Roleplaying Star Trek
For the next few posts I'll be talking about roleplaying, because I'm in the middle of this cool paper-and-pencil game, and because I dug up some emails of logs of old games I once played.
I was cleaning out an email account when I found old logs from when I Star Trek roleplayed online. Not based on dice, we just did our actions and it was up to the GM to figure out if the action was okay, if you failed the action, or if the action was countered. One group used a forum to post well-typed entries on their actions. The other group used chat rooms on AIM.
Some of the adventures I remember doing include:
- When my character, a slug-like species called a Trill that that lives in willing host bodies (for you SG-1 fans, think the Tok'ra), started having multiple personalities, each one of them of a previous host body. The crew was driven insane (and I had damn fun playing it). I had all sorts of personalities pop up, like a cocky fighter pilot, a Victorian gentleman, a cowboy type, a man-hating woman in a man's body, ect.
- When my character got bit by space energy vampires (beings that were made of negative energy and fed of the energy of others) and became a vampire of sorts himself, taking a girl he liked as his queen and trying to take over the ship with his awesome new powers. When I was reverted to normal I kept some of my powers.
- When we met this catlike race that lived in trees (and this was WAY before Avatar) who was being experimented on by a rogue Starfleet spy guy to make a race of super soldiers who could, among other things, turn invisible and liked slicing people's heads off. We had to woo the local populace (and fight the sect that hated all outsiders) while fighting a group of Starfleet rouges. Considering my character was a Starfleet spy as well it gave me chances to strut my stuff.
Due to lack of time and computer access back in 2006 I had to quit these games. I had started with the chat group back in 1999, quit them in 2000, then came back in 2005. The other one I had been with from about 2002 or so to 2005. Oh well. I may consider getting involved with them again in the future.
I was cleaning out an email account when I found old logs from when I Star Trek roleplayed online. Not based on dice, we just did our actions and it was up to the GM to figure out if the action was okay, if you failed the action, or if the action was countered. One group used a forum to post well-typed entries on their actions. The other group used chat rooms on AIM.
Some of the adventures I remember doing include:
- When my character, a slug-like species called a Trill that that lives in willing host bodies (for you SG-1 fans, think the Tok'ra), started having multiple personalities, each one of them of a previous host body. The crew was driven insane (and I had damn fun playing it). I had all sorts of personalities pop up, like a cocky fighter pilot, a Victorian gentleman, a cowboy type, a man-hating woman in a man's body, ect.
- When my character got bit by space energy vampires (beings that were made of negative energy and fed of the energy of others) and became a vampire of sorts himself, taking a girl he liked as his queen and trying to take over the ship with his awesome new powers. When I was reverted to normal I kept some of my powers.
- When we met this catlike race that lived in trees (and this was WAY before Avatar) who was being experimented on by a rogue Starfleet spy guy to make a race of super soldiers who could, among other things, turn invisible and liked slicing people's heads off. We had to woo the local populace (and fight the sect that hated all outsiders) while fighting a group of Starfleet rouges. Considering my character was a Starfleet spy as well it gave me chances to strut my stuff.
Due to lack of time and computer access back in 2006 I had to quit these games. I had started with the chat group back in 1999, quit them in 2000, then came back in 2005. The other one I had been with from about 2002 or so to 2005. Oh well. I may consider getting involved with them again in the future.