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As with any aspect of gaming, when I am trying to decide whether or not to incorporate something into my game, I try to decide its purpose. What is the point of having this rule/class/spell in my game? The answer does not have to manage a whole lot of depth, but if this thing is going to change...

We use VP/WP in our d20 Modern campaign using the Star Wars rules where criticals go straight to Wound Points. In addition, we follow the recommendation for VP/WP systems (I think from Chuck Rice) where all guns do 3 dice of damage instead of 2. So our average handgun does 3d6. Rifles usually do...

Quick reply before I run into a meeting: If you pay one group 1000 gp to arrest the PC's, and they fail, you just spent 1,000 gp with nothing to show for it. If you instead PUBLICLY OFFER 1,000 gp to the first group to arrest the PC's, then you can send one group after another after the PC's...

d20 Away Team This is very similar to a side campaign we are putting together in the Medallions group, except we are calling it "d20 Away Team." (This sounds like it has the same dark tone that ours has, a.k.a. using d20 Future with CoC Sanity rules...) I am very interested to see this develop.

Episode II - Session II: Second Avenue South Episode II - Session II: Second Avenue South Willie had nearly finished the bottle of rum, though to be fair, he had poured a least a couple of sips down the front of his jacket so that he would have the right smell. It was scary how easy it was to...

Episode II - Session II: Willie's Bedroom Episode II - Session II: Willie's Bedroom Willie’s cell phone woke him from a restless dream, where he was hiding from someone in a hut on a darkened beach. As he opened one bloodshot eye, the dream mostly faded from his memory, leaving only a general...

Episode II - Session II: Crystal's Kitchen, Southside Episode II - Session II: Crystal's Kitchen, Southside Taylor poured himself another cup of coffee while he watched Crystal reluctantly dial a long-distance number into her cell phone. By the time he had hunted down some sweetener packets...

I would be interested in a copy of that Excel sheet as well, but the email function is not working for me, and I can not private message you. Can you post the file here?

I heard on NPR this morning that on Sept 13th, the 10-year federal ban on assault weapons will expire and will not be renewed. They went on about the political effects of this, and the effects on crime, etc. and all I could think was "a whole bunch of prohibited guns listed as Mil (+3) just got...

Here is the system we use. I downloaded this at one point over a year ago when we first started playing d20 Modern, and converted it from PDF to DOC format. Unfortunately, I no longer have the original PDF and I do not know the source, to give proper credit to whoever originally did this...

That's specifically what we like about the VP/WP system. D&D players get used to the "you have to beat me down before you can kill me" mindset, and that doesn't reflect the tone that we go for in our game. Under the VP/WP system, a critical hit with a rifle (3d8 to 3d12 depending on the model)...

This is a one of the dozens of running jokes in our campaign. We're currently in episode 9, and the group had been in these interrogation situations now about a half-dozen times since then, and they are not getting any better at it. The group always ends up telling the prisoner anything they...

Episode II - Session II: Crystal's Apartment, Southside Episode II - Session II: Crystal's Apartment, Southside Willie was on the balcony smoking and staring out into the distance. Crystal was in the kitchen making coffee, and that left Taylor to watch the “prisoner”. The kid looked like he...

Another update is in the works and should be done pretty soon. In the meantime, I got a little inspired before last night's game, and put together a kind of "movie poster" image for the campaign. The crew seemed to like it, so I will post it here...

Episode II - Session II: Homewood to Southside Episode II - Session II: Homewood to Southside Crystal leaned a little too hard into the turn, and the bike cut sharply back towards the curb on her right. She threw all of her weight hard to the left and pulled back around, narrowly avoiding a...

Speaking from experience, let them be normal people: it makes things a lot more interesting. Assuming you are talking about a complete or near-complete collapse of society, the first issue with normals will be how they try to protect their loved ones. If they are immersive roleplayers, that will...

We use VP/WP in out d20 Modern Medallions campaign. Plus, we up the gun damage by one extra die (2d6 becomes 3d6, 2d8 becomes 3d8, etc.). We've run it this way for over a year without complaint, although there is some very low level healing magic available which can speed up WP recovery to...

We've varied a little bit from one situation to the next, but more or less the rules we've used in the Medallions group are: Driver makes a drive check as an attack. That sets the DC. Walker must make a Reflex save against that DC or get hit. If the walker does get hit, they take damage as...

As a suggestion for a Hollywood picture to use for him, especially if you want ethnic and normal-looking instead of super-heroic, may I recommend Luis Guzmán. Check out www.imdb.com for some pics of him, or do a Google image search.