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Star*Drive is my own preoccupation, and I've gone to some considerable effort to make it playable by d20 Future rules. You can find some materials useful to this end at the link in my .sig, which should take some of the work out of it for you if you should decide to go that way. Dawning Star is...

I'm currently running a party through a d20 conversion of Planet of Darkness, an old Alternity module.

I think if you're going to be joining skills, running might go with swimming. I've pretty much decided that I'm going to lump Tumble and Balance into Acrobatics, and Climb and Jump into Athletics, but that leaves Swim as the odd one out. With a Running skill, however, it could be joined with...

Play System Shock 2. That ought to give you ideas. It's got the rogue AI, cybernetic zombies, psionic monkeys, mutated beasts. If you can't get ahold of a copy, you can simulate the experience. Put one hand on your keyboard and the other on your mouse. Now start crapping your pants. If...

Those 12-to-Midnight horror adventures look like they'd adapt well to science fiction (except where there's just a ghost, I believe), but since they also come in Savage Worlds versions, I thought I'd probably want to give the guy around here running Deadlands Reloaded first crack at them. So, I...

The Horatio Hornblower comparison is apt, of course, but I'm given to understand that Harrington's story is more directly a science-fiction retelling of the career of Admiral Nelson, right down to losing an eye at some point. Hmmm... come to think of it, I do in fact have the Cosmic Fury for...

I'm open for suggestions. There have been supplemental martial arts rules put out for d20, but I've never looked into them.

One thing that came up when I was reading for my reply on the Honorverse d20 thread was that the Royal Navy liked to use flechette guns because they were far less likely to puncture the hull.

My own version can be found at the link at my .sig. Follow the link that says "d20 Wealth Tracker." You can get to it directly here: http://www.ashmead.net/~angel/Star*Forge/d20WealthTracker-v1.03.zip

I've only read the first book, but based on the efforts others have already put into cataloging the elements that make up the Honorverse, here's at least a preliminary outline of what a conversion would entail: I. Starships * Create d20-friendly rules for the FTL concept * Convert starship...

Although I don't have a firm answer as to how to deliver a certain 'hardness' to sci-fi, I have been mulling it over for some time. But what I think is probably premium is to have both the technical and the concrete available to talk about. The technical is the science or technology of how the...

You could put them in The Far Reach or the Orion Frontier. But it would be interesting to know if they'll take sides when the war with the other Externals comes.

If you take the Vrusk as Externals in Star*Drive, how do they recon with the I'kri? Or the Medurr for that matter?

I am now dizzy with ideas for a module.

There are stories premised on various ways of getting around the light barrier. At best they end up using technobabble to avoid giving the technology an 'indistinguishable from magic' feel. We bite the bullet and accept the premise for the sake of the story, but we know that it's strictly...

I hadn't, but I could. Looking over it, some of these races do have features I haven't built into the sheet yet, like racial DR or more than one extra racial language, but those shouldn't be hard to make features of the race editor page once I have time to really work on it. The time I have...

There is also the Cykotek template from New Heroic Aliens

Having done a similar spredsheet (albiet not as easy to use) I would mention that your players might find it useful to have the sheet calculate shopping time, license fees, the effect of buying the item on the black market, ect. A bunch of factors can affect these, and it's a headache to figure...

If you're interested in running a Star*Drive game in d20, I have a number of resources you might find handy, including converted weapons and armor as well as a chargen spreadsheet. Check the link in my .sig below. I removed support for the Star Frontiers races a while back, because I needed...

Both settings, which are the only ones out there made specifically for d20 Future, are 'hard' at least in the sense of not involving FTL, which is a fun thing to have as part of your science-fiction game, but is unrealistic. Dawning Star has some pre-cursor "indistinguishable from magic" stuff...