![]() ![]() He rolls two dice, and anything 12 or less is a success, with the added bonus that because he has a relevant Focus, if he rolls 3 or less (that is, his Engineering Discipline) on either die, each of those count as extra successes. If his RE is 9 (slightly above average) and his ENG is 3 (pretty good), his TN is 12. ![]() Jones wants to make a relatively simple repair to a shuttlecraft, he'd likely add his Reason + Engineering, and take into account that he has 'Warp Technology' as a Focus. The Difficulty of a Task is set from 0-5, with that being the required number of successes to.succeed. The player then rolls 2d20 and any numbers at or below the TN are successes. If one has a relevant Focus, which is an area of specialized knowledge, that factors in, too. The core mechanic is interesting, consisting of a Target Number determined by adding the Attribute and Discipline (broad skill area) relevant to the Task. The authors clearly did their homework into the canon and did a really fine job of spinning a meta-tale of Star Trek through these pages and the supposed documents in them. A great deal of this background section is written as if the reader is a Starfleet officer receiving a briefing, with the pages broken up with personal log entries, communications intercepts, and other 'primary documents' of Star Trek. ![]() This background was also fun for me to read, as I picked up on a great many ersatz Easter eggs mentioned in various places that referred, often indirectly, to episodes or parts of movies. The book provides extensive amounts of background information - 50+ pages of it at the beginning, actually - and this is the sort that will help casual ST fans (those who've seen some of the movies and an episode here or there) get up to speed with the ideas, events, and overall feel of the universe. Almost all of us had played the 2d20 system, for Conan, a handful of times, and I'd read the Modiphius playtest materials extensively, and so getting up to speed on the rules wasn't hard. I purchased this game from DriveThruRPG on the day it was released there, read the rules over a few days, and then ran a one-off with some friends. 5 out of 5 rating for Star Trek Adventures RPG PDF ![]()
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