CODA Trek Books for Sale

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03-11-2007, 11:46 AM
Liquidator Queeg

CODA Trek Books for Sale

Hey Gang!

I'm getting into spring cleaning mode and it's time for me to clear out some of my gaming collection. I figured I'd give you folks first crack at my CODA Trek books, as I know they'll find a good home. The Player's Guide and Narrator's Guide have a little bit of wear on the edges, but are otherwise in great shape. All the other books are like brand spanking new. Up for sale dirt cheap are:

Player's Guide -- SOLD!
Narrator's Guide -- SOLD!
Operations Manual -- SOLD!
Starships -- SOLD!
Aliens -- SOLD!

Wow, the books went fast! :D

LQ

P.S. I apologize to the moderators if this is in the wrong forum!
03-11-2007, 11:55 AM
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Oh my, why are you going out of Trek RPG, LQ? You did so great stuff with it. Please reconsider your offer!!! :(
And if you do sell your stuff, will you stop coming here? That would be bad, as we would lose yet another old time member... :eek:

I'd be interested in aquring a surplus copy of Starships, but the shipping costs to Europe would make that too expansive, I'm afraid.
03-11-2007, 12:01 PM
The Tatterdemalion King

Dammit... $30? that's horribly tempting. And I could theoretically arrange someone to just pick them up for me instead of shipping : P
03-11-2007, 12:08 PM
Liquidator Queeg

Well, basically, CODA Trek is dead and gone in my eyes. I probably won't ever run the game again. If I do a Trek campaign in the near future, it'll probably be ICON. And it's time for me to thin out my gaming collection, which has become rather bloated and unwieldy for storage! Besides, when the Trek license eventually gets yanked from Decipher (or expires) and sold to another company, there will be a new edition of the game anyway. ;)

I've written enough stuff for CODA to be satisfied as a fan. I hope BTFF sees the light of day in the future so you guys can get a look at more of the stuff I've done. Oh, and I won't be leaving the boards. As long as this place exists I'll keep comin' around! :D

Cheers,

LQ
03-11-2007, 12:11 PM
Liquidator Queeg

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Originally Posted by The Tatterdemalion King

Dammit... $30? that's horribly tempting. And I could theoretically arrange someone to just pick them up for me instead of shipping : P

Well, I'm just an hour and a half away from you in Peterborough! ;)

LQ
03-11-2007, 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by The Tatterdemalion King

Dammit... $30? that's horribly tempting. And I could theoretically arrange someone to just pick them up for me instead of shipping : P

Do it, it's worth it :)
03-11-2007, 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Liquidator Queeg

Well, basically, CODA Trek is dead and gone in my eyes. I probably won't ever run the game again. If I do a Trek campaign in the near future, it'll probably be ICON. And it's time for me to thin out my gaming collection, which has become rather bloated and unwieldy for storage! Besides, when the Trek license eventually gets yanked from Decipher (or expires) and sold to another company, there will be a new edition of the game anyway. ;)

I've written enough stuff for CODA to be satisfied as a fan. I hope BTFF sees the light of day in the future so you guys can get a look at more of the stuff I've done. Oh, and I won't be leaving the boards. As long as this place exists I'll keep comin' around! :D

Cheers,

LQ

At least you'll stay. :)
I kinda admire people who can part with their stuff, an ability that I have never developed.
Even if I'd never came to run another Trek game, I'd never give away my books (neither have I givenm away my ICON stuff) I too many memorries attached to them.
Are there other games you're giving out?
03-11-2007, 12:26 PM
The Tatterdemalion King

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Originally Posted by Liquidator Queeg

Well, I'm just an hour and a half away from you in Peterborough! ;)

LQ

It's not that it's an hour and a half away, it's that it's $30 away : d haha
03-11-2007, 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by The Tatterdemalion King

It's not that it's an hour and a half away, it's that it's $30 away : d haha

You can alway sell and ship me the Starships book :)
03-11-2007, 12:33 PM
Liquidator Queeg

ROFLMAO!

The Ferengi in me says do it, TK! You'll make a killing! :D
03-11-2007, 12:40 PM
The Tatterdemalion King

Canada's not socialist enough for me not to listen : P
03-12-2007, 09:59 PM
PGoodman13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Liquidator Queeg

Well, basically, CODA Trek is dead and gone in my eyes. I probably won't ever run the game again. If I do a Trek campaign in the near future, it'll probably be ICON.

Don't take this the wrong way, Queeg; I'm not trying to talk you out of this (though I think you shouldn't sell the stuff, but that's just me). There's something about this sentence, though, that makes no sense to me. How is ICON any less dead and gone than CODA?
03-13-2007, 09:42 PM
Liquidator Queeg

I know, sounds like a load of poop. ;) Bear with me here, though ...

I have at least three to four times the money invested in ICON as I do CODA (from a quick glance at the book shelf); I have at least twice as much written material to use for ICON as I do CODA (meaning my own stuff, plus all the the LUG adventures I have yet to use on top of that); and I've really come to prefer the way ICON worked as a whole over CODA -- this is entirely subjective, of course, but the system has a much less "Star Trek series potato masher" feel to me than CODA; perhaps that's because ICON had era-based core books... I'm not sure. Although CODA is much a much more streamlined and flashy system, it doesn't "do it" for me like ICON did (and still does). I did switch over to CODA, but I've decided I'd like my Trek (if I run it again soon) the way it was with ICON.

Obviously ICON is dead. So is CODA, though I admire your efforts to keep the CODA ship on-line, Patrick! For me, though, ICON has more life left in it than CODA at my gaming table.

Anyway, I hope that resembles some form of clarification! :D

Cheers,

LQ

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Originally Posted by PGoodman13

Don't take this the wrong way, Queeg; I'm not trying to talk you out of this (though I think you shouldn't sell the stuff, but that's just me). There's something about this sentence, though, that makes no sense to me. How is ICON any less dead and gone than CODA?
03-14-2007, 12:15 AM
The Tatterdemalion King

Don't argue with cheap books, man ¬___¬

What other material do you got written?
03-14-2007, 12:51 PM
D.S.McBride

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Originally posted by Liquidator Queeg
...I've really come to prefer the way ICON worked as a whole over CODA -- this is entirely subjective, of course, but the system has a much less "Star Trek series potato masher" feel to me than CODA; perhaps that's because ICON had era-based core books... I'm not sure. Although CODA is much a much more streamlined and flashy system, it doesn't "do it" for me like ICON did (and still does).

Pretty much verbatim what my (and the gang's) feelings were on the matter, LQ; we gave Coda its three-session trial run, and the broad consensus was, "It just doesn't feel like Star Trek." Perhaps it was the d20 aspects that turned us off - the whole "Elite Professions" thing struck a bad chord with us, along with the "Advancements" concept and the sheer horror of the Mayan Codex that made up the Character Creation section (an "unholy mess", Patrick called it in his first review). We gratefully went home to Icon and haven't looked back since. :)
03-14-2007, 02:19 PM
Doug Burke

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Originally Posted by D.S.McBride

Pretty much verbatim what my (and the gang's) feelings were on the matter, LQ; we gave Coda its three-session trial run, and the broad consensus was, "It just doesn't feel like Star Trek."

You know, I find this viewpoint interesting. I've never had any problems making my CODA-based games "feel like Star Trek". And I've been running it since the original playtest (through four games, with another in the planning stages).

*shrug*

Maybe it's just me...
03-14-2007, 02:51 PM
The Tatterdemalion King

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Originally Posted by Doug Burke

You know, I find this viewpoint interesting. I've never had any problems making my CODA-based games "feel like Star Trek". And I've been running it since the original playtest (through four games, with another in the planning stages).

*shrug*

Maybe it's just me...

I wonder if people have trouble making LotR feel like LotR.
03-14-2007, 06:55 PM
Tobian

I'm not sure how mechanics can make it feel more or less 'like Trek' in any way? I just massively preferred the mechanics of Coda, because they were more streamlined and simple to run, without removing the complexity of the genre.. If anything it felt 'more like Trek' because I wasn't battling with confusing rules! :)

I also had zero problems with meshing the source materials from Icon books with Coda anyway, so I feel no need to ditch either set of rulebooks!
03-14-2007, 09:05 PM
Liquidator Queeg

ICON, CODA ... ta-may-ta, ta-ma-ta ... ;)

Let's discuss who's gonna buy my books dammit! I got five Ferengi kids to feed! :D

LQ
03-14-2007, 09:06 PM
Liquidator Queeg

P.S. I got ten, check nine, posts to go to the thousand club. ;)

LQ
03-15-2007, 06:41 AM
ThierryD

I want the starship book.
03-15-2007, 10:00 AM
D.S.McBride

I certainly hadn't intended to stir up any hornets' nests here, but since there have been some questions posed, I'll try my best to answer them (and quickly, since I've got a student waiting on me :) ).

The Coda system was, at least from our perspective, very much influenced by the d20 concept; one person - can't remember exactly whom - referred to d20 as the lingua franca of the RPG world. The group and I just couldn't seem to shake that impression - we kept seeing WotC trademarks popping up, and the feeling that we were part of having the Trek round peg mashed into the d20 square hole. Yes, the system is much more streamlined (in a number of ways); yes, it avoids at least some of Icon's inherent problems. Yet for every Windows *, there must be a Linux: the counterpoint that makes an issue of standing out from the mainstream.

I'm not going to try to proselytize for Icon as the RPG world's Linux, but I think we do need to have something that differentiates from the "standard"...if said standard is not fulfilling needs, even ones as subjective and ultimately unquantifiable as "feelings". Anyway, have to go - the student's chewing on the ankle and it's staining the carpet. Later. :)
03-15-2007, 04:54 PM
Liquidator Queeg

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Originally Posted by The Tatterdemalion King

Don't argue with cheap books, man ¬___¬

What other material do you got written?

Sorry, TK, I'm late on this one.

For what game? ICON or CODA?

LQ
03-15-2007, 06:32 PM
Liquidator Queeg

Sorry, Thierry, another board member beat you to it.

LQ

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Originally Posted by ThierryD

I want the starship book.
03-15-2007, 10:54 PM
The Tatterdemalion King

Quote:

Originally Posted by Liquidator Queeg

Sorry, TK, I'm late on this one.

For what game? ICON or CODA?

LQ

Both/either.
03-16-2007, 07:24 PM
Liquidator Queeg

Are you doing the layout stuff for BTFF? You may have some of it. I wrote a few bits of stuff for BTFF. I have more but never did get around to submitting it, though.

Other than my Ferengi stuff, I've done (waiting in BTFF queue):

Beyond the Final Frontier Submission #1
By Steven A. Cook
January 23, 2006
Word Count: 5,500+

Contents:

1. Merchant Professional Abilities
2. Free Trader Professional Abilities
3. Merchant Professional Development Packages
4. Rogue Professional Abilities
5. Rogue Professional Development Packages
6. Personal Development Packages
7. Edges and Flaws
8. Subterfuge Technology
9. Starship Officer Professional Development Packages and Advancement Packages

Beyond the Final Frontier Submission #2

Cross-Profession Advancement Packages (36 in total)
By Steven A. Cook
April 10, 2006
Word Count: 3,000+

The ICON stuff I'd have to dig for on my archive cds. I ran three series (exploration TOS, exploration TNG, and a raiders DS9 series), so I have all the sector info for them, advancement packages, episodes, NPCs, and all the other normal notes and stuff one generates during campaigns.

Cheers,

LQ

P.S. I never did finish the stat write-ups for those Ferengi ships you drew! I guess selling my books I won't be able to now! :D
03-16-2007, 11:14 PM
PGoodman13

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Originally Posted by Liquidator Queeg

P.S. I never did finish the stat write-ups for those Ferengi ships you drew! I guess selling my books I won't be able to now! :D

You can always do the stats before you ship the book off. I feel fairly certain that the new owner would understand the delay.... :D (Basically, this means, "You don't get off that easy!")
03-17-2007, 03:38 AM
The Tatterdemalion King

I don't have all the files... but somehow, deep down, I knew I'd end up doing the stats too : P

hopefully I'll be able to use them in a game soon...
03-17-2007, 09:21 AM
Liquidator Queeg

LOL! I'm just not a very good ship stat kinda guy. Character options and fluff writing I love to do, but ship stats put me to sleep... :D

LQ

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Originally Posted by The Tatterdemalion King

I don't have all the files... but somehow, deep down, I knew I'd end up doing the stats too : P

hopefully I'll be able to use them in a game soon...
03-17-2007, 11:41 AM
The Tatterdemalion King

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Originally Posted by Liquidator Queeg

LOL! I'm just not a very good ship stat kinda guy. Character options and fluff writing I love to do, but ship stats put me to sleep... :D

LQ

I enjoy the window-shopping, not the calculating (and isn't the weapons purchasing thing kinda weirdly over-complex?). I kind of wish there were more ship edges/flaws though...
03-17-2007, 04:13 PM
Liquidator Queeg

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Originally Posted by The Tatterdemalion King

(and isn't the weapons purchasing thing kinda weirdly over-complex?).

Indeed. Speaking of how I enjoy fluff, that makes 1,000 posts! Yay! :D

Sorry, moderators, I won't fluff post anymore. I promise!

LQ
03-19-2007, 11:01 AM
ThierryD

On the off chance that the individual changes their mind let me know I still want the Starship Book.

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