“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.
Includes a full-color double-sided poster depicting a 23rd century map on one side and an updated 25th century map on the reverse!
