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

[BrooklynKnight]

IYO: What would the PL of Starwars d20 be?

For example if you wanted to transplant some d20 future into swd20, or if you wanted to play swd20 using d20f instead of swd20?

 

[RodneyThompson]

IYO: What would the PL of Starwars d20 be?

For example if you wanted to transplant some d20 future into swd20, or if you wanted to play swd20 using d20f instead of swd20?

Hard to say. Most of the weapon tech would be around PL 7, but some of the starships tech would be PL8 or PL9. It's kind of a mix-and-match thing. Fortunately, the PLs are there just as guidelines and aren't what you'd call hard-and-fast rules.

 

[RodneyThompson]

Great book! Plenty of good material here to destroy perfectly good worlds with.

Just one question: where's the sathar?

Oops, looks like I missed this one. Check the d20 Games forum, someone's working on a stat block already.

 

[Dacileva]

Interesting. But isn't 1000 AU MUCH longer than the distance into and out of any gravity well? I could be wrong, but isn't a thousand AU 1000 x the distance between the sun and the earth?

Anyway, Moridin's answer is satisfactory for the moment, but if errata ever comes, you might want to alter that descritpion a bit.

1 AU = the average distance between the sun and the earth. And by "gravity well", I meant "anywhere within a single star's, or star system's, gravitic influence". Shorthand, and potentially confusable, so I should have clarified.

Anyway, as I understand it, in Star*Drive, mass transceivers work (somehow) using the same reason that gravity within a single gravity field, no matter how large, appears to be able to propagate FTL.

 

[Vigilance]

Question about the Plus Feats-

Do you need a level of the class in question to take one of these?

In other words, could a Strong Hero 3 take Fast Plus with his 3rd level feat?

The lack or prerequisites seems to suggest that he could.

Chuck

 

[RodneyThompson]

Question about the Plus Feats-

Do you need a level of the class in question to take one of these?

In other words, could a Strong Hero 3 take Fast Plus with his 3rd level feat?

The lack or prerequisites seems to suggest that he could.

Chuck

It does seem that way at first, but carefully read the list of bonus talents you get to choose from: they're all second-tier talents. Since you have to meet all the prerequisites for the talents you choose as a result of taking this feat, you've got to have the first-tier talents in the first place. So, in order to actually get the benefit of this feat, you've got to have at least 3 levels in the base class for the appropriate feat.

 

[JDWiker]

May I Be of Assistance?

I just discovered this thread, and Rodney pointed out that some of the questions come from the parts of the book that I worked on. So if you've got questions about vehicles, starships, mecha, traveler science, robotics, or cybernetics, I'll do my best to help out. (Just bear in mind that pretty much all of the starships chapter was rewritten after I turned it over.)

 

[Olive]

(Just bear in mind that pretty much all of the starships chapter was rewritten after I turned it over.)

Given that this seems to be one of the major bones of contention about the book I guess the questions are as follows:

1) Why?
2) By whom?
3) What did the original look like?
4) Are there plans to release the original in sme form?
5) Why do ships have non-location based hits? Would it have been worth bucking the trend and making ships have locations so that crits could have more effect/the sstem would modle sci-fi fiction/film by having the engines damaged etc?

 

[Buddha the DM]

Is there any chance that we will get to see a starship design guide where we'll get to build a ship from scratch? If so, will it contain a walkthrough and a sample vessel to illustrate the process?

 

[RodneyThompson]

Is there any chance that we will get to see a starship design guide where we'll get to build a ship from scratch? If so, will it contain a walkthrough and a sample vessel to illustrate the process?

I'll put it on my "to-do" list, with a mutation point-to-ECL guideline chart that I promised earlier. I may have to wait on the MSRD update to make it net-legal, though...