Tom Cashel
First Post
Yes!
Thank you.
Thank you.
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NOW LIVE! Into the Woods--new character species, eerie monsters, and haunting villains to populate the woodlands of your D&D games.
d20 Future -- the sample settings revealed!
- Thread starter JPL
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Buddha the DM
Explorer
Here's more teasers for you all.
New Alien Races (read non-robotic) are:
Aleerin
Dralasite
Fraal
Sesheyan
T'sa
Vrusk
Weren
Yazirian
The new AdC's in the book are:
Ambassador
Dogfighter
Dreadnought
Engineer
Explorer
Field Officer
Helix Warrior
Space Monkey
Swindler
Technosavant
Tracer
Xenophile
Bughunter (Bughunters Campaign Model)
Dimension Ranger (Dimension X Campaign Model)
Purifier (Dark Heart of Space Campaign Model)
Concord Administrator (Star*Drive Campaign Model)
Star Law Officer (Star Law Campaign Model)
Nuclear Nomad (Wasteland Campaign Model)
Mecha Jockey
New Alien Races (read non-robotic) are:
Aleerin
Dralasite
Fraal
Sesheyan
T'sa
Vrusk
Weren
Yazirian
The new AdC's in the book are:
Ambassador
Dogfighter
Dreadnought
Engineer
Explorer
Field Officer
Helix Warrior
Space Monkey
Swindler
Technosavant
Tracer
Xenophile
Bughunter (Bughunters Campaign Model)
Dimension Ranger (Dimension X Campaign Model)
Purifier (Dark Heart of Space Campaign Model)
Concord Administrator (Star*Drive Campaign Model)
Star Law Officer (Star Law Campaign Model)
Nuclear Nomad (Wasteland Campaign Model)
Mecha Jockey
thol
Explorer
Tom Cashel said:
Anytime.
I always considered Star Frontiers to be the Space D&D Basic Set circa 1982, and I think TSR did too. It told you how to create characters and equip them, but didn't tell you much about a lot of things you needed to play worked. It was still fun though, and you played it like you played D&D when you were 12: fast and furious. When the rules had no idea how to cover space travel, you made it up.
Then they came out with Knight Hawks, which had the basis of an actual setting, and some funky rules to cover some of the stuff the Basic/Expanded rulebooks left out. Did anyone really try to figure out the spaceship battle rules?
Star Frontiers, in my eyes, was the ultimate sci-fi setting for making you roleplay by the seat of your pants, and I miss that in this day and age of the d20 video game play. Anything could and would happen in that game, and it was FUN.
JimAde
First Post
Star Frontiers does geometry!
Star Frontiers also taught me a great technique for calculating the hypotenuse of a right triangle without math: Add half the shorter leg to the longer leg. It's almost never actually right, but it's almost always close enough!
I use this all the time in games and it's surprisingly serviceable.
Star Frontiers also taught me a great technique for calculating the hypotenuse of a right triangle without math: Add half the shorter leg to the longer leg. It's almost never actually right, but it's almost always close enough!
I use this all the time in games and it's surprisingly serviceable.
trancejeremy
Adventurer
I thought Knight Hawks made sense.
Yeah, it used "cinematic" space rules, that is, ships could turn in space like a car or plane, but to a certain extent, pretty much every Science Fiction game or movie does that. Even in B5, it seemed like the Earth fighters obeyed the laws of physics, but the Minbarri stuff didn't. But the actual acceleration rules seemed in line with physics.
Were the Dralasites only 1 cell? I remember the picture of them had internal organs and vessals and such...
Yeah, it used "cinematic" space rules, that is, ships could turn in space like a car or plane, but to a certain extent, pretty much every Science Fiction game or movie does that. Even in B5, it seemed like the Earth fighters obeyed the laws of physics, but the Minbarri stuff didn't. But the actual acceleration rules seemed in line with physics.
Were the Dralasites only 1 cell? I remember the picture of them had internal organs and vessals and such...
Kobold Avenger
Legend
Is from the Dark Heart of Space campaign something that roughly resembles Warhammer 40K or Faded Suns? With some hostile inhuman force threatening a theocratic imperialistic humanity?
Ralts Bloodthorne
First Post
HellHound said:
About 8 pages, and the worst implementation you can imagine. The cybernetics are fairly skeletal, and for the most part, unispired.
You're much better porting over your old Cyberpunk and Shadowrun stuff.
I definately was not impressed, but I guess I should be thankful that they even managed to fit it in the book, with the lack of space.
Dralasites do indeed have -and always had - internal organs; they are multicellular organisms, not single-celled. But inside their skin, their internal organs were suspended in a generally viscous-fluid-like area.
As for breathing, I think their skin was a bit more active at extracting oxygen than simply using passive osmosis.
Their structure seemed monocellular because of the way their various vital organs sort of "floated around" inside them, but in fact their outer skin moved and changed shape due to a nework of muscles in and just underneath the skin, and the near-syrup consistency of their gel-like interior flesh.
The illustration of hte Dralasite on WOTC's website seems to indicate that their days of translucency have gone the way of the dodo, so instead of seeming like a giant amoeba, they should just be the amorphous blobs they always were, IMO at least. ^_^
What's funny is ... d20 Future's resurrection (? exhumation ?) of Star Frontiers is about 60% of the reason I just bought the d20 Modern rules last week. ^_^ Liking the base class / advanced class mechanic is most of the remaining 40%.
As for breathing, I think their skin was a bit more active at extracting oxygen than simply using passive osmosis.
Their structure seemed monocellular because of the way their various vital organs sort of "floated around" inside them, but in fact their outer skin moved and changed shape due to a nework of muscles in and just underneath the skin, and the near-syrup consistency of their gel-like interior flesh.
The illustration of hte Dralasite on WOTC's website seems to indicate that their days of translucency have gone the way of the dodo, so instead of seeming like a giant amoeba, they should just be the amorphous blobs they always were, IMO at least. ^_^
What's funny is ... d20 Future's resurrection (? exhumation ?) of Star Frontiers is about 60% of the reason I just bought the d20 Modern rules last week. ^_^ Liking the base class / advanced class mechanic is most of the remaining 40%.
Olive
Explorer
Ok...
Hey Buddha, are there new enemies in her, like monsters etc? How longare the camaign setting write ups?
How long is the sace ship section, and specifically what are the space comabt rules like?
And thanks for the write up about the Dark Heart of Space thing over at the WotC boards... any chance of a bit more?
Hey Buddha, are there new enemies in her, like monsters etc? How longare the camaign setting write ups?
How long is the sace ship section, and specifically what are the space comabt rules like?
And thanks for the write up about the Dark Heart of Space thing over at the WotC boards... any chance of a bit more?
clockworkjoe
First Post
is any of d20 future OGL?
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