Hey again everyone! I’ve had enough time to recover from GenCon and put a bit of work in on my Trek hack some more. The majority of the comments so far have been in relation to the action list. So, while I have been working on a lot of stuff, I’m going to post my revisions of the action list (with brief descriptions) with the revisions to the abilities as well:
– Vigilance (formerly Prowess)
FIGHT: with an opponent. Assault or defend a position.Engage in hand-to-hand, ranged, and ship based combat.
OPERATE: systems, vessels, or programs. Helm a starship, plot a course, run heavy machinery or transporters.
SURVEY: a subject, object, situation, or location and make inferences. Quickly ascertain or judge places or things. Scan objects, vessels, planets, or phenomena with sensors.
STRIVE: to physically overcome a challenge. Lift, run, climb, jump, swim, sneak, or tough something out.
– Ingenuity (formerly Intellect)
STUDY: a subject with precise and detailed investigation. Conduct an experiment. Research a topic. The process of academic or scientific inquiry.
TREAT: wounds, ailments, or sickness. Reverse the effects of harm. Care for patients.
ENHANCE (formerly Fix): a device, system, or structure. Add new capabilities. Jury-rig.Use or repair technology in a way it wasn’t intended.
FABRICATE (formerly Build): new systems, devices, or structures. Engineer, maintain, or fix them according to their original purpose.
– Charisma (unchanged)
COMMAND: rapid obedience with your force of personality or rank. Intimidate or threaten. Build up or commend. Lead an action with a team.
NEGOTIATE: with friends, colleagues, or adversaries. Parley, broker, or mediate an agreement between parties. Work out a deal on behalf of yourself or another.
FRATERNIZE: with colleagues, friends or adversaries. Socially engage with those around you either for recreation or to gain access to resources, information, people or places.
DISCERN: the intentions, emotional state, or truthfulness of another person, group, or entity.
The biggest changes are Fix to Enhance and Build to Fabricate. I feel that this change helps to maintain the depth of engineering actions while differentiating the two a bit more. The other change is the Intellect to Ingenuity and Prowess to Vigilance. Part of this is just more evocative words for the setting and part of it is trying to fit the actions to the ability a bit more.
I have some other big changes incoming as well, but I’ll post them once they are a bit more settled on. As always, thanks for the feedback!!
#WhereNoOneHasGone #BladesTrek
As always, thanks to everyone for the feedback.
I like a lot of these! Fraternize is especially good. I think I would change “Enhance” to “Modify” though, since that’s a bit more specific.
I’m not crazy about “Strive” either. When I think about striving in real live, “overcoming physical challenges” is not the first thing I think of. Striving feels a lot more abstract than that. Maybe change it to “Muscle”? That doesn’t really encompass the sneaking part of it, though. It may be that too much is wrapped up in that one action.
Strive should probably be maneuver . . . as in, “In an epic maneuver, Geordi rolled under the door just in time.”
It looks good.