Updated: 11 June 2021
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This is a site devoted to Decipher's Star Trek Roleplaying Game, using the CODA rules system. There are other Star Trek RPG systems out there, of course, but we don't support them directly. Instead, we refer you to the best support sites for each system that we know. (If you happen to know a good site for the FASA Star Trek RPG, I'd be grateful if you sent me an email to the link above.)
Beyond the Final Frontier - The Zine
Errata & Conversion Documents
External Links
Player's Guide Resources
Narrator's Guide Resources
Starships & Starships Resources
Aliens Resources
Creatures Resources
Worlds Resources
Adventures
Other Fan Publications & Resources
I can't host everything, no matter how hard I try. There are several excellent Star Trek gaming resources out there that are hosted on other sites.
The Player's Guide is the central book for the entire CODA Star Trek Roleplaying Game. All the information for creating a character, including the various Species, Skills, Professions, and Traits available to create a character.
The character generation process in the Player's Guide is somewhat...disheveled. I found it enormously useful to create a simple, single-sheet summary of the character generation process for CODA Star Trek. Wanting to give it a little bit of visual appeal, I decided to put a watermark in the background. This caused a single sheet to become, well, more than one. There are currently nine variations of this sheet; perhaps more will come later. The glyphs in the watermark are all part of font sets, which is why there's a limited number of them. As I find others with glyphs that appeal to me, I'll probably expand the selection.
It should be noted that, while there are nine different graphics, the sheets all have exactly the same information.
Other character generation aids that have turned up over the years, which are not produced by me:
The Narrator's Guide was the second of the core books for Decipher Star Trek RPG released. It's as well-organized as the Player's Guide was disorganized. Loaded with advice on how to run and organize a Star Trek RPG series, as well as the CODA rules system and systems for creating worlds, sectors, starships, creatures, and aliens, the Narrator's Guide is one of the finest GM tools I've ever used in nearly 40 years of gaming.
This is, by far, the most popular section of this site, and the area that gets the most regular contributions. I've been working on a scheme to get them organized, and for the time being I've settled on sorting them by era/century, and then by the government who designed the ship. I've also separated out the individual starships, which make up most of this section, from the remaining starship resources. Compilations of ships appear with other starship resources in the final subsection.
Many of these are species that have shown up once or twice in Star Trek and then been forgotten. Some are originals from various RPG series. A few of them are non-Trek species that have been adapted from other sources.
Looking for some creatures for this section.
Worlds would have been the seventh hardcover release from Decipher, but their behind-the-scenes problems prevented that from ever happening. It was, eventually, released as a PDF-only document.
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