Task Force Khitomer; A New Way to Explore the Final Frontier Online!
Space. The final frontier. Except it’s not so final anymore… Star Trek Online (STO) has somewhat received an unfavourable reputation over the decade and a half it has been running. Most of this stems from the stigma associated with being a F2P (Free to Play) MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online Game). However, regardless of what you…
The Stuff First Officers Are Made Of
What Makes For the Best aGMs? Like most things, doing something well can just come naturally, or at least can come easily with practice. And also, being a good XO for a specific sim will likely require different things particular to the GM and the style of sim being hosted, making some of the advice…
Celebration Of STEM In Obsidian Fleet
In honour of British Science Week which is a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths across Britain we thought it would be nice to throw out an invitation to Game Masters to highlight the characters on their games who do the science, technology, engineering and maths. We took it one step further if…
Post Spotlight – Make It Yours. And Then Make It Mine (Obsidian Command)
When Brek’s Grandmother Ara has her mind set on wanting something, she won’t be dissuaded. And the job of acquiring it falls to Brek, who dares not turn down the task at the risk of his Grandmother’s ire and the possibility of being written out of her will… Make it Yours. And then Make it…
Lore Report, February 2024
We have kicked off the new year with new database content and a Khitomer conference. In the main database we now have Grazerites (thank you, Nikki!) and in Memory-Obsidian there is write-up on an aspect of Betazoid a religion (also thanks to Nikki) and on Romulan games related to Vulcan Kal-Toh (thanks to Reilyn for…
Task Force 21 Returns
As we announced a long time ago and have been playing with on and off over the last couple of years Task Force 21 is returning as the online gaming arm to provide a community for us to spend some time together outside of writing collaborations. After Paul’s successful YouTube live streaming of the ‘Obsidian…
Creating New Species
We all know Star Trek’s classic opening that describes the mission: “…to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations…” Doing that means, in part, encountering new species, either as part of a mission or as characters. So how do we approach this for our games? Given the myriad places and…
Communication Round Up 2023
Well, what a year 2023 has been and I truly think it is possibly our best year in a very long time. Our communication department has been the busiest it has been since it started in 2017 with adding Instagram and YouTube properly to our socials, podcasts have gone from strength to strength as well…
WEEKLY SPOTLIGHT – USS TANJURA
BRIEF OUTLINE OF YOUR GAME AND THEME? The Tanjura is a ship casting a wide net for crew, Misfits are welcome: Civilians transferred into Starfleet, Ensigns fresh out of the Academy, reactivated reservists, and Officers who on on their last warning, all are welcome to join our merry crew as we seek to explore the…
Task Forces 72 and 13 | Year Round Up
The sun has set on 2023, and we are well into the swing of 2024. There is a lot to cover in our annual round up, and a lot of new details to go over. And where I am in the world it is still January, so I’ll take it.\ Let’s start with the biggest…