d20 Modern 2nd ed - Any news? Also Modern20 Question

dm4hire

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Been in a discussion with some people about different games and someone mentioned d20 Modern. It was briefly mentioned at GenCon last year but nothing has really been said about it since. Has anyone heard anything recently?

I also saw the listing for Modern20 in the news section and might pick that up. Anyone have it?
 
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Yeah, I have it. Haven't tried it yet though. Anything in particular you want to know about it? I'll do my best to recall stuff accurately, starting with some points below. :)

All in all, I'd say it's still a fair bit like d20 Modern, but it looks better, to me. The classes are a love or hate thing, I expect. Names like Brainiac, Speedster, Tank and so on - well, they'll appeal to some folks, but maybe put some right off. For my money, they should be fine, and do better (or appear to work more intuitively) for emulating action movies and the like. IOW, your typical sources, for games like this.

There are some nice touches, like having Occupations as well as the traditional Backgrounds and the six classes. These also give a character 'Perks', which in some cases allow you to use skills in ways that are locked away from others, who can still of course have ranks in the skill itself, and do the usual stuff with it. Other perks might add to Reputation, f'rex.

Skills are consolidated, in the standard 'modern' ways (so to speak), like Stealth and Perception in place of the old Hide et al. There are some additions here too, IIRC. But damned if I can quite remember what they are.

Hm. So, anything else of immediate interest?

edit --- some reviews: http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/13/13616.phtml / http://www.enworld.org/forum/blogs/psion/364-modern20-review.html
 
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How did they fix weath? The description says that it is still in their version but doesn't work like it does in d20 Modern. How's the artwork? Says that is it is full color. At 120+ pages do they seem to cover all the bases compared to d20 Modern? I'll take a look a the reviews. Thanks.
 

Going back to the first part of my post; has anyone heard anything from WotC as to whether or not they will be doing d20 Modern 2e?
 





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