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Monte Cook and Wolfgang Baur worked on the original one. So that could mean that Amazon is just glitching up a past book -- but it could also mean that a new, d20, version is planned but it will include enough material from the original to warrant them still getting a writing credit (and the...

Very nice, Karl! I'd just been contemplating Fading Suns, and now that you've posted that, True 20 looks like a good way to go.

I prefer restrained art work and borders in PDFs. This is a place where I'm particularly impressed by Malhavoc -- they have a stylish, minimalist layout and use line art making their books both easy to print out and attractive to look at, without requiring two different versions of the file...

I thought Honor and Corruption was a pretty sharp idea and nicely executed. http://www.enworld.org/shop/index.php?do=product&productid=563&source=Publisher%20Recent

I always like more adventures, but this sounds a bit like heavily plot driven scenarios, which haven't worked well for me in the past. I think it's a mistake to think that the appeal of DCC and the Necromancer modules is just nostalgia. I like them because they give me a nice, detailed location...

Dimension travelling cybernetic occultist Nazis, no less!! The campaign guide looks very cool. Looking forward to the adventure path.

I'd use it to field test every rules change I was considering for 4.0.

I voted for Dark Heart of Space (as well as others) assuming that it was something like ICE's Dark Space -- written by Monte Cook.

My concern for d20 Supers is that we'll be lucky to even get one supporting book seeing as how Past, Apocalypse, and the others haven't gotten any. In which case, even if it's an A-list set of rules I won't likely get much use from it (unless they add it to the SRD).

The Skaff Effect probably works like this: d20 Super Heroes helps drive the sales of the market leader -- Mutants and Masterminds -- because it draws some additional people into the supers genre, but, because WotC won't produce any support material for it, those customers start looking...

I don't have SR4 so my vote is uninformed (kinda like A LOBOTOMIZED ETTIN/A JAR OF VEGEMITE/THAT DUDE WITH THE ALUMINUM TUTU WHO ALWAYS COMES INTO THE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND CREEPS ME OUT...) but I prefered SR1e with some house rules to Second Edition, so figure that editions builidng off those...

Looking really good!

Very cool! And another open system, too. Can you drop any hints about the structure of the game system?

I'm putting together a Modern classes thing that you can access here: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/SecondWorldSims/files/ It's called Mod2 Basic Classes D2.rtf This is a first revision so numbers and distribution of abilities needs work -- but feel free to use it as you see fit.

Perhaps what Chris thinks is funny is that a bunch of companies did try sticking to adventures at the beginning and, other than Necromancer, struggled compared to the companies that went straight after the sourcebooks in the style of what WotC makes. I have a sneaky suspicion that Mongoose's...

Just to add to your alternatives: Conan d20's magic system is dark and subtle -- good for a low magic feel. Call of Cthulhu d20 magic would also make a nice low magic system. Alternately, there are actually a lot of nice, low magic feeling spells spread across all the various d20 rulebooks...

Here's a thread on RPGnet that includes a review of the Prime Directive d20 book at least: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=217616 Sounds generally favorable.

They reap the benefits of believing in the IP when nobody else did -- and deservedly so in my opinion. Makes me wonder what IP around nowadays that's not too well known will be worth buckets down the line.

Yah -- you're right about the high magic. Might work okay if one restricted players to just the secondary casters like paladins and rangers.

I think even stock D&D would work fine -- there's even some discussion of how to start it off from a fantasy setting. Another cool alternative might be running it out of the Conan rules.