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Following in our line of City Guides.... Dark Quest Games is having an open call for locations, specifically locations suitable for our Cyber Style product line. This means that the location should be suitable for a d20 Modern setting.
Please be sure to look at our City Guide products to see the level of detail we are looking for in a location.
1) The previous city guide books don't seem to be based around specific locations so much as themes. Are you looking for original cities for the cyberpunk city guides or a collection of areas based on a theme that can be inserted into a city?
2) Are you looking for one person to write the whole book, or will it be contribution-based?
3) Following that, would you like submissions to suggest an entire book with writing samples, or finished pieces that can be contributed to the book?
Originally posted by Snakefeather Couple of questions:
1) The previous city guide books don't seem to be based around specific locations so much as themes. Are you looking for original cities for the cyberpunk city guides or a collection of areas based on a theme that can be inserted into a city?
2) Are you looking for one person to write the whole book, or will it be contribution-based?
3) Following that, would you like submissions to suggest an entire book with writing samples, or finished pieces that can be contributed to the book?
All right, so that was three questions.
- Matt B Carter
1) For the open call, we are looking for locations. We do accept proposals for an entire city. But at least for this open call, we are looking for locations that can be plopped into any city.
2) The City Guide, locations are intended as contributor based.
3) Finished pieces for the open call.
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I got a few ideas for this Tensen...i'll get right to writing them up
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Actually, this raises another question: the guidelines on the website don't mention stats at all. Should NPCs have stats or just detailed descriptions? If so, can stats be foregone if an NPC is supposed to be mysterious to the players and could in fact turn out to be one of many things?
I hope I described that clearly, it's a bit abstract.
Oh, and if there are stats/rules specific to your product line, can we be privy to the essentials before submitting or shall we submit first? I don't have any of your products yet, I'm afraid, so if you use any different rules to d20 Modern I shall have to see them before the final draft; unless you're prepared to fix that in editing, of course.
Originally posted by Snakefeather Actually, this raises another question: the guidelines on the website don't mention stats at all. Should NPCs have stats or just detailed descriptions? If so, can stats be foregone if an NPC is supposed to be mysterious to the players and could in fact turn out to be one of many things?
I hope I described that clearly, it's a bit abstract.
Oh, and if there are stats/rules specific to your product line, can we be privy to the essentials before submitting or shall we submit first? I don't have any of your products yet, I'm afraid, so if you use any different rules to d20 Modern I shall have to see them before the final draft; unless you're prepared to fix that in editing, of course.
Thanks.
All NPCs in the City Guide line have stats.
d20 Modern rules would be sufficient to create materials, although knowledge of the Cyber Style setting will help in design of flavor text that matches the goal of the setting.
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d20 Modern. Cyber Style was converted to work within the d20 Modern rules.
The Cyber Style prime rules PDF that I bought yesterday had still specific Core Class (and recommended for use with Cyber Style: Wage Slaves, which is the main rulebook of the Cyber Style product line. which isn't out yet )
The Cyber Style prime rules PDF that I bought yesterday had still specific Core Class (and recommended for use with Cyber Style: Wage Slaves, which is the main rulebook of the Cyber Style product line. which isn't out yet )
Caught us dragging our feet again.
Cyber Style: Wage Slave actually will incorporate Prime Rules and some of the other material when it finally gets finshed... and will be provided as a revision (read as free upgrade utilizing rpgnow's revision system... prior purchases get a special link sent to them to download it.) to those that purchased the Prime Rules sourcebook. It is still being layed out properly so that it can work with rpgnow's print on demand.
__________________ Dark Quest Games http://www.darkquest.com Upcoming Release: Crown Tales
Note: Yes, we are accepting submissions.
Probably have to bail on this one, Neal. I have to get you these animals and I have an assignment with FFG coming up and possibly MEG. It's why I am a little slow on sending the beasties to ya.
__________________ Shawn "KingOfChaos" Muder
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Founder, Realms of Evil Games and the Realms of Evil Network
1. Since the system will be d20 Modern, should we put all our prices in Wealth check DCs?
2. Do you just want stores, as in the City Guides? Can we have other places like restaurants, bars, seedy motels, governmental buildings, etc?
3. Should we assume our locations will be in the US? I'm going to try to make them generic, but I'm fairly sure that some of this stuff just isn't going to be compatible, culturally, with much of the world. A store in America isn't the same as a store in India.
Originally posted by Rahkan 1. Since the system will be d20 Modern, should we put all our prices in Wealth check DCs?
2. Do you just want stores, as in the City Guides? Can we have other places like restaurants, bars, seedy motels, governmental buildings, etc?
3. Should we assume our locations will be in the US? I'm going to try to make them generic, but I'm fairly sure that some of this stuff just isn't going to be compatible, culturally, with much of the world. A store in America isn't the same as a store in India.
1) Personally I prefer both normal cost and wealth value to be listed. Wealth actually is a very controversial topic when it comes to d20 modern, and people are venomently on either side of the fence.
2) All sorts of locations are fine. This call even allows for your local strip mall. (Meant as a series of stores.. not where someone places a Strip Club ) Small office Buildings, police stations, gas stations, are all valid locations.
3) Assume either American or European. Currently material for Cyber Style shows heavy detail on Europe, we have not yet covered the American area of the world.
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I only have the Prime Rules supplement for Cyber Style and I'm unsure what normal cost is. Should we just go with this "very low, low,..." etc rating you have for the cyberware? Or should we make up some arbitrary cost in "credits" (which are referenced under the "Cost" explanation of your Cyberware section but seem to have no further explication).
Originally posted by Rahkan I only have the Prime Rules supplement for Cyber Style and I'm unsure what normal cost is. Should we just go with this "very low, low,..." etc rating you have for the cyberware? Or should we make up some arbitrary cost in "credits" (which are referenced under the "Cost" explanation of your Cyberware section but seem to have no further explication).
Cyberware was defined that way such that a GM could apply a multiplier based on their campaign setting, and difficulty in getting items.
Credit is an arbitrary number that is universal... somewhat akin to an easy conversion to wealth.
Otherwise money is based on the multinational Euros (Eurodollar, EuroYen, and so forth). Locations tied to a specific location in the would may have pricing in the specific Euro type of that region, or Credits to be more generic.
You would have money in a bank in Credits... but carry Eurodollars in your wallet.
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Okay, but I don't know how many credits average stuff costs. How many credits is a sandwich, that sort of thing. Theres a table in the d20 Modern book (7-1 on page 204) that relates the Purchase DC of an item to its cost in dollars, should I use that (but in credits instead of dollars).
Another question, I plan on putting information in on the various computers in the location and what a skilled hacker can do to them. Since 'Net of Dreams is presumably still written with the old ruleset, should I just use the d20 Modern hacking rules (which are pretty elegant) for these computers? You can redandify them for whatever additions your system has, when it comes out. You're going to have to do that for weapons and equipment anyway, since I don't have your weapon book and thus am not using it to generate equipment for these NPCs.
Sorry to be such a pain about all this, but there are some differences between your system and d20 Modern and I'm trying to figure out what they all are without buying all your books, which probably are still in the old rules and won't be of any help to me anyway.
Last edited by Rahkan; 28th May 2003 at 05:54 AM..
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