d20 Future -- the sample settings revealed!

[The_Universe]

I've started a Q&A thread for the book here: http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1694138#post1694138 .

No reason to abandon this thread, but I thought I'd open it up to more general questions, as well.

I frickin' love this book.

 

[ragboy]

I just want to say that the three times I ran Star Frontiers were three of the best games I ever ran. I loved that stupid game.

You know you can get it all free right here: http://www.starfrontiers.com. These guys got some kind of back-door deal with TSR as they were going down the drain and before WoTC bought them. WoTC apparently continued the deal and everything's been kind of under the radar since the Hasbro Overlords took over. I'm wondering if d20 Future will change that.

Anyway, they have almost all of the modules and all of the sourcebooks.

And I don't even like space opera. All that singing...

That might be an interesting torture device for unsuspecting players. Tell them you're going to play a space opera scenario and then make them sing all their lines. hmmmm.

 

[Cyberhawk]

Bughunters!

Bughunters is coming back?? Sweeeeeeeet...

I used to have a blast running that when it first came out. Not a terribly deep game but it did what it set out to do (which is set up Marines vs. strange and horrible aliens fights each week).

I wonder if it will get any additional support books. (probably based on how the corebook sells I imagine...)

 

[Buddha the DM]

Afraid there isn't much in the way of new monsters. I've seen 1 so far outside of the Xenobioloby chapter (it houses the races that I listed). The one that I have seen is called the Klick, although the art reminds me of the B5 Shadows, their one major ability is that people feel weakened and tired near them.

Campaign Options Page Count (rough count, not necessarily full pages):
Bughunters - 3 pages
Dimension X - 3 pages
Dark Heart - 4 pages
Genetech - 2 pages
Mecha Crusade - 3 pages
Star*Drive - 4 pages
Star Law - 5 pages
Wasteland - 3 pages

 

[DanMcS]

Afraid there isn't much in the way of new monsters. I've seen 1 so far outside of the Xenobioloby chapter (it houses the races that I listed). The one that I have seen is called the Klick, although the art reminds me of the B5 Shadows, their one major ability is that people feel weakened and tired near them.

Klicks are big bug monsters from Stardrive, which would probably work well in a bughunters game too. Alien invaders who travel through space even though they don't appear to possess FTL tech, they invaded the verge (a colony area of the galaxy) while the major powers were busy fighting each other, hundreds of light years away and not paying attention. I love Stardrive.

 

[atra2]

Buddha: Glad to see Star Frontiers got some respect. At 5 pages, it has more pages than any other single setting.

The only problem is finding a group that wants to do anything d20 besides 3.5 D&D. (And I'm guilty there too, currently enjoying an FR Underdark 3.5 game)

With d20 Future, perhaps there's a workable set of game mechanics for computer games a la Temple of Elemental Evil for some of this stuff. Remember all the old Buck Rogers stuff TSR did? It resulted in 2 computer games, though I only played the first. I liked "sci-fi D&D" as a computer game

 

[Buddha the DM]

atra2: Actually it's more like 4 pages due to the art that is in that part of the chapter. There's a half-page piece, and a quarter page piece.

 

[MatrexsVigil]

Alternity!

Sesheyans! Sweet! I loved those eight-eyed, primative tech level, shamanistic, winged hunters!

-P.C.

 

[Emiricol]

Good lord. Star Frontiers? That was possibly the stupidest, MOST FUN game I've ever played! Playing the game was so... improv. It was a blast! I may just have to buy D20F, darn it.

 

[Pagan priest]

The only problem is finding a group that wants to do anything d20 besides 3.5 D&D. (And I'm guilty there too, currently enjoying an FR Underdark 3.5 game)

How far are you willing to drive?

Current or recent games include:
Wild West
d20 Modern
d20 Modern time travel to a D&D world, characters were US Army Special Forces
Sky Pirates of the South Pacific, pulp adventure
Traveller T20
Space Pirates, home made rules, and few of them
Call of Cthulhu

And the group is usually open to new ideas.