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**StyroFoam Man** · 06-13-2003, 08:32 AM

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**Capt. K. Vaughn** · 06-13-2003, 02:18 PM

*laugh* Styro. I'm doing something similar with one of the solo's I am running, establishing a love interest that will later be revealed as a Tal Diann agent in the main campaign.

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CKV.

**tmutant** · 07-04-2003, 06:52 PM

I'm thinking about a campaign with the Gorn as the primary adversary. Their neutrality in the Dominion War leaves them with an intact fleet. They decide to take advantage of it, beginning to expand, and consolidate. They will attack weaker species first, perhaps the Breen. Star Fleet is forced into defending their recent adversary, and get pounded on by a numerically superior Gorn fleet. The PCs get to crew a border patrol vessel (Sabre or Steamrunner class), and try to avert a war, fail, then they get to fight one.

**tmutant** · 08-12-2003, 10:13 AM

Bump. Just want to see if any new evil is afoot. Or aelbow.

**7 of 11** · 08-13-2003, 12:03 AM

Dunno if this counts but, in one of my solo campaigns I run, the player got 'imself a VERY nice character at creation. Trimmed him out with energy weapons,sysops command, and tactical, skills for a first officer. Well so far he has yet to fire a phaser or command a ship because he's the First Officer so the Captain sends him down planet/station side to "persuade" or Negosate his way out of EVERYTHING. He has a 0 in those skills but a 1 with mods. His shipmates invite him out to play sports or games (again 0 in skills and 2 with mods) poker, 3-d chess, and tennis then truly tastes defeat by the hands of the youngest cadet (doesn't have rank yet, working on HER commission) onboard the ship. Does that qualify as evil?

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**tmutant** · 08-14-2003, 08:15 AM

Putting characters in situations for which they are patently unprepared could be construed as evil.

Make 'em use that experience to round out the characters a little. It's great to be the best *engineer*pilot*doctor*tactical officer*insert-specialty* in the fleet. But even Einstein played the violin. So tennis, maybe a musical instrument, dancing, or gambling can all make the character more interesting to play and more useful in the campaign.

**7 of 11** · 08-15-2003, 08:18 PM

Ok this has to be evil, it reeks of evil. Just two words.... Premade characters. Find the worst species for the worst profession like a Klingon Councelar, or a Jem'Hadar Mystic and have your players roleplay them. Well it may not be that evil but it'll get your players hating you before the game starts. Watcha think?

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**Mad Ork** · 08-16-2003, 09:14 AM

Anyone remember the Voyager Episode "Oblivion"?
Do THAT to your players, see what they'll do when they find out that they're not themselves...

**BouncyCaitian** · 08-16-2003, 03:59 PM

"Activating Holodeck Scenario LV-426. Warning: Holodeck Safety Protocols Have Been Deactivated. Vocal Deactivation systems Offline."

**tmutant** · 08-17-2003, 09:43 AM

Originally posted by BouncyCaitian
"Activating Holodeck Scenario LV-426. Warning: Holodeck Safety Protocols Have Been Deactivated. Vocal Deactivation systems Offline."

Heh heh.

**BouncyCaitian** · 10-23-2003, 03:45 PM

A bit of Evil adapted for Dominion War era:

The players are on border patrol when they hear panicked broadcasts from across the Cardassian border.

"We can't stop them!! Self-Destruct Is Offline! They're overruning the base..*crackle*

Then in a voice all too familiar:

"Assmiliation of Dominion Cloning Facility Complete. Assimilation of Support Vessels Complete. Ammiliation of Jem'Hadar Drones Complete. Accessing Federation Data Archives."
"Assimilation of Sector 001 Intelligence Files Complete."
"Downloading Federation Data Archive."
"Accessing Starfleet DNA Data Archive."
"Downloading Starfleet DNA Data Archive."
"Accessing Starfleet Holographic Data Archive."
"Downloading Starfleet Holographic Data Archive."
"Commence Tissue Generation."

A long silence, punctuated by occsional updates on drone generation, then.

"Drone First Of Seven: State New Designation."
"I Am Locutus Of Borg."
"State Function."
"To Facilitate Assimilation Of The Alpha Quadrant And It's Associated Species."
"State Directive."
"We Add Their Biological And Techlogical Distinctiveness To Our Own. Their Cultures Will Adapt To Service us. Resistiance Is And Ever Shall Be....Futile."

The players will now run screaming. heh.

C5 · 10-24-2003, 01:13 AM

Been playing Star Trek : Armada a bit too much, have we ?

**BouncyCaitian** · 10-24-2003, 01:44 AM

yah....but you have to admit...it it evil

C5 · 10-24-2003, 02:46 AM

Quite so....

Even more evil would be the next drones being the assimilated clones of the players themselves...

**sooth** · 10-24-2003, 08:43 AM

Hows this?

In the middle of battle with [pick aggressive species of choice] a power overload causes the ships transporters to malfunction and to randomly relocate the crew around the ship; i.e

Captain to Medical; Counsellor to Engineering; etc. etc. (basically wherever their characters will feel most like a ship out of water).

Then crash the turbo-lifts and communications & have hot plasma vent into all the jefferies tubes so that no one can move around too much.

For further refinement have the cargo transporters randomly relocate their equipment.

It could be great fun having one PC do open heart surgery on another PC based on instructions from the computer while the medical staff race to prevent a warp core breech!

To add extra spice the transporters could beam some people to the enemy ship or beam some enemy over to the PCs ship.

Sooth.

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