Star Trek is a Company of Delvers

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Reading In the Company of Delvers (the sample dammit, ye gods don't tell my wife I've bought so much from Better Games already!), if there is any confusion in explaining how to manage four characters followed by seventy five retainers and others- I think of it as a Star Trek Crew.

Star Trek is perhaps the closest thing I have to an organized religion. It has been my father in times of uncertainty or doubt. My mother being tabletop role-playing. And oh do I love that teet!

So in the annals of Star Trek....

"According to a page on memory alpha, a Galaxy-class starship has a crew compliment of 1000-6000 people and can hold up to 15,000 people but according to the numbers I've found, a Galaxy-class starship should be able to hold an estimated 40,000 people."

But dammit Jim its an hour episode not the epic of Gilgamesh!

So how many of the crew do we see? Do we play? Ten MAX?

Somebody dies, or a crewman of the week episode comes up and someone rises up to the top of the fatty soup (the bridge). Hell we got a whole show called Lower Decks in our midst (but damn all the demons of the nine hells, when did Star Trek become pay to play???).

Once I thought that, the Star Trek analogy, the company, the backwash of NPC's, soldiers and servants weapons, tents, treasure and carts of food and torches, behind a band of 'heroes' it became so much clearer.

Thus, the first rule of The Funnel Company: A Company is a Crew and a Crew is a Company.

For anyone into Dungeon Crawl Classics or Dungeon World you know what a Funnel is.

Yours,