Sketchpad Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 Greetings! I'm looking at starting a Star Hero campaign some time in the future and was wondering how you figure out crew size? Is it just an arbitrary number you pluck out of the ether? Do you try and judge what's right based on the ship size/function? As far as I can tell there are no rules that govern what a ship may need. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenAge Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 (edited) Crew size = # of Players you can competently handle. Everything else is fairly arbitrary. A ship can run with a captain or a group of likeminded crew members. It can run with a Ship's Engineer or an entire Engineering team including a Chief Engineer, a Propulsion Expert, an Electrician, and more. The ship may have a single Pilot, or operation of the ship can be broken down into an entire bridge crew including a Captain, a Helmsman, a Navigator, a Stellar Cartographer, Sensor Operations, Science Officer, Weapons Specialist, Gunner, etc, etc...etc. Premade templates in 6th Edition are limited, but one look at all the 5E products (Terran Empire, Aliens Wars, Spacer's Toolkit, and secondary publications like Star Trek HERO – Unofficial Resource Guide and Battlestar Galactica Hero By Richard Littles - all of which are easily adaptable to 6E) and you'll find dozens of crew templates and package deals. Mostly, it's whatever you think is fun! In our current game we have a Captain, Helmsman, Navigator, Engineer, Sensor Operations, Ships Weapons Chief and 2 utility NPC; another engineer and a gambling, streetwise, appraisal and trade expert. Edited April 18 by GoldenAge DShomshak and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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