Having more freedom in talent selection makes it easier to represent having a dedicated side interest (e.g. Changing or expanding focus by getting an additional Specialization has an effective surcharge to get access to the new talents and you possibly have to purchase an additional set of undesired lower-level talents to get to the ones you want. With a Career/Specialization you technically can get to ideal talents quicker, but only so long as they fit within the Specialization's take on the concept. I'd argue for the Genesys-style talent pyramid as it offers greater flexibility in mechanical reflection of narrative character development and diversification.

The desired focus on that sweet, sweet Spacedock definitely increases my interest, too. No problem-I'm just glad to hear anything on this. I'd definitely be excited to collaborate and/or play test anything you come up with! I don't mean to discourage converting from LUG or Decipher if you own the books already, but if I can help by churning out lists of gear/species/talents based on the Modiphius PDFs I own to combine with other stuff you work on from the LUG version, drop me a line here or on reddit (same username). In addition, STA has lists of Talents which could be near-directly ported into Genesys. You can see the similarity between the two systems, particularly in the STA gear lists and species stats (screenshots below). Who also designed the Star Wars Roleplaying game upon which Genesys is based Turns out that Star Trek Adventures uses the 2d20 System designed by Jay Little, More recently, I preordered the Modiphius Star Trek Adventures RPG and noticed how similar it is to SWRPG/Genesys in apparent design and intent.

I remember the LUG books from back in the day, though I had the Star Trek RPG from Decipher, which was also crunchy and complicated in that 3.X/Pathfinder sort-of-way.

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