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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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End Of Year Awards 2023

Congratulations to our 2023 winners PLAYER OF THE YEARSerahni -Athena, SS Mary Rose, Avalon, Atlantis GAME MASTER OF THE YEARPaul/Kane – USS AthenaCHARACTER OF THE YEAROr more precisely characters of the year with 18.5% of the votes each…Samuel Woolheater – USS ElysiumNjalia Sayffier – USS VestaFinnley Keating – USS AthenaASST GM OF THE YEARKieran –…

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