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FASA - Star Trek Role Playing Game

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Submitted by John S. Drew on October 3, 2008 - 8:42am

Did anyone here play this?  I loved it.  I still want to get a large game going, online, using Skype to play a monthly or bimonthly game, but that's not happening now.  I didn't know that there were other game systems created.

I was talking about this on a role playing forum and many people complained that the game was limited because you had to follow the orders of the Federation which limited play.  I don't think I entirely agree with that.  What say you?

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If I Recall

Submitted by David Finnerty on October 3, 2008 - 12:40pm.

You had stations like navigation, engineering, communications.

While you were on those stations you tracked ships power, shields, weapons, and sat and waited for the captain to say what to do.  If you did not go on the away mission you were hanging in space watching the others play.

 

We played it a couple of times in chess club.  It was not my favorite.

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Dave Finnerty
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That was the main problem

Submitted by John S. Drew on October 3, 2008 - 3:42pm.

That was the main problem with the game.  If you weren't on the away team, you were left sitting up watching those panels and doing nothing, unless something was built into the game to deal with it, like a battle with a Klingon Battlecriuser.

But I was thinking that if this was online, you could run an away team while having the people up in the ship doing more than just sitting there, provided you planned it out right.

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