These can be paid for at any time, spending directly out of the group pool, or even paid for by adding directly to Threat. With most uses for Momentum, you can only spend saved Momentum in situations where you could already spend Momentum – immediately after a successful task – but some Momentum uses are listed as Immediate. A Starfleet officer knows that cooperation makes a crew greater than the sum of its members, and a Klingon warrior is only as strong as those who stand side-by-side with them.

This pool of Momentum can be used or added to by any member of your group – it is a shared resource, so your successes can benefit your allies, and their successes can benefit you. Other Momentum spends can only be used once per task, or once per round in a conflict (which we’ll discuss in a future article).Īny Momentum you save goes into a group pool, and up to six points can be saved in total. These can be used as many times as you want.

Some Momentum options are listed as Repeatable. You may spend Momentum like this one at a time, seeing the effect before you choose whether to spend the next point with Obtain Information, that would let you ask a question, and hear the answer before you decide whether you have more questions or if you want to save the rest of your Momentum. This can be done in a variety of ways, and the rulebook explains numerous different options, but one of the most common is to Obtain Information, where each point of Momentum spent lets you ask one question about the situation and get a true answer. When you generate Momentum in this way, you have two choices: spend or save.Īny Momentum you spend right there and then can be used to improve the outcome of the task you just succeeded at. When you succeed at a task, any successes you score beyond the minimum needed to match the Difficulty become Momentum: each excess success becomes one point of Momentum.

Only the gamemaster has Threat, but NPCs can spend Momentum to add to Threat, and player characters can add to Threat in some ways.

Threat represents the unknown perils that await in space, the unforeseen challenges that will arise to meet you, and the uncertain consequences of action.Īll tasks can generate Momentum, but only a group of player characters can save Momentum for later use.

Momentum represents the opportunities and advantages that come from success and cooperation.

By Nathan Dowdell, 2d20 System Developer Basic Rules: Momentum and ThreatĪt the heart of the gameplay of Star Trek Adventures are two resources which will be generated and spent during play.

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