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Okay, so we all know the jokes and memes about red shirts in TOS.
But, how do we get past all that to make Security a valid and interesting PC choice in our TOS Starfleet campaigns?
I, for one,...

Thank you. I am toying with a TOS / cosmic horror mash up campaign, where a portal formed by frequent warp drive usage is wearing a hole in the fabric of space and starting to pull some very...

Sounds like you have an enthusiastic Player group and some great ideas for rewarding their immersion. I love the shady background for the First Officer. That fits in so well with TOS's better but...

I personally would not have both captain and first officer be PC's, since I think its then just a double wammy of authority. However you already have characters assigned and rolled up - so my...

Inspired by the inclusion in the FASA Orions supplement of a single world in the Rigel system that Starfleet can have a ship orbiting around. I have started wondering if a sort of ST- customs would...

Holy $hit !!

You really do have a burr up your a$$ about this!

Before TNG there were no real "canon Klingons" and JMF's and FASA's are still beloved by many.

I didn't need the Latin or...

Which whether you call them Shock troops, Comandos or Marines etc, makes no real difference. These are English words, and would (in-universe) be used as the nearest approximation to whatever the...

That us very true, and the ship doesn't look like an explorer, more a strike ship/raider, making a scientist immaterial. And for so few crew a cross trained medical orderly would suffice.

Maybe a...

Yes they are all trained fighters. Just some are specialists who are more coherently trained to board enemy ships, stations and installations.

Yeah, I understand that works for TNG+ incarnation Klingons, but as I stated in the original post, I am using the John M Ford/FASA version.

I find the canon Klingons too mono cultural/Planet of...

Warriors, Marines, Soldiers, Fighters.

Take your pick, because all are English words and Klingons would have their own word/s for each.

Surely a fighting race like the Klingons would assume...

Yeah, the Targs comment makes sense, since as well as the Targs you would also need their fodder etc. And since being a John M Ford Klingon's fan, I don't go down that particular path, I guess that...

Thinking about writing an early era Klingon campaign for the FASA RPG, I am looking for a suitable, simple, medium size player crew vessel.

I am loving the look of the Klingon Raptor from...

I am working on a campaign idea, TOS style, mystery and exploration, but 17 years before Kirk.

I am imagining a more hands on, risky style, with even less reliance on technology than in Kirk's...

My apologies that it's been delayed due to moving house, but finally, my two pre-Kirk STTRPG concepts.

I hope you find them useful.
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Inspired by Wavemans recent post, I decided to quantify my Headcanon assumptions for TOS. I guess that since GR ruled that everything prior to TNG is not canon, makes my life easier, though!

My...

And, with all due respect and praise to Owen, it is a well designed set of plans and an inspired reimaging of the FASA design - IMHO an ideal small ship.

With a reasonable crew compliment and two...

I have been quite tempted to run a small ship campaign within Orion space (as per the FASA sourcebooks) - probably a FASA Ranger class Scout. The ship would be within Merchant Marine Command and act...

Agreeing totally with both Owen and Waveman, there is no consistent ST continuity, and ST canon (such as it is) isn't even internally consistent. So I always struggle to understand why anyone gets...

If anyone is interested, I have two freely offered campaign backgrounds/ rules reinterpretations for the FASA game.

One is set on a Colonial Operations Light Cruiser about 30 years before Kirk....

Investigation, exploration, growth (both racial and personal), the unknown, teamwork, bravery, determination.

All these themes (and more) are foremost in my mind when I write and run a ST RPG. My...

Not wishing to start a flame war or anything similar, I think that the problem with "Star Trek canon" is that there isn't one, well not a unified one anyway. TOS didn't have one (at first), the...

PC's ship is transporting delegates from a newly discovered world, who want to be considered for UFP membership. Have a conversation with them about how important courage and determination against...