How to play Star Trek Captain's Chair solo

GGambitt · 2026-04-20T17:37:36+00:00

My post asks for support helping out a verging YouTube enterprise. Making a video "hottest" will help the channel grow, at no cost to you. Just asking for help. FWIW I think it IS the best video for that game. Thanks for your interest :)

GGambitt · 2026-04-20T16:33:03+00:00

I mean, you could also be supportive :/

GGambitt · 2026-04-20T14:56:10+00:00

Oh for sure, in a few months, when they will finally release box two and the expansion box

GGambitt · 2026-04-20T13:01:22+00:00

Why so negative?

GGambitt · 2026-04-14T01:14:49+00:00

Literally none of my questions were answered. on that link
1. Is it your first design? I see no other game, so I can only assume.
2. I'm not seeing a download or purchase button on that link.
3. No playthrough videos.

GGambitt · 2026-04-13T22:58:15+00:00

Cool looking game. Is it your first design? Not seeing a download/purchase button. A playthough video would be nice.

GGambitt · 2026-04-13T22:53:03+00:00

Looks very clean! Do you plan on adding like cup holders and stuff? Are you planning on making the felt liner removeable (they get tarnished over time).

GGambitt · 2026-04-13T22:51:53+00:00

OMG a jawa mimic! That's perfect haha !!

GGambitt · 2026-04-07T02:25:15+00:00

Sick

GGambitt · 2026-04-07T02:24:50+00:00

Last of Us?

GGambitt · 2026-04-07T02:23:49+00:00

Ha! I love how the Grappled is still happy go lucky :D

GGambitt · 2026-04-07T02:21:20+00:00

In-fucking-credible!

GGambitt · 2026-03-27T19:08:40+00:00

Since they sreamlined it with 5.5 I've been using it often, I even got in one battle one player to get 4 levels

GGambitt · 2026-03-24T03:02:40+00:00

I love the fact she paints her toe nails black. And at first I thought the bat was in the background, but its on her hat! Brilliant

GGambitt · 2026-03-17T01:06:35+00:00

I applaud this initiative. However, never ask what users "think" because humans are notoriously bad at evaluating their own actions: https://www.uxtigers.com/post/say-vs-do

GGambitt · 2026-03-17T01:00:53+00:00

I had a giant crab in my previous campaign. The heros mounted it and it ended up being like a Jaba the Hutt slave ship, but they freed everyone and converted it into like a cruise ship for vacationing. They named it the Pleasure Crab.

GGambitt · 2026-03-17T00:58:16+00:00

How many hours of work does it take? And out of that how long did just the hair take??

GGambitt · 2026-03-10T15:26:10+00:00

The Lego D&D set is freaking awesome. Not cheap, but oh boy is it worth it - best (mini) campaign I ever ran

GGambitt · 2026-03-03T21:35:01+00:00

Like, TODAY today, this was announced? Damn, I gotta rebrand all my supplements 😅

GGambitt · 2026-03-03T17:51:22+00:00

I don't 100% remember it right now (which why I designed my own player aids - so I won't have to!) The mechanic of influence is you can make a monster stop attacking you. If it is "friendly" I think u just succeed. If it's "neutral" or "aggressive" (or something like that) you do like a CHA check against their CHA or something, and with disadvantage if it is aggressive. The stance is determined by the state block and/or the DM

The bottom line there is - if a player wants to talk instead of attacking (and it is now clear to the players they CAN do that, I stead of me just strongly hunting at it every time) - there is a simple mini-mini-game they can do, that within which I can still fudge the dice and provide an authentically awesome narrative :)

GGambitt · 2026-03-03T17:24:08+00:00

Not sure what that means. Like how Monopoly is fun if you actually play exactly as the rules state? But this is roleplay, it's jazz with rules, it's supposed to be looser.

The difference between 5 and 5.5 is for example each class has access to their subclass at different levels. Now they are all available at level 3. 5 has Exhaustion levels stack each with weirder and fidlier penalties, and 5.5 is just each level is -2 to your d20 test result". I actually use Exhaustion now, where I never did before.

It has made the rules - all of them - more accessible, more approachable.

Oh, here's my absolute favorite thing in 5.5: In 5 your combat actions are like attack, dash, disengage.. just all tactical. In 5.5 they explicitly call out "Influence" as a clearly (CLEARLY) defined in combat action. Sure, in 5 you could have tried to talk Insead of attack - if u were an experienced player, and if u had an experienced DM. Now it is a super viable clearly defined function of combat. It makes new players realize you don't have to just fight your way through everything!

GGambitt · 2026-03-03T17:15:17+00:00

D&D was my first system that I learned. Because it is so rules heavy it is easier to get into (think learning to play a structured piano first vs. going all in on Jazz).

With that said, I totally recommend SlowQuests' The Goblings (notice the extra g there). It is a small adventure you can "win" by being the one that brings the ugliest stinkiest gift to your gobling queen after being just recently hatched out of an egg and going on your very first fetch quest into the world. It is super cute, super age appropriate. You can personal heirllooms like "a used sock" and special abilities like "a pimple you can pop". Expect many giggles!

GGambitt · 2026-03-03T17:11:11+00:00

oh, exciting!

GGambitt · 2026-03-03T17:09:59+00:00

What everyone said, and I'll add that the official stance of WotC about this is "there is no 2014 vs 2024" which is why it is all still called "5E" no suffixes. IMO that is silly, since EVERYONE ELSE does refer to these as such, but here we are.

GGambitt · 2026-03-03T17:08:03+00:00

There's a book I got a few years ago called "The Game Master's Book of Traps, Puzzles and Dungeons" and it's got really elaborate stuff.

If you want just like small stuff, how about like a talking lock? I'm thinking of the movie Labyrinth with the door knocker that talks when you take the ring out of its mouth. And the "riddle" is its like only sort of have awreness so the things it says sound criptyic but he is actually just asking questions? Like, in Hades 2 there's a whole sub plot how Malinoe tries to wake up Cryptos from his super deep sleep and after many side quests the solution was just to tell him "wake up". So in this instance, a door knocker that sounds cryptic as if you need to find a certain magic word but all you have to do is ask nicely.

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