Story Ideas and Suggestions

[Core]

Ok mostly cos Kover and Tess made me promise here is the thread for anyone that whats to make suggestions regarding the fleets over all story and plot direct... I make no premisses we can use everyone's ideas but we will listen and if it's good steal all credit and pretend it was ours I mean it will defiantly make it into the rpz

[Deleted]

Oooh. Good idea! In AEgir, for awhile we had one officer (Fitz cause sersi is lazy) over all in charge of stories, to make sure that in the end they made sense and had at least some semblance of continuity.

That being said - here we have Foundry - which is a lot more than we've had in any other game. I think once some stories get rolling the sky's the limit.

[tess]

One of the things I like about the Star Trek setting is it will allow us to do "Episodic RP"

That is to say: short quick little stories that can be resolved in one or two sessions. I don't have anything against big, epic sweeping story arcs, and there is certainly room (and enough hooks!) to tell those types of stories as well. Especially with the overarching "Why did 332 disappear?" story.

However, I feel like little "bite sized" stories would be a fun diversion. Especially since not everyone will realistically be able to make every RP session, so we could break things up in to smaller, quick self-contained stories. Much like they would do on a long-running television series. Hmmmmm...

Anyway! Some plots hooks that could easily be turned into a quick RP session:

-Someone sabotaged a critical system on 332. Find out who it is and why.

-A strange new alien disease has broken out on the system, we need a cure!

-A new species has just been discovered, The Federation and Romulans disagree about who should make first contact.

-A derelict Romulan ship has drifted into the system. It's inhabitants have been cryogenically frozen for 150 years and think the Feds and Romulans are still at war.

Anyway ^_^ Just a quick couple of ideas to throw out that could be developed into future RP.

[Core]

>_> the derelict Romulan ship bit might be interesting due to Sin for ummm reasons that would become clear

[Deleted]

those are all pretty cool ideas, and again the foundry would add a lot to them. (Tess - if you haven't played with the foundry, for the love of Kirk, DO IT!).

...i'm not sure what the other point of my post was before, since i think what i was saying is more or less the entire point of this thread carry on!

[Core]

had a quick look at foundry too, seemed simple-ish to get started with I'll need to play more while awake also more than one person can play a foundry mission others have made so there is nothing to stop us teaming up for foundry fun and frolics theres some story focused ones that are ace

[mahfugginfitz]

Perhaps it's all the STO terminology involving Episodes and Seasons, but I tend to think of STO RP as television.

In Trek, the tradition is one double episode kick off to set the mood, followed by a bunch of all-but-filler episodes to get the audience acquainted with the characters. If -- IF -- we'd all like to follow that model, Tess's last suggestion would fit quite nicely. Introduces us, the Romulan influence, and would have something for everyone to do. The first two would do nicely following immediately thereafter*, now that the proverbial audience knows where we are and would like to know more about WHO we are. The third actually sounds like a bigger story, and would do well for a mid-season ratings grabber.

Otherwise I'm on board with what everyone else has already said. Tho I prolly won't get to do anything with the foundry 'til late January, after we get cable set up in the new apartment.

*not meant to be an comment about their quality

[cinshadis]

Think I'll sit back and watch for a while, and just go with the RP flow. I tend to get a little overzealous I think, and I'm just gonna...not. If I have an idea, I'll just give it to someone else.

Looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with though. The RP's the thing.

[Core]

I just wanted to poke this thread a little *jabs with a cattle prod*

As it stands we have episode 2 about ready to go and episode 3, which is mostly Kover's creation is also more or less plotted, however beyond that we are open to any suggestions people want to make... tell us the kinda stories you want to see, if there is some character thing you want to explore then tell us, hack if someone wants to take a shot at gm'ing or something speak up the whole idea of this guild was to work together to flesh out our own little corner of the trek universe

[Deleted]

This weekend we had a few fun adventures that used die rolling, which great since we just used flat die rolls Alys coulda done the medical work just as well as Kayce (better, prolly the way I rolled) - if this is going to become a thing (and its fun and a fair way to do it - so why not?) I sudgest having members write up their chars using FATE stats. its quick, its easy, and it makes people think of what their chars not perfect at.

FATE is a tabletop RPG rules set which was used as the basis of the Dresden Files RPG. Unlike more "crunchy" rules systems (D&D 3.5, World of Darkness, Traveller, GURPS, Champions) the FATE-based systems are more dependent on narrative choices and roleplaying. In that sense, they're an intersting way to express one's character attributes in a pure RP environment like in text in a MMO or in forum RP.


Here's the basis of how characters are built in FATE. Everyone is mediocre at everything, but PCs are special. PCs have some things they do very well, far beyond the human norm.

So take a look at the following list of traits and think about...

Which one thing is your character is SUPERB at:
What two things is your character GREAT at:
What three things is your character GOOD at:
What four things is your character FAIR at:

This is a good way to figure out what your characters are good at.

It's not realistic, appropriate, or even fun to think your character is good at *everything*. I mean really, who wants to play with "that guy", right? That guy who is the ultimate badass fighter, is super sneaky, has a lot of money, knows powerful magic, hacks Orochi tech, and is good looking and a social operator. I mean, what is he not good at?

Looking at a character this way helps avoid that kind of "Mary Sue" or "Marty Stu" approach by narrowing down the list of what your character is *really* good at.

ALSO, for RP, it helps the organizer(s) know what things the group is NOT good at. For instance, if they wanted to do something that requires sneaking around, it sure is good to know that *beforehand* so they can "tune" the RP.


======= List of sample skills  =========================


Alertness = Avoiding surprise, reacting to sudden things, noticing things

Athletics = Climbing, dodging out of the way of attacks and other harmful things, falling without hurting yoursel, jumping, sprinting, physical stuff

Burglary = Breaking into secure spaces, infiltration, lockpicking, safecracking

Contacts = Knowing the right people, gathering information, picking up or starting rumors

Conviction = Determination, faith in yourself, mental fortitude, resistance to things altering your mind

Craftsmanship = building, breaking, or fixing things

Deceit = Telling believable falsehoods, verbal distraction and misdirection

Discipline = Concentration, control over your emotions, resistance to temptation,

Driving = Making a wheeled vehicle do amazing things beyond just getting to work and back home

Empathy = Being able to read and assess people, getting people to open up to you, building rapport

Endurance = Being able to resist damage and disease, pushing your body to go through deprivation

Fists = Hitting people with your hands to hurt them, avoiding same

Guns = Hitting people with bullets (or other projectiles from projectile weapons)

Intimidation = Threatening people into doing what you want them to, interrogation, provking people to lose their cool,

Investigation = Being able to examine place for clues, eavesdropping on people, surveilance

Lore = Knowing Secret World information, arcane research, being able to sense and use magic

Might = Raw muscle force, breaking things, lifting heavy things, wrestling

Performance = Making some sort of art and using it to communicate to people

Presence = Making a good first impression, having a good reputation, being likable, getting people to do what you want because they want to please you

Resources = Having lots of available money

Scholarship = Pick an academic field or three, you know things, languages, medicine, engineering, research

Stealth = Being sneaky, hiding, following people without them knowing it, setting up ambushes

Survival = Being able to navagate and thrive in the wild, tracking, dealing with domestic and wild animals, camoflage

Weapons = Hitting people with things, parrying same

[tess]

I love this idea. Though we can tweak the list of abilities to be more applicable to Trek. If people are up for making their profiles, I'd like to incorporate this into our RP. we can use the info from the character sheets to add bonuses to die rolls on Core's dice rolling website \o/

[tess]

To wit: Here's a list of the skills from the Star Trek PnP RPG


Administration
Artistic Expression
Astronomy
Bribery
Carousing
Cloaking Device Technology
Cloaking Procedures
Comm. Systems Operation
Comm. Systems Technology
Computer Operation
Computer Technology
Damage Control Procedures
Deflector Shield Operation
Deflector Shield Technology
Electronics Technology
Environmental Suit Operation
Gaming
Holodeck Op. Procedure
Holodeck Systems Technology
Instruction
Interrogation
Language
Leadership
Life Sciences
Life Support Systems Tech.
Marksmanship, Archaic
Marksmanship, Modern
Mechanical Engineering
Medical Sciences
Negotiation/Diplomacy
Personal Cbt., Armed
Personal Combat, Unarmed
Personal Weapons Technology
Physical Sciences
Planetary Sciences
Planetary Survival
Security Procedures
Shuttlecraft Pilot
Shuttlecraft Systems Tech.
Small Equipment Systems Op.
Small Equipment Sys. Tech.
Small Unit Tactics
Social Sciences
Space Sciences
Sports
Starship Combat Strat./Tactics
Starship Helm Operation
Starship Sensors
Starship Weaponry Operation
Starship Weaponry Technology
Streetwise
Surveillance
Transporter Op. Procedures
Transporter Systems Tech.
Trivia
Ground Vehicle Operation
Warp Drive Technology
Zero-G Operations

[Deleted]

alternately we could just use this



but FATE might be the simplest XD

[tess]

I'd like to keep it as simple as possible. Since we aren't actually doing PnP I'd like to avoid having to check stat sheets and such constantly during RP. The FATE thing adds enough depth to the dice rolls without needlessly complicating things.

[Deleted]

yeah. i was semi joking anyways.