Anime Technothriller in d20?

[Chrysalis]

Greets,

I was wondering if anyone has tried to run a hard-biting Appleseed or Ghost in the Shell type of game with d20?

If they have, could they tell us how they did?

I was thinking on running a Ghost in the Shell style of Pbp, and getting aid is a real help.

-Chrysalis

 

[Ymdar]

Yep I've been toying with the idea. Check it out over here: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=128598
Too bad I didn't have the time to finish it.

 

[GuardianLurker]

This is what BESM d20 (Big Eyes, Small Mouth), is all about. Anime using a d20 system.

 

[JEL]

This is what BESM d20 (Big Eyes, Small Mouth), is all about. Anime using a d20 system.

Eh. I think D20 Modern or Spycraft 2.0 would do a much better job of handling the shows he mentions. They're much more focused towards that sort of genre.

 

[Chrysalis]

What about using Silhouette instead? Although I will then have to create a new and improved cybernetics and hacking rule sets.

-Chrysalis

 

[Mark Causey]

One of my players stated that he was interested in running the exact same thing.

He'll be using BESM d20 revised.

 

[Denaes]

BESM d20 & Spycraft 2.0 should both be capable of running these technothrillers.

 

[King of Old School]

Spycraft 2.0 with the d20 Mecha Compendium (DP9) would be my choice, although Silhouette would also work well.

KoOS

 

[Chrysalis]

One of things I will be doing away with is money. As I expect players to be cyborgs, and considering bodies like Motoko's (she has been in a shell for most of her life) or Batou (during the last war had most of his body replaced with prosthetics), not to mention the rest of the technology, PCs are not going to be hoarding their pennies to go buy a new German Think Tank or a cyborg body that costs as much as an F-16.

Instead I am going to use the concept of a time factor. A character already has standard equipment, if a character loses a weapon - no one is going to cry over it. You want a nuclear weapon, no problem. Its just going to take forever if you go through normal channels, so you start pulling in markers...

The causality of pulling in markers will come back to haunt you though, since you are going outside normal channels, usually upsetting the powers that be. Remember if you pull in your last marker, no one is going to hold your hand when your enemies start using their connections on getting you killed. And the DM really decides what markers are actually valid in what kind of situation.

Phoning up the police chief when the anti-terror squad is waiting behind the door is past the life use of the marker, since your action has implicated him in illegal activities. The Police Chief will either hang up or will make sure that he can keep his job, including removing the offending evidence, you.

-Chrysalis