An upcoming SF bonaza for d20 Modern by 3 companies!

[Voneth]

In order of publishing date:

August:
Bad Axe Games

Based upon the d20 Modern SRD, Bad Axe Games' Grim Tales is the high adventure, low magic campaign tool-kit for fantastic roleplaying in your favorite pulp genres, from the dawn of Atlantis to the apocalyptic future of a dying planet. Each chapter is presented in true tool-kit fashion, allowing the GM to pick and choose from a wide variety of campaign trappings-- Spellcasting, Horror, Technology, Vehicles, Firearms, Cyberware, and more-- and to integrate them seamlessly into the campaign, and includes multiple variants of each optional rule to allow gamemasters to fine-tune the realism and lethality of their game.

October:
Sword & Sorcery

Gamma World Player's Handbook,October 2003, Related Books d20 Modern Roleplaying Game

Gamma World Player’s Handbook pays homage to the classic editions of years past, while incorporating entirely new concepts certain to appeal to fans new and old. Gamma World books are published under license with Wizards of the Coast and are 100% compatible with d20 rules. This core sourcebook has exciting new rules for mental powers and other mutations, including how to create intelligent animal races. This edition is the first major new product line for d20 Modern, and also offers conversion rules for D&D 3.5.

2004:
WotC

Posted by Charles Ryan on the WotC boards:

I can't say much about d20 Future at this point, but I will share a couple things.

d20 Future isn't establishing a default campaign setting, like Urban Arcana. The book will instead provide info on a wide variety of science fiction setting types and styles.

Also, in response to some questions and speculation I've seen posted in other threads, d20 Future is straight science fiction, without fantasy elements. In other words, you won't find magic or dragons in d20 Future. (You may see some "supernaturalish" elements appropriate to SF style games, though, like psionics, alien tech, and precursor artifacts. . . .)

Beyond that, you'll just have to wait and see!

Looks like it's going to be a fun winter for d20 Modern.

 

[Darke]

Don't forget Odyssey Prime (Eden Studios), Menace Manual (WotC) and Modern Spellcraft (Mythic Dreams).

das Darke

 

[johnnype]

That's the second time I've seen that quote by charles Ryan about D20 Future can anyone provide a link to that thread? I can't find it anywhere.

Thanks.

 

[Dismas]

That's the second time I've seen that quote by charles Ryan about D20 Future can anyone provide a link to that thread? I can't find it anywhere.

Thanks.

Here you are:

http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47842

 

[Vigilance]

There's also an upcoming setting book, called Prometheus Rising, for Blood and Space (which I wrote).

30+ pages, free PDF.

So watch for that too, should be out in less than a month

Chuck

 

[Kenpo Wolf]

I'm eagerly looking forward to the Gamma World book. As for the Future book, I don't really care for it as things stand now. WOTC will not support it like they will not support Modern. I would like to see WOTC put out campaign books for Shadow Chasers and PSI before tackling another core book, which is highly doubtful

 

[Voneth]

Don't forget that the 3ed party community has shown more support for similar product, such as psionics. Heck, Sword and Sorcery does have the option of including psionics - with a back story- in their Scarred Lands game.

 

[Ranger REG]

I'm eagerly looking forward to the Gamma World book. As for the Future book, I don't really care for it as things stand now. WOTC will not support it like they will not support Modern. I would like to see WOTC put out campaign books for Shadow Chasers and PSI before tackling another core book, which is highly doubtful

Heh. Don't mistake their slow output of d20 Modern products as a lack of support. They're still gauging the market. Otherwise, they're going to fall back into the same habit as TSR.

Forgive me for trampling on the SF Bonanza, but one should not exclude other "made for d20 Modern" product out there, from Ultramodern Firearms d20 to Dark Inheritance. Other upcoming products includes Somalia: d20 and Colombia: d20 (for military genre), Blood and Fist (modern martial arts), Blood and Relic (modern mystics), Modern Player's Companion (third-party add-on rules supplement; now available in two PDF volumes or soon-to-be in-print), etc.

 

[Voneth]

Some info on Bad Axe forum about Grim Tales.

Q: by Voneth
Just curious, are there going to be mutant powers as well?

A: We call them "Paranormal Adepts," but yes.

Q:And how does the Spellcraft system look? Will it be something that can be used for psionics as well?

A: The Magic system is closest in feel to Cthulhu d20, or Midnight. Casting spells is something you do out of desperation, not to flavor your food with cantrips every morning.

I haven't addressed psionics yet and may only do so as a free PDF, after the 3.5 revision. However, as psionics is just another name for magic, and this is a low magic supplement, psionics isn't a very good fit. Most likely there will be room for them under Paranormal Adepts, as well-- just a few key innate abilities, but nothing approaching the scope of "magic on demand" that a power point system enables.

 

[buzz]

I'm eagerly looking forward to the Gamma World book.

Lordy, me too.

As for the Future book, I don't really care for it as things stand now.

Maybe reserve judgement until it actually gets published... unless you're just not a big SF fan.

WOTC will not support it like they will not support Modern. I would like to see WOTC put out campaign books for Shadow Chasers and PSI before tackling another core book, which is highly doubtful

WotC has been doing a fine job of supporting d20M. We've got a campaign book, an upcoming "monster" book, d20F (which is not a "core" book, but a d20M supplement)... and let's not forget the wealth of support material they've put on the Web (such as the excellent Bullet Points articles), and the number of d20M minigames that have appeared in Polyhedron.

Sure, it pales in comparison to their support of D&D... but pretty much every other RPG on earth does. If we were talking about any other company, it wouldn't be an issue. The real issue is that 3rd-party support for d20M has been fairly minimal. Things seem to be ramping up now, though.

And, for the record, I could do without campaign books for SC and AoPsi. The former got a full treatment in Polyhedron, while the latter simply isn't all that interesting to me. d20F, otoh, is something I've been waiting for since before I knew it existed.