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I put together this Excel sheet for my d20 Star*Drive game, taking bits from HeroForge and from John Owens' d20 Alternity conversion. It's all d20 Modern, d20 Future and Blood & Space 2, except for Owens' equipment conversion. It could use some more polish, but I'm not ashamed to present it to...

Oh, and on the subject on the usefulness of Balance, we have three characters in our party with the skill maxed out, and it hardly ever comes up. But with the advent of Complete Adventurer, we can now use our Balance at -10 instead of Strength checks to avoid being tripped. Because we've been...

I'd have argued that running against the trees counted as a Wall Jump, as per Dragon #301: Wall Jump: If you are at least 5 feet away from a wall, you can roll a Tumble check (DC 20) to run up the wall 5 feet and backflip off of it. If you succeed at this check, you may roll a Jump check from...

As I understand it: 1) An artificer can create magic items for which he has the prerequisite creation feat and the caster level is no greater than his level + 2. 2) For each spell required to create that item, the artificer must make a Use Magic Device check of 20 + caster level. He can...

I've never actually done a test on it, but I have claimed for years that the black die that came with my Paranoia boxed set rolled high on average. The legend began almost as soon as it came out of the box, when I rolled my first clone, Trait-R-CME. There were no fewer than three 20's, and...

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I bought this module from RPGNow.com, and it's missing map number nine, which encompasses thirty rooms, and the endgame of the module. I sent an e-mail to RPGNow, and they said that they got it from Wizards and it's possible that even Wizards does not have a complete copy. Map #8 was clearly...

First of all, does it have to be a revolver? A pistol may comfortably accomodate two separate barrels with independant firing mechanisms, and the character could take the quickdraw feat if he needs more attacks per round than that. That was the old-fashioned solution -- carry more pistols...

(Psi)SeveredHead wrote: I don't know if I want to link weapon damage to ship size except through the mechanic of hull points and power supply. d20 Future has this thing where the quality of your targeting computer is a function of your ship's size, and not determined independantly. Odd. We...

I discovered Peter Fuesz' Warships Excel Sheet at Tequila Starrise, which allows easy creation of starships using the Alternity Warships rules. I've added a sheet that basically converts the results of the ship generation into something usable by modified d20 Future rules, with something of the...

The idea that dwarves have an economy tied to that of humans since antiquity fits in well with my own campaign, in which the fact that coins dug up from ancient hordes are worth exactly as much as modern ones is explained by making all coinage dwarven in origin -- based on ancient exacting...

I've only gotten to skim this in the store, and one thing that I couldn't find any account of what I consider the most important thing they should have included. I never hear of dwarves eating fungus, which is the closest thing to vegetation you can grow underground. They are depicted on one...

What I can't suss out is how they make the decisions to translate between the Alternity step die system to the dice of damage of weapons and the damage of armor. Maybe somebody else can clue me in here?

I notice that in a significant number of cases the number of hit points in d20 Future ships is ten times the number of hull points of ships with the same or similar classification in the Alternity Warships system. That system was based on a progression of hull points by eight for civilian hulls...

I like Blood & Space from what I've seen of it - with prices for maintenence and details of power usage -- but I'm trying to convert old modules here, and the equivalents are hard to suss out between Alternity and Blood & Space, whereas d20 Future seems to have such conversions in mind...

I love it. It saves me a lot of trouble in converting Alternity Star*Drive materials. With it, and the Star*Drive campaign book, I'm all set to go. Almost. Actually, there aren't necessarily equivalents to a lot of the weapons from Star*Drive. Lasers have been downgraded in Progress Level...

masque wrote: Maybe he was referring to this: http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20020604 http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20020605 http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20020606 http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20020607...

Johnua Dyal wrote: It's a good point, though I find that it raises the same issues again. How soon before? The Renaissance kicked off a long period of viewing the Renaissance as The Dark Ages, a fall from the golden past of antiquity. But an alternate view of the Middle Ages as a golden...

The Renaissance didn't form out of a vacuum, nor did it happen all at once, but the validity of the label is as solid as the validity of any historical label. Periods are convenient ways of talking about the progress of history. The thing about the Renaisance that I feel makes it difficult to...

WizarDru has covered much of what I have to say on the subject, but let me add that as far as I am concerned, the standard RPG fantasy campaign is not Medieval, it is Renaisance. I don't read a lot of fantasy fiction, but I suspect that that's where you need to turn for answers. Adventure...