Exploration Guide (2e)
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GENESIS IN YOUR HANDS
"Instead of a dead moon¸ a living¸ breathing planet¸ capable of sustaining whatever life-forms we see fit to deposit on it.” - Dr. Carol Marcus
For nearly 60 years¸ Star Trek has celebrated exploration as its central theme¸ using it as a vehicle for storytelling and social commentary in time-honored science fiction fashion.
This Exploration Guide is essential reading for any Star Trek Adventures crew interested in expanding their characters¸ missions¸ and campaigns into the final frontier and creating new sectors¸ worlds¸ and environments to discover and explore.
Use the wealth of advice and random tables in this book to create original galactic sectors¸ star systems¸ planets¸ and planetary terrains¸ and then explore those unique locations in your crew's original Star Trek stories!
The 144-page full-color Star Trek Adventures Second Edition Exploration Guide features:
- New player character options¸ including two new career paths¸ 10 new career events¸ 21 new character talents¸ and five new options for awards and honors.
- Options for characters who want to possess secret values¸ talents¸ or traits that are then revealed throughout a campaign.
- Advice and random tables to create entirely new sectors of space for your player characters to discover and explore.
- Tools to populate those new space sectors with notable star systems and cosmic features¸ including stars¸ number of planets¸ and spatial phenomena.
- Advice and random tables to populate those new star systems with a variety of inner and outer worlds¸ moons¸ and ringed worlds for your crew to study¸ visit¸ and explore.
- Guidance on exploring planets and planet-like stellar bodies¸ and nine different planetary terrains: cave systems¸ deserts¸ forests¸ jungles¸ mountains and hills¸ plains¸ swamps¸ tundra¸ and water.
- Terrain-specific details and random generators for the terrain types and elements unique to that terrain.
- Random tables designed to help you generate story hooks¸ advantages¸ and complications for each terrain type.
This second edition supplement is compatible with both first edition Star Trek Adventures and the Captain's Log Solo RPG.
