Part I: Campaign Direction
This is a short survey for Kevin's Star Trek Campaign. Your answers
will be posted on a secret web site for the occassional viewer to
stumble upon and be beguiled. Don't worry about your answers too much,
although I hear the Narrator can be quite vindictive. For those of you
who want to use a rating not present (*cough*Rowe!*cough*) I will
assume you meant the next higher rating.
Q1. How important do you want your character to be in the campaign?
Note that I use this to determine how much focus to give your character
in an episode.
- 100. I'm number 1! Look out Kirk! Watch out Picard!
Here comes the newest Starfleet Legend!
- 080. Either I'm the luckiest Officer in Starfleet or
I'm paying for the Narrator's new house. Alternatively, I'm the
well-endowed new character who wears slinky outfits; introduced to
raise flagging tv ratings.
- 060. I'm an up-and-coming officer, capable of
commanding the occassional mission or having an episode focused on me.
Sort of like Chekov without the fake Ruskie accent.
- 040. I have my useful skills, but clearly I'm not
leadership material. I could be any one of the dozens of guest
characters that's only seen once. Alternatively, I'm the occassional
comic relief hypochondriac whose only other significant role was
opposite Mr T.
- 020. Transporter Chief Kyle from the Original Series
is my hero!
- 000. Hey man, I just come here for the free food and
to sleep. I didn't ask for a character.
Q2. How often do you want your character's subplots to be in the
campaign? These would be enemies, rivals, family, romances, hobbies,
etc. Note that these things are analogous to the B plots in a Star Trek
episode.
- 100. Dammit! My character *IS* the campaign!
- 080. Everybody knows I have the most interesting
character. They all wish they could be me.
- 060. If I don't have a subplot every other adventure
I'll wither and die, or I'll join Donald and play solitaire.
- 040. I have a character that I really like and want
just a few more subplots to flesh him/her out better.
- 020. The general average that the Narrator is trying
to establish for the group. About one subplot per episode for the group.
- 000. I stay in my cabin with the lights out unless
required for my duties.
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Q3. Where do
you see your character being three years (18 episodes) from now? This
is in terms of his/her Starfleet career.
- 100. Please address me by my proper rank: Admiral.
- 080. I'm a shooting star! I should be Lieutenant
Commander by then!
- 060. Certainly I should have been promoted at least
once by then.
- 040. Not on the promotion list again?!? If I wasn't
so cheerful I'd probably go Postal.
- 020. Is it possible to be demoted back to Cadet?
- 000. New Zealand Penal Colony keeping company with
Tom Paris.
Q4. How much action do you want to see in the typical episode, or in
general throughout any given season?
- 100. Bring it on baby! *Pow* You want some of this?
*Zap* How about you? *Bang* Eat phaser slimeball! *Poof*
- 080. Every episode should be solvable by the maximum
application of force.
- 060. About the current level. About one fight per
episode on the average.
- 040. About the level of the Next Generation tv show.
There are other ways to challenge the characters besides violence.
- 020. Every episode should be solvable without doing
or taking damage.
- 000. I'm afraid of getting hurt. Please don't hit me.
Q5. My biggest complaint about the GM is...
- 100. What?!?! I can only pick one?
- 080. It has to be the way he railroads the adventure.
If the characters don't get it exactly right they might as well slit
their wrists because they're already dead. (The Doug Syndrome).
- 060. He doesn't seem to know the rules. He's
constantly looking up rules or making it up as he goes. Especially
annoying when he changes the same rule week after week. (The Wong
Conundrum).
- 040. He doesn't familiarize himself with the
adventure. It's like he's only reading the text for the first time so
he's constantly surprised and misses key facts. (The Tomasetti Effect).
- 020. Dammit, my character **froze on his horse**!
What kind of GM does that?
- 000. Nice try Kev, but we all know that revenge is a
dish best served with a creamy cucumber sauce. I'm not giving you any
ammo.
Comments: [Space Provided]
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