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The Knights Templar invented these, to allow their members to travel from europe to the holy land during the Crusades. Do some research on the Templars should turn this up. In order for this to work, you will need an organization, probably a very rich organization like a church or merchants...

The one con I attend every year has a panel called the "Nth Annual Kirk Poland Memorial Bad Prose Competition". It is a screamingly funny... er.. educational experience in badly written published prose by professional writers. http://www.istop.com/~ggrant/readercon/readercon15.KirkPoland1.html...

http://www.merlinsworkshop.co.uk/ I found this link the other day. It's an attempt to fully convert D&D into D20 Modern. It has some changes to the D20 Modern rules as well. If you want a chunk of work done for you, take a look.

The SRD states that temporary ability damage heals at 1 point per day. I know there are spells which will heal ability damage, and I'd probably allow some uses of a treat injury/heal skill to improve the healing rate. I can see how the ability damage could be very debilitating if the DM tried...

I don't like the saving throw to activate an ability idea for two reasons. First, on a really bad day, the character may never be able to use the ability. Second, on a really good day, the characer may be able to use the ability a way overpowered number of times. For abilities usable once per...

Well, if you are willing to wander away from D20 sources. G3G does not have a D20 conversion, and I vastly prefer GURPS Vehicles for guns, particularly futuristic ones.

The D20 Mecha SRD (from GOO) has a weapons design system in it. It's somewhat abstract, but will give a complete set of D20 statistics.

It depends upon how "girm-n-gritty" you want the system to be. It's more deadly than the normal HP system, but depending on how you clean it up, it may be less deadly than the WP/VP rules. How do critical hits affect the margin of success? A simple solution would be a open ended d20 roll (roll...

Let me see if I've got this right: Character makes a to hit roll against target AC, if the miss, no damage, if they hit exactly, it's a minor wound, if they hit by 1 or 2, it's a light wound, if they hit by 3 to 6 it's a moderate wound, if they hit by 7 to 10 it's a serious wound, if they hit by...

Yes. Size increases WP. I've seen Toughness feats which increase both (cf T20), and others which increase only VP. Again, T20 has both the damage multipler and the WP damage, making for a really deadly game. Perhaps moreso than you are interested in. In general though, no, critical hits do...

I really dislike this, as the rules assume that the character have a "real" job or two and go adventuring in their off hours. Is there a better set of rules that assume the character's job is adventuring...

I'm not really sure what you are looking for here. The real problem with this is that (in the real world), reaction to similar wounds varies widely, even in the same person. I can probably find a number of sites which describe the effects of knives or guns on flesh. How a real person reacts to...

Comments: You now have five damage tracks. For people that complain about VP/WP being too complex because of the two sets of hit points, this will drive them nuts. If I have (for example), two light wounds, two moderate wounds, and a serious wound, which order do I heal in? All at the same...

Get a copy of Modern Finances, it's real cheap and well worth the price According to this document, a $1m per year salary is about Weath Bonus of 25. So as soon as the guy makes the first payment, their weath score is now 25.

Take advantage of the normal combat rules. To hit a target requires hitting the AC, +4 to +10 curcumstance for not being able to see them, plus modifiers for Defense and so on. Character needs to make a to-hit roll, using Demolitions skill instead of BAB. To get a ball rolling (for example)...

If you want something in PDF, and don't mind converting a non-D20 source, I can not recommend enough the Arms Law for Rolemaster. The critical hits tables here are extensive, and colorful.

I worked through variations of this idea several times. If you've seen Spycraft (either version) you would know they have split their feats into several categories; Combat feats, skill feats, style feats, chase feats, and so on. The base D20 system also tries to categorize feats; fighter...

Have you seen the starship construction and combat rules in the Traveller D20 handbook? It does a lot of what you are asking for. It's not completely D20 Modern/Future, but it may give you more ideas of how to write/convert D20 rules.

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I've been working on a "Using D20 Modern for Traveller D20" project for a while now. I've been looking at replacing the D20 Future starship rules. I've not look at Warships in a while but it seem like it would be a better fit than the T20 rules. I wouldn't get to this anytime soon, but it...