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I haven't seen these rules - do you have a link to them please? I agree on some points here - the GDW house system does its job brilliantly, and I really dislike the automatic fire rules in D20 Modern and Spycraft. TW2K end edition (and even better in 2.2 - which gave highly trained characters...

This is really, really disappointing. And probably means the Twilight 2020 sourcebook will be the first Twilight 2000 product I won't buy (across all 3 editions - plus the reprint - so I love TW2K :). I find it incredible that they are expecting us to buy (and read, and reference, and look-up)...

For me, its Spycraft all the way. D20 Modern can easily handle no-magic type of campaign, but Spycraft just does the A-Team/Mercenary game better (ie more realism, better modelling of the genre). Make sure you pick up the Modern Arms Guide for Spycraft though. In D20 Modern, all your guns are...

In terms of weapons specifications, I think it lacks detail... there is very little differentiation between weapons. I'd prefer to see a lot more modelled in the weapons: recoil (affecting multiple shots and area fire) penetration as a separate value from damage (allowing shotguns to do big...

I've never GMed or played in a group in which it was necessary to have a copy of any rules. My current DnD campaign has 6 players, only one of whom has his own rulebook. But given I have 2 copies of the PHB myself, we've never had a problem sharing 2 books amongst 6 players (as GM, I tend to...

I dont have a problem with their level of detail in D20 Modern (I'd like to see more, but the core book has a weapon selection list that suits the rules). My problem is with a book with 500 weapons being released - and because they offered no additional level of detail between them, there may...

It means its bad for me :) I bought the book, had no interest in using it as an alternative campaign setting, no interest in using it as a variant player handbook, no interest in lifting stuff out of it as variant rules in my campaign. Basically I've not used the book. In my opinion it was a...

Sorry, this wasn't what I meant. Say you have the ability to take 3 ranged shots per turn. Then with a low bulk weapon like a pistol, you could fire at 3 different targets without any further penalty. Perhaps a mid-bulk weapon like a carbine can give you 2 different targets without penalty...

I'm not disagreeing about how much is too much - if D20 Modern wants to treat weapon modelling at a simplistic level, that's fine - I bought into D20 Modern some time ago (although I would have loved greater weapon variation). But when WOTC release a book with 500 guns which are really about 15...

None of which really grabbed me, made me want to interrupt my Spycraft campaign and get back to DnD. (UA did that ... luckily it arrived just before the current Spycraft mission ended, so its DnD + some variant rules starting this week :) I'm not saying AU is a bad book (lots of other people...

Totally agree, my copy arrived in the post today and its very disappointing. The artwork and flavour text is grand, but the stats are virtually identical - no real reason for me to use this book when virtually all 5.56mm assault rifles do the same thing in the game... I thought for a book with...

heh, am I the only person that missed the point with Arcana Unearthed? I just dont see what is soooo good about it. Nothing jumps out from it like the options in UA. I do love Unearthed Arcana though - as the original poster said, its really got me excited about things again (not that DnD 3e is...

Need a bit more granularity in the poll options ... :) I buy my books online, from typically 1 of 3 stores I am repeat customers for (the actual store is more driven by product availability than price - if its a book I'm after I'll happily pay an extra couple of pounds to get it a week...

I found it a failed attempt to capture the feeling of the Warcraft computer game into an RPG. The core book did very little to capture the Warcraft universe, and instead spent a lot of time hammering it into D&D (ie "here's how you can play D&D in Warcraft", rather than "here's what Warcraft...

There's nothing wrong with just playing DnD, but I do think you are missing out on a lot of great games. And D20 conversions of those games don't always capture the original feel, because some games also generate feel from the game mechanics. My girlfriend started with DnD, mostly because she...

I don't think any book has ever grabbed my attention like Midnight. This really must set the standard in campaign settings for years to come. Not since the final chapter of the Enemy Within campaign (Empire in Flames) did I sit down and just read an RPG book like a novel from start to finish.

Thanks for the suggestion Mark - I'll give it a go. Also, is there a Net book or something similar which contains a list of Kalamar adventure hooks etc? Is there a KoK published adventure that I should consider as a good starting point (both in terms of entertaining my combat-oriented group...

OK, I'm not here to bash KoK, I'm just trying to understand what all the fuss is about it :) And hopefully be convinced that I haven't wasted my money and time on this campaign setting... I've got a couple of KoK books and supplements. I think the 3.0 GM screen is absolutely superb - the best...

Is your friend concerned about players taking multiple hits from blasters only to carry on regardless? If so, the Vitality/Wounds mechanism works very well. A player character has both vitality and wounds. Vitality are rather like hit points - the character gets new vitality at every level...

Very well said. One of the sticking points in the ongoing peace process is the recognition of victims - and this is very wide scope in terms of peace and reconciliation groups, South Africa-style commissions on truth, victims of paramilitary, military and police actions etc. While it was worth...