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As a bit of insight on the SRD process, remember that there's only one person at Wizards of the Coast who works on the SRD for both fantasy and modern: The Andy, Andy Smith. And that's just one of his duties, so he can't always be as quick with the SRD inclusions as he was with d20 Future. He...

Rich Redman, one of the founding members of The Game Mechanics, has accepted a position in the licensing department of Wizards of the Coast, where he has been working as a contractor for many months now. Accordingly, Rich has resigned his position as vice-president and general manager of The...

If it makes a difference to your decision, Rich Redman (co-author of d20 Modern) wrote the first adventure (Slave Drivers), and I wrote the second (Flight 23). As for whether or not we'll do more--yes. We have a third part of the mini-campaign planned, and if the mini-campaign itself is...

Gun Fu in d20 Modern Gun fu also appears in Martial Arts Mayhem, from The Game Mechanics. You can find the product discussed at this URL: http://www.thegamemechanics.com/products/martialartsmayhem.asp (For some reason, I can't seem to turn that into a link.)

No. It's the destruction of the robot's body that causes the loss of Charisma, not the transplant procedure.

I didn't design any cybergear that makes you glow. The rules I designed for the drawbacks of cybergear were about body parts, not just fancy doodads. Like I said, dont try to read too much into a couple of sentences of explanattion.

Sorry ... got busy and lost track of this thread. The original penalty was that each replacement made you lose Constitution--the larger the replacement, the larger the loss. It also went with a corresponding "miss chance" for attacks that might have hit the cybernetic component instead (thus...

Lord ... yet another thing they changed from my original turnover. I never mentioned anything about negative levels in regard to cybernetics. Sigh.

I'd have to agree that the numbers seem too low--and, for the most part, I'm the one who put them in there. The idea was that they would be commensurate with the rest of the starship weapons, but other factors were supposed to make them more efficient. For example, the revised starship rules...

Unfortunately, this is another case where my original design was rewritten, so I'm afraid I can't answer this one.

Hm. Yes. If you get a cybernetic implant at 1st level, you'd get the +1 bonus to the occupation-based skill you chose. JD

Hey, you're welcome. Hm. Apparently that was another section that got cut from the final product. Cargo is rated by size rather than weight because vehicles don't have a Strength rating (and therefore a carrying capacity), but it's sometimes important to know just how large an item (or items)...

The point of that sidebar was to make clear that Asimov's laws of robotics are simplified expressions of complex programming, not actual coding. No such code exists in any technology we currently have that approaches artificial intelligence, nor is it likely to. If you do a Google search for...

Okay, That's Me I'm off to Gen Con in the morning, so you won't be seeing responses to posts until at least next Thursday, maybe next Friday. Hope to see some of you there! If you're in attendance, drop by the Green Ronin booth (where I'll be, most of the time) and say hello. JD

A quote from that review: "Cheap shot?" Looks like I trod on someone's sacred cow. JD Wiker