Roleplayers chomping at the bit to develop their Starfleet player characters for their latest Star Treck Roleplaying Game campaign gain an invaluable resource this month. The brand-new Starfleet Operations Manuals, a 96-page full-color hardcover book matching the format of the Player's and Narrator's Guides, is ready to ship from the Decipher warehouse and is expected to hit retailers' shelves in mid-March. More than 50 new professional abilities for starship officer characters, new advancement and development packages, and statistics for 26 pieces of Starfleet technology and ten "ships of the line will expand your roleplaying horizons throughout the quadrant and beyond. You can even choose from eight new complete species profiles from Bolians to Zaldans! Welcome to Starfleet, and "Let's see what's out there..."
Kenneth Hite (born September 15, 1965) is a writer and role-playing game designer. Author of Trail of Cthulhu and Night's Black Agents role-playing games, Hite has been announced as the lead designer of the upcoming 5th edition of Vampire: the Masquerade.