Seven brand new products beam in for #StarTrek Adventures, including the Tricorder Collector’s Edition alongside three new Division dice sets, Gamemaster/Player Guides, and a complete campaign setting: The Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide! More information and images here.
Yep. Was the sandbox for STA's playtest adventures and living campaign and now getting a full campaign setting treatment.
Would this be about right for a "starting point" for that neighbourhood, using Jed Whitton's hygmap.space website?
Shackleton digital release with print preorder happens tomorrow: https://www.modiphius.net/blogs/news/star-trek-adventures-the-shackleton-expanse
The book turned out to be so fantastic. There's stuff in there for PCs and GMs. A lot of background and info so that you can take the campaign however you want to do it.
Damn, given that the "Tricorder Edition" is specifically aimed at TOS era players, and that I collect TOS era Star Trek RPGs I may have to get this. The new Shackleton Expanse setting book looks interesting too. It tackles the same problem faced by most Star Trek game designers as well as quite a few ST novel authors (and TV producers I suppose)- How do you give the new characters space to do their own thing within the established universe? Answer- You give them a whole empty sandbox area of space. The Shackleton Expanse, the Taurus Reach, the Lucanii Drift, they all do the same thing (bonus points if you make the new area difficult to get to- far away or only reachable via a narrow corridor of space that's difficult to navigate). The latter one incidentally is Paul (now Pauli) Kidd's contribution to 2nd Edition Starships and Spacemen, which is near as Star Trek as dammit, and more so after some of Pauli's additions. It's a good fun read.
I did something I don't normally do here: I bought the Shackleton Expanse supplement even though I don't own any of the other gaming materials and have never played the game. It is a fantastic sourcebook, chock full of goodies and great ideas. Parts or even all of it could be transplanted to any sector of space or even adapted for a different sci-fi game. I'm a huge fan of the old FASA RPG- if I ever go back to it as a GM I'll probably loot this book like Genghis Khan for material.
There was a Shackleton Exhibition just up the road from where I have been working at the Natural History Museum for the past six months. I sent the curator of the exhibition a picture of my copy of the Shackleton Expanse, saying how it showed that people today believed that Shackleton's name would still be associated with discovery and adventure in the 24th Century. He was delighted and apparently worked it into talks about the exhibition as the last "slide" in his presentation. It's a good module, nice connection to TOS as well as TNG eras.
https://www.modiphius.net/en-us/blogs/news/welcome-to-utopia-planitia Starfleet starships book went up for preorder today.