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Greetings! Today I'm happy to announce to return of Will of the Collective! If you haven't had the pleasure of participating before, Will of the Collective is a process where the community makes most of the key decisions for a card's design, from starting concept to finished creative treatment. This installment, the sixth, is hereby know as Will of the Collective VI: Return of the Collective, and will be officially starting off on Monday, January 21st. And this year, we'll be making a mission!
But before we can begin, you must make a decision. Because, down one path you'll get to make almost any mission you can dream of; but down the other, you get to make a mission and a personnel. You see, in Project Delenn, we're introducing a new mechanic we've nicknamed "natives." These are personnel that name in their lore a non-homeworld planet that has "23rd century" in lore. This mechanic captures the diverse number of local personnel that so often joined Kirk and crew on missions.
Project Delenn features a number of these missions, and a support card for the native personnel that acts much like Assign Mission Specialists does. You can download a native, or score points when a native solves their named mission. While technically any personnel that names a non-homeworld planet in their lore is a native, the mechanic is meant for (and works best with) personnel. And this will be a mechanic that appears throughout the block's three expansions.
We thought it would be fun to tie this community design project into the upcoming block and make a "23rd century" mission and a personnel that is native to that location. But doing this comes with some necessary restrictions, such as limiting the mission to a planet that could reasonably have "23rd century" in its lore. In exchange for accepting these restrictions, we'll be allowing you to also design a personnel to match the mission. But, we don't want you to feel forced to take this path, so we're giving you a choice. And because it impacts the rest of the process, we're giving you ten days to discuss this and make your choice before we start the process. That's this poll. Here are your options:
Option 1: Make any one (1) mission with minimal restrictions. If you choose this option, you'll be able to submit suggestions for almost any mission from our available sources. There may be restrictions based on cards in development, or stories that for some reason are unavailable, but other than those rare cases, there are no limits.
Option 2: Make a "23rd century" planet mission and native personnel. With this option, the process will create both a mission and a personnel. However, there will be some limitations on the available source material. Firstly, the mission must be a planet, and be from the original Star Trek and/or the first six movies, or otherwise be logically able to include the phrase "23rd century" in lore. Secondly, any mission currently in an OS Block file (of which there are about a dozen) will be off the table. And thirdly, the personnel should be from the same episode as the mission.
In either case, you will have opportunities to submit ideas, vote on ideas, and make almost all the decisions for the mission (and for the personnel if option 2 is chosen). I personally hope the community will choose option 2, as it's an unprecedented chance to make cards that will fit perfectly into the upcoming block expansions. But the choice is yours.
You'll have until the end of the day on Wednesday, January 16th to vote in this poll. Please use this thread to discuss the pros and cons of the options presented, and cast your votes. You'll be able to change your vote until the poll closes. And of course, this thread can be used to ask questions, which I will answer to the best of my abilities.
I hope that you will enjoy WotC6: Return of the Collective, and are excited to make a mission - and possibly a personnel. There is an article on the front page with some more details that will be going live on Monday, so check that out when you can.
-crp
But before we can begin, you must make a decision. Because, down one path you'll get to make almost any mission you can dream of; but down the other, you get to make a mission and a personnel. You see, in Project Delenn, we're introducing a new mechanic we've nicknamed "natives." These are personnel that name in their lore a non-homeworld planet that has "23rd century" in lore. This mechanic captures the diverse number of local personnel that so often joined Kirk and crew on missions.
Project Delenn features a number of these missions, and a support card for the native personnel that acts much like Assign Mission Specialists does. You can download a native, or score points when a native solves their named mission. While technically any personnel that names a non-homeworld planet in their lore is a native, the mechanic is meant for (and works best with) personnel. And this will be a mechanic that appears throughout the block's three expansions.
We thought it would be fun to tie this community design project into the upcoming block and make a "23rd century" mission and a personnel that is native to that location. But doing this comes with some necessary restrictions, such as limiting the mission to a planet that could reasonably have "23rd century" in its lore. In exchange for accepting these restrictions, we'll be allowing you to also design a personnel to match the mission. But, we don't want you to feel forced to take this path, so we're giving you a choice. And because it impacts the rest of the process, we're giving you ten days to discuss this and make your choice before we start the process. That's this poll. Here are your options:
Option 1: Make any one (1) mission with minimal restrictions. If you choose this option, you'll be able to submit suggestions for almost any mission from our available sources. There may be restrictions based on cards in development, or stories that for some reason are unavailable, but other than those rare cases, there are no limits.
Option 2: Make a "23rd century" planet mission and native personnel. With this option, the process will create both a mission and a personnel. However, there will be some limitations on the available source material. Firstly, the mission must be a planet, and be from the original Star Trek and/or the first six movies, or otherwise be logically able to include the phrase "23rd century" in lore. Secondly, any mission currently in an OS Block file (of which there are about a dozen) will be off the table. And thirdly, the personnel should be from the same episode as the mission.
In either case, you will have opportunities to submit ideas, vote on ideas, and make almost all the decisions for the mission (and for the personnel if option 2 is chosen). I personally hope the community will choose option 2, as it's an unprecedented chance to make cards that will fit perfectly into the upcoming block expansions. But the choice is yours.
You'll have until the end of the day on Wednesday, January 16th to vote in this poll. Please use this thread to discuss the pros and cons of the options presented, and cast your votes. You'll be able to change your vote until the poll closes. And of course, this thread can be used to ask questions, which I will answer to the best of my abilities.
I hope that you will enjoy WotC6: Return of the Collective, and are excited to make a mission - and possibly a personnel. There is an article on the front page with some more details that will be going live on Monday, so check that out when you can.
-crp
Director of First Edition, 2019 - now
"Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. Symbolizing the elements that create truth and beauty."
Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS.
"Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. Symbolizing the elements that create truth and beauty."
Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS.