Need info about NG

[erhershman]

Okay, I admit it... I still haven't gotten around to getting the Narrator's Guide. I can't find it anywhere in stores where I live, so I'm trying to decide whether to order it online.

Since I can't remember anything about the review that was posted here way back when the NG came out, could someone give me a run-down of what's in the book? Don't worry about sounding like you're advertising the book, that's what I want.

[RaconteurX]

The chapters, their sections and subsections are:

01] The Series Concept
• What Is A Series
- Star Trek television series
- The Original Series
- The Next Generation
- Deep Space Nine
- Voyager and Enterprise
• Your Series Concept
- The series profile
- Setting
- Crew
- Base of operations
- Technology
- Adversity
- Feel
• Series Profile
• Sample Series Profile
•Looking Forward

02] Establishing The Series
• Series Creation
• Building Your Setting
• Base Of Operations
- Base profile
- Base name
- Base type
- Technical data
- Base environment
- Base command
- Personnel
- Resources
- Addenda
• Creating Your Crew
- Organization
- Species
- Professions
- Rank and standing
- Crew experience
- Crew equipment
• Series Technology
• Series Adversity
- Threat and opposition
- Crisis and disaster

03] Running The Series
• Season Planning
• Season Overview
- Season concept
- Season format: episodic or serial
- Season structure
• Creating Your First Season
- Creating a season overview
- Structuring your season
- Creating episodes
- Season prologue
• Subsequent Seasons

04] Building Episodes
• Creating Star Trek Stories
- Episode types
- The central conflict
• The Three-Act Model
- Scenes
- Start at the end
- Go back to the beginning
- The midpoint
- The plot turns
- The pinches
- Other scenes
- Subplots
• The Supporting Cast
- Role
- Motivations
• Advanced Narrating Techniques
- Cut scenes
- Dream sequences
- Flashbacks
- Flashforwards
- Foreshadowing
- Jump Cutting
- Symbolism

05] Narrating Episodes
• Storytelling Basics
- Show, don't tell
- Engage the senses
- Manage the details
• Running The Game
- Example of play
- Changing and adding rules
- Pacing
- Improvisation
- Props
- Dramatic synergy

06] Coda Rules
• Time
• Actions
- Movement actions
- Combat actions
- Free actions
- Full-round actions
- Performing actions
• Tests
- Test difficulty
- Degrees of success
- Test types
- Test variants
- Merging test variants
• Combat
- Combat basics
- Attack tests
- Inflicting damage
- Armor and cover
• Injury And Healing
- Health
- Wound level
- Healing
• Movement
- Pace
- Obstacles
- Movement and fatigue
• Fatigue
- Encumbrance and carrying capacity
• Combat Summary

07] Starship Operations
• Starship Systems
- Primary systems
- Secondary systems
- Malfunctions
• Starship Combat
- Range
- Initiative
- Actions
- Targets
- Using maneuvers
- Maneuvers
• Repair
- Systems
- Structure

08] Rewards
• Experience Awards
- Experience from successful tests
- Fulfilling story objectives
- Exceptional roleplaying
- Bonus awards
• Spending Experience
• Renown Awards

10] Starships
• The Starship Profile
- Production data
- Operational data
- Propulsion data
- Tactical data
- Miscellaneous data
- Starship classifications
• Constructing Starships
- Starship concept
- Construction steps
- Size
- Operational systems
- Propulsion systems
- Tactical systems
- Maneuver modifiers
- Starship traits

11] Space
• The Galaxy
- Other galaxies
- Galactic features
• Sectors
- Sector design
• Systems
- Quick and dirty stellar evolution
- Star system design
• Planetary Design
- Planet name
- Class
- Moons or rings
- Gravity
- Climate
- Demographics
- Civilization
- Resources
- Sample planetary profiles

11] Aliens
• New Life Forms
- Crewmember species
- Supporting cast aliens
• The Species Profile
- Personality
- Physical description
- Homeworld
- Culture
- Language
- Common names
- Favored profession
- Species adjustments
- Species abilities
• New Civilizations
- Motives
- Technology level
- Government
• Sample Species
- Andorians
- Orions
- Romulans

12] Creatures
• Creature Vs. Species
• Creature Role
- Narrative role
- Momentary threat
- Prime mover
• Creature Profile
• Creature Form
- Animal
- Plant
- Energy
- Gaseous
- Mineral
- Construct
• Creature Sustenance
- Diet
- Feeding habits
• Creature Defenses
• Creature Size
- Attribute modifiers
- Wound level adjustment
• Creature Attributes
- Exceptional attributes
- Attribute descriptions
- Assigning attributes
• Creature Characteristics
- Reactions
- Defense
- Movement rate
- Lifting and carrying capacity
- Health
- Wound levels and wound points
• Creature Skills
- Using skills
- Assigning skills
• Species And Creature Abilities

13] Hazards
• Using Hazards
• Personal Hazards
- Disease
- Radiation
- Toxins
- Other sources of damage
• Ship Hazards
- Gravimetric shear
- Ion storms
- Nebulae
- Shockwaves and nucleonic wavefronts
- Subspace anomalies

14] Supporting Cast
• Creating Supporting Cast
- Supporting cast profiles
- Series characters

[Doug Burke]

Here are a couple of good reviews for the PG and/or NG:

http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_6714.html

http://www.pen-paper.net/reviews.php...wcontent&id=22

[Don Mappin]

Holy shit, RaconteurX! You get a percentage of each sale?

[Captain Leana Craig]

Don Mappin you swore. I will have to report you to Don Moppin, the guy who runs these boards

[Ineti]

Wait, I thought Dan Moppin ran the boards... Now I'm confused!

Seriously, though, erhershman, pick up the NG. It's really good. I've been narrating for years and I still found a ton of useful bits in the book. Well worth the $$ and the wait.

[PGoodman13]

As I said in my review on the Pen & Paper site, it's easily the best GM resource I've picked up in the past 15 years or so. Go get it; you'll be glad you did.

[RaconteurX]

Originally posted by Don Mappin
Holy shit, RaconteurX! You get a percentage of each sale?

No, but the Schwartz was with me early this morning... as well as insomnia.