I rather think that approach would conflict with the whole post-scarcity economy concept operative in the fictional Federation. The Federation credit, at least as I see it, is an advanced...
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I rather think that approach would conflict with the whole post-scarcity economy concept operative in the fictional Federation. The Federation credit, at least as I see it, is an advanced...
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Um, guys? You're replying (and I use that term in its loosest sense) to a 17 year old thread and you're both off topic! While this forum is called General Chat, it is on a...
Anyway, I'm always updating thing as I go along and I decided that my modified image of Ceres as Bridgetown was lacking. Specifically, it was lacking the Bloodfield Nebula, so I eliminated the...
ANYway... The game proceeds apace. I've located the Kellinan Reach just to Zenith of the border between the Federation and FASA's Triangle. The Odyssey has been pursuing the afore mentioned...
2020 league? Not certain what you mean. I'm not a member of any league - this is just my personal campaign under Last Unicorn Games' ICON Star Trek rules. Sorry it took over a month to respond, but...
The references in various LUG writings about Bridgetown, notably by Steve Kenson in his unpublished materials, Star Trek: The Lost Episodes...
Sorry, this forum is for discussion of a role-playing game set hundreds of years in the future, in the Star Trek fictional universe. It is NOT under any circumstances to be used to buy or sell...
Updates to the Star Trek, a Space Odyssey web site, including the Triangle, the Imperial Klingon States, the Kellinan Reach, Bridgetown and Starfleet Marines. Loads of 23rd century goodness at:...
The following is an opinion piece describing the place of Marines in the Star Trek, a Space Odyssey campaign. It does not prescribe anything for any other campaign just a rationale for what may...
Well, I've been putting more work into developing the patrol area for the USS Odyssey. It involves the sector nearest to part of the border between the Triangle (FASA), the area of the Triangle...
I finally got around to uploading Memory: ICON to the new host! the URL is: http://www.coldnorth.com/owen/memoryicon/
The problem with the Spacedock .ZIP files is cleared up -- no more .ZIP files...
One thing I've done with Star Trek, a Space Odyssey is incorporate a ginormous amount of FASA background material. While I go by Paramount's official canon timeline (JJTrek and Disco are alternate...
Interesting. Though I'm along-time ICON GM, I never really cottoned to the Taurhai. I was always more interested in the Kinshaya, though not the silly version psuedo-gryphons portrayed in the novels....
Nifty. I'll be converting some of these to ICON, since my campaign is now set in the late 22nd century. I'm mining a lot of old FASA materials for it. Good thing I wrote conversion tables a long time...
Well, with the global CoViD 19 pandemic causing a lot of real-world problems, my gaming group and I have decided that, for the duration, we're going online. This is especially important for me as,...
The first thing I did with FASA back in 1982 was to ignore or at least drastically simplify the AP system (usually ignoring it).
As for Advantages/Disadvantages as a cohesive system, it really...
If one group is made up of PCs and the other of NPCs, Make one roll for the NPCs based on the average skill, figuring in any Advantages that might apply, and allow all the PCs to make a roll, or a...
I'm assuming you are discussing two sets of player characters. If so, the characters attempting to sneak make their stealth roll. I look at what level of success they achieve and invert it to...
I'd have to agree with that one. Best Star Trek adventure ever, and one of the all-around best RPG adventures as well. In fact, I wrote and illustrated a LUG/ICON adaptation for the adventure,...
According to whois.net, it's a domain registered through GoDaddy. Dunno how ferociously they defend their customers' identities.
Well, the composing of the new, improved "old" setting goes apace. Back in the first few years when I was converting my game to the ICON system, I wrote a conversion chart to redo FASA characters an...
Well, my long-running (2001-2020) campaign has come to an end. This is the campaign that began with Star Trek Relic, in the Dyson Sphere. Since then the characters, Lt. M'Rel and Ensigns Seth and...
I've always maintained that the captain should be a PC. This means of course that the players should be able to work together without the captain bossing the other PC around just because he can,...
Seems whoever came up with the stat block didn't bother to read the actual article. The article says that the average Dayen lives 75 years, but the stat block says "death by aging- 60-70 years." Why...
Luckily, in Canada the Orville is still on Space, an extended basic cable channel. Like Discovery, we don't have to screw around with any shady fly-by-night subscription channels.