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I agree with the addition that, as you loose all your HP if you fail Fort check on the MDT, the idea would be the hit lands, wounds and scares the crap out of the victim. Agree. However, I think this is factored to an extent into D&D weapon damage. For example, being hit by a gun is not much...

I am currently planning a military style campaign in Iron Kingdoms using the variants from Black Company. Generally, I have a number of issues with D&D combat mechanics. In particular: 1. HP escalation being unrealistic, and 2. Attack Progression increasing much higher than AC making high level...

If you have the PHB, you will have everything you need, including a list of spells. You don't need d20 Modern for GT.

Cheers for that. That doesn't sound too hard at all :).

The Buffy RPG is an excellent system and very friendly to beginning RPGers. The Serenity RPG (based on Firefly by Joss Whedon) may be suitable when it is released in August this year. As for straight Sci Fi RPGs, I recommend going beyond d20. Decipher's Star Trek is decent. Jovian Chronicles is...

Cheers. That does help alot, especially for the standard classes like Gun Mage and Arcane Mechanik. How does a Wizard get Magic Aptitude? Is it a feat with prerequisites or a class ability? For prestige classes, boiling the problem down to its most simple, is there any way to say that some...

Yep. That is the book I am talking about. I am planning to use the Black Company d20 book by Green Ronin as the base rule set for my Iron Kingdoms game. There are a number of classes in IK that use magic. From what I hear, despite BC d20 using a different magic system, it may be possible to...

For anyone in the know, who easy is it to convert existing Classes and PrCs that use magic to Black Company d20 rules? In particular, I am focussed on how easy or hard it will be to convert the Arcane Mechanik, Gun Mage, Battle Chaplain, Black Clad and Warcaster from the Iron Kingdoms to Black...

I think it says "Second Printing" in the credits page.

It doesn't in a way that is easy to adopt. In M&M, damage increases with level along with Toughness Save. So a 10th level superhero can have a max Damage of +10 and max Toughness Save of +10. In BR, like in D&D, damage is based on weapons and tends to range from +0 to +5. Toughness Saves are...

Yeah I agree with RangerWickett. Essentially, Hurts are great minor wounds that simply wear down an opponent. With a whale or dragon it still takes a long time to wear them down but overtime it is possible to score injuries. To that end, I made a house rule that the Toughness Save was 10 +...

As I have mentioned elsewhere, the one thing I really like about BR is that it comes across as an RPG designed to tell stories like those found in various fantasy novels, romantic fantasy or otherwise. I find most fantasy RPGs tend to feel like RPGs to designed to RPG in. I hope that makes sense...

The setting of Blue Rose matches your description of Valdemar. It is not flat and one-dimensional. There is recognition in the book of bigotry, corruption, greed, racial, demon worship and religious tension, inside of the borders of Aldis and especially without. The base PCs are Sovereign's...

I think the answer is 'no', it will be d20 like Black Company.

I don't think that is the case but may be the impression you get from the overall art style. Romantic Fantasy (and shoujo) tends to present men and women in a more androgynous (sp?) manner. This is probably to reinforce the idea of transcending one's sex. There are only a very few homosexual...

My experience is quite the reverse and my larger group doesn't even have many "romantic fantasy" or even "d20" fans. That is one thing that has impressed me with BR. It seems to appeal to an audience outside of its specific audience.

A lot of people say that Aldea seems 'chipper' especially on a first impression. However, there is a lot of darkness in BR that people miss at first, probably because of the idealised view of good and evil found in the setting. However, there is corruption, war, death, demons and plenty of evil...

My impression is that the vocal 'naysayers' create disproportionately more noise than their actual number. A lot of the noise has died down since people have actually started to read over the book and play with the contents. GR have proven themselves to be astute marketers and designers. I see...

I agree, to the same extent that you couldn't run a Star Wars campaign from the Darkside POV without turning the setting on its head. However, this has been done many times and to great success. BR takes a stand on what is good and evil. However, it does so to emulate the romantic fantasy...

Lets hope it bodes well for a seperate TRUE20 rulesbook and then many other products based on that system.