Great review, Freddy. Pretty hilarious on the language skill disparities & ship errors. Hope you're doing well! Thanks for the video
@RPGGamer
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers mate, kind comment much appreciated. Although I adore the old FASA stuff, the Star Trek books at the end of their licence really didn't seem to have the effort put into them that the early books did. Makes me wonder if they were just trying to cash in knowing they were going to lose the licence sooner or later.
@davidishappy
3 жыл бұрын
As much as I enjoy rifts and loved the old triax and the ngr book I am going to have to vote for the West end games master book.
@RPGGamer
3 жыл бұрын
Well, you'll be glad to find out it won (kind of). KZitem was glitching out, and it ended up in a tie, so I did both winners and Masterbook with go up on Wednesday.
@RIVERSRPGChannel
3 жыл бұрын
Very cool
@RPGGamer
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers Mate, much appreciated.
@jackphoton
3 жыл бұрын
This might be the worst of the worst for the game. None of the mechanics integrate 'well' with the normal rules, the new ships utterly break ship combat rules and most all of the text was wrong or became so within a year... FASA apparently wanted to surf along with the franchise, but this one book shows an entirely new game system was needed to make this work at all. It was a bad enough jolt taking 1st edition TOS and cramming the movie era on that in 2nd edition. As to the language skills: From 1st edition, your native language was assumed a 99 and 'Galacta' at 90. A normal klingon would not need Lang: Klingon, but would need Galacta or English or whatevs. Worf splits the line having his heritage swapped at youth. Consider there is no Lang: Human, but all other species have their species listed. If you got into accents and variants, it'd get too crazy. So, humans get sub-tongues and everyone else is generic species language. All that said, FASA was always grasping at how to fill out Language in particular and matching show-based skills to character sheets was another major problem they have. Many characters don't have the mandatory skills their dept training would have automatically given to them and someone like Kirk has more skill points than someone their age should. 1stEdition Uhura has 99 Swahili, 48 French and a 94 Art: Singing. Think of that, in all the Federation, they are rating Uhura at top 6%. What is she doing behind a comm board with a voice like that? She could be touring as a top-singer. Kirk has a 94 ST CBT Tac/Str. Where is he supposed to go from there with a skill like that? That means Garth of Izar must have a 99 for Kirk to have been such an admirer? Why isn't Kirk at Headquarters writing tactical warfare books? All those main characters need to be rolled up properly to be realistic. And when it comes to TNG, the stats and job title just don't line up for the advances seen in the show. They tried to cram these new, far more powerful ships into the old rules. The stats on all the starships are incompatible with the rules that govern them and I don't think the TNG ships are even compatible with each other. The sex toy on page 41 is perhaps the worst of it all. It's better we didn't get a pic of the parasitic invaders, the work on that show -was sooo baaaad. I'd have taken that over page 41. I suspect FASA rushed this book to market simply to re-coup a few last dollars as the licensing axe fell. Almost everything in this book would be outdated by even 2nd season of the show. "A valiant effort" You are far more generous than I towards this piece. :D This book is genuinely useless as: a game accessory, a collectible, a reference, a fan resource or even as an art piece. Thanks for showing everyone this silliness that was. I hope the person that sold you this book gave you lots of money for taking it off their hands for them. ;)
@RPGGamer
3 жыл бұрын
Not sure if it makes me a worse person in your eyes, but since I bought this book at the time, and having misplaced it and a load of my Star Trek stuff (among others), I bought it a second time. So I paid good money twice to keep a copy of this book, which is undoubtedly trash. And thank you for the extremely comprehensive comment, it's very much appreciated.
@jackphoton
3 жыл бұрын
@@RPGGamer :D Worse person? No, sir! I heartily commend your bravery on detailing this so-called 'book'. lolz. When writing this, FASA might have had better luck if they assigned each letter in the alphabet a number and rolled dice to determine their order. But yeah, it's useless. Nothing to entice Trekkie-non-gamers like rare photos; nothing to entice collectors such as quality layout and design and nothing to entice the devout gamer for being riddled with immediately-deprecated data. And where they laid out concrete terms like ship design or skills, they broke their own rule systems for the decades between the shows. For completists and historical archivists out there, this book is a required purchase. PLEASE keep your excellent work coming!
@PGIFilms
2 жыл бұрын
Hadn't gotten into any Start Trek Games until one of my high school friends brought me over to the house of someone else he knew and they were playing Starfleet Battles. The guy had a decked out gaming table set up in the garage and he was deep into SFB with the miniatures and a 2x3 foot hex map. That really got me hooked into wanting to get into SFB. When I saw the TNG sourcebook for the FASA RPG I picked it up, but could never actually play the game because I didn't have the original FASA Star Trek RPG Core Rules. This book was like getting the 2nd AD&D Complete Book of Necromancers, without having the PHB, DMG, an MM to actually play the game with it.
@RPGGamer
2 жыл бұрын
@@PGIFilms Ahh you're bringing back memories of my youth, when you'd get one book from a game, and make up the rest of the game around it. There was one I remember where one player had a photocopy of the rules, which were so distorted and unreadable that we had to guess most of the game.
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