D20 Future: excuse me while I drool

[Ranger REG]

I just really didn't care for D20 Modern's style. I was hoping for a different style in D20 Future. That's all.

And what art style would you want? Clean like Star Trek or dark like Alien?

 

[slingbld]

Dark Like Alien BABY!!

I've always hated how Star Trek presents this sterile view of the future. Alien, Babylon 5, even Battlestar Galactica are more what I can envision what the far future would look like. Just like today, once the technology gets far enough along, you'll have old, dirty ships & messy crews.

It'll probably be niether, it will most likely stick with the current D20M theme, which I like perfectly well too

 

[zenld]

I've read it. It's a reasonable effort, but it would be immensely improved by using d20 Modern instead...with incantation magic.

I agree completely. If I were ever interested in running something like this thats how I would handle it.

zen

 

[baileyrecords]

Have you guys seen the cover art for D20 Future yet? It's up on amazon.com. Man, I'm already drooling. What do we know about it other than the blurb on Amazon?

I'm definitely stoked for this new set of rules. Love Moridin and has writing! Looking forward to combining all the d20 Modern with CyberNet and now Future - and just having one heck of a fun time geekin' out in the 24th Century!

- Stratos

 

[qstor]

With 224 pages how can they have enough starships I hate designing my own ships.

Mike

 

[Ranger REG]

Dark Like Alien BABY!!

I've always hated how Star Trek presents this sterile view of the future. Alien, Babylon 5, even Battlestar Galactica are more what I can envision what the far future would look like. Just like today, once the technology gets far enough along, you'll have old, dirty ships & messy crews.

Oh, well. You're going to have to get used to me, because I do like the "sterile" view of Star Trek, even though I'm a Fan of All Things Klingon (including female warriors who likes it rough).

It'll probably be niether, it will most likely stick with the current D20M theme, which I like perfectly well too

As long it is generic and not favoring any one futuristic theme, but that's where campaign models and individual games step in.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Sort of OT here. I could never really bring myself to like Star Trek, my Dad likes it. But everytime I see him watching it 99% of the time it is just a bunch of people standing in a room in a spaceship talking to each other. :\

 

[DarkSoldier]

On the subject of a Victorian-era d20 game, Sword & Sorcery Studios recently picked up the license to do a Masque of the Red Death d20 System game. I don't recall what the estimated release date will be.

 

[Ranger REG]

Sort of OT here. I could never really bring myself to like Star Trek, my Dad likes it. But everytime I see him watching it 99% of the time it is just a bunch of people standing in a room in a spaceship talking to each other. :\

I'm sorry you feel that way. Star Trek has always been a cerebral-kind of sci-fi storytelling, particular the old types, that tries to spin a tale using our own social issues.

I don't care for the present version of Star Trek (ENTERPRISE) as it moves away from its own identity -- the cerebral approach -- to simple two-fisted adventure storytelling. Almost trying to copy Star Wars.

But what is important here is that there is a wide range of science fiction, and d20 Future should be generic and neutral enough to offer that kind of wide range for us with various taste or preference when it comes to sci-fi. If you want a dark and depressing campaign, you should be able to do that. If I want a etopian future campaign, I should be able to do that.

Plain and simple.

 

[DMScott]

However, my first pick for "d20 Past" would be a Victorian Era sourcebook. Green Ronin would be awfully good at something like this. A general sourcebook with options to add steamtech and the occult.

I'd love to see somebody get a license for S.M. Stirling's "The Peshawar Lancers", which is sort of a pseudo-Victorian setting. It's got a little steampunk, stiff-upper-lipped good guys and cannibalistic bad guys, spies and soldiers, powers that humans were not meant to meddle with, and large sections of the northern hemisphere reduced to the state of being an unexplored frontier. I think it'd be a hoot!