Star Trek Adventures: Continuing Conversations
We talk about all things Star Trek Adventures. This includes announcing the latest releases, highlighting professionals and fans associated with the game, explaining game rules and mechanics, exploring how to be a better GM or player, discussing the wider Star Trek-verse in relation to STA, and answering your questions about the best RPG game ever. https://linktr.ee/studiotembo
Episodes
Integrating the Technical Guide, the Exploration Guide, and Captain's Log to Create Memorable Missions. BC Holmes and Eric Campbell join Jim and Michael for an ultimate riff session where dice rolls become the foundation of dramatic stories. Watch and learn!
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Star Trek Adventures 2e Exploration Guide! More Talents, Secret Values, probability matrixes galore!!!! Join Jim and Michael as they sit with writers AJ Fox, Aaron Pollyea, and Al Spader to riff about their favorite parts of this handy new tool that promises to make your games even better!
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Let's Talk Politics and Factions. The outstanding Aaron Harvey and super-fan Will Parker join Jim and Michael to dive deep into the intrigue, ideology, and interstellar influence that shape the Star Trek universe. From power struggles within the Klingon Empire to the covert maneuverings of Section 31, this episode explores how GMs and players can use factions and political dynamics to build richer, more nuanced Star Trek Adventures...
In Part 2 of their RPG storytelling series, Michael Dismuke and Josh Allen dive into raising the stakes, designing Act Two’s pivotal low point, resolving major conflicts, and using foreshadowing to set up future adventures. They also share bonus tips for refining your RPG narratives.
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Michael Dismuke and writer Josh Allen open the writers' room to explore how to design dramatic stories for RPGs. In Part 1, they cover defining your story’s end goal, structuring a three-act arc, crafting inciting incidents, and building meaningful conflicts that keep players engaged.
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Jim and Michael welcome back Al Spader to show you how to build character arcs into your episodic Star Trek Adventure games. Drive drama. Encourage character growth. Create stories that you and your crew will remember forever. WARNING: We make it look easy.
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Jim and Michael invite Al Spader to talk about integrating the new Technical Guide into your Star Trek Adventures and Captain's Log RPG games. Time to riff! https://linktr.ee/studiotembo
Massive Star Trek and media tie-in writer Keith R.A. DeCandido graces us with his presence this week. From how he got started in his amazing career to his methodology for writing, we cover it all plus some!
Keith R.A. DeCandido has been writing about popular culture for this site since 2011, primarily but not exclusively writing about Star Trek and screen adaptations of superhero comics. He is also the author of more than 60 novels...
We have a very special announcement about the future of Continuing Conversations.
Lou Anders is the author of the novel Once Upon a Unicorn, as well as the Thrones & Bones trilogy of fantasy adventure novels (Frostborn, Nightborn, and Skyborn), and the novel Star Wars: Pirate’s Price. Listen in as Lou talks about his years of experience as a sci-fi reporter pumping out hundreds of articles about Babylon 5, Star Trek DS9, Voyager and more!!!
Fury of the Forsaken, Kickstarter ...Lou Anders is the author of the novel Once Upon a Unicorn, as well as the Thrones & Bones trilogy of fantasy adventure novels (Frostborn, Nightborn, and Skyborn), and the novel Star Wars: Pirate’s Price. Listen in as Lou talks about his years of experience as a sci-fi reporter pumping out hundreds of articles about Babylon 5, Star Trek DS9, Voyager and more!!!
Fury of the Forsaken, Kickstarter ...Romulans!!!!! Join Troy Mepyans and Alex Boer as we discuss those green-bloodied secret-keepers that some people love to hate and others love to love. How can you get the most out of your Romulan characters if you choose to play them in Star Trek Adventures RPG? Check this out!
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Let's celebrate the artists! Ariel Orea, Star Trek Adventures art director, and Aurea Freniere, freelance STA artist extraordinaire, call in from Mexico City to share their experiences developing as artists and working for Modiphius. Take this creative journey with us and learn some behind-the-scenes goodness about the art process.
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Let's discuss the new Technical Manual. Join Aaron Pollyea, Al Spader, Jim Johnson, and Michael Dismuke as we shout out our favorite highlights from the newest Star Trek Adventures release. Get ready to strap on your hyposprays and tricorders. This is going to be fun! https://linktr.ee/studiotembo
The crew of the USS Challenger is back. Join Al Spader, BC Holmes, Meric Moir, Jim Johnson, and Michael Dismuke as we show of Supporting Characters in Star Trek Adventures RPG Second Edition. The story "Bedlam on Baham" is pulled from the FREE Trade Ledgers Mission Brief Pack.
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The crew of the USS Challenger is back. Join Al Spader, BC Holmes, Meric Moir, Jim Johnson, and Michael Dismuke as we show of Supporting Characters in Star Trek Adventures RPG Second Edition. The story "Bedlam on Baham" is pulled from the FREE Trade Ledgers Mission Brief Pack.
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The crew of the USS Challenger is back. Join Al Spader, BC Holmes, Meric Moir, Jim Johnson, and Michael Dismuke as we show of Supporting Characters in Star Trek Adventures RPG Second Edition. The story "Bedlam on Baham" is pulled from the FREE Trade Ledgers Mission Brief Pack.
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We roll out the red carpet for Guy Sclanders, famous Game Master for Off My Bridge (formerly How to be a Great GM), to come and discuss this illustrious career, guidance on storytelling, and so many more massively impactful tidbits about how to get the most out of gaming. He also gushes about Captain's Log Solo RPG and Star Trek Adventures 2e (blushing).
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Let's talk about Trills!!! Time for another deep dive on the intriguing, multifaceted species known as the Trills. Listen in and learn why Trills can be one of the most interesting aliens to play.
BC Holmes is back with amazing updates to the Star Trek Adventures Character and Ship Creator!! Hang on tight! It gets better every year.
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