While "Prime Teams" are a Federation designation, nearly every empire has their own equivalent.Ĭhris McCubbin reviewed Prime Directive for Pyramid #7 (May 1994) and stated that "My advice to Star Trek fans interested in Prime Directive is to play it, but play it on its own terms, as a good, solid outer space military adventure, without trying to squeeze it into the TV show's mold in every tiny detail. The concept is a specialized landing party that can perform a variety of functions, including science, negotiations, and combat. Prime Teams are a concept pioneered in the original Prime Directive game. Supplements for the Gorns, Tholians and other empires/races are in various writing stages. Prime Directive: The Star Fleet Universe role-playing game Olsen & Costello on. The core rulebook, D20 Klingons, D20 Romulans (no D20M as of Aug 2011), and D20 Federation are available for this system. Most of the stuff can be useful, but things like the Klingon Empire sourcebook is mostly pretty useless if you want to run a game set in main canon.
D20 Prime Directive and D20M Prime Directive The Prime Directive series is NOT set in the canon universe, but rather the offshoot that was created for Star Fleet Battles. Eventually, they approached Steve Jackson Games to utilize the Powered by GURPS format. They were primarily a wargame company, and the poor sales of the supplements were cause for a reexamination. After the folding of Task Force Games and the cancellation of the original Prime Directive line, Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc., the new publishers of Star Fleet Universe games, were left with the question of what to do with PD.