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Armied with True 20, I am now considering looking at Eberron. It seems like it would be a simple conversion. Does anyone have any thoughts on the matter? True 20 is easy to plug into any D20/OGL setting that does not have setting specifics focussed on or contained in classes or magic, as True...

True 20 does away with the Favoured Skill distinction. I think in practice most Known Skills were also Favoured and the multi-roling rules were unnecessarily complex as a result. Now all skills are just 3 + level. So background "favoured skills" don't work. As mentioned, True 20 is actually set...

In BR, each background granted bonuses and abilities as normal, included Favoured Feats (non-general feats accessible to that background) and Favoured Skills (no longer relevant in True 20). As a result of the changes this method is not as useful as the normal d20 one. In fact True 20 can use...

GR has just announced a True 20 setting search in which the winning settings will be added to the back of the True 20 print version, as well as a royalty free license to use True 20 for that setting. So there will be a print version but it is someway off. BR uses the True 20 system. However...

I expected there to be very little different but there are a few changes and "clean ups". There is not BR setting material. It is only 96 pages long. I listed a bunch of the bigger ones (I think they are pretty big) in my previous thread, so I won't repeat them. Overall, the system is even...

Wow! True 20 is impressive. It is even slicker and streamlined than BR with many "bumps" removed. This is the first truly generic lite d20 system (sorry guys BESM d20 doesn't count). Some highlights: - Attack and Defence bonus are now combined into a single Combat bonus that applies to attack...

And it is now released on RPGnow see: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=4967

It seems to be pretty good so far. Low HP increases, high Defence progression (close to BAB) and Armour as Damage Reduction. The book is 496 pages large with 100 pages devoted to rules and 400 to setting. It will also be OGL so no need for PHB etc.

The 3 books I most want to see: - Ultimate Starships - Rise of the Empire Sourcebook - Mid Rim Sourcebook

Some basic stuff is http://www.white-wolf.com/engelweb/ehtml/. The game's open secret is also very very cool and sells the game to most people. However, I do caution that the d20 ruleset conversion is one of the worst available. True 20 as seen in Blue Rose would be a simple and effective fix IMO.

It is set a few hundreds year in the future and is post-apocalyptic. However, rather than Gamma World, the world has regressed into a medieval state. The Church is pretty much all powerful as Angels have returned. The Angels are the few that are capable of fighting against the Dreamseed...

I bought it, loved the setting and hated the rules and sold it. Unfortuantely, Blue Rose would be an almost perfect rule set for it with its open classes and Arcana system. All you would need to do is change the different types of Angels into Backgrounds. Gah! It would be so easy :(

Sort of in that the mechanics are similar. However, I always viewed VP in SW to be dramatic immunity than "Morale". The mechanics are the same but the narrative spin is different. It may sound petty but I think have a clean understanding of mechanics can make the narration all that much better.

I agree with the addition that, as you loose all your HP if you fail Fort check on the MDT, the idea would be the hit lands, wounds and scares the crap out of the victim. Agree. However, I think this is factored to an extent into D&D weapon damage. For example, being hit by a gun is not much...

I am currently planning a military style campaign in Iron Kingdoms using the variants from Black Company. Generally, I have a number of issues with D&D combat mechanics. In particular: 1. HP escalation being unrealistic, and 2. Attack Progression increasing much higher than AC making high level...

If you have the PHB, you will have everything you need, including a list of spells. You don't need d20 Modern for GT.

Cheers for that. That doesn't sound too hard at all :).

The Buffy RPG is an excellent system and very friendly to beginning RPGers. The Serenity RPG (based on Firefly by Joss Whedon) may be suitable when it is released in August this year. As for straight Sci Fi RPGs, I recommend going beyond d20. Decipher's Star Trek is decent. Jovian Chronicles is...

Cheers. That does help alot, especially for the standard classes like Gun Mage and Arcane Mechanik. How does a Wizard get Magic Aptitude? Is it a feat with prerequisites or a class ability? For prestige classes, boiling the problem down to its most simple, is there any way to say that some...

Yep. That is the book I am talking about. I am planning to use the Black Company d20 book by Green Ronin as the base rule set for my Iron Kingdoms game. There are a number of classes in IK that use magic. From what I hear, despite BC d20 using a different magic system, it may be possible to...