d20 Modern?

[TurnKey]

Is anyone here familiar with the d20 modern rules? I've been reading the SRD online and they look pretty cool. Anyone ever run a campaign using them? Would anyone be interested in doing so here?

[Althael]

I would certainly be interested.. The other thing is if anybody (Dm) willing to have predator in their game.

Dunno, I don't even know what's in there. If it's like the real world (or almost), there is most chance that there is only the human is a playable race..

[BluSpecs]

I familier with them but I'd be hesitent to run a game on here. To much typing for me ;D


I little bird did tell me that a certain Dm on this board may be looking to start up a modern game sometime soon

[TurnKey]

I would be willing to play in such a game.... :-)

[K Man]

I am familiar with the rules. In fact I own:

- D20 Modern Core Book
- D20 Urban Arcana
- D20 Weapons Locker
- D20 Future


And BluSpecs has the D20 Menace Manual.

It would be fun to run one...I'd like someone else to run it though. ;D

[TheUdjat]

I own the d20 Modern rules and have, in fact, been thinking about running a game on the boards (were you referring to me, BluSpecs?). I've been hesitating on it because my online time gets so uncertain sometimes - I got shipped off to a warehouse last time I started running anything.

If I did it, though, here's a bit of information outright to kill any excitement I might have caused:

1. It will not be Urban Arcana.
2. There will be no playable races but humans. (So no, no predators)
3. It will have a 'Cthulhu-ish' feel to it, with the added bonus that survival is more likely.
4. It will be neither completely heroic nor completely villainous. Characters will play a neutral role in the world's happenings, and can individually lean whatever way they want.
5. There will be no psionics and no magic of the traditional sort. I might institute something in a similar vein to the 'Shadow Chasers' scenario for magic, and maybe something like 'Psychic Feats' from d20 Cthulhu.

I think that's enough of a tease for now.

[K Man]

I think that's enough of a tease for now.

Umm..no it's not. Keep it coming and start a new game damnit!!

;D

I really want to see what you can produce Udjat...

[Althael]

1. It will not be Urban Arcana.

And what does this book add to the game?

2. There will be no playable races but humans. (So no, no predators)

3. It will have a 'Cthulhu-ish' feel to it, with the added bonus that survival is more likely.

Again, never played anything with Cthulhu or anything related to it.. dunno what your really talking about..

4. It will be neither completely heroic nor completely villainous. Characters will play a neutral role in the world's happenings, and can individually lean whatever way they want.

Ok.. ehm. Is an sniper killing people for money (and fun) completely villainous?

5. There will be no psionics and no magic of the traditional sort. I might institute something in a similar vein to the 'Shadow Chasers' scenario for magic, and maybe something like 'Psychic Feats' from d20 Cthulhu.

Work for me. The world would only be more real.

[K Man]

And what does this book add to the game?

Urban Arcana is basically a hybrid of D&D and D20 Modern. You can play a dwarven worker in a forge, a drow media mogul, a bug bear bouncer at a nightclub etc. It calls the fantasy realm 'The Shadow' and the idea is that The Shadow is like a tide, occasionally washing fantasy creatures into the real world.

It's a good book.

Again, never played anything with Cthulhu or anything related to it.. dunno what your really talking about..

The Call of Cthulhu is a game based on the idea that humanity is doomed. Basically the whole of humanity struggles to understand the infinetly dark cosmic forces 'running the show' and we fail, go insane and kill each other or get fed to some squamous outer god.

It's very tragic.

As for the rest of your questions, Udjat will have to answer.

[Althael]

Ahh.. Ok.

Sound interesting.

A bug bear bouncer.. .. you would be enough crazy to piss him off?

[K Man]

A bug bear bouncer.. .. you would be enough crazy to piss him off?

Umm...no.

[TheUdjat]

Korone said:

And what does this book add to the game?

Like KMan said. It adds the D&D creatures to the modern mix, basically. Which I don't want.

Sorry, dude.

Again, never played anything with Cthulhu or anything related to it.. dunno what your really talking about..

Cthulhu is horror. Science fiction horror. KMan gave you a good synopsis there, too. Very tragic, but very fun for some people. I like the dark elements from it, but sometimes prefer things more 'heroic'. As in this case.

Ok.. ehm. Is an sniper killing people for money (and fun) completely villainous?

Would you consider it in the 'evil' alignment? Then yes.

An irrelevant question, though. If/when I run this, you'll al be bound together by a general common effort, and so character types will be somewhat limited by that range.

I don't like a lot of freedom in my games. Can ya tell?

Work for me. The world would only be more real.

My sentiments exactly.

[Kauyon]

GOD I wish I had the d20 Modern Rulebook now.

Where's that SRD again?

[Althael]

Oups, Kman..
I wanted to write 'who' instead of 'you'.. but didn't even noticed the error.
By seeing these pics, my opinion is only more clear. I woudn't never piss off a bugbear.

Udjat, ehm. So, not even Lawful Evil? Someone who follow all of the laws and the society but as a different work. His 'evilness' would be of his liking of killing people to accomplish the same dream as everyone, having lots of money. ;D
I don't really see what alignment a character who like to kill to be anything else than evil.. unless.. yeah, ehm, a character against something, a clan, religion or anything and who fight agaisnt it. he could be in the 'neutral or 'chaotic'.. or even lawful, without being in the 'evil'.


Though, the D&D creature in a modern world could be interesting, it would give an other feel to the world but anyway, if they represent an extrem minority of the population.

[Kauyon]

Wouldn't it be best to have everyone start out at Neutral (all-new characters, minimum age, all that) and then work our way out the alignments?

[TheUdjat]

You're missing the point. d20 Modern doesn't really deal with alignment - it's not that cut and dry. And as such, the game I may run will be similarly organized in shades of grey. I can't give you a flatout answer about what's acceptable and what's not in terms on morality because all of this is out of context.

However, I've never been a big advocate of 'killing for fun'. I prefer to see death viewed as a much more dramatically intense thing, and it gets devalued when you've got snipers and such reveling in killing just for the sake of it.

I'll say it now so I don't ever have to say it again. If I run a game, it will be about roleplaying, and not rollplaying. The goal will not be to take out enemies and loot their houses. It will be to make a compelling and dynamic story. I don't care how many people your character can knock off from 200 meters away in the span of 6 seconds from the top of a bell tower. Can you add meaning to it? Now we're talking.

This is a roundabout way of saying you really shouldn't worry about alignment. Or a character at all, for the moment. I haven't even said I'm running this, but when I do, there will be enough guidelines for character building that this sort of thing shouldn't be a problem.

[VemuKhaham]

your last post... man, I'm with you all the way there. If you ever decide to begin such a campaign, well, I wouldn't be able to resist, if you'd have me. Just one obstacle is that I will be new to anything else then pure and simple core D&D, so I would have to learn.

[TheUdjat]

Being new to things isn't a limitation. It's an advantage, oftentimes, for me. Some of my favorite games I've run with people utterly new to gaming.

Besides, I like to know the rules better than my players.

I'll let you know what happens with this campaign, then. Maybe I'll do a little post or something to see how much interest there is.

[VemuKhaham]

yay

[Japic]

Don't forget the core requisite Udjat. You will have to complete a Shorts session, per the board rules. Unless KMan decides to forego it that is.

Hopefully, Kobold Kibbles should complete soon. Then there will be an open board for your amusement. You can even restart yours if you'd like, no one else took that misssion yet.

See ya guys.