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5 players and 1 Narrator. There were times when we played with 6 players and 1 Narrator, but that was a little bit too exhausting. From my experiences I think that the perfect number of players is 4.
Medical
Counselor
Engineer
Ops (sometimes Captain of the vessel)
Security
(Transporter Chief)
For Star Trek campaigns, it's virtually impossible to give everyone something to do in a single episode (how many times have you seen an ep where certain characters only make a short appearance?), so you definitely don't want to go the route of trying to fill all of the dept. head spots with PCs.Quote:
5 players and 1 Narrator. There were times when we played with 6 players and 1 Narrator, but that was a little bit too exhausting. From my experiences I think that the perfect number of players is 4.
I would recommend 3-4 players for a ST campaign, leaving the CO as an NPC. If you're running a smaller ship, I would suggest that all characters be department heads, since they'll usually be a lower rank anyway (you might have ensigns and lts. j.g. as DH's on the really small ships). On a larger ship, its easy to have non-department heads and even enlisted types in your group, making for a neat little clique of characters who seem to hang around each other all of the time. :)