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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scourger" data-source="post: 1940778" data-attributes="member: 12328">cross-genre gamingI know exactly what you mean.  I love cross-genre games.  The d20 system should lend itself to it nicely, but it took me four years to figure out how to do it.  The result is that I'm running the Shackled City adventure path from Dungeon magazine with characters from other games as outsiders.  It could work for you with the World's Largest Dungeon, too.  Here's how it came about.I love D&D.  I just get bored & tired of it.  Fortunately, I love the d20 system and other d20 games, too.  Recently, I found myself with a relative shortage of players.  I thought I would have 2 regulars and 1 intermittent player.  Not knowing how to run a standard game with so few players, 1 player suggested they could run 2 characters each.  I thought this a great idea, especially when I realized that I could add in classes from other sources.  So I offered 1 of 2 games.  The first was Judge Dredd--straight up from the core book in a continuatiuon of the modules they already started.  The other was the Shackled City with each player runnign two characters from two tiers.  The first tier allowed the players to select a character from one of three sources: a human street or psi judge from the Judge Dredd 20 game; a human jedi consular or guardian from the Star Wars Revised Core Rulebook; or a mutant human from Omega World published in the Polyhedron Side of Dungeon # 94.  The second tier characters could be: any first tier type; an aasimar paladin; or any standard PHB race & class combo.  They had to be good guys and knew what the game entailed.  You know from the first paragraph what they chose.The basic game is D&D 3.5.  Mechanics from the other games are converted to fit the basic d20 rules.  For us, that means AC, HP, etc.  Conversion has been more an art and less a science, but it works.  The judges shoot their guns just like in JDd20.  The jedi swing their light sabers just like in the SW-R RPG.  The mutants use their mutations and defects just like in OW.  We've played for 3 months, and 6 of 10 PCs are KIA (I started putting stickers with a skull, date, PC name and campaign on my DM screen for each defeated PC--just like an old fighter plane!).  This week sees 4 replacements that they rolled as soon as the others died, which I take as a good sign.  I think they've figured out that they really need a cleric and a wizard.  But, there's plenty of fighting power in the party.  Obviously, they haven't overmatched the dungeon at all despite having powerfule abilities and equipment.  I think an option like this could work for you while running The World's Largest Dungeon, too.  I don't have that module, though.  My advice is to just take the stuff you like from other games and bring it over.  Don't worry overmuch about how the rules work unless and until you need to do so.  It should be very easy to drop in classes and equipment from DragonStar (I like DragonStar, too; but my players pretty much rejected it when I did a Rifts conversion with it).  I would be happy to share my conversion particulars for these three sources as they have evolved if it would be helpful to you.</blockquote>

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