Anyone know of a good Star Trek hack for DW?

13 thoughts on “Anyone know of a good Star Trek hack for DW?”

1. Dunno if one exists, but if I were making one, I’d probably start with Apocalypse World as a base, rather than Dungeon World.

2. Right. I have never played AW… why would it be better suited in your opinion?

3. I made a light weight Star Trek hack using World of Dungeons, called Strange New Worlds.

4. I wouldn’t call it good, since it is specifically meant to run off World of Dungeons’ five-class/special ability model (and that’s a little limited for Trek) — but its playable and as much fun as WoDu is.

5. Okay, I have to ask, what is World of Dungeons?

6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/efdlj2mqaaygywp/Star%20World%20PDFs.zip

7. World of Dungeons is an answer to a joke question: if DW were the latest version of a classic RPG (analogous to D&D 5e, for example) what would DW 0e look like?

   It cuts DW down to one move, and uses simple classes with five moves (‘special abilities’) and a skill system. It was available to all Kickstarter backers, but now is available to everyone. I love WoDu.

8. https://plus.google.com/100812462809734403456/posts/JQkDiyKd61S where I link my simple doc for SNW (no real formatting).

   http://www.dungeon-world.com/the-kickstarter-treasure-trove/ the original!

9. World of Dungeons is sort of a “what if Dungeon World had a previous edition”; if Dungeon World is AD&D 2e or D&D 3.x, then World of Dungeons is Whitebox D&D.

   I suggested Apocalypse World over Dungeon World because, to me, Star Trek doesn’t seem like it would be a class-based game.

10. Have a look at Shock: Human Contact. Also, consider Lady Blackbird as a base and reskin it to do a bridge crew/away team.

11. Interesting… I would imagine that it would be a class based game… Engineer, Luitenant, Captain, Commander, Security Officer, Pilot, Counsellor, Etc…

12. You might also want to check out Lasers and Feelings by John Harper. 

13. Marshall Miller has some good suggestions for other games.   Depends on what the game is to be about.

    Exporing sci-fi?  Yeah, Shock: Human Contact.

    The crew’s adventure and relationships?  Lady Blackbird would be a great choice.

    If you want to save the universe, or die trying, look at Our Last Best Hope.  For the newer movies, you could probably play a pretty good Misspent Youth about it.

    But sticking with AW/DW, Christopher Stone-Bush is right – start with Apocalypse World.  Dungeon World puts a lot in to that system to make it more like D&D, none of which you really need if you’re playing a Star Trek game.  There’s a list of AW hacks here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nPfff5dSHsk__rFHGQfLaAmb3ns680s_Fc0CSNlhfFA/edit?pli=1#heading=h.c96xbwiq6wwh

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