Wand'ring In Star-Flight - A Star Trek Adventures Campaign

Wand'ring In Star-Flight

In real-life, I am about to start a Star Trek Adventures RPG campaign.  And any notes for the game are most of blogging them.  So why not post them for others to use?

It is for the other players to detail the player character's ship but I can do the rest of the universe.

So I will call the campaign Wand'ring in Star-Flight after the never-heard lyrics to the original Star Trek theme music.*

Beyond
The rim of the star-light
My love
Is wand’ring in star-flight
I know
He’ll find in star-clustered reaches
Love,
Strange love a star woman teaches.
I know
His journey ends never
His star trek
Will go on forever.
But tell him
While he wanders his starry sea
Remember, remember me.

There is a YouTube video of these lyrics sung aloud for the fans by Tenacious D (and you would have to be a true fan, the lyrics are quite grating with the song).

The game is set in the Prime Timeline which has much more material and happens during the end of the Next Generation Era which allows elements to be easily taken from the whole continuity of mainstream Trek.

"The Star-Crossed"

Once, in a watering-hole on the edge of the Federation, a barfly remarked that there were some souls and ships that always seemed to find each other in the same trouble.   It was as if they had all been called by some strange siren.  The meme took in the ways that some do and there was a group of stations, ships and crews colloquially named the Star-Crossed.

Liberty Island Map - Test of gridding Google Maps

 

This is a simple test of gridding Google Maps for game use.  I was thinking of the fight between Sabertooth and Wolverine in the first X-Men movie.  I don't think I will much with Google Maps in the future but I just wanted to see if it was possible as proof-of-concept.

Lucy, the Margate Elephant floor plans

I've always been a fan of maps, especially deck and floor plans, especially especially free plans and especially especially especially accurate plans. 

Fortunately, there is a resource not many people seem to know about; the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey hosted by the Library of Congress.  These were research projects into building of historical worth.  They are largely in the public domain (check to be sure) and likely paid for by your tax dollars so I am glad to show them off.

The first floor plan I will feature is Lucy, the Margate Elephant.  Only one plan of Lucy is really needed.  Goodness knows what you would use her for in your games, maybe a mad elephant-themed Silver Age supervillain.  I have simply added a 5' grid to the picture.

In essence, I have altered this very little.  If there turns out to be real interest, I can buff this and following maps up a bit... 

Margate Elephant, Atlantic Avenue & Decatur Street, Margate City, Atlantic County, NJ

TORG Eternity Characters

 I am moving my efforts from my first attempt at Blogger, the Blogbatter Beast of Trall (thank you, Douglas Adams) to this new blog.  But I thank it for what it was able to teach me (namely, make a smaller and more catchy name for your blog 😜).

But I did make some nice Torg Eternity characters on the old blog.  So check them out and keep fighting those High Lords, you Storm Knights you! 

Welcome to my new RPG Blog and Howdy from Texas!

 

Tarot Card: The Fool (0)

And so it begins...

Howdy from Fort Worth, Texas! Here is a blog for my love of tabletop role-playing games (RPGs). Where it goes from there, who knows?

My name is Gerry and I have always wanted to blog about my hobbies and interests, RPGs being one of them.  But blogs are organic and emergent, who knows where this might drift.  And would it be wrong if it does.

The blog is named Hills To Dice On and is a pun on the phrase hill to die on.

Full Disclosure:  At some point, I would like to make a little money off of a blog.  Maybe it might be this one but it is a little too new and underdeveloped for that.  And I don't mind if this is my 'training wheels' blog.

Please don't think that this blog is a purely mercenary endeavor.  There is an opportunity cost to a free blog (the time could be spent actually making money in some way).  This would just make it possible for me to continue a blog.

Anyway, let's see what happens... 😎