So you’re eager to start a campaign, or design a new season for your ongoing game. But how do you plan something quickly, when there are so many resources you don’t know where to start? There are over 300 Mission Briefs (with at least 19 free collections) and dozens of full-length adventures and mission collections!
Well, we introduce the Campaign Builder tool to help ease your task. The idea is, we curate thematic Arcs and Roadmaps from existing resources that can be put together to create a 10-episode Season.
Arcs are thematic: each emphasizes a species, event, or other unifying idea that stretches over the course of a Season. Three episodes with this theme are given, and notes provided (e.g., you may need to substitute the antagonist with someone fitting the chosen theme). Normally played as Episodes 1 (Premiere), 4, and 10 (Finale), the GM is free to tailor where the keystone Arc episodes are played to their taste.
Roadmaps are a collection of seven episodes selected to give a mix of different adventures so that episodes aren’t too similar. In our Campaign Builder, a suggested order of play is given but the GM may also re-order these as desired.
For our first Campaign Builder foray, we’re focusing on the Taurus Reach, but these are easily adaptable to other Starfleet campaigns. We’ve looked through all the free Mission Briefs from Modiphius and assembled 5 Arcs and 5 Roadmaps that you can mix-and-match. We’ve chosen missions that can be played in any era starting with Discovery (2256+), or can be with a few changes. If you’re ambitious, you can even plan out a 5-Year Mission (five Seasons, which is 50 episodes). These Arcs and Roadmaps work for both 1e and 2e.
To find the Mission Briefs listed, see below for links to the free downloads (Modiphius US site):
Ancient Civilizations, Anomalies, Beneath the Raptor’s Wings, Cold War, Dangers In Space, Disasters, First Contacts, Growing Pains, Khitomer Accords, Lower Decks, Mysteries, Political Actions, Psychic Incursions, Space Megafauna, Spacewrecks, Starbase Adventures, Starfleet Academy, The Alpha Quadrant, Trade Ledgers
The Campaign Builder is below. For the Arcs, we’ve started these antagonists in the Taurus Reach for your consideration: The Gorn, The Talarians, The Orions, The Tholians, and The Klingons. Five Roadmaps that work well for the Taurus Reach are also presented.
In the future we will add more Arcs and Roadmaps (e.g., The Romulans and the Borg), and in some cases extend our selections to adventures and mission briefs in paid supplements.
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