D20 Future Q&A With Rodney "Moridin" Thompson and JD Wiker!!

[kingpaul]

Planetary adaptation

Forgive me if this has come up before...I couldn't find it if it has.

This feat can be taken more than once at 1st level. While it doesn't explicitly state that some adaptations are incompatible, common sense would say that they are. Opposites, IMO, are:

Barren and Water
Cold and Hot
Dark and Hot (I'm assuming the heat is caused by a blazing sun)
High-G and Low-G

Is there an official ruling on this? Are my assumptions correct? Thank you for your time.

 

[Chaldfont]

Rules for "being spaced"

Does D20 Future have rules for being chucked out of an airlock without a space suit?

Hehe, this is my gold-standard for scifi rpgs. So few of them have rules for this.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Does D20 Future have rules for being chucked out of an airlock without a space suit?

Hehe, this is my gold-standard for scifi rpgs. So few of them have rules for this.

Absolutely!

Failing to hold your breath results in unconsciousness, followed by dropping to -1 hit points the next round, then -10 hp the round after.

If you hold your breath, you suffer Constitution damage as your lungs are damage. Don't hold your breath in a vacuum. (You're messed up either way.)

Making matters worse, if you hold your breath anyway, after three rounds you must make a Con check (DC 20) or suffer "the bends" (stunned... duration ends when you're put into a normal pressure for some time).

There are also rules for being blown out of a hole in the ship. It's nasty when the rip is the same size as you are; you take damage from being squeezed through the fragmented metal, and then you're ... outside.

 

[The_Universe]

Forgive me if this has come up before...I couldn't find it if it has.

This feat can be taken more than once at 1st level. While it doesn't explicitly state that some adaptations are incompatible, common sense would say that they are. Opposites, IMO, are:

Barren and Water
Cold and Hot
Dark and Hot (I'm assuming the heat is caused by a blazing sun)
High-G and Low-G

Is there an official ruling on this? Are my assumptions correct? Thank you for your time.

I would imagine Dark and Hot could be compatible - either because of a very geologically active world, or perhaps a colony burrowed deep beneath a planet's crust, or something...not every planet has to be settled above ground, after all...

 

[Pbartender]

Any prognosis as to when the MSRD will be updated with the D20 Future rules?

I know, for me at least, that the MSRD was instrumental in me deciding to buy the D20 Modern book.

 

[Chaldfont]

Absolutely!

Failing to hold your breath results in unconsciousness, followed by dropping to -1 hit points the next round, then -10 hp the round after.

If you hold your breath, you suffer Constitution damage as your lungs are damage. Don't hold your breath in a vacuum. (You're messed up either way.)

Making matters worse, if you hold your breath anyway, after three rounds you must make a Con check (DC 20) or suffer "the bends" (stunned... duration ends when you're put into a normal pressure for some time).

There are also rules for being blown out of a hole in the ship. It's nasty when the rip is the same size as you are; you take damage from being squeezed through the fragmented metal, and then you're ... outside.

Nice. Simpler and more lethal than the rules in Dragonstar, IIRC. I can't wait to space a PC. Have you seen the Cowboy Bebop episode where Spike goes EVA without a space suit?

 

[Davelozzi]

Any prognosis as to when the MSRD will be updated with the D20 Future rules?

I know, for me at least, that the MSRD was instrumental in me deciding to buy the D20 Modern book.

I heard somewhere (probably earlier in this thread) that WotC planned to have it added to the SRD shortly after release, but "no promises" on a specific date. So hopefully, any day now, if not probably within a month or so.

 

[Knight Otu]

I've come across this post from Andy Smith:

I was going to hold off until I had an actual release date, but since you're all anxious I thought I'd drop in and let you know that I've finished the Future SRD. As soon as I find out when it'll be online I'll let you know.

The following are NOT going to be released as Open Content:
Everything in the Campaigns chapter
All aliens from the Xenobiology chapter

 

[Gomez]

I have a question.

Looking over the Everybody's Human section on page 15. It states that the advanced classes have the human extra skill points and the extra feat (for being human) built into them. I just don't understand this. How can a advanced class have the human extra feat at first level "built" into it?

 

[Olive]

Thanks for the Andy smith quote KO. No surprises there...