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Someone mentioned (either here on RPGnet) that Far Future Enterprises were in negotiations with Mongoose as to the publication of Traveller. I haven't been able to substantiate that but it seems plausible and the nixing of Avenger Enterprises' BRP Traveller (presumably based on OGL RuneQuest)...

A generic version of HeroQuest will be published later in the year. This will replace the previously announced QuestWorld. It will be authored by Robin Laws, the original designer of the Hero Wars/HeroQuest system. However, the original authors of QuestWorld are to publish their work in a...

Me neither. It always looks like fantasy painted by a Mills & Boon cover artist to me. Mind, a lot of US fantasy cover art looks similar. Differing tastes, I guess.

Same here. I was initially interested but what I've seen has dulled my enthusiasm.

I came to BRP (Basic Role-Playing, a percentile based game engine derived from RuneQuest which was used in Chaosium's RPGs) via Call of Cthulhu and Stormbringer. I bought the Games Workshop version of RuneQuest III but I felt it was overly complex compared to Stormbringer (with its fatigue...

True20 attempts to be a rules-light generic implementation of d20 with three classes: warrior, adept (magic user), expert; and most class abilities from D&D rendered as feats. It also has a skills 'n' feats magic system similar to the Force in the first two editions of Star Wars d20. It isn't...

You should try and get a hold of Grim Tales which already turned most of the class abilities of the D&D classes into talent trees. Although it uses the d20 Modern base classes the talent trees could easily be ported into SWSE.

Is the print copy of CN only available in the US? I tried all the good mail order companies in the UK and they aren't stocking it. Maybe the price put them off ordering copies (which would be about £30 in the UK). Jim.

Gamma World d20 suffered from a bad lack of focus. The designers didn't know whether they wanted to do a Fallout style game, an update of the original, or a generic toolkit for Post-Apocalyptic gaming. To my mind, if you want something similar to Fallout, you're best off with Darwin's World 2...

The only one I know of for definite is SpirosBlaak from Misfit Studios/Green Ronin. Jim.

I really like the Psychic's Handbook from Green Ronin which is a great feats 'n' skills psionic system for d20 fantasy and modern. WotC's Expanded Psionics Handbook is also excellent but is a spell slots system. For non-d20 you could take a look at Trinity, a psi-fi RPG from White Wolf. The d20...

Scanning eBay I see a lot of 3.0 D&D and d20 products going cheap. So I'm asking what products are worth picking up? What are the "classiccs" of 3.0? Cheers, Jim.

Sounds like it will be a dry run for D&D4e. I also note that it's 288 pages compared to RCR's 384. Jim.

Sounds fair enough. It deviates from the SRD somewhat but then it does seem better organised than the d20M technical skills (many of which are holdovers from D&D). Not sure about Gunnery. Surely gunnery attacks are still dictated by Base Attack Bonus rather than a skill. I can see a Gunner...

If you're going for a wholesale revision of the d20 skills list then I'd suggest taking a look at Spycraft which reduces the number of skills but adds lots more skill uses as well as 'skill focuses' which are a lot like Traveller cascade skills. In the vanilla d20 System skill specialities seem...

There's also James Maliszewski's Fourth Millennium Campaign Model from Ronin Arts

There was the Greyhawk 2000 article in Dragon #277.

SW:R is a d20M product, Spellslinger is for D&D 3.5 and Deadlands d20 was a 3.0 product. As far as I'm aware there are some minor changes required between 3.5 stat blocks and d20M stat blocks. D&D classes should convert to d20M Base/Advanced classes relatively easy. e.g. Ranger to Tough/Scout...

If you want D&D Wild West I suggest Spellslinger which is exactly that. It's based on the SRD rather than the Modern SRD. However, conversion to Modern should be pretty easy. Otherwise, I'd suggest Sidewinder Recoiled which is the best plain Wild West d20 treatment and is based on d20 Modern...

Really like what I've read so far of the first two books. I'll be picking up the campaign guide. My only note is why cold as one of the elements that a Kenza can specialize in? It doesn't seem particularly oriental being neither one of the 5 Chinese elements: Water, Air, Fire, Metal, Wood (as...