Star Fleet Battles continues to this day, in a slightly different universe than mainline Star Trek thanks to a devoted fanbase and the natural fun of blowing up Klingons in space combat.įASA is a name that pops up throughout the 80’s thanks to several game lines that it started, like Battletech and Shadowrun among others. FASA’s game was licensed from the source at Paramount, while Star Fleet Battles came from the Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual, a book that started out as a fan project that eventually gained Gene Roddenberry’s blessing. Star Fleet Battles was an immensely popular space battle game set in a variant of the Star Trek universe. The major competition in the market at the time was Star Fleet Battles from Task Force Games. That game, however, was more of a D&D hack to support Heritage Games’ miniature line. That was Star Trek: Adventures in the Final Frontier from Heritage Games. What is surprising is the history of how it came to be a game, the influence it had, and the Mirror Universe-style game that spun off from it thanks to the fans who wanted a chance to run their own Star Trek adventures (not to be confused with Star Trek Adventures, the modern system published by Modiphius that Shield of Tomorrow uses.)įASA Games published Star Trek: The Role-Playing Game in the 1980s, though it wasn’t the first official Star Trek game on the market. It’s not surprising that Star Trek was one of the earliest official RPGs given its place in pop culture.
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(Chances are, if it’s a popular game or TV show, there’s an RPG for it.) Yet, there’s an allure of an official set of rules set directly in the universe of a book, TV show or movie. Urban legends claim that Gygax and Arneson created Dungeons & Dragons to add in some Lord of the Rings to their medieval miniatures games or that Joss Whedon’s Firefly began decades earlier as a game of Traveller. Fans can make their own rules to play in their favorite game worlds, of course. It’s built into the DNA of the hobby. Licensed tabletop RPGs have been around nearly as long as the hobby. Follow the adventures of the USS Sally Ride on Shield of Tomorrow on Twitch. Every Monday at 7:00 PM PT, a talented crew roleplays their way through the galaxy to fulfill a mission: to boldly go where no one has gone before.
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