Coming out on February 19th, the Sceince Division Supplement will be the first of the three to be released, and anyone who has previously purchased, or planning on purchasing the pdf collection, will have this supplement available on Feburary 19th to enjoy!
The Science Division Supplement contains:
• Advice for including time travel and fan-favorite Q in your missions.
• New options for science-based characters, as well as science and medical equipment not yet covered by the game.
• New guidance for creating truly alien beings, and new rules for diseases.
• Character statistics for famous scientific luminaries like Carol Marcus, Noonian Soong, and Zefram Cochrane.
The second of the books to come out is the Alpha Quadrant Sourcebook, which will be released in July of this year, this is the second of the quadrant sourcebooks, as the first of these was the Beta Quadrant Sourcebook, which had a cross promotion with Star Trek Online, no details yet as to if there will be a cross promotion here.
The Alpha Quadrant Sourcebook sets its sights on starbase Deep Space 9, Bajor, the Cardassian Union, the Ferengi Alliance, and the Maquis.
On the book’s cover, there is original artwork of the first battle of Deep Space 9, with the station defending itself from the Klingon fleet.
The final of the three books to be released this year is the mission book, Strange New Worlds. This will be coming out in August, and follows on from the previous mission compendium, These are the Voyages, which give fans more material for the game.
The book will contain 9 original missions to play through, exploring the strangest and most challenging away missions on dangerous planets and weird environments. Written contributions for the missions come from both Star Trek fiction writers such as Christopher L. Bennett (The Captain’s Oath, Greater Than the Sum) and roleplay gaming luminaries like Jason Bulmahn (Pathfinder).
Pricing for the books, and PDFs will likley fall in line with previous releases of similar, so the Sceince Division Supplement and Alpha Quadrant Sourcebook will come it at £24.99 (book) and £11.49 (pdf), while Strange New Worlds might be priced similar to the previous mission book of £29.99 (book) and £11.49 (pdf).
All of the books will be avaliable for purchase in print, and PDF on modiphius.net at their respective release dates. Additionally, DriveThruRPG will also sell pdf versions. Physical books will make it into local gamestores shortly after their respective release dates as well.
Are you likley to pick up any of these for your collection? Or not really gotten interested in Star Trek Adventures?
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But it works great when you have a group that loves Star Trek, and you can make it your own. So, the more books the better. As an XO in my game, I know our Operations officer (We don't have a Science Officer player), will love having some cross discipline options, and it'll be good to see Medical officers get some love finally. Hoping to see more fluff in the Alpha Quadrant book.
Kind of interested to see if they'll make a Gamma and Delta book, and if they'll try to still make it accessible to 22nd and 23rd century games. Also wondering if they'll do any more books in the vein of the three divisions after this. Would like to see one dedicated to an Enlisted career, or more non Starfleet games. (With more playable species of course).