d20 Mini-games?

[Morrus]

Well, with the death of Polyhedron, I guess there'll be no more d20 mini-games. I realise that they weren't everyone's cup of tea, but they certainly had their own following.

So, although we know that Paizo won't be doing any more of them, what d20 mini-games would you have liked to have seen but which were never done? Any concepts you were still waiting for, or ideas that you had which you thought, "I hope Poly does a mini-game like that some day!"

I, myself, would have liked to see a Supers mini-game for those who don't want a full-blown superhero game or sourcebook. But that's just me. What about you folks?

 

[GreyShadow]

I would have liked to have seen a Supers mini-game too.

I can't think of any others of the top of my head.... oh wait.

Mutant Cowboy Dinosaurs in Spaaaaccccceeeee!

 

[Morrus]

I did actually think that something based on the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles idea might work, too. Remember the game, with all the different animals and mutations you could have?

 

[Alzrius]

This isn't really a mini-game, but I wanted to see a follow-up to Dark*Matter: Shades of Grey giving stats for the characters (Jeanne, Fitz, Ngan, and maybe Ned Devromme) from the five Dark*Matter novels. They deserved a write-up, and it's a shame they'll never get one now.

 

[Byrons_Ghost]

How about a modern martial arts/sorcery game in the vein of Big Trouble in Little China?

I've been close to just converting the 3rd ed OA stuff over myself, but you know... effort and all.

 

[Henry]

Mini-games that would have been cool:

A toon-type game - not the Hijinx type, but based off of the old Chuck Jones cartoons with Bugs, Daffy and that genre of characters.

A victorian space-opera game, a la jules verne and John Carter of Mars - the "Flash Gordon" game was a start, but something where you were fighting either cat-men or 8' tall four-armed monsters on red soil would have evoked imagery)

A "nostalgia" Year 2000 game where you played a hacker racing to cut off a world-wide computer virus that was released on the eve of 1999/2000, and you and your buddies took turns breaking into places, hacking into their systems, and heading off the virus at that point. Shadowrun, but 1990's style instead of 2050's style.

 

[wingsandsword]

Genres I'd like to see Mini-Games of in the future, in some form:
Supers
Wild West
Cyberpunk

I would have loved to see a follow up to Dark Matter: Shades of Grey, with PrC's that translated Mindwalking, Enochian, Voodoo and Shamanic FX too. Maybe a conversion of Ekimmu too (stock d20 Vampires are very inappropriate for the Ekimmu vampires of D*M).

 

[Greatwyrm]

I can't believe no one has brought this up yet. DINOPIRATES OF NINJA ISLAND!!!!!

 

[teitan]

There are so many I would love to have seen but to the guy who posted about Victorian Space Opera... urmm, what do you think Iron Lords of Jupiter was? It wasn't Flash Gordon, it was PURE John Carter. I would LOVE to see a D20 Modern campaign setting get expanded based on that material and the Pulp Heroes material...

What I would like to have seen in Poly though would have been some Mutants & Masterminds coverage, adventures and such. Minigames I would like to have seen would have been a gothic punk setting, not ShadowChasers, but something modern and kind of like WOD, but not really, just stuff on playing Werewolves and Vamps as PCs in a D20 Modern game (I have my ideas on how to do this myself, but seeing something in print would have rocked). Some expansion on the FEAR thing, more on the good guys and more on FEAR themselves...

A straight up horror thing would have been nice, maybe MORE support for Cthulhu D20...

I think SOMEONE should pick up where Poly is leaving off and give us a magazine LIKE poly.

Jason

Jason

 

[Ranger REG]

Well, with the death of Polyhedron, I guess there'll be no more d20 mini-games. I realise that they weren't everyone's cup of tea, but they certainly had their own following.

Depends on your definition of "mini-game."

Granted, without Poly the only one that is printing mini-games is Fantasy Flight Games and their Horizon lines. So far, they have released Grimm (roleplaying in a storybook world ... with a twist), Virtual (like Tron), and Spellslinger (Wizards of the Wild West).

So, although we know that Paizo won't be doing any more of them, what d20 mini-games would you have liked to have seen but which were never done? Any concepts you were still waiting for, or ideas that you had which you thought, "I hope Poly does a mini-game like that some day!"

I, myself, would have liked to see a Supers mini-game for those who don't want a full-blown superhero game or sourcebook. But that's just me. What about you folks?

Mecha, Soldiers of Fortune/Modern Mercs, Pirates, Wuxia/China, Steampunk/Arcanum, Sci-Fi/Firefly/Serenity, etc.