Star Trek Adventures – Props

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While the Star Trek Adventures Roleplaying Game is well suited for playing as theater of the mind where everything is left to the imagination, I do enjoy using miniatures and props in many of my games.

I use a variety of items from several different sources, the primary ones I’ll talk about in this article are from Loke Battle Mats, Galaxy Gaming Gear, and most recently, Borders of the Realm.

I’ve picked up several of the Giant Books of Battlemaps and a couple box sets from Loke Battle Mats, and they make for a good surface and background for many of adventures I run, and I often combine them with other props, particular the wooden props that I picked up from Galaxy Gaming Gear.

The crew has landed on a building located on the shore of an ocean and is meeting with the locals.
Using Galaxy Gaming Gear tiles and props to represent the Shuttle
The shuttle is preparing to dock at a complex containing stasis chambers and a gateway
Shuttle has docked, and most of the crew has been knocked out in an attack!
The crew has recovered and moved into the chamber to investigate.
A closer shot of the chamber, and the gateway, which came with an acrylic insert as well as the wooden closed iris seen in earlier pictures.
Investigating another location, arrived by boat this time. The ship is a vinyl sticker, as is the statue head and the stone stairway and walls, making it easy to customize the battlemats for the scenario.
Another combination of Battlemaps for the chamber the crew found on the island.

At this years RPG Alliance Convention I bought a Dungeon Pizza disc from Borders of the Realm. I’ve been interested in them for a couple of years now, and a friend of mine uses them all the time in his Dungeons and Dragrons campaign, and they work really well.

The one I bought was the double sided one with a stone floor on one side and an outdoor setting on the other side. I also love the doodles that he does on the boxes.

The box for my Dungeon Pizza.
Side one of the Dungeon Pizza
Side two of the Dungeon Pizza

I made use of the stone side in the final adventure in the series of adventures involving the gateways, once combined with the wooden props from Galaxy Gaming Gear.

My monthly Star Trek Adventures crew, waving to the player that wasn’t able to make it that day. And showing the Dungeon Pizza on the table sitting on a Lazy Susan.
View from one side of the Dungeon Pizza.
View from another angle. Also note the closed iris in the gate.
And the iris in the gateway is now open! I also like to use place cards for writing down any Directives or Traits that affect the current Scene.

The Star Trek Adventures games makes use of Zones in both personal and starship combat. I had been thinking about a Pizza that I thought could be useful for this and I mentioned it to Gerry at the Convention and he was interested in the idea. I took a month or so to work out more of the details of what I wanted, and then we met to discuss it. I really wanted to have it available for my season finale in February, and he delivered with flying colours.

For what I had told him I had for a budget I got way more than I thought I would, and it looked fantastic! And, again, the boxes were great.

Box 1
Box 2

The smaller landing pad disc, which sits on top of the Bridge, or can sit on it’s own. Shuttle not included.

A few people asked where I got the shuttle, I picked it up a few years ago on Amazon.

The shuttle landing pad on it’s own with some miniatures for scale.

This shot shows the original Dungeon Pizza, the shuttle landing pad and side 2 of the Space Pizza with the Bridge ring sitting on it.

Another view of the various parts.
The original Dungeon Pizza with some of the walls that came with the Space Pizza.

A shot using the flip side of the Dungeon Pizza and the shuttle landing pad.

A shot of the Bridge ring on side one of the Space Pizza. The painting he did on the viewscreen and control panels is great and this photo doesn’t do it justice.

Group shot with the people and props for the RPG Alliance Con Redux game that I ran at Under The Mountain Games.

The other side of the Space Pizza disk is a gridded space scene. I had a sun, a planet and a moon done up as part of the commision, which I can pop into the center of the disk, or use on my mat. I could also leave it empty and have the players ship in the middle. I made good use of it in my season finale this year. I’ll do another post just on that and some of the miniatures I worked on for it.

A couple of ships orbiting the planet.

The Sun and moon can be seen in this shot. Side note, poop from 3D printing makes for a good asteroid belt.
A peace conference at the moon near the end of the adventure.

I hope you found this interesting, and if you have any questions about any of the things in this article please feel free to reach out to me in the comments.

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