Does anyone remember the first Star Trek RPG?

It was a paper based RPG created by FASA Corporation and licensed by Paramount.

Here's a link that may help you remember it:
http://www.well.com/~sjroby/lcars/fasa.html

When I was a kid, I found this game... bought the basic kit, and some of the information manuals... including the additional material for the just released (at the time) Star Trek: TNG.

I had so much fun playing this game.... Wow, things have come a long way with STO when you compare it to this old FASA game.

:D

I played their Starship combat game and had the rp game but never played it.

Same here... I played the combat simulator... Which was awesome! :D Especially when you have a TNG ship creaming a TOS ship LOL

;)

I bought one of the character RPG's story-lines but never actually played it. I stuck with the battle simulator and I still have it.

I'll never get rid of it because it was so much fun to play when I was a kid.


:D

Yep, I remember playing it - was very much into RPG's during their height of popularity in the early 80's.

The one thing I remember was how detailed your history in Starfleet was. A few dice rolls (on percentile dice, natch!) determined if you served on a Constitution-class ship or wer stuck on some out-of-the-way starbase.

While I can't remember his name, my first character was head of Engineering. The man had no social skills whatsoever but his Engineering roll was a base score of 92 out of a possible 99 (00's were critical failures, if I remember correctly).

There was also a "ST:TNG" sourcebook but I think shortly after it was released FASA lost the Star Trek license.

Your so right Virgo, FASA lost their license because of issues over cannon.

But, while it was active... FASA what the best source of ST info around. Playing the starship battle simulator was great fun. I always thought.... wouldn't this be so much easier on a computer....

Then 10-20 yrs later we get...


STO

LOL

I've never played the FASA version but I have several of the books from Decipher's version.

You mean Starship Battles? I loved that game. Some part of it appealed to the high-action-accountant in me. You had to balance your energy budget every turn, and plan ahead by charging weapons several turns in advance of firing. I still have some scratch paper here in my office that's xeroxed Damage Allocation Chart, Impulse Movement Chart, and the damage chart for a Federation Heavy Cruiser on one side.

Sigh. Now I feel like a really old geek. :ohmy:

My main toon, I have a whole series of ships named after the ship I used to play in the RPG.

USS Solar Quest was the name of my original starship in that game and now it's in STO! :D

i remember me the first star trek game was on the amiga500 system from interplay

called Star Trek: 25th Anniversary

it was not realy funny. but it was something new in the game battles against the klingon and beaming up some stuff to work as delivery service no away teams so space battle only.

I still have my FASA stuff. I always really liked the three books on ships of the federation, Klingon, and Romulans. They had a prolific list of ships. Those led me to Jackill's books, among other fan made tech manuals.

I didn't play this one, but some friends of mine and I bought the old d6 system Star Wars RPG books, and we had a campaign with Star Trek stuff in it. Took a little creativity to adapt the rules for Star Trek type weaponry and tactics, but a little research into the tech manuals for the differences between the two types of technology proved quite fruitful. One on one, we figured out, the Galaxy-Class could rather easily take on a similarly sized ship outfitted with Star Wars technology. And, if we progress that, a Sovereign could probably take on a Star Destroyer, and probably demolish it.