackphoton]

@@RPGGamer You simplified the Healing rates with eloquence! It's more technical than that, of course, but amounts to the intent of the show. That is why I love 1st edition of this game so much. 2nd edition had some good ideas, but most were implemented poorly; think Efficiency Ratings for Term Duty, great idea but has no effect on your career as rolling the character. I fixed that with house rules so that Exemplary chooses next assignment, Outstanding chooses to stay at current or roll normal next term, Average rolled Assign normally and Poor got a +20 to their next Assign roll. On percentiles; Exemplary

[@RPGGamer]

@@jackphoton While I love FASA, their books of this era did have a tendency (not as bad as some) of splitting rules across sections. So it's entirely possible I simplified the rules because I'd only seen part of the rules in one place and missed the rest elsewhere. Cheers for the rules advice, much appreciated.

[@jackphoton]

@@RPGGamer Yeah, that's one of my peeves about 2nd edition. They've got the same paragraphs spread across two books as it's GM and player. The only purpose these multi-book sets seems to have had was to pad content. If content was all in one book, every player and every Gm would need one box set to have the one book on hand. Splitting the books means player and Gm can share one box set and pass the relevant book as needed. I think they lost money with this formatting.

[@jackphoton]

internet Archive, search "Jack photon, star trek" and you'll find my 40th anniversary recompilation project reconcilng 1st/2nd edtiion, adding in the Stardate articles and putting everything in-line so no more scattered searching. The Vulcan's description used to span four books. Now it's all sequential pages in Book 1 Lifeform Readings detailing character creation.

[@RPGGamer]

3 books? Grabbing them now, great stuff, thanks for sharing.

[@jackphoton]

@@RPGGamer Yup, the thre books for now. I'm working Book 4 and 5, collating the adversaries. teh supplements and GM pdfs are handy a well. S10 is varied character sheets and useful gm sorting sheets. S13 is new skirmish maps and counters, Gm17 is 20 pre-rooled Command branch NPCs. More on the way.

[@TheByteknight]

Long Live FASA Star Trek.

[@RPGGamer]

Realised the other day that most of the games I've loved over the years have been by FASA (Shadowrun, Earthdawn, Star Trek, Battletech, etc).

[@rumpleforeskin1275]

Please make more Star Trek FASA videos

[@RPGGamer]

Will do, although have to admit that I'm running out of books to cover as much of my collection of FASA Trek has disappeared over the years.

[@RIVERSRPGChannel]

Interesting Are there critical success or failure in the game?

[@RPGGamer]

No there's not, but I've just done video for The Doctor Who Role Playing Game, which uses the same base rules, but came out 2 years later, and a major part of the rules are a Critical Success and Failure system.

[@jackphoton]

I created a Crit system as part of my house rule re-write, a 3rd edition of this game, if you will. Very good/bad rolls allowed for GM inspired benefits/consequences to factor into whatever the given scenario is. I'll get some videos on it, but can't say when as I've got some AD&D chaffe to clear out before focusing on Fasa Trek.