Reception 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.
While the PD book gives information on races, classes, equipment, etc., it refers to the 3.5 PHB for rules on character generation, combat, etc. While "Prime Teams" are a Federation designation, nearly every empire has their own equivalent. The Prime Directive core rulebook shown in the photo above is an add on book to the Dungeons and Dragons v3.5 Player’s Handbook. 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.
The core rulebook, D20 Klingons, D20 Romulans (no D20M as of Aug 2011), and D20 Federation are available for this system. The one thing I find interesting and similar about all of the professionally published stuff is how much intricate detail is included. Olsen, it used a D6-style system similar to Shadowrun and Star Wars. Using an in-house design by Mark Costello and Timothy D. The original release of Prime Directive was published by Task Force Games in 1993. D20 Prime Directive and D20M Prime Directive Beyond Mike Berkey's orginal document for Microlite, I have a stack of FASA's Star Trek RPG stuff, Last Unicorn's, and ADB's Prime Directive (GURPS) books. Prime Directive is a role-playing game set in the Star Trek-derived Star Fleet Universe.The game has gone through two different incarnations. 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.