Comparing Character Stats (Part 1)

Some of the folks over at TrekRPGNet were nice enough to admit reading this blog, and took some interest in my article on the Japanese Enterprise game I posted about earlier this week. Calastir over there has recently worked up some CODA character stats for the TOS Bridge Crew, and wanted to know how they compared to the classic character attributes in Enterprise.

Pretty cool idea! It can be interesting to compare the same character between different systems. It's especially interesting when one considers that not only was Enterprise the first Japanese TRPG, it was also arguably the first Star Trek RPG. Sure, Heritage had released STAGFF five years earlier, but it was more of a miniatures game with roleplay-like stats and features focused on combat, and some of the stats didn't have a material effect on the game. Enterprise, on the other hand, chose the traditional discussion-based roleplaying style to which we're more accustomed today -- and did so before FASA had released their Trek RPG!

Let's take a look at the stats for Captain James Tiberius Kirk for each of the five systems:

Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier (3D6 based, 3-18)

STR 13, DEX 14, LUC 15, Mentality 14, CHA 16, CON 13

Enterprise (3D6 based, 3-18)

STR 15, DEX 15, IQ 13, CHA 16, LUC 15

FASA (3D10+40, 1-100)

STR 68, END 77, INT 84, DEX 79, CHA 94, LUC 98, PSI 29

LUG (Point spend, 1-5)

FIT 3, VIT +1, COORD 4, INT 4, PRES 5, PSI 0

CODA (2D6 random dice pool; or pick and spend, 4-12)

AGL 10 (+2), INT 8 (+1), PER 9 (+1), PRS 12 (+3), STR 10 (+2), VIT 10 (+2)

Phew. For an old school guy like me, just looking at the stats makes me want to translate Enterprise as quickly as possible!

Calastir asked that I post the Enterprise stats for the following 4 characters so that he can compare them to his own CODA versions. In Part 2 of this article, I'll post the stats for the other 10 TOS characters, along with some close-up scans and translations of those slick character cards.

Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu

STR 13, DEX 13, IQ 12, CHA 10, LUC 10

Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott

STR 14, DEX 14, IQ 12, CHA 9, LUC 11

Ensign Pavel Chekov

STR 12, DEX 13, IQ 11, CHA 11, LUC 13

Lieutenant Uhura

STR 11, DEX 12, IQ 13, CHA 15, LUC 14